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Family & Friends
The Cana Institute. This is the company my mother founded and runs.
In 2006, my mother led an effort that won a multi-million dollar federal grant!
Claiming our Deepest Desires: The Power of an Intimate Marriage. This is the book my parents wrote in 2005. It was very favorably reviewed, for instance Catholic Studies said, "Brennan and Shen have successfully accomplished their goal of providing readers with a book that will ‘affirm and inspire couples to live their marriage covenant.’ It provides thought provoking exercises and reflections after each chapter that are sure to lead individuals into a deeper understanding of themselves and their spouse. It will function as a meaningful book for couples groups, as well as a couple who may wish to grow deeper in love with God and their spouse."
The St. Louis Healthy Marriage Coalition. This is the group that my mother leads, in an effort to strengthen fragile families in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Professor Jerome L. Shen's home page at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. This is my father's home page. He is in his 5th year of teaching chemistry at SIU-E.
Hopeworks n Camden. This is an incredible group founded by my friend, Jesuit Priest Fr. Jeff Putthoff, S.J. Check them out and support Hopeworks!
CNN.com article that quotes my friend, and President of the Harvard Dems, Eric Lesser. See more of Eric's posting at DemApples.com.
My former college track teammate Earick Rayburn is running for aldermen in Chicago. Support his campaign!
Another friend and college track teammate, Ryan Raimo, has a great web site too!
Religious
St. Francis Xavier (College) Church. This is the parish that I grew up in. It's where I was baptized, received my First Holy Communion, and was Confirmed.
St. Thomas the Apostle Church. This was the center of my spiritual life when I lived in Chicago. I taught Sunday School for two years, and also helped out with Children's Liturgy of the Word. I have always loved their motto: "God's people in extraordinary variety."
St. Peter's Catholic Church (Cambridge, MA). This is one of the churches that I regularly attended in Boston. I loved the 5:00 pm Sunday Mass which was led by Jesuits, including my former spiritual director Fr. Kevin Burke, S.J.
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church. This is the only English speaking Church in Madrid, and my spiritual home while in Madrid.
Article on a book by Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno on Catholic belief and extraterrestrial life. In the words of Dr. Spock, "Fascinating." Check out Brother Consolmagno's home page.
Schools
University of Chicago. Where I spent my undergraduate years.
Harvard University and Harvard Law School. Where I spent my graduate years.
The College School of Webster Groves. Where I enjoyed my middle school years (7th and 8th grades).
The New City School. My grade school, where I learned to be creative and independent. The most important schooling years of my life.
St. Louis University High School. My high school, the home of the Jr. Bills.
Sites and businesses that I support
Psychological Research on the Net. Run by Prof. John H. Krantz at Hanover College, this is a great resource for publicizing and participating in web-based psych. experiments (like mine!)
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. "The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe." What could be cooler than that?
SiteMeter. They have been keeping track of my site hits since the late 1990s.
Flickr. The future of digital photo sharing. A fantastic site.
The Wikipedia. If you're not already using the Wiki, it's time to start.
Sirius Satellite Radio. It is not uncommon for me to be listening to some Sirius station for 8-12 hours a day. It's always on.
XM Satellite Radio. I had XM from nearly the beginning, and switched to Sirius when Howard moved there in 2006. But I am still a big XM fan.
Stefan Hester Photography. Stefan did a shoot for me, and I really loved his work. If you're in the St. Louis area and need a great photographer, get in touch with him.
GoDaddy. It's not just their famous Superbowl ad - they're really a quality hosting site. You're seeing this site courtesy of their servers right now.
KDHX - FM 88.1. This is St. Louis' public radio station, and one of the very best radio stations in the country. I grew up listening to The Brain Sandwich show every week.
St. Louis Cardinals. Talk to me for a few minutes, and it's likely you'll hear some St. Louis Cardinals talk. The 1985 Cardinals won my heart as a young boy, and I've been hooked ever since.
City of St. Louis. I believe in loyalty and respect for the places you've come from. For me, that's St. Louis, MO - the Gateway to the West.
GSiteCrawler. This is the program that I use to maintain a site map. It's not only easy to install and use, it's also free! I highly recommend it!
Howard Stern. The man who revolutionized radio. If you think he's just a low-brow shock jock, think again.
WERS - FM 88.9. This is the radio station of Emerson College in Boston, MA. They have great programming, and I listen frequently.
n-track studio. This is the mixing software I use for my audio files. It's a great program, and well worth the money.
Darik's Boot and Nuke. This program is for wiping hard drives clean, and unlike a lot of over-priced alternatives, this program is free! I've used it and recommend it. Sites that I frequent
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire. My favorite site for keeping up with the latest political news.
ESPN. Like they need another link to their website.
MLB.com. Baseball - still America's national pastime. Orbitz. Searching for airfares and hotels made easy. Priceline.com. Even before William Shatner became their spokesperson, I was a priceline devotee. Random Fun Things
Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers. Check this out if you like the Gambler
Discussion of all-time favorite wrestler finishing moves. One of my favorites is "The Million Dollar Dream" used by the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase.
More discussion of wrestling finishing moves, this time with cool photos of the maneuvers.
The official home of Star Trek. Yes, it's true -- I own shirts featuring Mr. Spock, Captain Kirk, and the U.S.S. Enterprise.
The Internet Chess Club. I've never been that good at Chess, but many of the people on this site are Grand Masters. Very cool.
The Internet Scrabble Club. In Summer 2006, I started playing on-line scrabble.
Klingon Language Institute. When I was in grade school, in the age before the Internet, I did a written correspondence course with the KLI to try and learn Klingon. Needless to say, this was a big hit with the ladies.
Weird Al Yankovic. He is the one, the only -- Weird Al.
"My idea was to go on the air and be as open and honest as possible, and to expose hypocrisy....
my goal was to break down the walls ... and do something honest."
