Quotables & Favorites from Films +

"Let thy love be younger than thyself."

- Twelfth Night - Oberlin Summer Theater Festival 2013

"I buy stuff to hang on myself - not the walls."

- Light of the Sky - Oberlin Summer Theater Festival 2013

"Even if it is the last thing we do!" {They start searching to help the screaming child.}

"Where ARE YOU?!"

- The Impossible -

"That's the thing about anger - it sucks up a lot of intelligence."

- Adoration -

"I'm just chilling with the guac from my chip hat."

- Despicable Me 2 -

"If the secretary wanted me out of there it must be pretty bad out here."

- Mission Impossible -

"It doesn't matter where you came from.

What matters is who you choose to be."

- Smurfs -

"Start living your life."

The snail exclaims: "I GOT A LIFE?!"

- Turbo -

"It's important to enjoy life while you still can."

- Red 2 -

"First rule of magic - always be the smartest guy {gal ;-} in the room."

. . .

"The closer you look, the less you see."

. . .

"The more you think you see, the easier it will be to fool you."

- Now You See Me -

"All of your quotes are getting on my nerves." {HAAAaaa!}

. . .

"Fresh air -- antidote to sentimental dribble."

. . .

"Perception denies reality.

In this world rumor is truth."

. . .

"What part of 'no killing' do you keep forgetting?!"

. . .

"Did Hogwarts book a field trip?"

. . .

"Even the Kindergartners wear ties!"

. . .

"Focus on work -- words to live by."

. . .

"I normally let aspiring criminals do their thing but for you I will make an exception."

- White Collar -

"Some souls hide out among the living."

. . .

"You may notice we're pretty durable."

- R.I.P.D. -

"There was a time when our enemies knew honor."

. . .

"Eternity can be a curse."

- The Wolverine -

"This is going to sound real stupid coming from a man locked up in prison:

For the first time in my life, I'm free."

- Flight -

"How long will it take me to forget what you just told me tonight?"

Colbert: Colbert Report, 6-18-2013

"The future is just about what you do right now strung together."

. . .

"Things don't make me happy."

- Touchback -

"I like to have at least one alternate theory."

. . .

"I'm just a guy who wants to be left alone."

. . .

"You don't have to let these guys use you."

- Jack Reacher -

"Can't stop. Don't want to either."

. . .

"6th gear, steel frame, no brakes, can't stop.

Don't want to either."

- Premium Rush -

"Avoiding stress isn't the secret."

. . .

"An ant has no quarrel with a boot."

. . .

"Now might be a really good time for you to get angry."

Reply: "That's my secret Captain, I'm always angry!"

- The Avengers -

"I just figured if I'm going to make the world a better place I'd make it with cookies."

- Stranger than Fiction -

"You're not going down there, are you?!

You don't rob a bank when the get-away car has a flat tire!"

. . .

"How do you choose not to feel?"

- Star Trek: Into Darkness -

"When it comes to martial arts, you need to know two words -

horizontal and vertical."

- The Grand Master -

"If these men represent the law, I'd rather be an outlaw."

- The Lone Ranger -

"I feel like I'm getting drunk and electrocuted at the same time."

- Last Vegas -

"Believe me, it makes perfect sense."

. . .

"Let's do something that really cooks."

. . .

Following a dramatic guitar solo: "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet;

but your kids are gonna love it." {! HA}

. . .

"Wait a minute Doc. What are you talking about? What happens to us in the future?

What - do we become a--h---- or something?"

- Back To The Future -

"I told you to talk to him

not smash his head in with a bat."

. . .

"It seems today I'm not just the driver, I'm the horse."

. . .

"They're so happy; they have no idea how bad they have it."

- Footnote -

Rodriguez: "Nothing beats reality; I went back to work."

. . .

"The artist is the pioneer. . . . He wanted to do something - make a difference."

. . .

"Just because people are poor doesn't mean

that their dreams aren't big or their souls aren't rich."

. . .

"Home is acceptance."

. . .

"American Zero, South African Hero."

. . .

"You can keep your symbols of success and I will pursue my happiness."{Song text}

. . .

"He's like the silk worm - take all of this raw material . . . transcendent . . . you have a choice."

- Searching for Sugar Man -

"I would help those that others wouldn't help.

I would seek justice. . . . one way or another."

- Daredevil -

"How to succeed in business without any customers."

