With book and music quotes, too!

Taking a page from a different book, I've decided to play along with some quote-type silliness, but in my own lazy yet expository way.

I occasionally get compliments about the rotating quotes I've got in my masthead. For the curious, I'm listing them all. I've provided no sources so you're welcome to identify as many as you like.

If there's any interest (and probably even if there's not) in a future post I'll detail how to setup your own rotator.

Movies (and one TV show)

1. Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and no glass slipper.

2. Everyone is less mysterious than they think they are.

3. Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

4. I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats.

5. I want to live a real life. I don't want to dream any longer.

6. I'm looking for a dare to be great situation.

7. Pay no attention to the man in the trunk.

8. You're a complicated cat, Edward.

9. I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.

10. Look, Sgt. Pepper, I really need you to shut up about that.

11. You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

12. I am Jack's wasted life.

13. Sticks and stones can break my bones but words cause permanent damage.

14. Is it safe to have a radio against my balls like this?

15. You know who else I like that didn't get much play? Velma from Scooby-Doo. She was cool. She was a hip, hip lady.

16. Living like this… it's a full-time business.

17. Vacant, with a hint of sadness. Like a drunk who's lost a bet.

18. How's that for a slice of fried gold?

19. Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place.

20. This information cannot leave this room, okay? It would devastate my reputation as a dude.

21. If you really wanted to screw me up you should've gotten to me earlier!

22. You know what, I do want to express myself, okay? And I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it.

23. There is no spoon.

24. I'm okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

25. Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.

26. Quaffable, but… far from transcendent.

27. Where fast food for thought is served up twenty-four hours a day in forty thousand locations nationwide.

28. So you lie to yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that. We all do it.

29. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

30. Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous slouch.

31. Let's get our Christ on, let's kick it Jesus-style!

32. I figured they would have sent you to a "special" school by now.

33. I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind.

34. Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.

35. With counseling, I'm sure you'll come to forgive me.

36. It's a destiny thing. Enjoy it.

37. Suntory time!

38. Adults are like a combination of sadness and phobias.

39. Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

40. Please let me keep this memory, just this one.

41. I can't remember anything without you.

42. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

43. You better not be tellin' me porky pies.

44. You kids shouldn't play so rough. Somebody's gonna start cryin'.

45. Morons? Your bus is leaving.

46. I am insane, and you are my insanity.

47. It's easy to tell the difference between right and wrong. What's hard is choosing the wrong that's more right.

48. I can only express puzzlement that borders on alarm.

49. You are a sad, strange little man and you have my pity.

50. My work here is done. Time for the ritualistic sex!

51. God gave men brains larger than dogs' so they wouldn't hump women's legs at cocktail parties.

52. You're not real. You're copies of people out here in the world.

53. Bow, son of Jor-el! Kneel before Zod!

54. Are you like a crazy person?

55. You're frightfully inadequate for a deity, Darrel.

56. You're twelve steppin' me to death here, bitch.

57. Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so.

58. He is Vigo! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!

59. I want to retire in South America. I hear that's where the drugs come from.

60. Personally, I blame MTV.

61. Doesn't it give you, like, a shudder of electricity… to be in the same room with me?

62. What kind of babbling bullshit is this?

63. I'm pumped! Let the healing begin!

64. Would you like to make the fuck? BERSERKER!

65. I'm in my tree talking to the Dixie Chicks and they're making me feel better.

66. I was thinking about chaining myself to a bulldozer. Do you want to come?

67. I can't believe you guys actually exist.

68. The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

69. Don't stand in the way of my actualization as a man.

70. You don't know how lucky you are being a monkey.

71. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I thought we were here to talk about petroleum.

72. How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?

73. Vas ist das "Limpett?!"

74. When, Lord?! When the hell do I get to see the goddamn sailboat?!

75. The internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another.

76. That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously.

77. Well! That was just another paean to male adolescence and it's refusal to grow up.

78. See? I told you that restraining order was a good idea.

79. And on that note, we cue the music.

80. Since when did "tard" become politically incorrect?

81. A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.

82. Pfft. Too far.

83. And that's the double truth, Ruth.

Books

1. For three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

2. Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

3. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

4. If time is not true, what purpose have watchmakers?

5. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

6. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

7. I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

8. "The time has come," said the walrus, "to speak of many things."

9. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.

10. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about

11. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

12. You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

13. "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"

14. So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

15. Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Music

1. Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

2. So let us not talk falsely now; the hour is getting late.

3. You play with my world like it's your little toy.

4. Careening through the universe, your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free. I hope you take a piece of my with you.

5. We become the things we do

6. Down here in the atmosphere, garbage and city lights

7. Hope you remember me when you're homesick and need a change.

8. But when I see you it's like I'm staring down the sun.

9. The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles.

10. Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove.