- Howard Stern, History of Howard Stern (2007) -
"All I have in this world is my balls, and my word, and I don't break 'em for no one."
"A man who ain't got his word is a cockroach."
"I never f***ed anybody over in my life who didn't have it comin' to him."
- Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in Scarface (1983) -
Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones): "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."
Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner): "I have just created something totally illogical."
Annie Kinsella (Amy Madigan): "That’s what I like about you."
Ray: "Do you think I’m nuts?"
Annie: "Not completely."- from Field of Dreams (1989) -
Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon): "I'm looking at a team lawyers who are pulling down a thousand dollars an hour. And I hate them. From their lofty perch, pissing down on the whole justice system with disdain. I used to hate them because I wasn't good enough for them. Now I hate them for who they represent. And what they represent."
Rudy: "So this is how the uninsured die. ... I'm alone in this trial. I'm seriously out-gunned and I'm scared. But I'm right. I sit here with this poor, suffering kid and I swear revenge."
Rudy: "I tell myself I'll do whatever I have to do to get her out of this. Because this guy's never gonna stop until he's killed her."
Rudy: "Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn't really mean to cross... it just happens... And if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you're nothin but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water."
- from The Rainmaker (1997), based on the novel by John Grisham and directed by Francis Ford Coppola -
Iris Gaines: "You know, I believe we have two lives"
Roy Hobbs: "How... what do you mean?"
Iris Gaines:"The life we learn with and the life we live with after that."Gus Sands: "If it isn't enough, tell us what you had in mind."
Roy Hobbs: "To hit away."- from The Natural (1984), starring Robert Redford -
Coach Norman Dale: "I've seen you guys can shoot but there's more to the game than shooting. There's fundamentals and defense."
Coach Norman Dale: "If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners."
Jimmy Chitwood: "I'll make it."
- Coach (Gene Hackman) and Jimmy (Maris Valainis) from Hoosiers (1986) -
"... the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball. "
"This is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball."
- Annie (Susan Sarandon), from Bull Durham -
Apollo Creed: "We always have to be in the middle of the action 'cause we're the warriors.
And without some challenge, without some damn war to fight then the warriors might as well be dead, Stallion."Duke: "All your strength, all your power, all your love. Everything you've got. Right now!"
- Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), Apollo (Carl Weathers) in Rocky IV (1985) -
Mickey: “... the worst thing happened that can happen to any fighter – you got civilized.”
- Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), Mickey (Burgess Meredith), and Adrian (Talia Shire) in Rocky III (1982) -
Mickey: "Now, look. To pull this miracle off, You gotta change everything. You gotta learn to be a right-handed fighter. Now, this will confuse Apollo and it will protect that bad eye."
Rocky: "I can't learn to fight right handed no more."
Mickey: "What's can't?! There ain't no cant's. There's no cant's."Mickey: "We need speed. Greasy fast speed."
Adrian: "There's one thing I want you to do for me ... win."
- Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), Mickey (Burgess Meredith), and Adrian (Talia Shire) in Rocky II (1979) -
Rocky: I been comin' here for six years, and for six years ya been stickin' it to me, an' I wanna know how come!
Mickey: Ya don't wanna know!
Rocky: I wanna know how come!
Mickey: Ya wanna know?
Rocky: I wanna know how.
Mickey: OK, I'm gonna tell ya! You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a legbreaker to some cheap, second rate loanshark
Rocky: It's a living.
Mickey: It's a waste of life.Mickey: "Women weaken legs."
Mickey: "You're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder!"
- Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), Mickey (Burgess Meredith) in Rocky (1976) -
New public defender: "You're a legend, and not to mention - I heard about your post-victory karaoke bar performances."
Sandy: "Defend the poor. Sing the classics. I had a reputation and a routine."- from The O.C., Season 3, episode "The Graduates"
Seth: "Trust me, man, no girl wants to be alone on Valentine's Day."
Ryan: "... and you know this because?"
Seth: "Because inside my manly exterior beats the heart of a 14-year-old girl."- from The O.C., Season 3, episode "The Heavy Lifting"
Ryan: "We need a parent advocate to address the board. Would you?"
Sandy: "A good cause? Poor odds? A chance to ruffle some Newpsie feathers? How could I say no?"- from The O.C., Season 3, episode "The Safe Harbor"
"If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I don't wanna go,
If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I'd just as soon stay home.
I was one of the chosen few, to be born in Alabam',
I'm just alike my daddy's son, I'm proud of who I am.
I went through a lot of good women, and shook old Jim Beam's hand,
If I never see the pearly gates, I've walked through the promised land."- Hank Williams, Jr., "If Heaven Ain't A Lot Like Dixie"
"Let me assure you - this, like any story worth telling, is all about a girl."
- Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) in Spiderman (2002) -
"With great power comes great responsibility."
(Ben Parker in Spiderman)"From everyone who has been given much, much will be required;
and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more."
(Luke 12: 48)
"Remember when is the lowest form of communication."
- Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), The Sopranos, Season 6, Episode 15: "Remember When" -
"... the training is nothing, the will is everything."
- Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson) in Batman Begins -
"Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams."
- Aunt May Parker (Rosemary Harris), in Spiderman 2 -
"There are bigger things happening here than me and you."
- Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) to Harry Osborn (James Franco), in Spiderman 2 -
Paul Biegler (Jimmy Stewart): "The unwritten law is a myth, lieutenant. There is no such thing as the unwritten law. And anyone who commits a murder on the theory that it does exist has just bought himself room and board at the state penitentiary."
Laura Manion (Lee Remick): "You're a funny kind of a lawyer - the music I mean."
Paul: "Well, aren't lawyers supposed to like music?"
Laura: "Well, not that kind of music."
