Lyrics
Oh, if there's one thing I hang onto
That gets me through the night
I ain't gonna do what I don't want to
I'm gonna live my life
- Jon Bon Jovi/Richie Samboura ("Have A Nice Day" - Bon Jovi)
You start a conversation you can't even finish it
You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed
Say something once, why say it again?
- David Byrne ("Psycho Killer" - The Talking Heads)
What I do I do my way or it won't be done at all
Little girl, can you hear what I say?
Yeah, I'm an easy going guy but I always gotta have my way
- Eddie Cochran/Jerry Capehart ("My Way" - The Who)
They say you need love to love
Gotta have love to love
They all say, it works that way, but if it's true…
Why do I love you?
- Neil Diamond ("Love To Love" - The Monkees)
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you
- Bob Dylan ("Positively Fourth Street")
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
- Bob Dylan ("The Times They Are A Changin'")
Everything I know is what I need to know
Everything I do's been done before
Every sentence in my head
Someone else has said
At each end of my life is an open door
- John Entwistle ("905" - The Who)
I ain't never had time for words that don't rhyme
My head is in a cloud
I ain't quiet, everybody else is too loud
- John Entwistle ("The Quiet One" - The Who)
It's easy to live in your imagination
If you can't control the situation
You just cut and start it again
- John Entwistle ("Too Late The Hero")
For just an illusion
I traded love that was real
-Gerry Goffin, Carole King ("A Man Without A Dream" - The Monkees)
He who knows does not speak
He who speaks does not know
And I go round in circles
- George Harrison ("Circles")
I would have liked to know you but I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did
- Elton John ("Candle In The Wind")
You think you know me but you haven't got a clue
- John Lennon ("Hey Bulldog" - The Beatles)
You wanna save humanity
But it's people that you just can't stand
- John Lennon ("I Don't Wanna Face It")
Imagine all the people living for today
- John Lennon ("Imagine")
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
- John Lennon ("Strawberry Fields Forever" - The Beatles)
I thought the only lonely place was on the moon
- Paul McCartney ("Jet")
C'mon people, don't ya look so down
You know the rain man's comin' to town
Change the weather, change your luck
And then he'll teach ya how ta… find yourself
- Jim Morrison ("L'America" - The Doors)
I need a brand new friend who doesn't bother me
I need a brand new friend who doesn't trouble me
I need someone, yeah, who doesn't need me
- Jim Morrison ("Hyacinth House" - The Doors)
You said I must eat so many lemons
'Cause I am so bitter
I said I'd rather be with your friends, mate
'Cause they are much fitter
- Kate Nash ("Foundations")
So I move along to the next thing on the list
Knowing full well that some of them just don't exist
- Michael Nesmith ("The Crippled Lion" - The Monkees)
It's only a whimsical notion
To fly down to Rio tonight
And I probably won't fly down to Rio
But then again, I just might
- Michael Nesmith ("Rio")
Well I hope you finally got my letter
It should have come about this time last year
- Michael Nesmith ("Writing Wrongs" - The Monkees)
It's only sane to be insane
- Yoko Ono (O'Sanity)
There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
- Jimmy Page/Robert Plant ("Stairway To Heaven" - Led Zeppelin)
And if I say to you tomorrow
"Take my hand, child, come with me"
It's to a castle I will take you
Where what's to be, they say will be
- Robert Plant ("What Is And What Should Never Be" - Led Zeppelin)
Thinking how it used to be
Does she still remember times like these
To think of us again
And I do
- Jimmy Page ("Tangerine" - Led Zeppelin)
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
- Neil Peart ("Free Will" - Rush)
When it came to a superstar
Jenny was a braggart
Spread it all around to everyone in town
That she once had Mick Jagger
There's no doubt when the truth comes out
True love will over conquer
She didn't get Mick but she got a kick
And a black eye from Bianca
- Neil Sedaka ("The Queen of 1964")
Everywhere you look is lovely
