We were talking about one tree hill last night and a particular quote by Mr. Shaw. So i decided to dive into my multiply account and resurrect my favorite voiceovers from One Tree Hill. ;)
EPISODE #101 · THE PLACES YOU HAVE COME TO FEAR THE MOST
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
-- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
EPISODE #102 · ARE YOU TRUE?
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"E.E. Cummings once wrote; 'To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.'"
EPISODE #104 · WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"John Steinbeck once wrote; 'It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.'"
EPISODE #110 · THE LIVING YEARS
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.'" -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
EPISODE #202 · TRUTH DOESN'T MAKE A NOISE
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"T.H. White said; perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically…to those who hardly think about us in return."
EPISODE #206 · WE MIGHT AS WELL BE STRANGERS
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Katherine Anne Porter once said; 'There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.'"
EPISODE #207 · LET THE REIGNS GO LOOSE
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: Many people die with their music still IN them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live...Before they know it...time runs out."
EPISODE #208 · TRUTH, BITTER TRUTH
[ Voiceover Done By: Brooke ]
"Someone once said; 'It’s the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me… I just wanna live a life I’m gonna remember. Even if I don’t write it down.'"
NOTE: That 'someone' was Tallulah Bankhead.
EPISODE #211 · THE HEART BRINGS YOU BACK
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Tennessee Williams once wrote; When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
EPISODE #216 · SOMEWHERE A CLOCK IS TICKING
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Kahlil Gibran once wrote; 'You're reason and your passion are the rudder.. and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burn to it’s own destruction.'"
EPISODE #217 · SOMETHING I CAN NEVER HAVE
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Charles Bukowski once wrote; 'There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You're always ripe and ready to be taken.'"
EPISODE #222 · THE TIDE THAT LEFT AND NEVER CAME BACK
"And Hansel said to Gretel, 'Let us drop these breadcrumbs... so that together we find our way home. Because losing our way would be the most cruel of things.' This year.. I lost my way."
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"And losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey... is a fate more cruel."[ Voiceover Done By: Nathan ]
"The journey lasted eight months. Sometimes I traveled alone, sometimes, there were others who took the wheel -- and took my heart. But when the destination was reached, it wasn’t me who arrived...it wasn't me at all." [ Voiceover Done By: Peyton ]
"And once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be... or lose that person completely." [ Voiceover Done By: Brooke ]
"Because, sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been. And remember the person you were meant to be. The person you wanted to be. The person you are."
[ Voice Over Done By: Mouth ]
EPISODE #223 · THE LEAVERS DANCE
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Tennessee Williams once wrote; 'We all live in a house of fire. No fire department to call. No way out. Just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down… with us trapped, locked in it.'"
EPISODE #301 · LIKE YOU LIKE AN ARSONIST
[ Voiceover Done By: Peyton ]
"At this moment, there are 6 billion, 4 hundred, 71 million, 8 hundred, 18 thousand, 6 hundred, 71 people in the world. Some are running scared.. some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day.. others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men at war with good, and some are good.. struggling with evil. 6 billion people in the world, 6 billion souls -- and sometimes.. all you need is 1."
EPISODE #302 · FROM THE EDGE OF THE DEEP GREEN SEA
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Henry David Thoreau once wrote: 'Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influences of each.'"
EPISODE #303 · FIRST DAY ON A BRAND NEW PLANET
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: 'All are architects of fate... living in these walls of time.'"
"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: 'All are architects of fate... so look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.'"
EPISODE #306 · LOCKED HEARTS AND HAND GRENADES
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoninga of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade, and yet the menace of the years finds, shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." -- Invictus
EPISODE #308 · THE WORST DAY SINCE YESTERDAY
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: 'you can not run away from weakness; you must fight it out... or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?'"
EPISODE #310 · BRAVE NEW WORLD
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"IDA Scott Taylor wrote: 'Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone, and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.'"
EPISODE #311 · RETURN OF THE FUTURE
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats."
EPISODE #314 · ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
"I read a poem once about a girl who had a crush on a guy who died. She imagined him up in heaven with all the beautiful angels, and she was jealous. Ellie is gone, I imagine her with the bad ass angels now. Hanging out with them in their black leather jackets, causing trouble. But, I'm not jealous, I just miss her." [ Voiceover Done By:Peyton ]
"Most of our life is a series of images. They pass us by like towns on the highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens. And we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever.'"
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
EPISODE #316 · WITH TIRED EYES, TIRED MINDS, TIRED SOULS, WE SLEPT
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty, this hatred. How did it find us? Did it steal into our lives or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us? That we now send our children into the world like we send young men into war, hoping for their safe return. But knowing that some will be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows, swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name? Is it your name?"
EPISODE #318 · WHEN IT ISN'T LIKE IT SHOULD BE
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
"Henry James once wrote: 'Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.'"
"John Steinbeck once wrote: 'Change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.'"
EPISODE #319 · I SLEPT WITH SOMEONE FROM FALL OUT BOY AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID SONG WRITTEN ABOUT ME
[ Voiceover Done By: Lucas ]
"George Eliot once wrote: 'There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.'"
EPISODE #320 · EVERYDAY IS A SUNDAY EVENING
[ Voiceovers Done By: Nathan ]
"Stepping up. It's a simple concept. It basically means to rise above yourself; to do a little more, to show you something special. Something like this. Lucas is gone, but that doesn't mean the season is over. As a matter of fact, I say it's just beginning. You might want to stay out of my way for a while. Life's funny sometimes; can push pretty hard like when you fall in love with someone but they forget to love you back, like when your best friend and your boyfriend leave you alone, like when you pull the trigger or light the flame and you can't take it back. Like I said, in sports they call this 'stepping up'. In life, I call it 'pushing back".'