11. I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again.

12. I been workin' at it ever since I came to this planet. I ain' quite there, but I'm gettin' better at it.

13. I'm so glad our paths crossed this time today, on our way into the night.

14. Why are you different? Why are you that way?

15. Jesus freaks, out in the street, handing tickets out for God…

16. You can see I'm in no shape for driving, and anyway I've got no place to go.

17. 'Cause tomorrow's just another day, and I don't believe in time.

18. Pantomime mixtures of heaven and earth, jumbled events that have less than no worth…

19. There's a dead end to my left; there's a burning bush to my right.

20. It's a crazy, crazy mixed up town, but it's the rattlesnake I fear.

21. I may say that I love this man and that man but what keeps me from loving you?

22. Flags and mental jewelry's all I know, and they keep me happy and warm inside.

23. I talk of freedom, you talk of the flag.

24. Words are useless. Especially sentences.

25. Are you listening? Can you hear me? Have you forgotten?

26. If it's the same to you, I'll just hang.

27. Once I had my heroes, once I had my dreams. But all of that has changed now.

28. I used to care, but things have changed.

29. As long as you're a stranger you'll stay perfect to me.

30. It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky!

31. If I stay lucky then my tongue'll stay tied.

32. I'm gonna pick up some beer, stay at home and stare at my Clare Danes poster.

33. Oil, gold and sand: my sediments precisely.

34. Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste.

35. War, children. It's just a shot away.

36. Everybody shouts on I Love Lucy.

37. I don't exist when you don't see me.

38. I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man.

39. Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.

40. A seven nation army couldn't hold me back.

41. I wake up to steal the sun from her glory.

42. I'm only one cigarette away from mobility.

43. There's only one chance left, and I know where she's waiting.

44. This is the first day of my last days.

45. Men get lost sometimes as years unfurl.

46. We're like sheep without a shepherd. We don't know how to be alone.

47. One more starry-eyed messiah meets a violent farewell.

48. How do I get out of here? Where do I fit in?

49. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.

50. Call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye.

51. You better let somebody love you, before it's too late.

52. It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black.

53. I think I love you. What is your name again?

54. There's a little black spot on the sun today.

55. You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to.

Answer key:

Movies (and one TV show)

1. Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and no glass slipper.
   Frances McDormand - Almost Famous

2. Everyone is less mysterious than they think they are.
   Kirsten Dunst - Elizabethtown

3. Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
   Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire

4. I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats.
   Penelope Cruz - Vanilla Sky

5. I want to live a real life. I don't want to dream any longer.
   Tom Cruise - Vanilla Sky

6. I'm looking for a dare to be great situation.
   John Cusack - Say Anything

7. Pay no attention to the man in the trunk.
   Billy Bob Thornton - The Ice Harvest

8. You're a complicated cat, Edward.
   Amanda Peet - Identity

9. I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.
   Orson Bean - Being John Malkovich

10. Look, Sgt. Pepper, I really need you to shut up about that.
    John Cusack - Grosse Pointe Blank

11. You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"
    Jeremy Piven - Serendipity

12. I am Jack's wasted life.
    Ed Norton - Fight Club

13. Sticks and stones can break my bones but words cause permanent damage.
    Eric Bogosian - Talk Radio

14. Is it safe to have a radio against my balls like this?
    Scott Wolf - Go

15. You know who else I like that didn't get much play? Velma from Scooby-Doo. She was cool. She was a hip, hip lady.
    Brian Klugman - Can't Hardly Wait

16. Living like this… it's a full-time business.
    Ewan McGregor - Trainspotting

17. Vacant, with a hint of sadness. Like a drunk who's lost a bet.
    Lucy Davis - Shaun of The Dead

18. How's that for a slice of fried gold?
    Various players - Shaun of The Dead

19. Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place.
    Judd Nelson - The Breakfast Club

20. This information cannot leave this room, okay? It would devastate my reputation as a dude.
    Anthony Michael Hall - Sixteen Candles

21. If you really wanted to screw me up you should've gotten to me earlier!
    John Cusack - High Fidelity

22. You know what, I do want to express myself, okay? And I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it.
    Jennifer Aniston - Office Space

23. There is no spoon.
    Rowan Witt - The Matrix

24. I'm okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.
    Peter Sarsgaard - Garden State

25. Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.
    Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate

26. Quaffable, but… far from transcendent.
    Paul Giamatti - Sideways

27. Where fast food for thought is served up twenty-four hours a day in forty thousand locations nationwide.
    Robin Williams - AI

28. So you lie to yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that. We all do it.
    Joe Pantoliano - Memento

29. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.
    Don Cheadle - Crash

30. Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous slouch.
    Chevy Chase - Caddyshack

31. Let's get our Christ on, let's kick it Jesus-style!
    Martin Donovan - Saved!

32. I figured they would have sent you to a "special" school by now.
    Eva Amurri - Saved!

33. I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind.
    Jeffrey Jones - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

34. Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.
    Danny DeVito - L.A. Confidential

35. With counseling, I'm sure you'll come to forgive me.
    Craig T. Nelson - The Incredibles

36. It's a destiny thing. Enjoy it.
    Rebecca Gayheart - Dead Like Me

37. Suntory time!
    Diamond Yukai - Lost in Translation

38. Adults are like a combination of sadness and phobias.
    Kirsten Dunst - Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

39. Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
    Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

40. Please let me keep this memory, just this one.
    Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

41. I can't remember anything without you.
    Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

42. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
    Christian Bale - American Psycho

43. You better not be tellin' me porky pies.
    Vinnie Jones - Snatch

44. You kids shouldn't play so rough. Somebody's gonna start cryin'.
    Michael Madsen - Reservoir Dogs

45. Morons? Your bus is leaving.
    Bill Murray - Groundhog Day

46. I am insane, and you are my insanity.
    Bruce Willis - 12 Monkeys

47. It's easy to tell the difference between right and wrong. What's hard is choosing the wrong that's more right.
    Annette Bening - The Siege

48. I can only express puzzlement that borders on alarm.
    Rick Gomez - Sin City

49. You are a sad, strange little man and you have my pity.
    Tim Allen - Toy Story

50. My work here is done. Time for the ritualistic sex!
    Vivica Fox - Idle Hands

51. God gave men brains larger than dogs' so they wouldn't hump women's legs at cocktail parties.
    Angelina Jolie - Hackers

52. You're not real. You're copies of people out here in the world.
    Steve Buscemi - The Island

53. Bow, son of Jor-el! Kneel before Zod!
    Terence Stamp - Superman II (also parodied by Jason Mewes in Mallrats)

54. Are you like a crazy person?
    Natalie Portman - V For Vendetta

55. You're frightfully inadequate for a deity, Darrel.
    Russell Crowe - Virtuosity

56. You're twelve steppin' me to death here, bitch.
    Jamie Kennedy - The Specials

57. Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so.
    Mos Def - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

58. He is Vigo! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!
    Peter MacNicol - Ghostbusters II

59. I want to retire in South America. I hear that's where the drugs come from.
    Gary Kemp - Killing Zoe

60. Personally, I blame MTV.
    Eamonn Walker - Lord of War

61. Doesn't it give you, like, a shudder of electricity… to be in the same room with me?
    Gene Hackman - Superman

62. What kind of babbling bullshit is this?
    Steven Seagal - Under Siege

63. I'm pumped! Let the healing begin!
    Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting

64. Would you like to make the fuck? BERSERKER!
    John Westhead - Clerks

65. I'm in my tree talking to the Dixie Chicks and they're making me feel better.
    Naomi Watts - I ♥ Huckabees

66. I was thinking about chaining myself to a bulldozer. Do you want to come?
    Jason Schwartzman - I ♥ Huckabees

67. I can't believe you guys actually exist.
    Jason Schwartzman - I ♥ Huckabees

68. The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
    Dustin Hoffman - I ♥ Huckabees

69. Don't stand in the way of my actualization as a man.
    Cameron Diaz - Being John Malkovich

70. You don't know how lucky you are being a monkey.
    John Cusack - Being John Malkovich

71. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I thought we were here to talk about petroleum.
    Mark Wahlberg - I ♥ Huckabees

72. How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?
    Jason Barry - MirrorMask

73. Vas ist das "Limpet?!"
    Oscar Beregi - The Incredible Mr. Limpet

74. When, Lord?! When the hell do I get to see the goddamn sailboat?!
    Ethan Suplee - Mallrats

75. The internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another.
    Ben Affleck - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

76. That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously.
    Jason Lee - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

77. Well! That was just another paean to male adolescence and it's refusal to grow up.
    Renee Humphrey - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

78. See? I told you that restraining order was a good idea.
    Jeff Anderson - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

79. And on that note, we cue the music.
    Jason Lee - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

80. Since when did "tard" become politically incorrect?
    Brian Cox - The Ringer

81. A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
    Hugo Weaving - V For Vendetta

82. Pfft. Too far.
    Seth Green - Idle Hands

83. And that's the double truth, Ruth.
    Samuel L. Jackson - Do The Right Thing

Books

1. For three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
   V For Vendetta

2. Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
   Harlan Ellison's Invisible Man

3. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
   Watchmen

4. If time is not true, what purpose have watchmakers?
   Watchmen

5. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
   V For Vendetta

6. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
   1984

7. I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
   Hamlet

8. "The time has come," said the walrus, "to speak of many things."
   Through The Looking Glass

9. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
   Alice in Wonderland

10. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray

11. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray

12. You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
    Frankenstein

13. "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
    Frankenstein

14. So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
    The Brothers Karamazov

15. Ignorance is the parent of fear.
    Moby Dick

Music

1. Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
   Queensryche - Revolution Calling

2. So let us not talk falsely now; the hour is getting late.
   Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower

3. You play with my world like it's your little toy.
   Bob Dylan - Masters of War

4. Careening through the universe, your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free. I hope you take a piece of me with you.
   Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Driveby

5. We become the things we do.
   Third Eye Blind - Blinded

6. Down here in the atmosphere, garbage and city lights…
   Our Lady Peace - Somewhere Out There

7. Hope you remember me when you're homesick and need a change.
   Our Lady Peace - Somewhere Out There

8. But when I see you it's like I'm staring down the sun.
   Third Eye Blind - Blinded

9. The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles.
   Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

10. Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove.
    Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed

11. I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again.
    Counting Crows - Round Here

12. I been workin' at it ever since I came to this planet. I ain' quite there, but I'm gettin' better at it.
    Ciara - Goodies

13. I'm so glad our paths crossed this time today, on our way into the night.
    Dave Matthews Band - Granny

14. Why are you different? Why are you that way?
    Dave Matthews Band - Typical Situation

15. Jesus freaks, out in the street, handing tickets out for God…
    Elton John - Tiny Dancer

16. You can see I'm in no shape for driving, and anyway I've got no place to go.
    Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

17. 'Cause tomorrow's just another day, and I don't believe in time.
    Hootie and The Blowfish - Time

18. Pantomime mixtures of heaven and earth, jumbled events that have less than no worth…
    Phish - Theme From The Bottom

19. There's a dead end to my left; there's a burning bush to my right.
    Jewel - Standing Still

20. It's a crazy, crazy mixed up town, but it's the rattlesnake I fear.
    Live - Rattlesnake

21. I may say that I love this man and that man but what keeps me from loving you?
    Live - Brothers Unaware

22. Flags and mental jewelry's all I know, and they keep me happy and warm inside.
    Live - Mirror Song

23. I talk of freedom, you talk of the flag.
    Live - White, Discussion

24. Words are useless. Especially sentences.
    Madonna - Bedtime Story

25. Are you listening? Can you hear me? Have you forgotten?
    Matchbox 20 - Rest Stop

26. If it's the same to you, I'll just hang.
    Matchbox 20 - Hang

27. Once I had my heroes, once I had my dreams. But all of that has changed now.
    Moby - That's When I Reach for My Revolver

28. I used to care, but things have changed.
    Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed

29. As long as you're a stranger you'll stay perfect to me.
    Patti Rothberg - Perfect Stranger

30. It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky!
    Run DMC - It's Tricky

31. If I stay lucky then my tongue'll stay tied.
    Seven Mary Three - Lucky

32. I'm gonna pick up some beer, stay at home and stare at my Clare Danes poster.
    Size 14 - Claire Danes Poster

33. Oil, gold and sand: my sediments precisely.
    The Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy - The Winter of The Long, Hot Summer

34. Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste.
    The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for The Devil

35. War, children. It's just a shot away.
    The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

36. Everybody shouts on I Love Lucy.
    The Sisters of Mercy - Doctor Jeep

37. I don't exist when you don't see me.
    The Sisters of Mercy - When You Don't See Me

38. I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man.
    The Sisters of Mercy - When You Don't See Me

39. Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.
    Smashing Pumpkins - Bullets With Butterfly Wings

40. A seven nation army couldn't hold me back.
    The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

41. I wake up to steal the sun from her glory.
    Seven Mary Three - Punch In, Punch Out

42. I'm only one cigarette away from mobility.
    Seven Mary Three - Punch In, Punch Out

43. There's only one chance left, and I know where she's waiting.
    Seven Mary Three - Punch In, Punch Out

44. This is the first day of my last days.
    Nine Inch Nails - Wish

45. Men get lost sometimes as years unfurl.
    Don Henley - New York Minute

46. We're like sheep without a shepherd. We don't know how to be alone.
    The Eagles - Learn To Be Still

47. One more starry-eyed messiah meets a violent farewell.
    The Eagles - Learn To Be Still

48. How do I get out of here? Where do I fit in?
    The Eagles - Learn To Be Still

49. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.
    The Eagles - Hotel California

50. Call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye.
    The Eagles - The Last Resort

51. You better let somebody love you, before it's too late.
    The Eagles - Desperado

52. It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black.
    The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

53. I think I love you. What is your name again?
    Alanis Morissette - Princes Familiar

54. There's a little black spot on the sun today.
    The Police - King of Pain

55. You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to.
    Pink Floyd - Dogs