James A from blogzarro.com has put together a nice collection of 100-some Simpsons quotes. Well done! In addition to that I put up an image of all Simpsons characters that were featured in the Simpsons so far.
But here is James’ list:

1. Homer: D’oh.
2. Ralph: Me fail English? That’s unpossible.
3. Lionel Hutz: This is the greatest case of false advertising I’ve seen since I sued the movie “The Never Ending Story.”
4. Sideshow Bob: No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it.
5. Troy McClure: Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he’d eat you and everyone you care about!
6. Comic Book Guy: The Internet King? I wonder if he could provide faster nudity…
7. Homer: Oh, so they have Internet on computers now!
8. Ned Flanders: I’ve done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!
9. Comic Book Guy: Your questions have become more redundant and annoying than the last three “Highlander” movies.
10. Chief Wiggum: Uh, no, you got the wrong number. This is 9-1…2.
11. Sideshow Bob: I’ll be back. You can’t keep the Democrats out of the White House forever, and when they get in, I’m back on the streets, with all my criminal buddies.
12. Homer: When I held that gun in my hand, I felt a surge of power…like God must feel when he’s holding a gun.
13. Nelson: Dad didn’t leave… When he comes back from the store, he’s going to wave those pop-tarts right in your face!
14. Milhouse: Remember the time he ate my goldfish? And you lied and said I never had goldfish. Then why did I have the bowl, Bart? *Why did I have the bowl?*
15. Lionel Hutz: Well, he’s kind of had it in for me ever since I accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace “accidentally” with “repeatedly” and replace “dog” with “son.”
16. Comic Book Guy: Last night’s “Itchy and Scratchy Show” was, without a doubt, the worst episode *ever.* Rest assured, I was on the Internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world.
17. Homer: I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me, Superman.
18. Homer: Save me, Jeebus.
19. Mayor Quimby: I stand by my racial slur.
20. Comic Book Guy: Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.
21. Homer: You don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.
22. Chief Wiggum: Fat Tony is a cancer on this fair city! He is the cancer and I am the…uh…what cures cancer?
23. Homer: Bart, with $10,000 we’d be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like…love!
24. Homer: Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
25. Homer: Books are useless! I only ever read one book, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it taught me not to judge a man by the color of his skin…but what good does *that* do me?
26. Chief Wiggum: Can’t you people take the law into your own hands? I mean, we can’t be policing the entire city!
27. Homer: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals…except the weasel.
28. Reverend Lovejoy: Marge, just about everything’s a sin. [holds up a Bible] Y’ever sat down and read this thing? Technically we’re not supposed to go to the bathroom.
29. Homer: You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don’t work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
30. Smithers: Uh, no, they’re saying “Boo-urns, Boo-urns.”
31. Hans Moleman: I was saying “Boo-urns.”
32. Homer: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
33. Homer: Here’s to alcohol, the cause of — and solution to — all life’s problems.
34. Homer: When will I learn? The answers to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV!
35. Chief Wiggum: I hope this has taught you kids a lesson: kids never learn.
36. Homer: How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
37. Homer: Homer no function beer well without.
38. Duffman: Duffman can’t breathe! OH NO!
39. Grandpa Simpson: Dear Mr. President, There are too many states nowadays. Please, eliminate three. P.S. I am not a crackpot.
40. Homer: Old people don’t need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
41. Troy McClure: Hi. I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such self-help tapes as “Smoke Yourself Thin” and “Get Some Confidence, Stupid!”
42. Homer: A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds…it makes ice.
43. Homer: Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you’d step over your own mother just to get one! But you can’t stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!
44. Homer: Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!
45. Mr. Burns: I’ll keep it short and sweet — Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
46. Kent Brockman: …And the fluffy kitten played with that ball of string all through the night. On a lighter note, a Kwik-E-Mart clerk was brutally murdered last night.
47. Ralph: Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and then the baby looked at me.
48. Apu: Please do not offer my god a peanut.
49. Homer: You don’t win friends with salad.
50. Mr. Burns: I don’t like being outdoors, Smithers. For one thing, there’s too many fat children.
