It's Always About The Adventure

Image via WikipediaLaura: "Greg, I am so sorry. I really meant to marry you. I did. And suddenly, I put on that wedding dress and I thought, 'Here I go, my last great adventure.' And then I realized, I was only 22 and I've hardly had any great adventures."

Greg: "You don't think starting a family is an adventure?"

Laura: "Why, sure it is. It's just not-"

Greg: "Paris."

Laura: "You still finish my sentences."

Greg: "And you are still the prettiest girl I have ever laid eyes on."

Laura: "You need to let me go."

Greg: "When I was 15, I read a story in Boy's Life about climbing Kilimanjaro. And it seemed about as far away as the moon. But I mowed lawns all summer so that I could make the trek. Saved almost three hundred dollars. It wasn't enough by a long shot but I put it in the bank and I swore that someday that money would go towards an adventure."

Laura: "And what did you spend it on?"

Greg: "A ring. But that's not the point.If what you are leaving me for is-"

Laura: "Kilimanjaro"

Greg: "Then Bon Voyage, Laura. Safe journey."

- Pan Am television series: Season 1: Episode 2 "We'll Always Have Paris"

Monogamy is a State of Higher Evolution

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Waverly: "I think what he is trying to say is that monogamy isn't natural. The male species is hard-wired for genetic diversity. So, the instinct is to, ya know, fertilize as many eggs as possible - to have sex."

Smash: "Exactly!"

Waverly: "Yeah, but human beings are different. I mean, civilization is based on the repression of instincts. When we act contrary to out instincts, that's when things get interesting. A lot of people would say that monogamy is a state of higher evolution - with the right person."

- Friday Night Lights Season 1: Episode 10 "It's Different for Girls"

TV doesn't allow Deep Understanding

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"Television can’t sit still.  In fact, it can’t even slow down, which makes any sort of deep understanding or involvement in issues almost impossible because the average person requires time to contemplate issues like education or the economy or the environment or health care in order to fully understand them.  And that’s the problem.  Because what most people don’t realize is that contemplating or reflecting deeply gets you to insights that you can never get to if you’re just rushing through a question or an issue or from one topic to the next."

- Gordon J.H. Leenders. May Not Appear Exactly As Shown. pg 92

Kindness is Wiser

"Sometimes kindness is wiser than truth."

- Lieutenant Columbo

"I don't know why I always remembered that line."

- Laws of Motion DVD

I know why,

because stories are powerful,

because a line in fiction can speak volumes,

because collecting quotations is awesome,

because it says a lot about how we should act and live,

because,

just because.

Conversation Conceals

"Conversation was invented by humans to conceal reality. We use it to sweet talk our way around natural selection."

- Community television show

You Can Set it Down

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"Everyone has a part of themselves they don't like, Joan. You carry it around like a weight. The lucky ones realize that when it becomes too heavy. you can choose to set it down. That's when you can see things the way they really are."

- God in an episode of Joan of Arcadia

I Love It When a Plan Comes Together

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"I love it when a plan comes together."

The A-Team television show

Light and Dark

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"My father often reminded me that despite the power of the sun, it's always night on half of the planet. For all the good you do, there will always be darkness."

- Patricia Swan, character on Smallville from Season 7 Episode 14 "Traveller"

Bounce Back From Mistakes

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"We all make mistakes. I'm living proof of that. It's how we come back from the mistakes, that's what matters."

- Clark Kent on Smallville Season 7: Episode 8

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Love is Fire!

"They say love is friendship set on fire. And if you're lucky enough to find someone you can give yourself to, mind, body and soul, you should hold on, and hope like hell you don't get burned."

- Being Erica Season 1, Episode 9 "Everything She Wants"

Why Artists Give Back

"In terms of giving back, Art is not a charity. It's a way of life."

- Marcello Cabezas from an episode of Arts & Minds

"Mom, I Can Babysit"

Angela: "Mom, I've been alone with Danielle before."

Patty: "Yes, and I can't help but recall the time you put her in the dryer."

Angela: "Oh Mom! That was so long ago. I can't believe you're still talking about that...Anyway, she begged me to do it."

Patty: "Whoever's idea it was, I don't want to come home and find anyone in an appliance."

- transcribed from the excellent TV Series My So-Called Life

Strange Wiring

"We're not only wired to want what we can't have, but we're also wired to want what we really don't want."

- Ally McBeal, television series

The Promise

"The world is no longer a romantic place. Some of its people still are, however. And therein lies the promise... Don't let the world win, Ally McBeal."

- Ally McBeal. Season 1 episode 6 "The Promise"

LOST Duct Tape

Miles: " I don't believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in Duct Tape."

- LOST series finale

If you want to hear my thought on the series and the final episode, please check my main blog Silent Cacophony. 

A Setback is a Gift

Dr. Tom: "Where would we be without struggle, without hardship and pain? It's easy to forget how much these moments teach and shape us, how different we would be without them."

Erica: "I guess it's hard to look at a setback as a gift."

Dr. Tom: "Why, when that is exactly what it is?"

- Being Erica television series

Maybe I Should Use This Line

"Some women are beautiful because God put them together just right.

And some are beautiful because of what's on the inside;

smarts,

humour,

experience,

Baby you've got it all."

- Detective "Fearless" from the television show Boomtown. (he's on the left) 

A Heart is Fragile

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"A heart is a fragile thing. That's why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely, and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile than others. Purer, somehow. Like crystal in a world of glass, even the way they shatter is beautiful."

- Narrator on Everwood

Filler Friends

David: "Everyone has friends from high school."

Claire: "No they don't. Maybe they have people they talk to or even do things with but they're not really friends. They're just filler."

(Everyone in the room just looks at her)

Claire: "What? It's true."

- Six Feet Under television series Season 2 Episode 5

My So-Called Life (the famous letter)

Dear Angela,

I know in the past I've caused you pain and I'm sorry. And I'll always be sorry 'till the day I die. And I hate this pen I'm holding because I should be holding you. I hate this paper under my hand because it isn't you. I even hate this letter because it's not the whole truth. Because the whole truth is so much more than a letter can even say. If you want to hate me, go ahead. If you want to burn this letter, do it. You could burn the whole world down; you could tell me to go to hell. I'd go, if you wanted me to. And I'd send you a letter from there.

Sincerely,

Jordan Catalano

- My So-Called Life television series

This is a sad letter but it's even more sad in the context of the show. Jordan wants to apologize to Angela but he can't do it. He also can't read or write very well so he enlists Brian to help him write it. Brian has always loved Angela and writes the letter pretty much in both he and Jordan's voice.