"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

-Isaac Asimov

"We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise lasts but a few moments.
But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally."
-Drizzt Do'Urden ; R. A. Salvatore

"Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question."
-Stephen King, 'It'

"Thus it is that ideas, which grow up within the imagination and appear so lovely to it and of a value beyond whatever men call valuable, are exposed to be shattered and annihilated by contact with the practical. It is requisite for the ideal artist to possess a force of character that seems hardly compatible with its delicacy; he must keep his faith in himself while the incredulous world assails him with its utter disbelief; he must stand up against mankind and be his own sole disciple, both as respects his genius and the objects to which it is directed."
-Hawthorne, "The Artist of the Beautiful"

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."
-Stephen King

"There is light. Beauty up there that no shadow can touch."
-Samwise Gamgee

"You cannot win a game of tug-of-war by merely standing firm."
-Dale Adams

"I'm not as random as you think I salad."
-Some icon I found

"It is better, I think, to grab at the stars rather than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them...At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good veiw, and perhaps a low-hanging apple for his effort."
-R. A. Salvatore ; Montolio DeBrouche

"Tell me of mercy, wise Cadderly," Dorigen remarked. "Is it strength, or weakness?"
"Strength," the young preist answered without hesitation.
-R.A. Salvatore (Dorigen and Cadderly. Interesting nerd fact: He also does a scene with almost the exact same wording between Vierna and Drizzt.)

"We go together or not at all."
-Spock ; 'Star Trek'

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."
-John Andrew Holmes

"The word...is no. I am therefore going anyway."
-Kirk ; 'Star Trek'

"It is enough for me to know that we will understand all, when we reach our home."
-Natira ; 'Star Trek'

"I believe it is time to move on."
-Spock ; 'Star Trek'

"We may disappear tomorrow...but at least we're living now."
-Kirk ; 'Star Trek'

"The best defense is a good offense. And I intend to start offending right now."
-Kirk ; 'Star Trek'

"Once again, we've saved civilization as we know it."
"The good news is: they're not gonna prosecute."
-Kirk and McCoy; 'Star Trek'

"Curious how you humans so often manage to obtain that which you do not want."
-Spock

"Yes, there is weakness. There is frailty. But there is courage also--and honor to be found in men."
-Boromir; 'The Lord of the Rings' (film)

"I never thought I'd die fighting side-by-side with an elf!"
"What about side-by-side with a friend?"
"Aye...that I could do."
-Legolas and Gimli; 'The Lord of the Rings' (film)

"Certainty of death...small chance of success...what're we waitin for?"
-Gimli; 'The Lord of the Rings' (film)

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
-The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.

"Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens."
-Gimli; The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.