- Veronica Guerin -

[You will find] " . . . Peace is harder won than war.

That every morning's hope is haunted

by yesterday's nightmare."

- Whistleblower -

"You might have answered," she reprimands.

He admits: "I'm sorry. I've gotten used to not speaking unless I have something to say."

She explains: "If nobody spoke unless they had something to say,

the human race would soon lose the power of speech."

. . .

"Then I suppose we are both useless; at last something in common."

. . .

"When love and duty are one, then grace is with you."

- The Painted Veil -

"Places aren't haunted - people are."

- The Ghost Whisperer -

"It is the beauty of women that cured him."

. . .

"We're often saying the opposite of what we mean."

- City of Your Final Destination -

"You really know how to pick 'em!"

. . .

"The past is a construct of the mind . . .

but the heart wants to live in the present.

Look there.

You will find your answer."

. . .

"Never estimate the power of one {wo;-}man.

I know I don't."

- Total Recall -

"I've had an epiphany: a hero cannot exist in a vacuum!"

- Rango -

"I'm not the enemy,"

the Black African coach reminds the Native American youth.

. . .

"Then you tell me why I'm pissed off," challenges the coach.

"Because you're a Black man in America!" answers the Native American woman.

. . .

"I wanta be a lady warrior when I grow up!"

- Edge of America -

"This is the story of my 30-year swim to the surface."

- Blind Faith -

"This isn't usual . . . THIS is history!"

. . .

"As the preacher said, I could write shorter sermons,

but once I start I get too lazy to stop."

. . .

"We made it possible for one another to do a terrible thing," Lincoln confesses.

"We've won the way. Now you have to lead us out of it," counters Grant.

. . .

"We must try to be happier. We must.

We've been so miserable for so long."

- Lincoln -

"We're all children. We all need approval.

I want to see my children!"

- Diving Bell and the Butterfly -

"It's not my fault that my client has the I.Q. of a dinner plate."

. . .

"Are you really 56?" he inquires, meeting her mom for the first time.

"Only parts of me," replies the mom.

. . .

"You can't give up right?!" says one of the clients.

"I couldn't agree more" comments the surprise visitor.

. . .

"What is wrong with you people?! Do you want to be the only man

ever held in contempt at his own wedding?!"

- Laws of Attraction -

"It wasn't brains that got me here, I assume you know that."

. . .

"There's only 3 ways to make a living in this business:

Be first.

Be smarter.

Or cheat."

- Margin Call -

"I always say you can't get over something when you're under it."

- Carnage -

"You might love art, but art certainly does not respond to your affections."

- Tea with Mussolini -

"There's a world of abundance and an attitude of lack."

. . .

"Marketing essentially lies to you because it presents you with the promise -

'you're going to be sexy, popular and cool.'

But in reality you're going to be

obese,

and miserable,

and sick."

. . .

"I think we're barking up the wrong tree.

People are looking for a result that is superficial . . .

just to look good;

and they don't really consider that that could be done

from the inside out."

. . .

"People are overfed but they are also starving to death."

. . .

"It's not just what you're eating; It's also what's eating you."

. . .

"The way you make a mouse fat is to feed it MSG . . . and this is in 80% of modern foods."

. . .

"Nothing else does it in your brain quite like a diet cola. That's because

there is a deadly combination there of aspartame and caffeine . . . Those two together

create a very unique blend of excitotoxin that kills off brain cells.

But before they die they have this ummff - excitement - like a buzz."

. . .

"If you addict a customer, you have a customer for life.

It's just like selling cigarettes. You're selling food that's harmful and you want people to keep coming back so you put in those chemicals that make them want it again - and again."

. . .

"Many of the food labels are very deceptive. . . . [For example,]

Propylene Glycol C3H82 is used in a lot of blueberry muffins. . . . You can also use this to winterize your RV or clean out your colon before a colonoscopy."

. . .

"68% of US adults are overweight or obese."

. . .

"Once you understand that sugar is a drug,

just like alcohol is a drug . . .

you become habituated to the effect and therefore you need

more and more and more over time to give you the same effect."

. . .

"Now if you walk the aisles of the average grocery store,

and you look at the amount of sugar in a child's breakfast cereal,

you might as well be rolling up the kid's sleeve and putting in heroine, because it's the same. . . .

We think about whooo -- cocaine, heroine -- all these big drugs,

but the truth is that premature death is coming from sugar and alcohol, and smoking of course.

