"I said what I meant, and I meant what I said. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"
— Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)

"No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow."
— Fiyero from the musical Wicked

"Cat Fight Scene (SPOILER WARNING)
Glinda: "That's right! You just take that one road the whole time! Oh I hope she doesn't get lost. I am so bad at giving directions. Oh Nessa."
Elphaba: "What a touching display of grief."
Glinda: "I don't think we have anything further to say to one another."
Elphaba: "I wanted something to remember her by. All that was left of her were those shoes. And now that wretched little farmgirl has walked off with them! So if you don't mind I'd like some time alone to say good-bye to my sister. Oh Nessa. Nessa please forgive me."
Glinda: "Elphie, you musn't blame yourself! It's a terrible thing to have a house fall on you but-accidents happen-"
Elphaba: "You call THIS an accident?"
Glinda: "Well no not exactly. More like--a regime change. Cause by a bizarre and unexpected twister of fate."
Elphaba: "Oh so you think cyclones just appear, out of the blue?!"
Glinda: "Well I don't know I never--"
Elphaba: "Of course you never! You're too busy telling everyone how WONDERFUL everything is!"
Glinda: "Well I'm a public figure now. People expect me-"
Elphaba: "To LIE?!"
Glinda: "TO BE ENCOURAGING! Besides, what have you been doing besides riding around on that filthy old thing?"
Elphaba: "Well! We can't all come and go by BUBBLE! Who's invention was that? The Wizards? Of course even if it weren't I'm sure he'd still take credit for it!"
Glinda: "Yes well seems a lot of us are taking things that don't belong to us, aren't we?"
Elphaba: "Now you wait just a clock-tick. I know it may be hard for that blissful, blond brain of yours can comprehend how someone like him could actually choose someone like me. But it's happened. It's real. And you can wave that ridiculous wand all you want and you can't change it. He doesn't love you and he never did, he loves me!"
*Glinda slaps Elphaba. Elphaba cackles.*
Elphaba: "Feel better?"
Glinda: "Yes. I do."
Elphaba: "Good!"
*Elphaba slaps Glinda.*
Elphaba: "SO DO I!"
*Scene continues.*"
— Elphaba and Glinda, Wicked the Musical

"Something has changed within me. Something is not the same. I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game. Too late for second guessing. Too late to go back to sleep. It's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and leap. It's time to try defying gravity. I think I'll try defying gravity. And you can't pull me down.

I'm through accepting limits, 'cause someone say's they're so. Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know. Too long I've been afraid of losing love I guess I've lost. Well if that's love it comes at much too high a cost. I'd sooner buy defying gravity. Kiss me good-bye I'm defying gravity. And you can't pull me down."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"I'm not a guppy!"
— Flounder, from The Little Mermaid

"Elphaba: "No matter how self-absorbed and shallow you pretend to be-"
Fiyero: "There's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.""
— Wicked the Musical

"Where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it History."
— The Wizard Wicked the Musical

"So much happened before Dorothy Dropped in."
— Wicked the Musical

"I'm the other daughter, Elphaba. I'm beautifully tragic."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

""Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?""
— Glinda Wicked the Musical

"Hands touch.
Eyes meet.
Sudden silence.
Sudden heat.
Hearts leap in a giddy whirl.
He could be that boy.
But I'm not that girl."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime so let me say before we part: So much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"Where I'm from, the best way to bring people together... is to give them a common enemy."
— The Wizard Wicked the Musical

"I think everyone deserves the chance to fly."
— The Wizard Wicked the Musical

"I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"black, is this year's pink!"
— Stephen Schwartz (Wicked - Piano/Vocal Arrangement)

"And I've had so many friends! But only one that mattered."
— Glinda Wicked the Musical

"I don't see why you can't just teach us history, instead of always talking about the past."
— Glinda Wicked the Musical

"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return. Well I don't know if I believe that's true. But I know I'm who I am today because I knew you."
— Glinda Wicked the Musical

"Elphaba: "And just to clear the air I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blame me for."
Glinda: "But then I guess we know there's blame to share."
Elphaba/Glinda: "And none of it seems to matter anymore.""
— Elphaba and Glinda Wicked the Musical

"Song: For Good

Elphaba: "I'm limited. Just look at me. I'm limited. And just look at you, you can do all I couldn't do, Glinda. So now it's up to you. For both of us. Now it's up to you."
Glinda: "I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return. Well I don't know if I believe that's true. But I know I'm who I am today because I knew you. Like a comet pulled from orbit, as it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, halfway through the wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better but, because I knew you. I have been changed for good."
Elphaba: "It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime so let me say before we part: So much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend. Like a ship blown from it's mooring by a wind off the sea. Like a seed dropped by a sky bird in a distant wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better, but because I knew you-"
Glinda: "Because I knew you-"
Elphaba/Glinda: "I have been changed for good."
Elphaba: "And just to clear the air I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blame me for."
Glinda: "But then I guess we know there's blame to share."
Elphba/Glinda: "And none of it seems to matter anymore."
Glinda: "Like a comet pulled from orbit-"
Elphaba: "Like a ship blown from it's mooring-"
Glinda: "-as it passes a sun."
Elphaba: "-by a wind off the sea."
Glinda: "Like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through-"
Elphaba: "Like a seed dropped by a bird-"
Elphaba/Glinda: "-the wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better? I do believe I have been changed for the better."
Glinda: "And, because I knew you-"
Elphaba: "Because I knew you-"
Elphaba/Glinda: "Because I knew you I have been changed for good.""
— Elphaba and Glinda Wicked the Musical

"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return."
— Glinda Wicked the Musical

"VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!"
— Jonathan Larson (Rent)

"Forget regret or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way. No day but today."
— Jonathan Larson

"See you at the aftermath, Peace... but not literally."
— Dr. Horrible

"Well there's no place like home."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"Where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it History. A man's called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man's a thief, or philanthropist. Is one a crusader, or ruthless invader? It's all in which label, is able, to persist. There are precious few at ease with more ambiguities. So we act as though they don't exist."
— The Wizard Wicked the Musical

"And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so.
- Javert"
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"Every beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
— Semisonic

"Let's sing our way out of this"
— Isabel Fraire

""MOVE FORWARD! MOVE NOW! Program yourself to feel with depth enough to know what's up and heart to sense the real.""
— Derrick Carter

"I believe if I refuse to grow old,
I can stay young 'til I die."
— Stephen Schwartz

"I think we'd see a pretty sharp decline in suicides if life was turned into a musical."
— Ethan Suplee

"Engel nennens Freude,
Teufel nennens Pein,
Menschen meinen,
Es muss Liebe sein."
— Michael Kunze

"'There's nothing so bad ska can't make better.'"
— Ripley Holden