Snap That
Previous Quotes
7/05/2012
Lift your head up high, and scream out to the world, I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl."
- "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson
30/04/2012
"So let go, so let go. Jump in. Well, whatcha waiting for? It's alright, 'cause there's beauty in the breakdown."
- "Let Go" by Frou Frou - from the Garden State soundtrack.
23/04/2012
"Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end."
- Author unknown.
16/04/2012
"Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T?"
- Johnny Depp as Agent Sands in the film, Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
09/04/2012
"After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F..."
- Author unknown.
02/04/2012
"How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad? ...I am what I am because of who we all are."
- Ubuntu: an African philosophy.
26/03/2012
"Live what you want to be."
- Timomatic - singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, and producer.
19/03/2012
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
- Aldous Huxley - writer, humanist, pacifist, and satirist.
12/03/2012
"You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right."
- Aung San Suu Kyi - international icon for freedom and the peaceful struggle for democracy and human rights, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma).
05/03/2012
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
- John Keating (played by Robin Williams) in Dead Poets Society.
27/02/2012
"The 'earth' without 'art' is just 'eh'."
- Someone smart at The Ink Society.
20/02/2012
"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
- Oscar Wilde - Irish writer and poet.
13/02/2012
"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order."
- Samuel Beckett - avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet.
6/02/2012
"Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
with open arms and open eyes, yeah."
- "Drive" by Incubus - American alternative rock band.
30/01/2012
"'Dammit I'm mad' is 'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards."
- A poem that is a palindrome by Demetri Martin - comedian, author and actor.
23/01/2012
"Gong Xi Fa Cai!"
- Traditional Chinese New Year greeting. Today the lunar new year of the water dragon begins.
17/01/2012
"There's nothing worse than being ordinary."
- Angela Hayes (played by Mena Suvari) in American Beauty.
9/01/2012
"Follow your dreams, because they are like seeds you plant. Every step you take towards realising that dream waters those seeds, and the seeds will grow with each year that passes. With the passing of time, a tree has grown before you, where there was once nothing. And in time, the branches will bear sweet fruit that will feed your hunger."
- A wise, old man.
2/01/2012
"Got a little devil on your shoulder.
It's telling you to dance.
C'mon, you know that you wanna...
Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance!"
- "Speak of the Devil" by Hermitude - Aussie hip hop group.
26/12/2011
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
- "All's Well That Ends Well" by William Shakespeare - English poet and playwright.
20/12/11
"Some opportunities only come once. Seize them."
- The Holstee Manifesto - a reminder of what we live for.
12/12/11
"I'm on the pursuit of happiness,
And I know everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold,
I'll be fine once I get it...
Pusuit of happiness, yeah,
I don't get it. I'll be good..."
- "Pursuit if Happiness" - Kid Cudi - Rapper, singer, songwriter and actor.
21/11/11
"Think of me like Yoda, but instead of being little and green I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro - I'm Broda!"
- Barney Stinson - 'How I Met Your Mother' TV series character.
14/11/11
"You're smart too late and old too soon..."
- Mike Tyson - former heavyweight boxing champion.
07/11/11
“HUG LIFE.”
- Phil Lumbang - LA-based street artist, famous for his 'awesome bears'.
31/10/11
“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
- Bob Marley - Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician.
24/10/11
“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.”
- Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States of America (...right?)
17/10/11
“The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought.
The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about.
The third best are what we talk about.”
- Joseph Campbell - American mythologist, writer and lecturer.
10/10/11
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. It will be enough.”
- Arthur Ashe - African-American social activist and prominent tennis player of his time.
03/10/11
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable, we alter it every six months.”
- Oscar Wilde - Irish writer and poet.
26/09/11
“Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.”
- African proverb.
19/09/11
“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”
- Buddhist philosophy.
12/09/11
“Don't follow your dreams; chase them!”
- Richard Dumb (apparently).
05/09/2011
"Remember, sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass."
- Chuck T. Falcon - Author.
29/08/11
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
- Maria Robinson - Author.
22/08/11
"You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than in your dreams."
- Dr Seuss - Author & Cartoonist.
15/08/11
"Against brute force and injustice the people will have the final word, that of victory."
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara - Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, and diplomat.
08/08/11
"Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool opotamus?"
- Mitch Hedberg - American stand-up comedian.
01/08/11
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist (father of modern physics) and prolific intellect.
25/07/11
"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."
- Rodney Dangerfield - comedian and actor.
18/07/11
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering."
- Ben Okri - poet and novelist.
11/07/11
"I wish I were a glow worm. A glow worm's never glum. 'Cause how can you be glum when the sun shines out your bum?"
- Anonymous.
04/07/11
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw - playwright, critic, political activist.
27/06/11
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau - author, abolitionist, naturalist, historian, and leading transcendentalist.
20/06/11
"My grandfather likes to give me advice, but he's a little forgetful. One day he took me aside and left me there."
- Steven Wright - comedian, actor and writer.
13/06/11
"We're never gonna survive, unless we get a little crazy."
- "Crazy" by Seal - Singer-songwriter and musician.