51. Sideshow Bob: Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?
52. Chief Wiggum: They only come out in the night. Or in this case, the day.
53. Mr. Burns: Whoa, slow down there, maestro. There’s a *New* Mexico?
54. Homer: He didn’t give you gay, did he? Did he?!
55. Comic Book Guy: But, Aquaman, you cannot marry a woman without gills. You’re from two different worlds… Oh, I’ve wasted my life.
56. Homer: Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
57. Superintendent Chalmers: I’ve had it with this school, Skinner. Low test scores, class after class of ugly, ugly children…
58. Mr. Burns: What good is money if it can’t inspire terror in your fellow man?
59. Homer: Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.
60. Ralph: Slow down, Bart! My legs don’t know how to be as long as yours.
61. Homer: Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do?
62. Frink: Brace yourselves gentlemen. According to the gas chromatograph, the secret ingredient is… Love!? Who’s been screwing with this thing?
63. Apu: Yes! I am a citizen! Now which way to the welfare office? I’m kidding, I’m kidding. I work, I work.
64. Milhouse: We started out like Romeo and Juliet, but it ende
    d up in tragedy.
65. Mr. Burns: A lifetime of working with nuclear power has left me with a healthy green glow…and left me as impotent as a Nevada boxing commissioner.
66. Homer: Kids, kids. I’m not going to die. That only happens to bad people.
67. Milhouse: Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!
68. Homer: I’m going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for ten minutes!
69. Smithers: I’m allergic to bee stings. They cause me to, uh, die.
70. Barney: Aaah! Natural light! Get it off me! Get it off me!
71. Principal Skinner: That’s why I love elementary school, Edna. The children believe anything you tell them.
72. Sideshow Bob: Your guilty consciences may make you vote Democratic, but secretly you all yearn for a Republican president to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!
73. Barney: Jesus must be spinning in his grave!
74. Superintendent Chalmers: “Thank the Lord”? That sounded like a prayer. A prayer in a public school. God has no place within these walls, just like facts don’t have a place within an organized religion.
75. Mr. Burns: [answering the phone] Ahoy hoy?
76. Comic Book Guy: Oh, a *sarcasm* detector. Oh, that’s a *really* useful invention!
77. Marge: Our differences are only skin deep, but our sames go down to the bone.
78. Homer: What’s the point of going out? We’re just going to wind up back here anyway.
79. Marge: Get ready, skanks! It’s time for the truth train!
80. Bill Gates: I didn’t get rich by signing checks.
81. Principal Skinner: Fire can be our friend; whether it’s toasting marshmallows or raining down on Charlie.
82. Homer: Oh, I’m in no condition to drive. Wait a minute. I don’t have to listen to myself. I’m drunk.
83. Homer: And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.
84. Comic Book Guy: Human contact: the final frontier.
85. Homer: I hope I didn’t brain my damage.
86. Krusty the Clown: And now, in the spirit of the season: start shopping. And for every dollar of Krusty merchandise you buy, I will be nice to a sick kid. For legal purposes, sick kids may include hookers with a cold.
87. Homer: I’m a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.
88. Dr. Nick: Inflammable means flammable? What a country.
89. Homer: Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution.
90. Comic Book Guy: Stan Lee never left. I’m afraid his mind is no longer in mint condition.
91. Nelson: Shoplifting is a victimless crime. Like punching someone in the dark.
92. Krusty the Clown: Kids, we need to talk for a moment about Krusty Brand Chew Goo Gum Like Substance. We all knew it contained spider eggs, but the hantavirus? That came out of left field. So if you’re experiencing numbness and/or comas, send five dollars to antidote, PO box…
93. Milhouse: I can’t go to juvie. They use guys like me as currency.
94. Homer: Son, when you participate in sporting events, it’s not whether you win or lose: it’s how drunk you get.
95. Homer: I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming.
96. Apu: Thank you, steal again.
97. Homer: Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman — and I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing.
98. Ed Begley Jr.: I prefer a vehicle that doesn’t hurt Mother Earth. It’s a go-cart, powered by my own sense of self-satisfaction.
99. Bart: I didn’t think it was physically possible, but this both sucks *and* blows.
100. Homer: How could you?! Haven’t you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain Whatshisname? We live in a society of laws! Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn’t hear anybody laughing, did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Makes sound effects and laughs. Where was I? Oh yeah! Stay out of my booze.
101. Homer: Lisa, vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and Eskimos.