Paul: "Oh, well I guess that settles it. I'm a funny kind of lawyer."- from Anatomy of a Murder (1959) directed by Otto Preminger -
"I can't do the talk like they talk on the TV,
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be,
I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you,
I can't do anything except be in love you.And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be,
And all I do is keep the beat and bad company,
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme,
Juliet I'd do the stars with you any time,Juliet when we made love you used to cry,
You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die,
And there's a place for us you know the movie song,
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?"- from the song "Romeo and Juliet" written and performed by Mark Knopler of Dire Straits -
"I've always been a concerned parent. I'm big on car seats, seat belts, bed times, curfews, calling when you get somewhere, never running with a sharp object. What can I say? I'm a father. Worrying comes with the territory."
"You worry about her going out with the wrong kind of guys, the kind of guys who only want one thing--and you know exactly what that one thing is because it's the same thing you wanted when you were their age. Then she gets a little older and you quite worrying about her meeting the wrong guy and you worry about her meeting the right guy. And that's the biggest fear of all because then you lose her."
"Right then I realized, my day had passed. She'll always love me, of course, but not in the same way. I was no longer the man in my little girl's life. I was like an old shoe. The kind we manufacture and get all excited about, then after a few years discontinue. That was me now. Mr. Discontinued."
"Well, that's the thing about life ... the surprises. The little things that sneak up on you and grab hold of you. Still happens to me."
"I realized at that moment that I was never going to come again and see Annie at the top of the stairs. Never going to see her again at our breakfast table in her nightgown and socks. I suddenly realized what was happening. Annie was all grown up and leaving us, and something inside began to hurt."
- George Banks (Steve Martin) in the remake of Father of the Bride -
"The long-term survival of the human race is at risk as long as it is confined to a single planet. Sooner or later, disasters such as an asteroid collision or nuclear war could wipe us all out. But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe. There isn't anywhere like the Earth in the solar system, so we would have to go to another star."
- Stephen Hawking, quoted in the Telegraph in 2006 -
"These stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach!
I would annex the planets if I could. I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far away."- Cecil Rhodes, quoted in S. Gertrude Millin's Rhodes, p. 133 -
Demo: "Woah, I'm a ramblin' man, I'm a tumbleweed, I'm a seeker of truth. And one truth I've learned - a child is a parent's greatest joy. Which is why I can't leave my parent's place - because, because they would miss me."
Tripp: "Amen, brother."
Demo: "And yet in America, we're shunned for our lifestyle."
Tripp: "When we should be celebrating our lifestyle. We are men who still live at home!"
- Matthew McConaughey (Tripp) and Bradley Cooper (Demo) in Failure to Launch -
Peter Venkman: "Back off, man! I'm a scientist!"
Peter Venkman: "We came, we saw, we kicked its ass."
Dana Barrett: You know, you don't act like a scientist.
Venkman: They're usually pretty stiff.
Dana: You're more like a game show host.Male subject: Hey! I'm getting a little tired of this.
Venkman: You volunteered, didn't you? Aren't we paying you for this?
Male subject: Yeah, but I didn't know you were going to give me electric shocks. What are you trying to prove?
Venkman: I'm studying the effect of negative reinforcement on ESP ability.
Male subject: I'll tell you the effect! It pisses me off!
Venkman: Then my theory was correct.Ray Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.
Peter Venkman: You're right, no human being would stack books like this.Peter Venkman: "I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people. ... Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule... "
Peter Venkman: Janine, any calls?
Janine Melnitz: No.
Venkman: Any messages?
Janine: No.
Venkman: Any customers?
Janine: No, Dr. Venkman.
Venkman: Type something, will you; we're paying for this stuff!.... And don't stare at me, you got the bug-eyes... Janine, sorry about the bug-eyes thing. I'll be in my office.- Venkman (Bill Murray), Stanz (Dan Akroyd), and Egon (Harold Ramis) in Ghostbusters (1984) -
"Tomorrow shall be my dancing day,
I would my true love did so chance
To see the legend of my birth
To call my true love to my dance"- "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day," traditional hymn -
"The language of dance is strikingly similar to the language of prayer and worship."
- Fr. Bob VerEcke, SJ, pastor of St. Ignatius Church at Boston College in this article -
"This summer I went swimming,
This summer I might have drowned,
But I held my breath,
I kicked my feet,
And moved my arms around,
I moved my arms around."- Loudan Wainwright III, "The Swimming Song" (featured in The Squid and the Whale) -
"It's a very ancient saying, but a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught."
- opening lines to "Getting To Know You" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I -
"The most important thing he brought into the presidency in 1933 was this contagious confidence that he felt in himself and in his countrymen. ... It's almost as if he projected his confidence onto the people - and they're saying to themselves, 'If he believes in us then we believe in ourselves.'"
- Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, in the History Channel documentary, FDR Revealed -
Mordecai (Billy Curtis): What happens after?
The Stranger (Clint Eastwood): Hmm?
Mordecai: What do we do when it's over?
The Stranger: Then you live with it.Sarah Belding (Verna Bloom): Be careful. You're a man who makes people afraid, and that's dangerous.
The Stranger: It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid.- from High Plains Drifter (1973), directed by Clint Eastwood -
Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey): "There are no coincidences."
Minerva (Irma P. Hall): "To understand the living, you got to commune with the dead."
- from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), directed by Clint Eastwood -
Willard: "In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action - what is often called ruthless - what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it."
Willard: "It's a way we had over here with living with ourselves. We cut 'em in half with a machine gun and give 'em a Band-Aid. It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies."
- Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) in Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola -
Evey: "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November,/ The Gunpowder Treason and Plot... / I know of no reason/ Why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot ... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them. But you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it... ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love... And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man... A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget."
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Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?
V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
- Evey Hammond (Natalie Portman), V (Hugo Weaving) and Creedy (Tim Pigott-Smith) in V for Vendetta (2005), based on the David Lloyd graphic novel -
"The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman. The power which the strong have over the weak, the employer over the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even the clever over the silly -- the forbearing or inoffensive use of all this power or authority, or a total abstinence from it when the case admits it, will show the gentleman in a plain light. The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others."