So if you begin to think of these massive doses of sugar as no different from drugs and alcohol, then, you get a handle on the situation."

. . .

"Food as far as I am concerned kills more people than all drugs on earth combined."

- Hungry for Change -

"I'm gonna have to figure out a way to forgive you, and so are they."

. . .

"When you're a kid you want to be just like your Dad.

When you're a teenager, you don't want to have anything to do with him;

and when you grow up, you end up just like him."

. . .

"This is where the dreams live."

- The Astronaut Farmer -

"I think I might be less lonely if I were alone."

- Hope Springs -

"He faced a lot of opposition, but, he just stuck with his dream."

- Being Elmo -

"Even when I know that you're lying I still almost believe you."

- Think Like a Man -

"I'm not who I thought I was and I'm terrified that I never will be."

- The Words -

"How can guys talk so much when they have nothing to say?

And girls have plenty to say but no one will listen."

. . .

"Life is full of barbaric customs.

I just hope they all end with a kiss like that."

- My Girl 2 -

"Do you think the sexes should be equal?"

Reply: "Heavens no, men would become unmanageable."

- Dark Shadows -

"Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman."

. . .

"I love being a mother of a two-year-old boy.

It's like being a movie star in a world without critics."

. . .

"Even when you're here you're not here. . . .

I want just a few minutes where we're not in a panic,

where we talk about something other than legistics . . .

5 minutes of just calm, quiet conversation."

. . .

"At work if when you act like one of the boys they call you abrasive and difficult.

So you act like a woman and they say you're emotional and difficult.

So difficult is really just the word for anything that isn't a man."

- Don't Know How She Does It -

"Be a thunderstorm."

- My Girl -

"Thank you so much for believing in my weirdness."

. . .

"The bad that comes along with the good is a journey."

. . .

Katie asks: "How was the concert Grandma?"

Grandma shouts back: "LOUD!"

- Katy Perry: The Movie, Part of Me -

"You did well. You can hit a curve ball!"

- Admission -

"If you're ever with a girl who's too good for you, marry her."

. . .

"Tell me John Q, Jane Q, what does Valentine's Day mean to you?" rhetorically posed.

Reply: "It gives me acid reflux, that's what it means to me!"

. . .

"I don't dillydally, I only upsydaisy."

. . .

"The truth makes everything else seem like a lie."

- Make Every Day Valentine's Day -

"I'm going to have to change the direction of this conversation right now."

. . .

"Remind me tomorrow to call the plumber so I can k---- him!"

. . .

"We can't help people who can't help themselves."

. . .

"To eat good food is to be close to God."

. . .

"Times are always tough for somebody."

- Big Night -

"Each one of us is the sum total everything we've ever experienced -

and all the people."

. . .

"These moments of impact . . . high intensity . . .

actually end up defining who we are."

- The Vow -

"To know kindness after so much unkindness . . .

can that not be called happiness?"

- Memoirs of a Geisha -

"I'm in some wrestling match with myself."

. . .

"The bad days make the good ones better."

- How Do You Know -

"You know that "whatever" is the laziest word in the 20th century."

. . .

"I'm not going to live in a state of sponsored pity."

. . .

"You're handsomer than the other dads, cause lots of them don't have hair."

. . .

"Their 'happys' are too loud."

. . .

"At the risk of stating the obvious, you're insane."

. . .

"Stupidest thing I've ever done - thank you."

. . .

"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage."

. . .

"The secret to talking is listening."

- We Bought a Zoo -

"I appreciate what you do . . .

and now's not the time to go [die]."

. . .

"Listening to that cadoodle for the last 2 days is worse than being shot!"

- Psych -

"It is love that holds the world together."

- Young Goethe in Love -

"I hear notes - my own notes."

- Mozart's Sister -

"Go flee your teacher's injustice [everyone smiles]."

- Monsieur Lazhar -

"How do you evaluate the risk of not doing something?"

- Zero Dark Thirty -

"Perfection is not just about control.

It's also about letting go."

- Black Swan -

"I couldn't take it anymore.

It had gotten too unethical."

. . .

"Anything we don't understand we try to destroy."

- Godzilla -

"You know, the smallest thing can change your life.

In a blink of an eye something happens by chance

when you least expect it - sets you on a course

you never planned into a future you never imagined."

. . .

"Sometimes finding the light means you must pass through

the deepest darkness."