If love is what you choose to see
- Ringo Starr ("I Think Therefore I Rock 'N Roll")
So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive
- Jim Steinman ("Paradise By The Dashboard Light" - Meat Loaf)
The distance which I keep has entered into play
Miles which make me say I won't be seeing you
- Richard Stekol ("Wax Minute" - Michael Nesmith)
Don't you get embarrassed when you think about the way you were
Yesterday the day before when you were young with much to learn
- Pete Townshend ("Cry If You Want" - The Who)
This could be suffering
This could be pleasure
I'm unaware of any difference
- Pete Townshend ("Daily Records" - The Who)
Deal me another hand Lord, this one's very hard
- Pete Townshend ("It's Hard" - The Who)
You hold the gun and I hold the wound
And we stand looking in each other's eyes
It all looks fine to the naked eye
But it don't really happen that way at all
- Pete Townshend ("Naked Eye" - The Who)
You need a new song
I'll set the words up so they tear right at your soul
Don't take me too long
But there's a danger that I'll plagiarize something old
- Pete Townshend ("New Song" - The Who)
I asked my dad where Lily I could find
He said "son, now don't be silly
She's been dead since 1929"
Oh, how I cried that night
If only I'd been born in Lily's time
It would have been alright
- Pete Townshend ("Pictures Of Lily" - The Who)
Come sleep on the beach
Keep within my reach
I just want to die with you near
I'm feeling so high with you here
I'm wet and I'm cold
But thank God I ain't old
I should have split home at fifteen
Why didn't I ever say what I mean?
- Pete Townshend ("Sea And Sand" - The Who)
Movies
George Harrison: Aye, but don't rush. None of your five bar gate jumps and over sort of stuff.
Paul McCartney: What's that supposed to mean?
George Harrison: I don't know, I thought it just sounded distinguished-like.
- "A Hard Day's Night"
Paul McCartney: He's probably in the middle of some orgy by now!
Other Beatles: ORGY!
Old Man: B-b-b-but, what about me?
John Lennon: You're too old!
- "A Hard Day's Night"
"Famous people are just more interesting."
- Penny Lane ("Almost Famous")
Russell Hammond: And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were… I'm on drugs!
[crowd cheers]
William Miller: Russell! I think we should work on those last words!
Russell Hammond: I got it, I got it. Last words… I dig music.
[a few claps]
Russell Hammond: [pause] I'm on drugs!
[crowd cheers]
- "Almost Famous"
"If you think that Mick Jagger will still be doing the whole rock star thing at age fifty, well, then, you are sorely, sorely mistaken."
- Dennis Hope, "Almost Famous"
Annette Funicello: Troy, do you surf?
Troy: Do I surf? Ha ha ha! Do I surf? I'm sure! Does Dolly Parton float? Does Oprah Winfrey eat? Does Michael Jackson have flammable hair?
- "Back to the Beach"
Bill: Socrates… hey, we know that name!
Ted: Hey, look him up… oh, it's under "so crates".
- "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"
"My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump"
- Forrest Gump ("Forrest Gump")
Forrest Gump: In the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
John Lennon: No possessions?
Forrest Gump: And in China they never go to church.
John Lennon: No religion too?
Dick Cavett: Ah. Hard to imagine.
John Lennon: Well it's easy if you try, Dick.
- "Forrest Gump"
Jenny Curran: His name's Forrest.
Forrest Gump: Like me.
Jenny Curran: I named him after his daddy.
Forrest Gump: He got a daddy named Forrest, too?
- "Forrest Gump"
Girl: I stole the money from my mother so I could come here, because I love John! Actually, I love all the Beatles, but I especially love John! Someday I'm gonna marry John!
Reporter: Uh but, isn't John already married?
Girl: Yeah, but he can get a divorce, or his wife could get in a plane crash, or she could drown, or anything could happen, because John has to marry me! He has to, or else I'll kill myself!
- "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
Rosie: Oh, it's hopeless, the show's already started, we may as well forget about it.
Richard: Forget about it? Forget about the Beatles? What's the matter, are you screwy or somethin'?
- "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
Keith Moon: When we get together, there are certain times that you just… something, happens, that I really don't know what it is. But there's that magic there…
Ringo Starr: It's probably, we're drunk.
- "The Kids Are Alright"
"Hey Mr. Donut Man, who's trying to kill ya? I don't know but they better not!"
- Garth Algar ("Wayne's World")
"A gun rack… a gun rack. I don't even own a gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do… with a gun rack?"
- Wayne Campbell ("Wayne's World")
"We'll be sure to cross our t's and dot our… lower case j's."
- Wayne Campbell ("Wayne's World 2")
Pete: Hey, isn't "Milwaukee" an Indian name?
Alice Cooper: Yes, Pete, it is. In fact, it's pronounced "mill-e-wah-que" which is Algonquin for "the good land".
Wayne Campbell: I was not aware of that.
- "Wayne's World 2"
Honey Horne: I'm going to be frank.
Garth Algar: Okay… can I still be Garth?
- "Wayne's World 2"
Television
"Experience has taught me that interest begets expectation, and expectation begets disappointment, so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest."
- Georgia Lass ("Dead Like Me")
"You can't prevent what you can't predict."
- Mary Alice Young ("Desperate Housewives")
"What is more important than ketchup?!?"
- Marion Cunningham ("Happy Days")
Cowboy: Water my horse!
Davy: Water your horse? I'm not a stable boy!
Cowboy: I don't care about your mental condition, water my horse!
- "The Monkees"
Micky: What are you doing in here? This is our fantasy!
Davy: Yeah, yeah, we're the Monkees! You see in every show we do a fantasy sequence where we romp around and jump and do funny things, and nobody interrupts us - NOBODY!
- "The Monkees"
"I cannot be held responsible for the things that come out of my mouth."
- Jackie Burkhart ("That 70s Show")
"Bad things happen because I'm stupid!"
- Eric Forman ("That 70s Show")
"Look at all these different kind of nuts mingling in one bowl… it's like Nutstock, man!"
- Leo ("That 70s Show")
The Simpsons
"When I was a kid, presidents spanked us 'til the cows came home! Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!"
- Abe Simpson (Two Bad Neighbours)
"We are so old!"
- Abe Simpson (D'oh-in' In The Wind)
"Careful! They're ruffled!"
- Buzz Aldrin (Deep Space Homer)
"Okay folks… Show's over. Nothing to see here… Show's… Oh my god! A horrible plane crash! Hey everybody! Get a load of this flaming wreckage!"
- Clancy Wiggum (Bart the Fink)
"I hide behind curtains because I have a fear of getting stabbed!"
- Clancy Wiggum as Polonius (Tales from the Public Domain)
"Rest assured I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world."
- Comic Book Guy (The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show)
"There is no emoticon to describe what I am feeling!"
- Comic Book Guy (The Computer Wore Menace Shoes)
"I'll give you a little souvenir of my own!" [opens fist to reveal a minature Homer snowglobe]
- Homer Simpson (Hungry Hungry Homer)
"Pfft, English, who needs that? I'm never going to England!"
- Homer Simpson (The Way We Was)
"You need to be more open minded, Lisa… Peas?! In the mashed potatoes?! WHAT THE HELL!?!?"
- Homer Simpson (???)
"I've run out of pie-related puns!"
- Homer Simpson as Pieman (Simple Simpson)
"This is for your show's slight decline in quality over the years!"
- Homer Simpson as Pieman (Simple Simpson)
"My eye! I'm not supposed to get jigs in it!"
- Lenny Leonard (Three Gays of the Condo)
"Go ahead, fly off in a V!" [shakes fist at a flock of geese]
- Moe Syslack (Moe 'N' a Lisa)
"Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers!"
- Ralph Wiggum (Lisa Gets an A)
"Wait, this just doesn't add up. Milhouse has never been anything but a comic foil!"
- Seymour Skinner (Large Marge)
"There once was a rapping tomato
That's right, I said rapping tomato
He rapped all day, from April to May
And also, guess what, it was me"
- Homer Simpson (Moe 'N' a Lisa)
"Welcome to the jungle gym
I'll make it safe again
Playtime is a safe time
Everybody wins
And I'll lay down some Astroturf
So they don't scrape their na na na na na na na na knees"
- Ned Flanders (Bart Has Two Mommies)
Bart Simpson: I don't want a new dog! I want Santa's Little Helper!
Homer Simpson: Well, crying isn't going to bring him back… unless your tears smell like dog food. So you can either sit there crying, eating can after can of dog food until your tears smell like dog food to make your dog come back or you can go out there and find your dog!
Bart Simpson: You're right. I'll do it!
Homer Simpson: Rats! I almost had him eating dog food!
(The Canine Mutiny)
Bart Simpson: Lisa, we can't afford all these books!
Lisa Simpson: We're not buying them, just borrowing them.
Bart Simpson: Ohh! Riiight… heh heh…
(Dead Putting Society)
Marge Simpson: I don't want you stalking anyone tonight!
Homer Simpson: Oh, okay, have it your own way Marge. I'll be back in a minute… I'm going outside… to… STALK… Lenny and Carl… D'OH!
(Homer the Great)
Lionel Hutz: Uh oh. We've drawn Judge Snyder.
Marge Simpson: Is that bad?
Lionel Hutz: Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog… Well, replace the word 'kinda' with the word 'repeatedly', and the word 'dog'… with 'son'.
(Bart Gets Hit by a Car)
Professor Frink: Jesus, Mary, and glavin! These shoes are in the off position!
Lisa Simpson: You mean, I danced all by myself?
Marge Simpson: See, honey? All you needed was to believe -
Homer Simpson: What are you talking about, Professor Frink? They're clearly in the on position. See? ON!
Professor Frink: I was merely trying to spare the girl's feelings, you insensitive clod.
Homer Simpson:Oh… OHH! Well, now that I look even closer…
(Last Tap Dance in Springfield)
[Homer comes into Bart's room, carrying a knife]
Homer Simpson: BART-DO-YOU-WANT-SOME-BROWNIES-BEFORE-YOU-GO-TO-BED?!
Bart Simpson: Dad, I'm kind of edgy right now. I'd appreciate you not running in my room screaming and brandishing a butcher knife!
Homer Simpson: Why?… Oh, right, the Sideshow Bob thing. I'm sorry, boy.
[Homer leaves, then comes back in wearing a hockey mask and holding a chainsaw]
Homer Simpson: BART-DO-YOU-WANNA-SEE-MY-NEW-CHAINSAW-AND-HOCKEY-MASK?!
(Cape Feare)
Homer Simpson: Aw, twenty dollars! I wanted a peanut!
Homer Simpson's Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer Simpson: Explain how!
Homer Simpson's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Homer Simpson: Woo-hoo!
(Boy Scoutz N the Hood)
Homer Simpson: We'd like to dedicate this next number to a very special woman. She's a hundred years old, and she weighs over two hundred… tons.
Man: This enormous woman will devour us all! Aah! [jumps into water]
Homer Simpson: Er, I meant the statue…
(Homer's Barbershop Quartet)
Homer Simpson: What do I do with these pies?
Lisa Simpson: I know one thing you could do!
Homer Simpson: Ha ha ha, I was in so deep I forgot pies were food.
(Simple Simpson)
Moe Syslak: There are things that mean more to me than money…
[cut]
Moe Syslak: …like a whole lotta money!
Army Guy: Why did you just say that sentence fragment?
(G.I. D'oh!)
Other
"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."
- Unknown
"Indecision may or may not be my problem."
- Jimmy Buffett
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"
- George Carlin
"The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see. If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society."
- Vint Cerf
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
- Albert Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein
"Our fan base has always been predominantly male, but the 20% women that are fans are all completely and utterly mad."
- Pete Townshend
"I only swear at people I love… so fuck off, all of you!"
- Pete Townshend
"Life is far too important to be taken seriously."
stay gold
don't look back unless your going that way
let it be