Here's a collection of quotes I've encountered over the past year or two that have really stuck with me. Some are funny, some are profound, some are just random.
Miscellaneous Quotes
"You're dirty, ace. And I'm patient."
--Sonny Crockett, talking to the leader of a drug cartel, in the Miami Vice episode "The Prodigal Son"
"The less we know about our own evil, the more we see it in other people"
--Jungian analyst Deldon Anne McNeely on the Speaking of Jung podcast, Episode 13
"There is a higher power, somewhere up there looking down on us, watching everything we do. That's why I'm very careful never to pick my nose!"
--Resident of Cobblestone Canyon in the video game Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Quotes from the Columbo TV show
"An exciting meal has been ruined by the presence of this LIQUID FILTH!"
--Wine connoisseur (and murderer) in the Columbo episode "Any Old Port in a Storm"
"Lieutenant Columbo, you're remarkable. You have intelligence. You have perception. You have great tenacity. You've got everything except proof."
--Doctor (and murderer) played by Leonard Nimoy in the Columbo episode "A Stitch in Crime"
"This happens to be Lieutenant Columbo of the LAPD, who is your everyday, average, typical, downtrodden, American husband. Don't you agree?"
--A celebrity TV chef (and murderer) in the Columbo episode "Double Shock"
Quotes from the Edgar Cayce readings
"(Q) Kindly give me any advice that will benefit me spiritually, physically, mentally.
(A) ... It isn't the great things. No great deeds of valor are accomplished without AGES of preparation in the SOUL of one that accomplishes same. It is just being kind, just being gentle, just being patient, FIRST with self and self's relationships to thy fellow man."
--Edgar Cayce reading 416-7
"The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result."
--Edgar Cayce reading 792-2
"But do not put off today that which will bring hope and help to the mind of another. How did He say? "In a more convenient season I will hear thee"? Those things that make for the putting off become a joy never fulfilled."
--Edgar Cayce reading 877-9