Lucky 13 Challenge: My Favorite Quote

This is a loaded question readers. I have been obsessed with quotes for a good 23 years I would say. And what kind of quote does this challenge require? A song quote? A movie quote? A book quote? A celebrity quote? The options are endless and I'm overwhelmed with ideas. So, let's just take it way way back to maybe my first quote journal and I'll think about what I was obsessed with, and which one could be construed as a a favorite.

Okay my first serious obsession would have to go to Almost Famous and I think I still have it memorized. "I always tell the girls, never take it seriously. If you never take it seriously you never get hurt. If you never get hurt, you always have fun and if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit your friends." I love everything about this movie, this scene and the words. 

Other than that I instantly loved Ferris Bueller saying, "Life moves pretty fast, you don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it." And there are many John Hughes quotes I still love forever. I could also quote many epic statements from Kevin Smith movies and most likely all of Princess Bride. 

Song quotes and verses rule my world too though. My favorite song quote will forever be from The Shins "New Slang," where he sings, "I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find." Natalie Portman was so right in Garden State when she said that Shins song would "change your life." See? I collect quotes.

I used to etch them in notebook after notebook. Now I keep them on Pinterest and hoard them. To me, quotes can comfort and often put to words what you are feeling in your darkest or most hopeless moments. Many people find Bible verses provide this comfort but I look to other writings. 

I've always loved movies and series and I must have thousands of collected quotes from my favorite scenes or moments. And once you collect the quote it takes you back to the exact scene. Some scenes of movies and series are synonymous with the quotes and are embedded within us, some we revisit when we are closer to those iconic moments mirroring our present circumstance.

I think Sarah Silverman recently posted on her Instagram a clip of her watching the absolutely epic scene in Sex and The City where Carrie says to Big "We're so over we need a new word for over." You can hear Sarah Silverman say "Fuck yeah," in reaction. I think all women have felt that moment.

I used to speak mostly in movie quotes and am fluent in Friends show quotes. Also those of The Office. I think these can often help bridge the gap in social situations or help establish common ground but for me quotes are my comfort zone. On a down day, I just quote collect and feel better or revisit that moment from a show and say, "I've totally been there!"

I could list and list and list them but I'd rather open forum this. We currently live in a world where quotes now come in the form of memes and still/screen shots. Feel free to post them in the comments. I want to know what quotes have made your day or made you relate. I want to hear from you!