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Moving On Quotes

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Moving On Quotes

Turns out that belting Taylor Swift lyrics in the car isn't the only way people come to grips with moving on. Go figure. Click on any moving on quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"All the lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane."

Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

Source: Blade Runner | Speaker: Roy Batty

"And it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"And now for something completely different."

Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: The Announcer

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

Source: East of Eden | Author: John Steinbeck

"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

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

"And someone saved my life tonight."

Source: "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" | Speaker: Elton John

"And unto the uttermost part of the earth."

Source: Acts of the Apostles | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth

"Any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me. Probably in the last half hour."

Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell

"As if!"

Source: Clueless | Speaker: Cher Horowitz

"Backstreet's back, all right!"

Source: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"Billie Jean is not my lover."

Source: "Billie Jean" | Speaker: Michael Jackson

"But rumour has it he's the one I'm leaving you for."

Source: "Rumour Has It" | Speaker: Adele

"But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out."

Source: Casey at the Bat | Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer

"Can you pay my bills?"

Source: "Bills Bills Bills" | Speaker: Destiny's Child

"Cause I can't make you love me if you don't."

Source: I Can't Make You Love Me | Speaker: Bonnie Raitt

"Don't bring me down…Bruce!"

Source: "Don't Bring Me Down" | Speaker: Electric Light Orchestra

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Source: Henry Ford's Marketing Team | Speaker: Henry Ford

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

Source: Chinatown | Speaker: Lawrence Walsh

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Source: Gone with the Wind | Speaker: Rhett Butler

"Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn"

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

"Get back to where you once belonged!"

Source: Get Back | Speaker: The Beatles

"Go west."

Source: Go West | Speaker: The Village People

"Good grief!"

Source: A Charlie Brown Christmas | Speaker: Charlie Brown

"Hakuna Matata."

Source: The Lion King | Speaker: Timon and Pumbaa

"Happiness can be found in the darkest of times."

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Speaker: Albus Dumbledore

"Have a good life."

Source: Cheers | Speaker: Sam Malone

"He ain't no drag—Papa's got a brand new bag."

Source: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag | Speaker: James Brown

"Here's looking at you, kid."

Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick

"Hey, Dr. Jones. No time for love!"

Source: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Speaker: Short Round

"Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came..."

Source: "Brown-Eyed Girl" | Speaker: Van Morrison

"Hit the road, Jack."

Source: "Hit the Road Jack" | Speaker: Ray Charles

"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Author: Lewis Carroll

"I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am."

Source: Green Eggs and Ham | Author: Dr. Seuss

"I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."

Source: Say Anything | Speaker: Lloyd Dobler

"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged."

Source: Shawshank Redemption | Speaker: Red

"I never want to hear you say, I want it that way."

Source: "I Want It That Way" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."

Source: The Bell Jar | Author: Sylvia Plath

"I will survive!"

Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor

"I'm as mad as hell!"

Source: Network | Speaker: Howard Beale

"I'm not that girl."

Source: Wicked (2003 Musical) | Speaker: Elphaba

"I've been afraid of changing."

Source: Landslide | Speaker: Fleetwood Mac

"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"

Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor

"I've got no strings to hold me down, to make me fret, or make me frown."

Source: I've Got No Strings | Speaker: Pinocchio

"I've seen fire and I've seen rain."

Source: "Fire and Rain" | Speaker: James Taylor

"If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you."

Source: If You Forget Me | Author: Pablo Neruda

"It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how."

Source: The Cat in the Hat | Author: Dr. Seuss

"It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."

Source: Shanghai Express | Speaker: Shanghai Lily

"It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal, and the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down."

Source: Scandal | Speaker: Olivia Pope

"Jesus gave up the ghost."

Source: John 19:30 | Author: John

"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Source: Matthew 15:14 | Author: Matthew

"Let's go home, Debbie."

Source: The Searchers | Speaker: Ethan Edwards

"Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over."

Source: Shaun of the Dead | Speaker: Shaun

"Live in the layers, not on the litter."

Source: The Layers | Author: Stanley Kunitz

"Long walks at night—that's what good for the soul"

Source: And the Moon and the Stars and the World | Author: Charles Bukowski

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."

Source: Airplane! | Speaker: Steven McCroskey

"Love fades away. But things...things are forever."

Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Tom Haverford

"Mamma mia, here I go again. My, my, how can I resist you?"

Source: Mamma Mia | Speaker: ABBA

"Mr. Christian!"

Source: Mutiny on the Bounty | Speaker: Captain Bligh

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."

Source: The Mourning Bride | Author: William Congreve

"My dear, I don't give a damn."

Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell

"Our long national nightmare is over."

Source: Inaugural Address, September 9, 1974 | Speaker: President Gerald Ford

"Seize the moment. 'Cause tomorrow you might be dead."

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers

"Set your house in order."

Source: 2 Kings 20:1 | Author: Jeremiah

"Shake it off."

Source: Shake It Off | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!"

Source: The Scarlet Letter | Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

"So, goodbye, yellow brick road."

Source: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" | Speaker: Elton John

"Someday monkey won't play piano song, play piano song."

Source: "Michelle" | Speaker: The Beatles

"Somewhere over the rainbow."

Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy Gale

"That's a dealbreaker!"

Source: 30 Rock | Speaker: Liz Lemon

"The art of losing isn’t hard to master"

Source: One Art | Author: Elizabeth Bishop

"The cold never bothered me anyway."

Source: Frozen | Speaker: Elsa

"The tribe has spoken."

Source: Survivor | Speaker: Jeff Probst

"There are places I remember all my life, though some have changed."

Source: "In My Life" | Speaker: The Beatles

"There is a place where the sidewalk ends."

Source: Where the Sidewalk Ends | Author: Shel Silverstein

"There is no new thing under the sun."

Source: Ecclesiastes 1:9 | Author: Author of Ecclesiastes

"there's a bluebird in my heart that/ wants to get out/ but I'm too tough for him"

Source: Bluebird | Author: Charles Bukowski

"Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter."

Source: Dr. Seuss | Speaker: Dr. Seuss

"To infinity and beyond!"

Source: Toy Story | Speaker: Buzz Lightyear

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines"

Source: Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines | Author: Pablo Neruda

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

Source: The Road Not Taken | Author: Robert Frost

"Vegas, baby, Vegas!"

Source: Swingers | Speaker: Trent Walker

"Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you."

Source: "Maggie May" | Speaker: Rod Stewart

"We are never ever ever getting back together."

Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"We can have lots of good fun that is funny!"

Source: The Cat in the Hat | Author: Dr. Seuss

"We can't go on together with suspicious minds."

Source: "Suspicious Minds" | Speaker: Elvis Presley

"We'll always have Paris."

Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year."

Source: "Wish You Were Here" | Speaker: Pink Floyd

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen

"When I became a man, I put away childish things."

Source: 1 Corinthians 13:11 | Author: Paul

"When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing."

Source: Death of a Salesman | Author: Arthur Miller

"When we two parted"

Source: When We Two Parted | Author: George Gordon Byron

"Whisper words of wisdom, let it be."

Source: "Let It Be" | Speaker: The Beatles

"Wrapped up like a douche..."

Source: Blinded by the Light | Speaker: Manfred Mann

"You better watch your mouth, sunshine."

Source: The Walking Dead | Speaker: Daryl Dixon

"You're fired."

Source: The Apprentice | Speaker: Donald Trump

"You're on your own."

Source: Oh, the Places You'll Go! | Author: Dr. Seuss