"You know it's been said that we just don't recognize the significant moments of our lives while they're happening. We grow complacent with ideas, or things or people and we take them for granted and it's usually not until that thing is about to be taken away from you that you've realized how wrong you've been that you realized how much you need it, how much you love it. God, I love this game."
"You ever heard the expression 'The best things in live are free.' Well that expression is true.' Every once in a while, people step up they rise above themselves sometimes they surprise you and sometimes they fall short. Life is funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard but if you look close enough, you can find hope in the words of children, in the bars of the song and in the eyes of someone you love. And if you're lucky, if you're the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back."
EPISODE #322 · THE SHOW MUST GO ON
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
"At this moment there are six billion, five hundred and two million, eight hundred and sixty seven thousand, one hundred and twenty people in the world, give or take a few and sometimes all you need is one. For better or for worse."
"William Shakespeare wrote; 'Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. Love alters not with time’s brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.'"
EPISODE #402 · THINGS I FORGOT AT BIRTH
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
"There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days."
"And, of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back."
"There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads."
"But, once in a while, people push onto something better. Something found just beyond the pain of going it alone. And just beyond the bravery and courage it takes to let someone in."
"Or to give someone a second chance."
"Something beyond the quiet persistence of a dream."
"Because, it's only when you’re tested that you truly discover who you are."
"And, it's only when you're tested that you discover who you can be."
"The person you want to be does exist; somewhere on the other side of hard work and faith and belief. And, beyond the heartache and fear of what lies ahead."
EPISODE #403 · GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
"You ever look at a picture of yourself and see a stranger in the background? It makes you wonder how many strangers have pictures of you, how many moments of other peoples lives have we been in, we're we a part of someone's life when their dreams came true, or were we there when their dreams died. Did we keep trying to get in, as if we were somehow destined to be there, or did the shot take us by surprise. Just think, you could be a big part of someone else's life, and not even know it."
EPISODE #404 · CAN'T STOP THIS THING WE STARTED
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
"There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment, you must choose your direction. Will you fight to stay on path? Will others tell you who you are? Or will you label yourself? Will you be haunted by your choice? Or will you embrace your new path? Each morning you choose to move forward or simply give up."
"There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment who will you be? Will you let down your defenses, and find solace in someone unexpected? Will you reach out? Will you face your greatest fear bravely? And move forward with faith. Or will you succumb to the darkness in your soul?"
EPISODE #407 · ALL THESE THINGS THAT I'VE DONE
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
"Regret comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are small like when we do a bad thing for a good reason. Some are bigger like when you let down a friend.
Some of us escape the pain of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because we're looking forward to the future. Sometimes we have to fight to come to terms with the past, and sometimes we bury our regret by promising to change your own ways.
But, our biggest regrets are not for the things we did -- but, for the things we didn't do. Things we didn't say that could've save someone that we care about. Especially when we can see the dark storm that's headed their way."
EPISODE #410 · SONGS TO LOVE AND DIE BY
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
"Have you ever wondered what marks our timing? If one life can really make an impact on the world? Or if the choices we make matter? Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. In this case, just a few minutes."
"Have you ever wondered what marks our timing? If one life can really make an impact on the world? Or if the choices we make matter? I believe they do. And I believe that one man can change many lives... for better, or worse."
EPISODE #417 · IT GETS WORST AS NIGHT
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
William Blake once wrote; "There are things that are known and thing that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
EPISODE #418 · THE RUNAWAY FOUND
[ Voiceovers Done By: Lucas ]
"Sometimes I wonder if anything is absolute anymore. Is there still right and wrong? Good and bad? Truth and lies? Or is everything negotiable, left to interpretation, gray? Sometimes were forced to bend the truth? to transform it because we are faced with things that are not of our own making. And sometimes, things simply catch up with us."
EPISODE #502 · RACING LIKE A PRO
[ Voiceovers Done By: Haley ]
"You can choose to blame your circumstances on fate or bad luck or bad choices. Or you can fight back."
"Things aren’t always going to be fair in the real world. That’s just the way it is. But for the most part, you get what you give. Rest of your life is being shaped right now. With the dreams you chase….The choices you make….and the person you decide to be. The rest of your life is a long time. And the rest of your life starts right now."
EPISODE #509 · FOR TONIGHT YOU'RE ONLY HERE TO KNOW
[ Voiceovers Done By: Mouth ]
"There was a high school basketball game tonight somewhere in America. A team won and a team lost. That's not the real story. The real story is about fathers and sons. It's about life and time and change. Girls and boys went to the game. They dressed and hoped to fit in. Some did. Some didn't. It's a story that has history and chapters yet to be written. There was a high school basketball game tonight somewhere in America. Reporters will report. They'll tell you who the high scorer was and what the keys to the game were. But that's not the real story. As a matter of fact, that's not the story at all."
EPISODE #513 · ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE AND GRACE
[ Voiceovers Done By: Peyton, Lucas, Brooke, Nathan and Haley ]
Peyton: "Name a wish, place it in your heart. Anything you want, everything you want.
Lucas: "Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.
You never know when the next miracle can come from, the next smile, the next wish com true."
Peyton: "But if you believe that it right around the corner.
And you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the serenity of it."
Brooke: "You just may get the thing your are wishing for."
Nathan: "The world is full of magic you just have to believe it.
So make your wish. Do you have it?"
Haley: "Good. Now believe in it with all you heart."