The streets you’re walking on, a thousand houses long
Well that's where I belong and you belong with me

(Coldplay - Swallowed In The Sea)

There had been a sudden, slight movement in the street
where there had been none before.
Shadows moved, rested, moved again.

(Richard Bachman/Stephen King - The Running Man)

We need to make books cool again.
If you go home with somebody
and they don't have books,
don't fuck them.

(John Waters)

The smell, childlike, deep, is confused by petrol and alcohol.
Rain threatens, perhaps, today, snow.

(Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow)

These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

(Cat Power - New York)

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
(Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars)

I never read, I just look at pictures.

(Andy Warhol)

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something German,
it just doesn't happen that often.

(Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm)

And we'll collect the moments one by one
I guess that's how the future's done

(Feist - Mushaboom)

Dem Staate liegt daran, den bösen Untertan schnell aus dem Weg zu räumen.

(Don Pizarro in Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio)

Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit

(Motto of the Secessionist movement)

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

(The Ballad of Ira Hayes, folk song by Peter La Farge, made famous by Johnny Cash)

You made me smile today
You spoke with many voices
We travelled miles today
Shared expressions voiceless

(Sia - Numb)

"Wir lieben solche Erkältungen nicht. Sind Sie öfter erkältet? War Ihr Vetter nicht auch so oft erkältet?
Wie alt sind Sie denn? Vierundzwanzig? Das Alter hat's in sich.
Und nun kommen Sie hier herauf und sind erkältet?
Wir sollten hier nicht von 'Erkältung' reden, geehrtes Menschenskind,
das ist so ein Schnickschnack von unten."

(Thomas Mann - Der Zauberberg)

You have only been gone ten days,
But already I'm wasting away.
I know I'll see you again
Whether far or soon.
But I need you to know that I care,
And I miss you.

(Incubus - Miss You)

Nostalgia is denial – denial of the painful present… the name for this
denial is golden age thinking – the erroneous notion that a different
time period is better than the one one's living in – it's a flaw in the
romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult
to cope with the present.

(Midnight in Paris, directed by Woody Allen)

In a city of infinite options, sometimes there's no better feeling
than knowing you only have one.

(Sex and the City, Season 1, Episode 7)

Jeder Fremde hat bei der Einbruchsstazion seinen Paß, oder seine Kundschaft vorzuzeigen.
Wenn der daselbst aufgestellte k. k. Beamte diese Urkunde ächt und vorschriftmäßig findet,
so hat er solche zu vidiren, und darauf die Route bis zu dem darin ausgedrückten
Bestimmungsorte vorzuzeichnen.

(Decree of the Bohemian Provincial Executive Committee, 1809)

I'd call you now to tell you I'm thinking of you
But it does me no good when the phone is just blocking my view
And I would sail back to you

(Damien Jurado - Everything Trying)

Musha ring dum a do dum a da.
Whack for my daddy-o,
Whack for my daddy-o.
There's whiskey in the jar-o.

(Whiskey in the Jar - Irish folk song, as made famous by Metallica)

Coffee cups are for reading the future, but cocoa? The past?
No. Chocolate won't tell you anything.

(Hallgrímur Helgason - 101 Reykjavik)

Erst als ich dieses Dokument gelesen und wiedergelesen hatte,
verstand ich voll und ganz, dass mein Auftrag eine Mission war.

(Umberto Eco - Der Friedhof in Prag)

I'm in love with the ordinary
I need a simple space to rest my head
And everything gets clear

(Jimmy Eat World - The World You Love)

You're just jealous cause we're young and in love.

(Brand New - Soco Amaretto Lime)

Drowning, everything is drowning
Go ahead and take the town
The town is yours to take

(Bishop Allen - Rain)