- Charles Baudelaire · Exposition universelle de 1855 · 1855
“Turn and face the strange.”
- David Bowie · “Changes” · 1971
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star”
- Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883
“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”
- Dead Poets Society · John Keating · 00:43:09
“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting”
- David Bowie
“Never do anything by halves. Be outrageous.”
- Matilda Wormwood · Matilda · Chapter 11 · 1988
“Beat me, bash me / You can never trash me / Hit me, kick me / You can never get me”
- Michael Jackson · They Don’t Care About Us · 1995
“You have no power over me”
- Labyrinth · Sarah Williams · 01:32:47
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads”
- Back to the Future · Doc Brown · 01:51:34
“And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman’s wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman”
- Dr. John Watson · A Scandal in Bohemia · 1891
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
- Nick Carraway · The Great Gatsby · 1925