- General Robert E. Lee's definition of a gentleman -
"A really smart person will come up with what you would come up with, only faster. A genius will come up with something you would never come up with, no matter how long you worked on it."
- Genius economist Kevin Murphy University of Chicago Magazine, p. 34, Nov-Dec 2006 -
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be love loved in return."
Duke: I don’t like this ending.
Zidler: Don’t like the ending, my dear duke?
Duke: Why would the courtesan choose a penniless sitar player over the Maharaja who is offering a lifetime of security? That’s real love. Once the sitar player has satisfied his lust he will leave the courtesan with nothing. I suggest that in the end the courtesan choose the Maharaja.
Toulouse: But, but, but surely! Surely but that ending does not uphold the Bohemian ideals of Truth, Beauty, Freedom and...
Duke: I don’t care about your ridiculous dogma! Why shouldn’t the courtesan choose the Maharaja?
Christian: Because she doesn’t love you!- from Moulin Rouge (2001), written by Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce, starring Nicole Kidman (Satine), Ewan McGregor (Christian), John Leguizamo (Toulouse-Lautrec), Jim Broadbent (Harold Zidler), and Richard Roxburgh (The Duke) -
"We grew up with the Cardinals. I go way back. I'm so old, I remember Harry Caray calling the Cardinal games. There weren't any baseball teams in Texas back then. So we had KMOX and (a Chicago station). I remember I did all my homework listening to the Cardinals."
-- Bill Clinton, attending a Mets-Cardinals game, August 22, 2006
Marisol (Marianne Koch): Why do you do this for us?
Joe (Clint Eastwood): Why? Because I knew someone like you once, and there was no one there to help.- From Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, 1964 -
"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."
- Monsignor (William Young) in The Boondock Saints, 1999 -
"Are those kids really a lost cause?
And I had sworn never to touch my music again.
Never say never.
Nothing is ever truly lost."- Clément Mathieu (Gérard Jugnot) in Choristes, Les ("The Chorus"), 2004 -
Walter O'Brien (James Woods): " You do not have a say in the matter. Now that you've gotten the first one ... the rest comes easy."
Walter O'Brien: "You have to think that this must have been his last day on the job."
Father Harlan (Nick Nolte): “And in that journey of dying, you see many things. But all issues I had passed. Because I was to be a witness. A helper. And that's the thing, I think, is important about death, is the ability for us to be witnesses. Not only for our births of coming in, but going out. And that's what we have here. We've lost our town. It's gone. But maybe there's a birth someplace else. Maybe there's a blessing from that experience. I'm no longer afraid of death, but it's a lesson that's taken me years to learn.”
- from Northfork (2003), directed and written by Michael Polish -
Rachel (Inger Stevens): You asked me once whether I could ever stop looking. I think now I can. Can you?
Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood): Well, Rachel, there's a difference. You see, I'm not ... I'm not looking for ghosts. The end of my trail's in Red Creek.
Rachel: Maybe not. What then?
Jed: I don't know.- from Hang 'em High (1968), directed by Ted Post-
Harry Callahan: Well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy.
The Mayor (John Vernon): Intent? How did you establish that?
Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross!
[walks out of the room]
The Mayor: He's got a point.Harry Callahan: Are you trying to tell me that ballistics can't match the bullet up to this rifle?
District Attorney Rothko (Josef Sommer): It does not matter what ballistics can do. This rifle might make a nice souvenir. But it's inadmissible as evidence.
Harry Callahan: And who says that?
District Attorney Rothko: It's the law.
Harry Callahan: Well, then the law is crazy.- Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dirty Harry (1971), directed by Don Siegel -
Celine (Julie Delpy): "I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times."
Jesse (Ethan Hawke): "And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect."Celine: "You know what? Reality and love are almost contradictory for me. It's funny...Every single of my ex-es...they're now married! Men go out with me, we break up, and then they get married! And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is, and...that I taught them to care and respect women!"
- from Before Sunset (2004), directed by Richard Linklater -
Celine: "I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that."
- from Before Sunrise (1995), directed by Richard Linklater-
"You're a smart man."
"So was Abraham Lincoln and what happened to him? Smart can get you killed."
"I hate that dumb way of wearing your shirt buttoned with no tie."
"I always carry my harmonica. It's lighter than an accordion, and more powerful than a sleeping pill."
- from Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) -
"What makes divorce so painful is that the love doesn't end, which is what both parties want it to do. If it's a real love, all those first moments when you first met and looked at each other, those extraordinary moments, which you want to make disappear and repress and get rid of - the realization that they are like freshly cut flowers."
- Dustin Hoffman, commenting on the making of Kramer vs. Kramer -
"When Joanna -- my ex-wife -- when she was talking before about how unhappy she was during our marriage...Well, I guess most of what she said was probably true. There were a lot of things I didn't understand -- a lot of things I would do different if I could. Just like I guess there are a lot of things Joanna wishes she could change...But we can't. Some things, once they are done, can't be undone. Joanna says she loves Billy. I believe she does. So do I. But the way it was explained to me, that's not the issue. The only thing that's supposed to matter here is what's best for Billy...When Joanna said why shouldn't a woman have the same ambitions as a man, I suppose she's right.
But by the same token what law is it that says a woman is a better parent simply by virtue of sex? I guess I've had to think about whatever it is that makes somebody a good parent: constancy, patience, understanding...love. Where is it written that a man has any less of those qualities than a woman?
Billy has a home with me, I've tried to make it the best I could. It's not perfect. I'm not a perfect parent. I don't have enough patience. Sometimes I forget he's just a little kid...But I love him...More than anything in this world I love him."
