Carpe diem quotes

“They say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now, Captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives. I know you understand.”
Malcom McDowell - Soran

“I'll tell you what's not fair: spending a lifetime on a dime-store shelf watching every other toy be sold! Well, finally my waiting has paid off, and no hand-me-down cowboy doll is gonna mess it up for me now!”
Kelsey Grammer - Stinky Pete the Prospector

“- Jean Rasczak: Rico, you once asked me for advice, want some now?
- Johnny Rico: Yes, sir!
- Jean Rasczak: Never pass up a good thing.”

Michael Ironside - Jean Rasczak
Casper Van Dien - Johnny Rico

“I want you both to take the day off, go downtown, get a license, and get married right away.”

Walter Huston - Thomas A. Dickson

“We must not expect happiness. It is not something we deserve. When life goes well, it is a sudden gift; it cannot last forever.”
Ken Watanabe - Chairman

“Anything is possible. It is night on planet Earth and I'm alive. And someday I'll be dead. Someday I'll just be bones in a box, but right now, I'm not. And anything is possible. And that's why I can go to New York with Sooze because each moment can just be what it is. There's no failure, there's no mistake. I just, I just go there and live there...” (continue)(continue reading)
Giovanni Ribisi - Jeff

“A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.”
Ruth Gordon - Maude

“- Alex: Are you asking me out on a date?
- Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith: As a matter of fact, I am.
- Alex: Why don't you take me somewhere now?”
Brittany Murphy - Alex
Eminem - Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith

“My little Amélie, you don't have bones of glass. You can take life's knocks. If you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton.”
Serge Merlin - Raymond Dufayel

“- Marlene: Alright, 'Bama, why don't you get up there and show me what you got.
- Ray Charles: Well, I, I'm not really prepared to do my thing, I mean, right now, tonight.
- Marlene: Well, this is the only audition you're gonna get, Puddin', so either get on up there or you and Gossie can haul your asses back down south.”

Denise Dowse - Marlene
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles

“I know they're only moments, but that's all life is. Just a bunch of moments. Most of them are lousy... but once in a while, you steal a good one.”

Lesley Ann Warren - Molly

“One life! Thats all! You'll not get the last years back.”
Phyllida Law - Elspeth

“- Shao-Kahn: You should have killed me... when you had the chance... brother.
- Rayden: My brother died a long time ago. His heart, anyway.”
Brian Thompson - Shao-Kahn
James Remar - Rayden

“Luck is like the Tour de France. You wait, and it flashes past you. You have to catch it while you can.”
Serge Merlin - Raymond Dufayel

“They say opportunity's only got one hair on his head and you gotta grab it while it's going by and dog it down or you mightn't get another chance.”
William Demarest - Sgt. Heffelfinger

- Dr. Mumford: Nobody ever said "I should have spent more time at the office".
- Jeremy Brockett: Fill in the blanks. I don't mind the office. The point is you only go around once. So, like the Zen say, "Be here now".
Loren Dean - Mumford
Ted Danson - Jeremy Brockett

“- Dan: We need to seize the day!
- Floyd: Yeah! Carpe deez nuts! God I can't wait to quit this job!”
David Koechner - Dan
Dane Cook - Floyd

“When you're 12, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment, Teeny filled my heart with hope and comfort.”
Demi Moore - Samantha

- Linda Brown: Maybe we're going too fast. We should just take this a step at a time.
- Lenny Brown: To hell with that. You don't stepthrough life. "Teacher, may I?" It goes too quick for that. You gotta leap through life!
Sean Young - Linda Brown
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Nick Charles: Now my friends, if I may propose a little toast. Let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
- Nora Charles: You give such charming parties, Mr. Charles.”
William Powell - Nick Charles
Myrna Loy - Nora Charles

“When you walk out that door, part of me will go right with you. But a whole new world's gonna open up for you.”

Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“You always told me if I ever got a shot at a big score, I should take it. And that's what I did.”

Sam Rockwell - Frank Mercer

“Make your life spectacular. I know I did.”
Robin Williams - Jack Powell

“Carpe the Diem. Seize the Carp.”
Derek Hamilton - Pig Pen

“My grandfather used to say that good things take time, but great things happen all at once.”
Breckin Meyer - Nick Schaffer