Homer: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Lionel Hutz: Well, he’s kind of had it in for me ever since I accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace “accidentally” with “repeatedly” and replace “dog” with “son.”

Homer: Here’s to alcohol, the cause of — and solution to — all life’s problems.

Ned Flanders: I’ve done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!

Milhouse: Remember the time he ate my goldfish? And you lied and said I never had goldfish. Then why did I have the bowl Bart? Why did I have the bowl?

Ralph: Me fail English? That’s unpossible.

Comic Book Guy: Last night’s “Itchy and Scratchy Show” was, without a doubt, the worst episode ever. Rest assured, I was on the Internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world.

Homer: When will I learn? The answers to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV!

Homer: Books are useless! I only ever read one book, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it taught me not to judge a man by the color of his skin…but what good does *that* do me?

Homer: Old people don’t need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

Homer: Lisa, vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and Eskimos.

Sideshow Bob: No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it.

Homer: Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you’d step over your own mother just to get one! But you can’t stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!

Krusty the Clown: And now, in the spirit of the season: start shopping. And for every dollar of Krusty merchandise you buy, I will be nice to a sick kid. For legal purposes, sick kids may include hookers with a cold.

Sideshow Bob: Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?

Superintendent Chalmers: I’ve had it with this school, Skinner. Low test scores, class after class of ugly, ugly children…

Troy McClure: Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he’d eat you and everyone you care about!

Bart: I didn’t think it was physically possible, but this both sucks *and* blows.

Homer: How could you?! Haven’t you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain Whatshisname? We live in a society of laws! Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn’t hear anybody laughing, did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Makes sound effects and laughs. Where was I? Oh yeah! Stay out of my booze.

Homer: Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman — and I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing.

Lionel Hutz: This is the greatest case of false advertising I’ve seen since I sued the movie “The Never Ending Story.”

Krusty the Clown: Kids, we need to talk for a moment about Krusty Brand Chew Goo Gum Like Substance. We all knew it contained spider eggs, but the hantavirus? That came out of left field. So if you’re experiencing numbness and/or comas, send five dollars to antidote, PO box…

Nelson: Shoplifting is a victimless crime. Like punching someone in the dark.

Principal Skinner: Fire can be our friend; whether it’s toasting marshmallows or raining down on Charlie.

Homer: Oh, I’m in no condition to drive. Wait a minute. I don’t have to listen to myself. I’m drunk.

Sideshow Bob: Your guilty consciences may make you vote Democratic, but secretly you all yearn for a Republican president to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!

Homer: I’m going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for ten minutes!

Apu: Yes! I am a citizen! Now which way to the welfare office? I’m kidding, I’m kidding. I work, I work.

Frink: Brace yourselves gentlemen. According to the gas chromatograph, the secret ingredient is… Love!? Who’s been screwing with this thing?

Homer: Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!

Source: ivanminic

When I first heard about The Simpsons going to the theaters I thought it was a joke – The Simpsons in the cinema? What the f? For me, The Simpsons have always been a series, short sequels of twenty minutes each that could be watched when eating a pizza after school/university or when waiting for the girlfriend to finish her hair. – but a movie?

I was not surprised when many people told me the movie sucked, but still many others that were no Simpsons fans (original fans) went to the cinemas and told me to go watch this movie. They are now Simpsons fans. So can one say, the movie lost old fans, but generated more new fans?

Certainly the movie was a blockbuster and played in several million $ (some $250m to my knowledge), then news hit the ground of a Simpsons game being released soon… Season 18 was a full success and now Fox offers (or thinks of offering) Season 19 already on Fox on Demand.