- Dustin Hoffman (Ted Kramer) from Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) -
Alex Hitch Hitchens (Wil Smith): "Basic Principles - no woman wakes up saying "God, I hope I don't get swept off my feet today!" Now, she might say "This is a really bad time for me," or something like "I just need some space," or my personal favorite "I'm really into my career right now." You believe that? Neither does she. You know why? 'Cause she's lying to you, that's why. You understand me? Lying! It's not a bad time for her. She doesn't need any space. And she may be into her career, but what she's really saying is "Uh, get away from me now," or possibly "Try harder, stupid," but which one is it?
60% of all human communication is nonverbal, body language; 30% is your tone, so that means 90% of what you're saying ain't coming out of your mouth. Of course she's going to lie to you! She's a nice person! She doesn't want to hurt your feelings! What else she going to say? She doesn't even know you... yet. Luckily, the fact is that just like the rest of us, even a beautiful woman doesn't know what she wants until she sees it, and that's where I come in. My job is to open her eyes.
Basic Principles - no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet; he just needs the right broom."
- from Hitch (2005), starring Wil Smith -
Molly (Judith Hoag): ...you have no respect for women.
Joey (Robin Williams): I guess dinner and a blow job's out of the question.
Molly: I guess.
Joey: We'll forget dinner...Larry (Tim Robbins): "Love sucks."
Joey: "Yeah, but sometimes it's pretty nice too."
- from Cadillac Man (1990), directed by Roger Donaldson -
"Don't you know, things will change, things will go your way,
if you hold on for one more day."
- from "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips -
Season 2, Episode 4:
Sandy: "You heard Seth - it's a new era"Alex: You're out of your mind
Seth: Yes! Maybe I'm so far out of my mind that I'm in yours.Jimmy: "Ahh, the not-so-subtle ass graze."
***Season 2, Episode 5:
Lindsay: He's gonna think i'm crazy
Seth: He knows you're a girl, he expects it. ...Sandy: "Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child."
Seth: "Ye of little faith, trust those with mixed faith."
***
Season 2, Episode 9:
Kirsten: "Sandy, this is a surf shack,not a law office."
Sandy: "That's exactly why I like it."
***
Season 2, Episode 13
Seth: "I think closure's overrated. I'm more of a fan of open unrequited love."- Quotes from Season 2 of The O.C., starring Peter Gallahger (Sandy), Adam Brody (Seth), and Kelly Rown (Kirsten) -
"Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain."
- Guns N' Roses, "Cold November Rain" -
Kelly Lanier Van Ryan (Denise Richards): "Jesus, where'd she get those shoes? Whore for less?"
Kenneth Bowden (Bill Murray): "We have got a knock-down, air-tight mother f***er law suit against Sandra Van Ryan."
- from Wild Things (1998), directed by John McNaughton -
"With enough time and enough money you could spend the rest of your life surfing and following the summer. This is Bruce Brown. Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed my film."
- from The Endless Summer (1966), directed by Bruce Brown -
"Memories are like moonbeams, we do with them what we will."
"People hear what they see. "
- Bobby Darin (Kevin Spacey), in Beyond the Sea -
Amelie (Audrey Tautou): "It's better to help people than garden gnomes."
Man in photo (Ticky Holgado): She is in love.
Nino Quincampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz): I don't even know her!
Man in photo: Oh, you know her.
Nino Quincampoix: Since when?
Man in photo: Since always.
Man in photo: In your dreams.- from Amelie (2001), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet -
Mattie Ross (Kim Darby): "They say he has grit. I wanted a man with grit."
Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne): "Lookin' back is a bad habit."
Rooster Cogburn: "Young fella, if you're lookin' for trouble, I'll accomodate you. Otherwise, leave it alone."
- from True Grit (1969), directed by Henry Hathaway -
Martin Weir (Danny DeVito): But what about speed?
Chili Palmer (John Travolta): If you're important, people will wait.Sin LaSalle (Cedric the Entertainer): Well, imagine the odds, me and my crew was just out getting' some Mongolian barbecue and we stumble across your ol' weak ass ride.
Chili : Did you leave any food in Mongolia?Chili (to The Rock): "You might think aobut singing a man song." - from Be Cool (2005), directed by F. Gary Gray -
Ducard (Liam Neeson): If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely...
Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes): "You could die. At least tell me your name."
Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale): "It's not who I am underneath, but what I *do* that matters."
Henri Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.
Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.
Henri Ducard: Theatricality and deception are powerful agents.
Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine): Why do we fall, sir? So that may we learn how to pick ourselves back up.
[as Wayne Manor is burning down]
Bruce Wayne: What have I done, Alfred? Everything my family... everything my father and his father built...
Alfred Pennyworth: The Wayne legacy is more than bricks and mortar, sir.
Bruce Wayne: I seek the means... to fight injustice. To turn fear... against those who prey on the fearful.
- from Batman Begins (2005), directed by Christoper Nolan -
"Years earlier, before I entered the music business, I'd gone to see Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon, about St. Francis of Assisi. I had no idea who St. Francis was. The movie ended, I just sat there, sobbing. Afterward, I began reading biographies of the saints. Eight years later, on an airplane, I was reading about St. Francis. I came to the point in the story when he gives up everything to serve the poor. In the town square of Assisi, he strips himself bare. I turned to my colleague and said, "In six months, I'm going to give this up to work with the poorest of the poor." He looked at me in disbelief.
Six months later, I gave away the agency to my employees and moved to Boston. ... I tried to become a Franciscan, but of the three vows - poverty, chastity, and obedience - poverty was the only one I could manage ...
I remember thinking, Every day, my only purpose is to do good ... This was the purest, most fulfilling time of my life, befriending and assisting people in pursuit of the Franciscan ideal.
Now I'm a federal bureaucrat, essentially the point person for the Bush administration on homelessness. I'm farther away from contact with homeless people, but in the Gospels there is the notion that if you are doing good for somebody and they don't know it's you, that's a higher form of spirituality than doing it so they can say thank you. I'm anonymous to most of the people I'm helping.
