“A ninja must eat more vegetables!”
Kakashi-sensei

“Well, we can’t all come and go by bubble.”
Elphaba, Wicked

“He spends some hours on the stage, talking with the ghost there (for what theatre, of puppets or otherwise, is complete without its dead player who loved his home the stage too much to leave?)...”
From the fanfic Dusk by kimi no vanilla
link

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
Aldo Leopold

“The bad news: there is no key to the universe. The good news: it was never locked.”
Swami Beyondananda

“With all your science can you tell me how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?”
Thoreau

“How can you think and hit at the same time?”
Yogi Berra

“Is it stupid for her to be so jealous of someone else’s scars?”
From the fanfic Wedding-Colored by Klayter McCabe
link

“Or not.”
From Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

“Dying is the only way / For you to float free: / Nomonhan.”
Mr. Honda, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

“She risked failure and profound public embarrassment in order to feed her soul. And if she can do that 15 feet in the air, we all should be able to do it.”
Jon Carrol, in his essay ‘Faliure is a Good Thing’ for NPR’s This I Believe
To read or listen: link

“married the cat”
Jessica’s shirt (such wisdom... )

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

“Art is the only thing that can go on mattering after it has stopped hurting.”
Elizabeth Bowen

“You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!”
Will Parry, The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (Book II of the His Dark Materials trilogy)

“You can have as many dimensions as you want, as long as none of them contains ghosts, telepathy, anything that fucks with Charles Darwin, or anything that Hitler liked (apart from Charles Darwin).”
From The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas

“The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”
The Old Man, Looking for Alaska by John Green

“Living is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
Unknown

“What happens then? Well that’s the play / And he wouldn’t want us to give it away.”
From Sweeny Todd

“He held up a limp hand. ‘See the strings?’”
From Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.”
Cormac McCarthy

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London

“James wishes he could remember the first time he kissed Lily, but at the time he was seeing stars, not taking notes.”
From the fanfic Highs in the Mid Tenties by hippocritical
link

“I hope heaven is a bookstore.”
Missy Bird-Vogel

“I’m convinced the world would be a better place if more people wore trench coats and fedoras.”
Tracy Butler
to read her awesome web comic: link

“The weird thing about art school is instead of doodling in the margins of essays you find yourself doodling in the margins of other doodles.”
Lissa Treiman
at her blog.

“My wretched dragon is perplexed.”
William Butler Yeats, from Michael Robartes and the Dancer

“God loves European cars.”
Danielle Sime

“I am beastly.”
Henry “Chelsea” Routh (the great American philosopher)

“Each moment in life we have it all, even when we think we don’t.”
Melody Beattie

“If you’re in anarchy and you’ve got a gun, you’re king.”
Ken O’Keefe

“Ah English language, we are all your bitch.”
Jessie (squash)

“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”
Tennessee Williams

“Love and let love.”
Anonymous

“You had a near-life experience.”
The mechanic, in Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

“This isn’t the kind of world where you can just, say, trust everybody until someone hurts you.”
Mom

“Amazing, the difference one day makes!”
Mom (said in exasperation, yes, but nonetheless true)

“A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.”
From All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Consider it disclaimed.