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Here are some quotable quotes I've collected.

... under construction...

In climbing a mountain, not every step is upward.  -- David Aberdeen (19-Feb-2002)

Not all change is progress.  -- One of a gaggle of Italian ladies sitting outside Cold Rock in Kenmore 15-Feb-2002

Donkey: Ooh, this is gonna be so much fun! We can stay up late, swappin' manly stories, and in the mornin', I'm makin' waffles. -- Shrek (2001)

Donkey: Did you hear that? She called me a "noble steed." She thinks I'm a steed. -- Shrek (2001)

"You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine" -- Homer J Simpson

"When you pray, it is the act of praying that is important, not the words that are said." -- Helen Bleakley (1999)

"Oh when the saints!  Oh when the saints!  Oh when the saints go over there..." -- Homer J Simpson

Marge - Then one foggy Christmas eve, Santa came to say, take it away Homer!
Homer - Rudolph get your nose over here, won't you lead my sleigh, today!"

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come." -- Matt Groening.  A slight rewording of this quote is attributed to Nietzche all over the web, but it was pointed out to me that Nietzche could not have said this.  I think it was actually Matt Groening who said that Nietzche said this, but Matt was just kidding.  I followed through with some research, and sure enough, Nietzche died in 1900, and the first official snowmobile was invented by Joseph-Armond Bombadier in 1935, and this was a 12 person vehicle.  1 and 2 person recreational snowmobiles, capable of racing across a frozen tundra, weren't around until the late 1950s.  So, Matt can have his quote rightfully attributed.

"A certain amount of opposition is a help, not a hindrance. Kites rise against the wind, not with it" -- Unknown

"Good things come to those who wait...and sail right past those who don't reach out and grab them." -- David Aberdeen (1997)

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"Take my talents, take my skills, take my whole life too...and yet, let it still be me". -- Take this moment

Martin Q. Blank: Look, I got to go.
Marcella: Yeah, we all got to go sometime, sir, but we can choose when.
Martin Q. Blank: No one chooses when.
-- Grosse Point Blank 1997.  One of the many great movies where John and Joan Cusack both appear.