The Shawshank Redemption - Quotes

 
[last lines]
Red:
[narrating] I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
 

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Nikos Kazantzakis - Quotes

 With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill with answers. I did not ask questions any more; I was certain. Everything - where we came from, where we are going, what our purpose is on earth - struck me as extremely sure and simple in this God-trodden isolation. Little by little my blood took on the godly rhythm. Matins, Divine Liturgy, vespers, psalmodies, the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening, the constellations suspended like chandeliers each night over the monastery: all came and went, came and went in obedience to eternal laws, and drew the blood of man into the same placid rhythm. I saw the world as a tree, a gigantic poplar, and myself as a green leaf clinging to a branch with my slender stalk. When God's wind blew, I hopped and danced, together with the entire tree. 

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Homer - Quotes

 And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. 

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Craig Ferguson - Quotes

 I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window.



Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second. 

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Happy Accidents - Quotes

 Sam Deed:
You know, I've never told a woman the things I've told you. You are the first and... the only. You're... the one and only. You know... I... I... I feel like... ah... I feel like my whole life has just been a journey into your arms.
 

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Bruce Chatwin - Quotes

 A journey is a fragment of Hell. 

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Nicholas Nickleby - Quotes

 Nicholas:
My father told me that the great journey of my life would be to find such a person. But, I am nearly 20 years of age and I fear he may be wrong.
 

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Superman Returns - Quotes

 Clark Kent:
[explaning to his mother about his journey to the remains of Krypton as Superman] That place was a graveyard... but I'm all that's left.
 

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Catwoman - Quotes

 
[last lines]
Catwoman:
[voiceover] The day I died was the day I started to live. In my old life, I longed for someone to see what was special in me. You did, and for that, you'll always be in my heart. But what I really needed was for me to see it. And now I do. You're a good man, Tom. But you live in a world that has no place for someone like me. You see, sometimes I'm good. Oh, I'm very good. But sometimes I'm bad. But only as bad as I wanna be. Freedom is power. To live a life untamed and unafraid is the gift that I've been given, and so my journey begins.
 

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Lloyd Alexander - Quotes

 The journey is the treasure. 

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Peaceful Warrior - Quotes

 Dan Millman:
The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination
 

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The Rundown - Quotes

 Beck:
I need you to make a choice for me.
Travis:
What choice?
Beck:
Option A or Option B. Option A: we walk out of here nice and easy, we go back to the airstrip, and then we begin our long journey back to Los Angeles. There'll be no bruises, no broken bones, and no problems.
Travis:
What's in Los Angeles?
Beck:
Your father.
Travis:
What's Option B?
Beck:
Pretty much the opposite of A. But I wouldn't recommend that one.
 

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A Walk to Remember - Quotes

 
[last lines]
Landon:
[voiceover] Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.
 

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Athlete - Quotes

 Cancer Survivor:
Health is a gift. It's something I'm not sure I fully appreciated until the day it was taken away. And then, that's when the journey begins.
 

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Sleepy Hollow - Quotes

 The Burgomaster:
Constable Crane! This is a song we have heard from you more than once. Now, there are two courses open to me. The first, is to let you cool your heels in the cells until you learn respect for the dignity of my office...
Ichabod Crane:
I beg pardon. But why am I the only one who can see that to solve crimes, we must use our brains, assisted by reason, using up-to-date scientific techniques?
The Burgomaster:
Which brings me to the second course. There is a town, two days journey to the north in the Hudson Highlands. It is a place called Sleepy Hollow. Have you heard of it?
Ichabod Crane:
I have not.
The Burgomaster:
An isolated farming community, mainly Dutch. Three persons have been murdered there, all within a fortnight. Each one found with the head lopped off.
Ichabod Crane:
Lopped off?
The Burgomaster:
Clean as dandelion heads, apparently. You will take these experimentations of yours to Sleepy Hollow, and there you will detect the murderer. Bring him here to face our good justice. Will you do this?
Ichabod Crane:
I will.
The Burgomaster:
Remember, it is you, Ichabod Crane, who is now put to the test.
 

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Basho - Quotes

 The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. 

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Diarios de motocicleta - Quotes

 Ernesto Guevara de la Serna:
Even though we are too insignificant to be spokesmen for such a noble cause, we believe, and this journey has only confirmed this belief, that the division of American into unstable and illusory nations is a complete fiction. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits. And so, in an attempt to free ourselves from narrow minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a united America.
 