2007 – Year of the Simpsons?

If Ernest Hemingway was the quintessential American man for the 20th century — alpha male, four wives, Pulitzer Prize, slayer of big animals — then Homer fills that role for the 21st. Fills it like a bellyful of chocolate doughnuts with sprinkles. (Mmmmm … sprinkles.)

Homer’s fat, lazy, sloppy, stupid — but he always comes through in the end. He’s always wrong, but always right. He loves doughnuts, TV and beer, but also loves his family. He sort of hates his job, but sort of loves it, too. He is the spirit of America, 2007. What professors call the gestalt. (that is german)

Here are 20 essential things I’ve learned from Homer Simpson. I’ve included the names and dates of the original ‘Simpsons’ episodes when it was easy to find them. When it wasn’t, I didn’t. Just like Homer would do.

** If you go to a Japanese restaurant and order that delicacy, the blowfish … and if the blowfish is not prepared exactly right … it becomes poisonous and you die 24 hours after eating it. (‘One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish,’ 1991.) I don’t know if this is actually true, but it was on a TV cartoon show, so that’s good enough for me.

** You can goof off as much as you want at work and you’ll never get fired. This is especially true if you work at a nuclear plant.

** The best way to discipline an unruly child is to grab him by the neck while shouting, ‘Why, you little — !’

** ‘When you participate in sporting events, it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how drunk you get. ‘

** ‘Trying is the first step toward failure.’ This quote is on a Homer refrigerator magnet I found a long time ago. It replaced another refrigerator magnet I had that said, ‘Today is the first day of the rest of your life.’ Yeah, right, Mister Rogers.

** Being a vegetarian is the healthiest way to live, but it’s just too hard. Homer: ‘If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?’

** And on a related issue: ‘All normal people love meat… . You don’t win friends with salad. ‘

** It’s fine to wear the same white shirt and blue pants every day of your life. Because people mostly recognize you by your clothes.

** If you make a mistake, any kind of mistake, just exclaim ‘D’oh!’ and everyone will forgive you. This is especially true if you work at a nuclear plant.

** ‘Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!’ (This one is also on a refrigerator magnet. The greatest truths fit perfectly on a Frigidaire door.)

** If you have a holier-than-thou neighbor such as Ned Flanders, he’s not necessarily a better man than you are. He’s just a lot more likely to go to heaven than you are.

** ‘It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.’ (‘Colonel Homer,’ 1992)

** It’s groups such as the Masons that secretly keep the metric system from taking over America the way it has taken over those European countries where people drive on ‘autobahns’ and drink ‘schnapps’ and have ‘free health care.’ (‘Homer the Great,’ 1995)

** Rio de Janeiro is filled with wild monkeys, big rats, larcenous orphans and dangerous cabbies, as documented in the 2002 episode ‘Blame it on Lisa.’ (Rio’s tourism board threatened to sue, and the ‘Simpsons’ producers apologized. But would Rio have gotten so upset if it wasn’t sort of true? Huh? Would they?)

** Hell probably smells just like barbecue. Whether it’s more mustard-based or ketchup-based, I do not know. (‘Simpsons Bible Stories,’ 1999)

** Homer: ‘Lisa, would you like a doughnut?’

Lisa: ‘No thanks. Do you have any fruit?’

Homer: ‘This (one) has purple in it. Purple is a fruit.’

** There’s nothing women admire more, or need more, than a good, reliable roofer. So if you’re not a roofer, make friends with one. Because chicks really love roofs for some reason. (‘Don’t Fear the Roofer,’ 2005)

** ‘The answers to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle. They’re on TV!’ (‘There’s No Disgrace Like Home,’ 1990)

Dictionaries have found a new master of the modern quotation to challenge the best of Oscar Wilde and Groucho Marx – Homer Simpson’s creator Matt Groening.

Homer Simpson quotes enter new Oxford dictionary
Homer says: ‘The lesson is never try’

The brains behind the world’s favourite cartoon series has three new entries in the latest volume of quotations from the experts at Oxford University.

The latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, published today, is a testament to the growing popularity and influence of characters from The Simpsons.

Homer Simpson phrases include: “Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is never try.”

Another Homer quotation featured is: “Kids are the best, Apu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate. And they practically raise themselves, what with the internet and all.”

Also included is the much-repeated reference to the French by the Scottish caretaker Willie who remarks: “Bonjour, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys” in a 1995 episode.

William Hague’s remark to John Prescott also gets a mention. He told the former deputy prime minister: “There was so little English in that answer that President Chirac would have been happy with it.”

Source: telegraph.co.uk

For the six primary voices who bring the characters on Fox’s “The Simpsons” to life each week, the show is a gift that keeps on giving. As the series wraps its 18th season this month and Fox’s long-anticipated feature film arrives in theaters in July, Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Harry Shearer and Yeardley Smith have now held the same job for 20 years (the first “Simpsons” short aired on Fox’s “The Tracey Ullman Show” on April 19, 1987).

That sort of run for an intact prime time series cast is utterly without precedent. And while each will say that their jobs are duck soup compared to the perpetually workaholic writing staff, they have surely set a collective standard for excellence and consistency in their character-voice craft that isn’t likely to be equaled.

“It really is the best job in the world,” confirms Smith, the voice of Lisa. “To be around this long has been truly mind-blowing. And the reason it’s been so wonderful is that it’s afforded all of us freedom of choice in terms of other work. It’s like I fell into the honey pot.”

Smith gets no argument from Kavner, the voice of Marge. “This job is a gift from God,” she says. “I just got so lucky — not only to have such a long-running job but to also work with this quality group of people. I’m also so proud to be a part of this show, which besides being so funny has dealt honestly with real family issues in a genuine way.”

Of course, part of the fun for the cast has been the rich “Simpsons” legacy of inviting guest celebrities on the show. The cast has worked with hundreds of them, including Drew Barrymore, Johnny Carson, Mel Gibson, Susan Sarandon, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and John Waters.

And to be sure, “Simpsons” has remained, throughout, one very cushy gig for the performing staff. They work the equivalent of one day a week for 22 weeks each year, earning a very healthy six-figure weekly salary. They don’t have to go through makeup or wardrobe and don’t even necessarily need to be present at the recording session, as they’re permitted to deliver their lines while on location for other projects.

“That’s why it’s such a blessing and there’s no reason to leave,” notes Azaria, the voice of bartender Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum and numerous others. “I’ve recorded my stuff from New York, from Canada, from all over, depending on the job. So, it’s a total piece of cake for us. We get the credit while the writers and animators get pushed to the limit. But they know how much we all owe them and how appreciated they are.”

Things were not always so rosy. In 1998, when they were each earning about $25,000 per episode, the voice cast threatened to walk off the job unless they got big raises.

Shearer, who voices Mr. Burns, Smithers and numerous other characters, always chuckles when he’s asked, “So, could you have anticipated this kind of run for the show?”

“It’s such a lunatic question,” he replies. “When we started out, the Fox network was still on UHF channels around the country. We were Channel 56 or 47. This show has been a succession of major flukes coming to confluence.”

One of those flukes is being the star of a TV series for nearly two decades and being able to travel the country without being recognized, which Cartwright (the voice of Bart) sees as yet another job perk. “It’s just ideal in that way,” she says. “We have all of the advantages of artistic success — job freedom, a great work environment — with none of the downside.”

While the show’s vocal talents long ago came to terms with the fact that “Simpsons” is destined to define their legacies and will certainly be in the first sentence of their obituaries, that’s just fine with Castellaneta (who voices Homer and Grandpa, among others).

“I’m sure the headline over my obit will probably be something like, ‘Homer Simpson Is Dead — D’oh!”‘ Castellaneta says. “But you know, how lucky for me that I’ll be known for something that’s so loved around the world. And I’ll tell you what: It’s still a huge amount of fun to do.

I hope we go 25 years because I’ll never get sick of this.”

Source: reuters