06/06/11
"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
- "Just the two of us" by Will Smith - Actor, rapper, and film producer.
30/05/11
"I've learnt so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making a few more."
- Anonymous.
23/05/11
"Life is a hell of a thing to happen to a person."
- David Rossi - FBI agent in Criminal Minds TV series.
16/05/11
"Life is not to fear, life is to enjoy."
- "Burning Man" by Third Eye Blind - American alternative rock band.
09/05/11
"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."
- Ogden Nash - American poet, author, and lyricist.
02/05/11
"True wealth is in yourself."
- "Look Good" by The Dyno Mics - Soulful, Aussie, hip hop guys, with a citrus twist.
25/04/11
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
- Søren Kirerkegaard - Danish philosopher and theologian.
18/04/11
"We all have the power to change. So what are we waiting for?"
- Home - A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
11/04/11
"I'm not crying. It's just been raining on my face... No, I'm not crying. My eyes are just a little sweaty today."
- Flight of the Conchords - Comedy duo, musicians, and actors from TV series.
03/04/11
"I make music with my balls."
- Joel Salom - International percussive juggler and comedian.
01/04/11
"If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything."
- Marty McFly - Student and antihero in Back to the Future films and games.
25/03/11
"Each one of us can really make a difference if we choose to... Little things we do as a community or individuals make a difference."
- Miranda Kerr - Model, businesswoman, and Global Ambassador of Earth Hour (the largest voluntary action ever witnessed).
18/03/11
"Be kind to me, or treat me mean. I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine."
- Fiona Apple - Singer-songwriter and musician.
11/03/11
"About a month ago, I got a cactus, and a week later, it died. I got really depressed because I was like, damn, I am less nurturing than a desert."
- Demetri Martin - Comedian, musician, actor, and writer.
04/03/11
"I just got an iPod. It has 160 gigabytes of storage. 160 gigabytes! Because I like to jog for 3 & a half weeks at a time, and I do NOT want to hear the same song twice!"
- Arj Barker - Stand-up comedian and actor.
25/02/11
"Ignite the light, and let it shine!"
- Katy Perry - Singer-songwriter, musician and actress.
18/02/11
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
- Steven Kloves - Writer of the screenplay for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
11/02/11
"Success often comes to those who dare to act; it seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences."
- Jawaharlal Nehru - First and longest-serving Prime Minister of India; mentee and political heir of Mahatma Gandhi.
28/01/11
"Always behave like a duck: keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
- Jacob Braude - American author.
21/01/11
"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world everyday always just exactly fits the newspaper."
- Jerry Seinfeld - Stand-up comedian, actor and writer.
14/01/11
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
- Scott Adams - Creator of the Dilbert comic series.
01/12/10
"Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves."
- Homer Simpson - American TV character.
23/11/10
"Be the change that you want to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi - Ideological Indian Leader.
16/11/10
"A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman."
- Jackie Chan - Action movie actor.
08/11/10
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr Seuss - Author and cartoonist.
01/11/10
"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's now 97, and we don't know where on earth she is."
- Ellen DeGeneres - Comedian.
25/10/10
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue."
- Dilbert - witty comic strip.
18/10/10
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing"
- Emo Philips - Comedian.
11/10/10
"No, I don't think I'm going to win gold, I'm just doing it to have fun."
- Sally Pearson - Commonwealth Games runner.
04/10/10
"We have played so well that the guys have really made my job fairly easy."
- Ricky Ponting - Aussie Cricket Team Captain.
27/09/10
"If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right."
- Woody Allen - Director and film maker.
20/09/10
"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."
- Mignon McLaughlin - Journalist and author.
13/09/10
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
- John Lennon - The Beatles.
06/09/10
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
- Henry Ford - Automotive pioneer.
23/08/10
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit.' Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
- Muhammad Ali - Former boxing champion.
16/08/10
"The good ideas will survive."
- Quentin Tarantino - Director and film maker.
09/08/10
"Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"
- Sung by Elphaba in 'Wicked' the musical.
02/08/10
"Life's like a movie - write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
- Jim Henson - Puppeteer.
26/07/10
“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”
- David Bowie - Musician, actor, record producer and arranger.
19/07/10
“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
- Johnny Depp - Actor, director, producer and musician.
12/07/10
“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.”
- Will Smith - Actor/Singer.
05/07/10
"The ultimate measure of yourself is found not in times of comfort and confidence but in the times of your greatest challenges."
- Will Cadden - Australian cyclist.
28/06/10
"If you don't get bruised playing Bond, you're not doing it properly."
- Daniel Craig on his role as James Bond in Casino Royale.
21/06/10
"100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."
- Wayne Gretzky - former Canadian ice hockey player.
14/06/10
“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.”
- Mick Jagger - lead singer of the Rolling Stones.
01/06/10
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Anonymous.
31/05/10
"You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them."
- Anonymous.
24/05/10
"A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting."
- Anonymous.
17/05/10
"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."
- Anonymous.
03/05/10
“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
- Bill Cosby - Comedian.
26/04/10
"Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"
- Anonymous.