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Alferd Packer: The Musical - Quotes

 Frank Miller:
God you guys make me sick. What is this, a fucking feel good convention?
Shannon Bell:
Listen, we have a long journey ahead of us. Its important we all get along. Now, you're hurting people's feelings. Your gunna have to find a more constructive way to express your anger.
Frank Miller:
Okay. Well, fuck you! How's that for constructive?
Shannon Bell:
That's great, now go to time out Mister.
 

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Quotes

 
[last lines] [Kirk's final Captain's Log]
Captain James T. Kirk:
Captain's Log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no *one* has gone before.
 

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Terence McKenna - Quotes

 The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.



It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray.



At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.

But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward. 

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Almost Famous - Quotes

 Lester Bangs:
So, you're the one who's been sending me those articles from your school newspaper.
William Miller:
I've been doing some stuff for a local underground paper, too.
Lester Bangs:
What, are you like the star of your school?
William Miller:
They hate me.
Lester Bangs:
You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.
 

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Wendell Berry - Quotes

 There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. 

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Quotes

 Pippin:
I didn't think it would end this way.
Gandalf:
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
Pippin:
What? Gandalf?... See what?
Gandalf:
White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
Pippin:
[smiling] Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf:
[softly] No... No it isn't.
 

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Jules Verne - Quotes

 The sea is only the embodiment of a

supernatural and wonderful existence.

It is nothing but love and emotion;

it is the  

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Artificial Intelligence: AI - Quotes

 Narrator:
David had been warned not to explain anything to Monica otherwise she would become frightened and everything would be spoiled. But David's journey home belonged only to him, so he didn't see the harm in painting her pictures of things she would have no memory of.
 

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Billy Joel - Quotes

 I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. 

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Instinct - Quotes

 Ethan Powell:
[Farewell letter to Dr. Caulder] Dear Theo, I'm sorry I'm not there to say good-bye. You were right. Freedom is not just a dream. It's there on the other side of those fences we build all by ourselves. Thank you forgiving me hope and for giving me back my daughter. And I thank you, Theo, for sharing this journey with me. Your friend, Ethan.
 

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Underworld: Evolution - Quotes

 
[Marcus has Kraven pinned to the wall by his talons]
Kraven:
Marcus?
Marcus:
The blood memories of this wretched creature... [indicates Singe's body]
Marcus:
...have shown me that your treachery knows no bounds.
Kraven:
My lord, I can explain.
Marcus:
Why would I listen to your lies when the journey to the truth... is so much sweeter? [Marcus bites into his neck, and see's visions of Kraven's past, including his bargain with Lucian and Selene killing Viktor]
Kraven:
Please. I can assist you.
Marcus:
[smiles] Oh, you already have. [he pulls his talons free, then swipes Kraven's head off.]
 

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Catherine Fisher - Quotes

 I have walked a stair of swords,

I have worn a coat of scars.

I have vowed with hollow words,

I have lied my way to the stars

-Songs of Sapphique 

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How to Hook Up Your Home Theater - Quotes

 Narrator:
The heavenly journey begins with just a few key components: The DVD, the CD, the LD, the DVR, the VCR, audio receiver, AV cables, TV cables, satellite dish with satellite, the Blu-Ray, the Green Ray, the Who Ray, the Hi-Fi, Wi-Fi, HDMI, heebie-jeebies and E=MC². Oh, and don't forget the batteries. They're not included.
 

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On Deadly Ground - Quotes

 Drunken Eskimo:
You are about to go on a sacred journey. [Forrest nods like he doesn't belive the Drunken Eskimo]
Drunken Eskimo:
This journey will be good for all people. But you must be careful.
Forrest Taft:
Right.
 

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T.S. Eliot - Quotes

 And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time. 

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Sphere - Quotes

 Harry:
[quoting "Jerry"] "I make a journey. You make a journey. We make a journey together."
Beth:
I think Jerry's channeling Deepak Chopra.
 

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Maya Angelou - Quotes

 Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. 

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Balto - Quotes

 Boris:
Let me tell you something Balto. A dog can not make this journey alone, but maybe a wolf can.
 

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Valentine - Quotes

 
[Shelley reads her Valentine]
Shelley Fisher:
The journey of love is an arduous trek, My love grows for you as you bleed from your neck.
 

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Loren Eiseley - Quotes

 Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey. 

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Cormac McCarthy - Quotes

 They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust to sleep, and they set forth in the afternoon down the valley following the war trail and they were very small and they moved very slowly in the immensity of that landscape.



Come evening they hove toward the rimrock again and Sproule pointed out a dark stain on the face of the barren cliff. It looked like the black from old fires. The kid shielded his eyes. The scalloped canyon walls rippled in the heat like drapery folds. 

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Henry Miller - Quotes

 every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. 

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Rebecca Solnit - Quotes

 A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. 

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Wendell Berry - Quotes

 Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition. Seeking enlightenment or the Promised Land or the way home, a man would go or be forced to go into the wilderness, measure himself against the Creation, recognize finally his true place within it, and thus be saved both from pride and from despair. Seeing himself as a tiny member of a world he cannot comprehend or master or in any final sense possess, he cannot possibly think of himself as a god. And by the same token, since he shares in, depends upon, and is graced by all of which he is a part, neither can he become a fiend; he cannot descend into the final despair of destructiveness. Returning from the wilderness, he becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forebears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.

(pg.95,  

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Quotes

 Gollum:
Wake up. Wake up. Wake up, sleepies. We must go, yeeees, we must go at once.
Sam:
Haven't you had any sleep, Mr. Frodo? [Frodo shakes his head]
Sam:
I've gone and had too much... it must be getting late.
Frodo:
No, it's not. It's not midday, yet. The days are growing darker.
Gollum:
We must go.
Sam:
Not until Mr. Frodo has had something to eat.
Gollum:
No time to lose, silly.
Sam:
[Gives Frodo lembas bread] Here, eat this.
Frodo:
What about you?
Sam:
I'm not hungry. Leastways, not for lembas bread.
Frodo:
Sam...
Sam:
Alright... we don't have that much left. You go ahead and eat that, Mr. Frodo. I've rationed it... there should be enough left.
Frodo:
For what?
Sam:
The journey home.
 

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Star Trek: Generations - Quotes

 Picard:
Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal.
Riker:
Speak for yourself sir, I plan to live forever.
 

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Antonio Porchia - Quotes

 Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. 

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Thomas Carlyle - Quotes

 Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him. 

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Walt Whitman - Quotes

 I tramp the perpetual journey

My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the

woods,

No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,

I have no chair, no philosophy,

I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,

But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,

My left hand hooking you round the waist,

My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public

road.



Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,

You must travel it for yourself.



It is not far, it is within reach,

Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,

Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land.



Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten

forth,

Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.



If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand

on my hip,

And in due time you shall repay the same service to me,

For after we start we never lie by again.



This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded

heaven,

And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs,

and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we

be fill'd and satisfied then?

And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue

beyond.



You are also asking me questions and I hear you,

I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.



Sit a while dear son,

Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,

But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss

you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress

hence.



Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,

Now I wash the gum from your eyes,

You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every

moment of your life.



Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,

Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,

To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout,

and laughingly dash with your hair.



 

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Hermann Hesse - Quotes

 Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it. 

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Heraclitus - Quotes

 No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. 

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Quotes

 The only journey is the one within. 

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Walt Whitman - Quotes

 I tramp a perpetual journey. 

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Don DeLillo - Quotes

 But then it came time for me to make my journey 

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Anna Quindlen - Quotes

 Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. 

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Sedona: The Spirit of Wonder - Quotes

 Narrator:
If we look at the path, we do not see the sky. We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars Our quest, our earth walk is to look within, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no separation, only in the mind. (Native American, source unknown)
 

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Henry Ward Beecher - Quotes

 We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. 

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Bruce Chatwin - Quotes

 Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one. 

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Marina Warner - Quotes

 A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out. 

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Felicity: An American Girl Adventure - Quotes

 Felicity Merriman:
It did no matter where our journey led us. We'd always have in our hearts, the comforts of that evening, the love of our families and the everlasting nature of true friendship.
 

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Los gringos - Quotes

 The Gringo:
What kinda man are you?
The Samurai:
I was once great samurai warrior. Now, I am on journey of redemption. [pause]
The Samurai:
You look like filthy animal!
The Gringo:
Yeah? At least I wear pants!
 

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