Do you remember the Lone Ranger? At the end of each episode, the people in town would want to thank him, but he would already be riding out of town."
- Philip Mangano (as told to Nate Penn), GQ, June 2005 page 176 -
Rev. Maclean (Tom Skerritt): "We can love completely, without complete understanding."
Paul (Brad Pitt): "Well, I guess it's just the Macleans then." (on going over the shoots in a boat)
Paul: "Brother" (to Norman, upon his return from Dartmouth)
Norman (Craig Sheffer): "More than anything, I realized it was my father's words that made me feel most at home."
"What though the radiance, which was once so bright,
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
Of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind."
William Wordsworth: "To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
- from A River Runs Through It (1992), by Norman Maclean, movie directed by Robert Redford -
Narrator: [as the troop passes by]: "So here they are: the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals... riding the outposts of a nation. From Fort Reno to Fort Apache - from Sheridan to Startle - they were all the same: men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode - and whatever they fought for - that place became the United States."
- from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne -
With any luck, by next year
I'll be going out with one of these girls ...
[shows photos of beautiful models]
but for now let me say,
without hope or agenda,
just because it's Christmas -
(and at Christmas you tell the truth)
to me, you are perfect
and my wasted heart will love you
until you look like this ...
[shows picture of old corpse]
Merry Christmas.
- Placards shown by Mark (Andrew Lincoln) to Juliet (Keira Knightley), in Love Actually -
President (Billy Bob Thornton): "Natalie, I hope to see more of you, as our two great countries work toward a great future."
Daniel (Liam Neeson): "Did she notice you yet?"
Sam (Thomas Sangster): "No, but you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end."
Daniel: "Of course."
Beach Boys: "God only knows what I'd be without you"
Daniel: "You know, son, I'm sure she's unique and extraordinary, but general wisdom is that in the end there isn't just one person for each of us"
Sam: "There was for you. And there is for me. Just the one."
Daniel: "Fair enough."
- from Love Actually, written and directed by Richard Curtis -
Brian (Jason Lee): "You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone, because without the bitter baby, the sweet ain't as sweet."
Dr. Curtis (Kurt Russell): "Consequences, David - it's the little things."
David (Tom Cruise): "Those little things, there's nothing bigger, is there?"
- from Vanilla Sky (2001), directed by Cameron Crowe -
Editor of Shinbone Star (Edmond O'Brien): "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
Ransom Stoddard (Jimmy Stewart): "Best way to make a man talk is to make him comfortable."
Ransom Stoddard [reading the law books]: "I've got Liberty Valance right where I want him."
Tom Doniphon (John Wayne): "I know those law books mean a lot to you. But not out here - out here, a man settles his own problems."
Tom Doniphon: "That's my steak, Valance."
Ransom Stoddard: "Nobody fights my battles"
- from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford -
Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar): "Littering and... littering and... smokin' the reefer."
- from Super Troopers (2001), directed by Jay Chandrasekhar -
Gary Johnston: A flying limo? Now I've seen everything. Spottswoode: Really? Have you ever seen a man eat his own head? Gary Johnston: No. Spottswoode: So you HAVEN'T seen everything.
Kim Jong Il: And now da destwuction of de worurd is inedidable Lisa: It's what? Kim Jong Il: Ine - ine - inedidable. Lisa: One more time... Kim Jong Il: I said, da destwuction of da worurd is inedible. God damn, open your f***in' eaws, girw!
Kim Jong Il: Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans!
Hans Blix: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas.
Kim Jong Il: Hans, Hans, Hans! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans?
Hans Blix: Then let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me in, or else.
Kim Jong Il: Or else what?
Hans Blix: Or else we will be very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.
Kim Jong Il: OK, Hans. I'll show you. Stand to your reft.
Hans Blix: [Moves to the left]
Kim Jong Il: A rittle more.
Hans Blix: [Moves to the left again]
Kim Jong Il: Good. [Opens up trap, Hans falls in]
Gary Johnston: I was just a boy when the infidels came in their Blackhawk helicopters. The infidels fired at the oil fields and they lit up like the eyes of Allah. Burning oil rained down from the sky and cooked everything it touched. I could only hide myself and cry as my goats were consumed by the fiery black liquid death. In the midst of the chaos, I could swear that I heard my goats screaming for help. As quickly as they had come, the infidels were gone. It was on that day I put a jihad on them. And if you don't believe it, you'd better kill me now cause I'll put a jihad on you.
- from Team America: World Police (2004), by Trey Parker & Matt Stone -
Nash (Russell Crowe): "I have respect for beer."
Nash: "Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity. "
Nash: "I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You're the only reason I am... you're all the reasons I am."
Nash: "Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter."
Alicia (Jennifer Connelly): "I once tried to count them all. I, actually, made it to 4,348."
Nash: "You are exceptionally odd."
Alicia: "I bet you're very popular with the girls."
Nash: If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no on likes to be second choice. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the only way to win. It's the only way we all get laid.
Nash: You once said that God must be a painter because he gave us so many colors.
Alicia: I didn't think you were listening...
Nash: I'm always listening.
- from A Beautiful Mind (2001), directed by Ron Howard, written by Sylvia Nasar (book) and Akiva Goldsman (screenplay) -
Young Arthur (Shane Murray-Corcoran ): "And what about their free will?"
Pelagius: "It has always fallen to a few to sacrifice for the good of many. The world isn't a perfect place, but perhaps people like you, Arthur, lead, and then, can make it so."
"It was love of your mother that freed the sword, not hatred of me."
Guinevere (Keira Knightley): "You have your deeds - "
Arthur (Clive Owen): "Deeds in themselves are meaningless unless they're for some higher purpose."
- from King Arthur (2004), directed by Antoine Fuqua -
"Space...The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before!"
