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oLahav said:

Share the most inspirational quotes you’ve found while reading a book!

For a similar discussion on song quotes, check this one out.

Here is one of my personal favourites: “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door… You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” Taken from Lord of the Rings; The Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 3.

I can’t wait to hear some of your own favourite book quotes you find deep and inspiring! Post them here.

Hansikas said:

“When you really want something to happen, the whole world conspires to help you achieve it.” ( from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho)

Also, here’s the best quote from a fave movie of mine (Scent of a woman)-

Trask:” Sir, you are out of order!”

Slade: “Outta order? I’ll show you outta order! You don’t know what outta order is, Mr. Trask! I’d show you but I’m too old; I’m too tired; I’m too fuckin’ blind. If I were the man I was five years ago I’d take a FLAME-THROWER to this place! Outta order. Who the hell you think you’re talkin’ to? I’ve been around, you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn’t nothin’ like the sight of an amputated spirit; there is no prosthetic for that. You think you’re merely sendin’ this splendid foot-soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs, but I say you are executin’ his SOUL!! And why?! Because he’s not a Baird man! Baird men, ya hurt this boy, you’re going to be Baird Bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, FUCK YOU too!”

P.S- This is just a small part of Al Pacino’s speech as Lt. Col. Frank Slade… for the rest of it you’ll havta watch the movie (I’ve, personally, watched it too many times to count.)... if you haven’t watched it already. Kudos to the stellar performances by Pacino n Chris O’Donnell ! Way to go!!

oLahav said:

The Alchemist is a great book!

Here’s a few of my favourite Marvin quotes from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

“Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”

“Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.”

“Now I lay me down to sleep,
Try to count electric sheep,
Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.”

“Life! Don’t talk to me about life.”

sailajabogavelli said:

The Alchemist sure is a great book & one of my favourites.

check out a few of my favourite quotes:

“Dont work for money, let the money work for you.”

“Fail to prepare & you are well prepared to fail.”

“A man is as old as he thinks he is.”

windwind said:

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial…and we must give battle”/Rebecca. “Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind”/Rebecca. “you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them”/ To kill a mockingbird.

chandra_avinash said:

The Godfather – “Behind every great fortune, there is a crime”

hcraig said:

Oh, I see now. Just because you’re my squid doesn’t mean you’re my ally.

Kangaroo Notebook

The main character spends much of the book walking around with an IV bag, which turns into a squid, and attacks him at his very moment of need. Absurd as the quote is, it’s a great thing to remember about people you spend a lot of time around.

oLahav said:

Sounds like an interesting book… it’s true that sometimes the people you think are your best friends and are closest to you can stab you in the back without thinking twice, so choose your friends carefully. I like that quote.

chandra_avinash said:

A really depressing thought :(....speaking of which, I recall these beautiful quotes from Bladerunner (I haven’t read the book though) -

1. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain

2. Its too bad she didn’t live. But then again, who does?

Cheers!

lucyinthesky said:

One of my favourites is from Kerouac’s On the Road:

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…”