That Catchy Phrase
A blog that compiles all the phrases that are worth repeating from movies, songs or books.
The existence of truth is self-evident. For whoever denies the existence of truth grants that truth does not exist: and, if truth does not exist, then the proposition “Truth does not exist” is true.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Suma Theologica
9Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.
General Iroh, Avatar: The Last Air Bender
There she was, graciously making “forever” less terrifying.
The Last Shadow Puppets, Gas Dance
Well I could have been a famous singer
If I had someone else’s voice
But failures always sounded better
Lets fuck it up boys, make some noise!
Bright Eyes, Road to Joy
Such is the pride of men that he declares in a high voice that things are incomprehensible when he does not understand them, rather than confessing that to ignore them could be due to his own slowness.
Mariano Jose de Larra, Come back tomorrow
Is it cruel or kind
not to speak my mind,
and to lie to you
rather than hurt you?
Well I’ll confess all my sins
after several large gins
but still I’ll hide
what’s inside from you.
The Libertines, Music when the lights go Out
-It’s so clean out here. [California]
-That’s because they don’t throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.
Woody Allen, Annie Hall
Other people’s parents are always nicer than our own, and yet.. for some reason, our grandparents are always nicer than other people’s.
Isabelle, The Dreamers
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Yeats, The Second Coming