Lt. Mitchell: "Mitchell (in "god" mode): "You should have killed me while you could, James. Command and compassion is a fool's mixture."Kirk: "Above all else, a god needs compassion."
- from Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 3, "Where no man has gone before"
Alice (Nicole Kidman): "I do love you and you know there is something very important we need to do as soon as possible.
Dr. Bill Harford: "What's that?"
Alice: "F***."
Dr. Bill Harford: "No dream is ever just a dream."
- from Eyes Wide Shut (1999), directed by Stanley Kubrick -
McCoy: "What am I - a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?"
Spock: "Has it occurred to you that there's a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about?
Kirk: "It gives me emotional security."
Kirk: "When I get my hands on the headquarters genius who assigned me a female yeoman - "
McCoy: "What's the matter, Jim? Don't you trust yourself?"
Kirk: "I've already got a female to worry about, her name's the Enterprise"
Kirk: "Not chess, Mr. Spock, poker."
Kirk: "We grow annoyed at your foolishness"
- from Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 10, "The Corbomite Maneuver"
Woman at Hera's temple: "I don't know who you are, but you're not getting out of here alive."
Hercules: "You're right - you don't know who I am."
- Hercules, T.V. Movie #3, "Hercules and the Circle of Fire" -
Hercules: "Remember that - sometimes a little kindness does the trick."
(Hercules soothing the three headed beast)
- Hercules, T.V. Movie #4, "Hercules in the Underworld" -
Nun: "Do you ever see the hand of God in what you do?"
Creasy (Denzel Washington): "No, not for a long time."
Nun: The Bible says, "Do not be overcome evil, but over-
Creasy (interrupting): "overcome evil with good. That's Romans Chapter 12, Verse 21. I'm the sheep that got lost, Madre."
"The gun shot holds no fear."
"Revenge is a meal best served cold."
"A bullet always tells the truth. It never lies."
"In the Church, they say to forgive."
Creasy: "Forgiveness is between them and God - it's my job to arrange the meeting."
- from Man on Fire (2004), directed by Tony Scott -
Xena: "But when you help people, you honor the wife and children that Hera stole from you. There is nothing in my whole life that moves me that way."
Hercules: "You're wrong - there's the goodness in your heart."
Hercules: "Sometimes, you can only defeat evil with evil"
Xena: "Let me go. There's so much of my life I have to make amends for. I've got to get started."
Hercules: "I wish you'd let me help."
Xena: "You already have. You unchained my heart."
(they kiss)
- Hercules, Season 1, Episode 13, "Unchained Heart" with Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) and Lucy Lawless (Xena) guest-starring, this is tthe episode where Hercules changes Xena from good to bad -
Hercules: "Killing isn't the only way to prove you're a warrior, Xena. I think you know that."
- Hercules, Season 1, Episode 17, ""The Gauntlet" -
Adam (Paul Rudd): "That was nothing"
Evelyn (Rachel Weisz): "It's never anything, until it's something."
- from The Shape of Things (2003), written and directed by Neil LaBute -
Hercules: "Freedom is more precious than revenge."
- Hercules, Season 1, Episode 15, "Gladiator" -
Hercules: "What's the use of having your son visit if you don't put him to work?"
- Hercules, Season 1, Episode 13, "The March to Freedom" -
Nemesis: "Even you can't defy the will of the gods, Hercules. There is nothing you can do."
Hercules: "That's where you're wrong."
- Hercules, Season 1, Episode 12, "Pride Comes Before a Brawl" -
J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp): You can visit Neverland anytime you like.
Peter Llewelyn Davies (Freddie Highmore): How?
Barrie: By believing Peter, Just believe.
Peter: I can see her.
J.M. Barrie: Those boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older."
- from Finding Neverland (2004), directed by Marc Forster, play by Allan Knee, screenplay by David Magee -
Napoleon (Jon Heder): "I see you're drinking 1 percent. Is that because you think you're fat?"
Napoleon: "Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills."
Rex (Diedrich Bader): "Take a look at what I'm wearing, people. Do you think anybody wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I'm wearing these bad boys?"
Rex Kwan Do: "Forget about it!"
- From Napoleon Dynamite (2004), directed and written by Jared Hess -
Tuco (Eli Wallach): "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
Joe (Clint Eastwood): "See, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."
- from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), written and directed by Sergio Leone -
King Iphicles: "Rule with your heart, never never never from anger"
- Hercules, Season 1, Episode 4, "The Festival of Dionysus" -
Hercules: "The art of the warrior is not to kill, but to destroy the forces of evil."
- Hercules, Season 1, Episode 5, "Ares" -
Headmaster: "The world is changing, Mr. Chipping."
Mr. Chipping: "I know the world's changing, Dr. Rouston. I'm seeing the old traditions die, one by one. Grace and dignity and feeling for the past. All that matters here today is a fat banking account. You're trying to run this school like a factory for turning out money-making, machine-made snobs. You've raised the fees, and in the end, the boys who really belong to Brookfield will be frozen out. Modern methods, intensive training - poppycock! Give a boy a sense of humor and a sense of proportion, and he'll stand up to anything."
- Robert Donat (Mr. Chips) in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) -
"The basic principle: we pursue that which retreats from us."
Girl: "You've got so many great books."
Dex: "Better to seduce you with."
" ... the second Rule of Steve: you have to do something excellent in her presence, thus demonstrating your sexual worthiness."
"Steve's not a name - it's a state of being."
"Chicks are like hunters - they want to bag a lion or a bear, something really hard to catch.
"After you've eliminated desire, and after you've been excellent in her presence, then you must retreat."
"Be desireless, be excellent, and be gone."
"You know all that stuff I told you - forget it. The Tao of Steve isn't about picking up lots of women. It's about being the best person you can be, and I'm not."
- Dex (Donal Logue) in The Tao of Steve (2000), directed by Jenniphr Goodman -
"Running, one might say is basically an absurd pastime upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life."
