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"An Oxford man!"

Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

"And that's the way it is."

Source: CBS Evening News | Speaker: Walter Cronkite

"Anything. Can be a slam. Poem. If you say it like this."

Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope

"Carpe… Hear it? Carpe… carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

Source: Dead Poets Society | Speaker: John Keating

"Dear frozen yogurt: you are the celery of desserts. Be ice cream or nothing. Zero stars."

Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson

"Do not call for Black power or green power. Call for brain power."

Source: Campus Speeches, Quoted in the Chicago Tribune | Author: Barbara Jordan

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."

Source: 1896 Letter to Booker T. Washington | Author: George Washington Carver

"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world."

Source: 2003 Speech | Speaker: Nelson Mandela

"Elementary, my dear Watson."

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Speaker: Sherlock Holmes

"Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone."

Source: "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" | Speaker: Pink Floyd

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen

"I saw the sign, and it opened up my eyes."

Source: "The Sign" | Speaker: Ace of Base

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Author: J.K. Rowling

"I want to go to there."

Source: 30 Rock | Speaker: Liz Lemon

"I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final […] I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Source: Letter to Robert Hooke | Author: Sir Isaac Newton

"If it doesn't have meat, it's a snack."

Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson

"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime

"Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee

"Just whistle while you work."

Source: "Whistle While You Work" | Speaker: Snow White

"Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does.""

Source: Forrest Gump | Speaker: Forrest Gump

"Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople."

Source: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) | Speaker: They Might Be Giants

"Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white."

Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Gretchen Wieners

"On Wednesdays, we wear pink."

Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Karen Smith

"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."

Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley

"Put the lime in the coconut."

Source: "Coconut" | Speaker: Harry Nilsson

"School's out for summer!"

Source: School's Out | Speaker: Alice Cooper

"So the last shall be first, and the first last."

Source: Matthew 20:16 | Author: Matthew

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

Source: Dazed and Confused | Speaker: David Wooderson

"The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."

Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"The modern masters promise very little"

Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

Source: Diggers (The Bromeliad Trilogy) | Author: Terry Pratchett

"There is no such thing [as society]!"

Source: Interview with Woman's Own magazine in 1987 | Speaker: Margaret Thatcher

"Things don't happen, they are made to happen."

Source: University of North Dakota Address | Speaker: John F. Kennedy

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee

"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."

Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson

"We speak student."

Source: Tagline | Author: Shmoop

"Words can be like X-Rays if you use them properly – they'll go through anything."

Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Author: Mark Twain

"You may lie."

Source: The Giver | Speaker: Lois Lowry

"You want weapons. We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world."

Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor