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Anime and Manga
""Constellations of stars that I am seeing for the first time… you are all only allowed to exist as objects for my conquest and rule. Just wait.""

- Reinhard von Lohengramm, Legend of the Galactic Heroes

""There is nothing more noble and beautiful than a warrior with no distractions. One could say he is the closest thing to God.""

- Treize Khushrenada, Gundam Wing

""Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire.""

- Rei Ayanami, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"''"Doctor Tenma. For you all lives are created equal, that’s why I came back to life. But you’ve finally come to realize it now, haven’t you? Only one thing is equal for all, and that is death.""

- Johan Liebert, Monster (manga)

""Feelings of love are just a temporary lapse in judgment. Like some kind of mental illness.""

- Haruhi Suzumiya, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

""Immortality is wasted on the young.""

- Alucard, Hellsing

"''"Romance [...] is flexible in that it can act as the central reason to include an array of props. Want tension? Create awkward scenarios that sprout from romance. Mind some comedy? There are countless cliché gags based on a romantic relationship. Want to keep a healthy male fan base? Add girls, some naughty camera angles, and you’ve got yourself a steady audience. Romance is versatile, but requires a lot of characterization and work on the story. Some anime producers decided that these weren’t important, but liked the broad spectrum of actions that romance covered. So they included the drama, comedy, and fan-service, but left out the tedious process of developing a proper romance.""

- Austin, Anime: The World of Fake Romance

Film
""It’s a tiny bit arrogant of people to go around worrying about those less fortunate.""

- Nick Smith, Metropolitan

""Rick Von Slonecker is tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, conceited, a bully, liar, drunk and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic. In short, highly attractive to women.""

- Nick Smith, Metropolitan

""These, Tom, are the Causeheads. They find a world-threatening issue and stick with it for about a week.""

- Droz, PCU

""What’s this? You’re wearing the shirt of the band you’re going to see? Don’t be that guy.""

- Droz, PCU

""You just watched a whole fucking movie!""

- End Theme, Dick Figures: The Movie

Literature
""I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.""

- Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

""I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.""

- Dorothy Parker, The Lost Poems

""For a fellow who’s not too much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.""

- Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

""The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

"The man that smokes--that reads the Times - That goes to Christmas Pantomimes - Is capable of ANY crimes!""

- The Three Voices by Lewis Carroll

Live Action TV
""At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross.""

- Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, The First Cut Is the Deepest

""Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming.""

- Jamie Kellner, then-chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting, in an interview with Cableworld, April 29, 2002

Music
"''"All of us get lost in the darkness ''Dreamers learn to steer by the stars ''All of us do time in the gutters Dreamers turn to look at the cars""

- Rush, The Pass

""We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.""

- John Lennon

Radio
""The radio craze ... will soon fade.""

- Thomas Edison, 1922

""We're not a service industry. We're a business. Radio isn't an art form, it's an entertainment medium.""

- KDFC PD Bill Lueth, on radio today [mid-nineties].

""Underground radio meant something because it said something ...""

- Pioneer FM deejay Charles Laquidara.

""[The Canadian radio industry] frustrates me so much. I want to see it flourish, I want to hear great material being produced by quality radio hosts, but instead it’s amateur hour all throughout the country as the corporations slash budgets and hire people fresh out of school (or who never even went to school) who aren’t ready to be in front of the mic in markets that should only be hiring seasoned veterans…""

- A Dose of Buckley, Radio Hypocrisy

Video Games
""I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box, and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment.""

- Anonymous, Alpha Centauri

""The truth, Walker, is that you're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not: A hero.""

- Spec Ops: The Line

""You're a disgusting, MMO-addicted NEET hermit... and I'm your beloved little sister!""

- Rikana, Mix Ore

"''"You can't talk yourself out of loneliness, it doesn't work that way. ''You can't be the one writing both the questions and the answers, then there's no movement! Then there's no circulation! If all of your anxieties are being channeled into your work, then if the work ever fails you have no backup and you're just going to crash.""

- Davey Wreden, of The Stanley Parable fame, on the dialogue of one of Coda's games, The Beginner's Guide''

""Their catch phrase for EOS Online is "For the MMORPG that you've lost." The only thing that I have lost while testing this game is interest.""

- Steparu Review

""When many of us sit down and play titles that come out of Japan, we are specifically playing them because they are nothing like what we can get here. They often touch on subjects which are considered taboo to some western audiences, or tackle subject matter that others are afraid to tread through. We don't play Japanese games [...] because they are representative of our western cultural values, we play them because they aren't. They allow us to grow by experiencing fiction and fun from the point of view of an entirely different culture, and we learn a new form of appreciation for the world through it.""

- Mandatory Fun, Change.org petition (1 Million Gamers Strong for Japanese Gaming)

""While Clannad certainly has a bunch of the generic "lol Japan is perverts", I'd be hard-pressed to call it a game designed for porn. I mean, if you enjoy masturbating to your own tears, that's not the game's fault.""

- Ad__Hominem, Reddit (r/KotakuInAction, So the ABC tv show Good Game just did an episode on sex in games...)

Web Original
""Food isn't anime related, so stop posting it.""

- r/anime message, Reddit

""1) Does it have bass? 2) Does it blow your fucking mind? Then it's Future Bass. It's not a genre, it's a state of mind.""

- r/futurebass description, Reddit

""Current Residence: The land of the slaves, and the home of the cowardly.""

- Mysterieux932's DeviantArt account (since deactivated).

""I started Lists Galore 5 years ago as a place to celebrate my obsession with lists. Fantastic lists were all over the internet and I made it my mission to track them down and share them with my readers. There was an embarrassment of riches when it came to awesome lists. Recently, however, low-quality lists have become more and more prevalent. I find myself sorting through way too much trash in order to find the gems. It's just not fun anymore.""

- Andi, List Galore, So Long And Thanks For All The Lists.

Western Animation
"Korra: You have a battleship? Varrick: Of course I do! I bought the first one they made! Named her the Zhu Li. Bolin: You named your battleship after your assistant? Varrick: Yep! They're both cold, heartless war machines."

- The Legend of Korra, Night Of A Thousand Stars

""Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything.""

- Moe, The Simpsons

""I'm just surprised that someone who talked so much would communicate so little during an encounter!""

- Weiss to Ruby, RWBY (The Emerald Forest)

Other
"Everybody laughs in the same language."

- Anonymous

"Daisy: What's the cure for falling down the stairs? Cooper: Falling back up the stairs? Daisy: That's still in clinical trials! You could lose your license!"

- Daisy Owl, "Medical Science"

"Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."

- Seen on a bulletin board at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

""Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.""

- Helen Keller

"''"You see people, the truly ironic thing about all of this, is that going to College/University was supposed to be about expanding young minds. Helping them to broaden their own experiences and give them the best possible start in life. A new perspective; a chance to grow. Now it seems to be more about hiding new experiences from them and reinforcing their own pre-conceptions. Instead of preparing them for reality, we're teaching them to be reality ignorant.""

- Kleyno, Dr. Frankenstein regrets creating his monster: Even Salon.com thinks trigger warnings have ruined college (Voat thread)

"Nie moj cyrk, nie moje malpy. ("Not my circus, not my monkey.")"

- Polish proverb

""The aquarium was once the best way to encounter the wonders of sea life. It has become a mere travesty, tacky and cruel.""

- Subtitle for Through a Glass, Sadly by Bernd Brunner