- Bill Bowerman (Donald Sutherland) in Without Limits,
written by Robert Towne and Kenny Moore -
"Goodbye sex is never good."
"We don't block things out, Nicholas, we let things in."
"Free yourself from the tyranny of eye level."
Roger: "First, survey the terrain. Okay, technically it's still happy hour, your casual drinkers have yet to pack it in. Not exactly ideal for our purposes, but not impossible. So, we need to make an impression, send out a signal that: back here is the place to be."Nick (Jesse Eisenberg): "Alright, so what do you do? What do you say?
Roger: "Who cares? You're over complicating it. You spend all night sitting there trying to think of the perfect line - what good is that? Just make contact. Separate yourself from the rabble."
...
Roger: "Okay, so now she's aware of our presence, and we can plot our strategy. I'm gonna go get us some drinks, and while I'm up there, I want you to think of a hook."
Nick: "What?"
Roger: "A hook, a line, an opening salvo - whatever you want to call it, okay? Any minute now Rosebud is going to be standing right here, looking down at you, and you are going to have once chance to either hit it out of the park or strike out miserably. Be ready."
...
Roger: "I could tell you that what you think of as your personality is nothing but a collection of vanity fair articles ... I could tell you that, given a week to study your father and the ways in which he ignores you, I could come up with a shtick you'd be helpless to resist. Helpless. I could tell you all that, but what would you do with the information?"
"I don't want to see you talking to any guys - that's a definitely rally killer."
Roger: "We're in winning time ... There's an incredible moment that happens when a party passes its apex, its peak, as if by magic, suddenly every person in the room's acutely aware of the time. It's at that moment when the fear hits."
Nick: "What fear?"
Roger: "Fear of the empty apartment That is more than most people can stand. Desperation creeps through the room like a fog. Eyes begin to search the crowd anxiously. Standards are drastically lowered."
"You need to work fast - switch to the two minute offense."
"There's nothing at stake. If there was a chance of you actually getting laid, then you'd have a reason to be nervous. Try working someone at a bar for three hours, and then gotta close the deal right before last call. That's pressure, okay? You guys can treat this like it's a warmup. You're trying to find your style. So you get nervous? Maybe you're the nervous guy. Maybe that's your hook. So go ahead and blush. Stutter all you want. Show her how she makes you feel. Think of it - you're combining honesty and flattery. That's lethal."
- Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott) in Roger Dodger (2002), written and directed by Dylan Kidd -
Young Ed Bloom (Ewan McGregor): "There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that their faster or stronger than other fish - they're just touched by something extra."
Senior Ed Bloom (Albert Finney): "They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops. And that's true. ... What they don't tell you is that once time starts up again, it moves extra fast to catch up."
Young Ed: "Most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in social niceties."
Will Bloom (Billy Crudup): "A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way, he becomes immortal."
- from Big Fish (2003), directed by Tim Burton
Hercules: "You only fight when you have to, and never with your own brother."
- Hercules, Season 1, Episode 5, "Hercules In The Maze of the Minotaur" -
"The conviction of Bernard J. Ebbers on Tuesday for his role in the WorldCom fraud was only the latest in a string of victories for a young federal prosecutor named David B. Anders. ... Lawyers who have worked with Mr. Anders have uniformly remarked on his intensity and his willingness to put in long hours. 'The guy works every day of his life,' said Steven R. Peikin, who used to supervise Mr. Anders at the United States attorney's office and who now practices at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. 'He once told me he'd been in the office for 90-odd days in a row, without taking a day off.'"
- "Ebbers Case Adds Luster to Rising Star," by Ken Belson
and Jonathan Glater, New York Times, March 18, 2005 -
Alicia: "Speaking of your real mom, why aren't you annoying the hell out of your own family?"
Drew "That's not really your business, is it ... Consuela?"Alicia: "Can we go home now?"
Drew: "No, we can't go home. We are going to risk permanent paralysis, or we are going to die trying."Doo-Dah (Sy Richardson): "Yuletide's a bitch, aint' it?"
-- from Surviving Christmas, starring Ben Affleck
as Drew Latham and Christina Applegate as Alicia Valco -
"There was a time, a time before cable, when the local anchorman reigned supreme. ... He was a God walking amongst mere mortals. He had a voice that could make a wolverine purr and suits so fine they made Sinatra look like a hobo."
"I know what you're asking yourself, and yes, I have a nickname for my penis."
"What in the hell's diversity?"
"Well, I could be wrong, but I believe Diversity was an old, old wooden ship used during the Civil War Era""I'm expressing my inner anguish through the majesty of song!"
"It's so damn hot - milk was a BAD choice."
"I immediately regret this decision."
- from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,
starring Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy -
Howard: "You need someone who can write a brief - instead of removing yours."
George: "Divorce always gives me an appetite -- kebab?"
Lucy: "George, I think you're the most selfish human being on the planet."
George: "Well, that's just silly. Have you met everyone on the planet?"- from Two Weeks Notice, starring Hugh Grant
as George Wade and Sandra Bullock as Lucy Kelson -
"... we can learn. And if the knowledge is given to everyone, we can have lots of leaders. And soon, everyone will be strong, not just the ones that've been chosen. Because sometimes, even if you're the leader and you need to be strong, you can get tired."
-Paikea (Keisha Castle-Hughes) in Whale Rider -
"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live."
- Prof. Dumbledore (Richard Harris) in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -
Kid: "The Thessalonian you're fighting, he's the biggest man I've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him."
Achilles: "That's why no one will remember your name.""Your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom."
Achilles: "Let no men forget how menacing we are. We are lions! ... Immortality - take it, it's yours."
- Brad Pitt (Achilles) in Troy -
Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you, right now, I can't
Clementine: But you will, you will. You will think of things.
Joel: And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: Okay, okay.
<Laughter, final scene: playing in snow, fading to white>- from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