- Lucky One -

"I have the bad habit of underestimating you."

- Breaking Dawn, Part 2 -

"At least you have the courage to feel."

. . .

"Love is fragile and we're not always its best caretakers."

. . .

"Some day you're going to open your heart and you are going to play again

because music and love are going to bring you joy."

- The Last Song -

"Starting this heat wave by letting my seat wave."

- Marilyn -

"What went so wrong in your life that you ended up educating children?!"

- Bad Teacher - {HAAA!}

"Her love is like the wind -

I can't see it but I can feel it."

- A Walk to Remember -

"This outfit needs an audience."

- Glee {Feb. 14, 2013} -

"If we see a kiss like that - they're married."

. . .

"Wasn't she the villain in the last James Bond movie?"

. . .

"As my mom used to say, there's no cure for dumb."

. . .

"I don't want to teach, I want to do."

. . .

"They have to know you better not to like you."

- Parental Guidance -

"Just because you haven't seen something doesn't mean it's not there."

- Epic -

"Dying is an art like everything else.

I do it exceptionally well."

. . .

"Did you ever have something that you wanted to erase?"

- Sylvia -

"If you think you're safe, you're not!"

- Star Trek Into Darkness -

"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."

. . .

"Claim your life - learn to be an a--h----!"

. . .

"What is the answer for 99 out of 100 questions?

-- Money."

. . .

"I'll see you in another life -

when we are both cats."

- Vanilla Sky -

"If I've learned anything, it is that you should have the people,

who love you around you as much as you can."

- Sweet November -

"Make a ball of your lies and

knead them with tears."

- The Sea is Watching -

"We could get into trouble."

Reply: "That's how you know it's an adventure."

. . .

"Come and dream with me."

- Hugo -

"We now have discrimination down to a science."

- Gattaca -

"Our lives and our choices,

each encounter,

suggest a new potential direction."

- Cloud Atlas -

"This place is about to become a sea of sweat,

ear-shattering music and puke."

. . .

"This club is totally out of control."

- Rock of Ages -

"I grew up around men who swore, drank and farted.

Trust me, I can handle it."

- Trouble with the Curve -

"My hair could lift a car off a baby if it had to."

- The Campaign -

"Should I break out the milk and cookies here?!"

- Rampart -

"Sometimes people can live right next to danger and not know it."

- Act of Vengence -

"Who says opposites don't attract?!"

- Bernie -

"They're idiots."

He counters: "They've been knighted."

The other concludes: "Makes it official then."

"We're not a family, we're a firm."

. . .

"What are friends for?!"

Earnest reply: "I wouldn't know."

- The King's Speech -

"Sometimes our own stories are the ones we can never tell.

But if a story is never told it becomes something else - forgotten."

. . .

"When a story is told it is not forgotten, it becomes something else -

the memory of who we were and the hope of what we can become."

- Sarah's Key -

"You know that is the 3rd dude I whacked for you this week.

I can't wait until next week."

- Restitution -

"Modern medicine revolves around a pill for every ill.

. . .

"You are what you eat."

. . .

"Think of it as chronic malnutrition because that's what's going on."

. . .

"I must say that the medical profession is not always

scientific or clear thinking."

. . .

"Education not medicine - food can affect your mind."

. . .

"Good health makes a lot of sense -

but it does not make a lot of dollars."

- Food Matters -

"I don't know where the road here is going to take me,

but I'll never travel it alone as long as I have my friends and my surfboard.

. . .

"If you fall in love with the ocean - the sound, the smell, the strong peaks, . . .

you're gone.

- First Love -

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

- Les Miserables -

"Unfortunately before man figured out how to be rational or peaceful,

he figured out nuclear weapons and how to pollute on a catastrophic scale."

. . .

"Every family is dysfunctional."

. . .

"These questions about what happens when you die so freak people out...."

- Religulous -

"I will never be one of those women

who remain silent and pretty on the arm of her husband. . . .

One's life must matter. . . .

I cannot die washing up a tea cup."

. . .

"Someone must force the point.

Someone must say the unsayable -

none of these men have the guts.

One must know when to go!"

. . .

"Well, it used to be about trying to do something;

now it's about trying to be someone."

- The Iron Lady -

"When you think you can create something out of nothing,

it is very difficult to resist."

. . .

"This crisis was not an accident."

- Inside Job -

"We sane doctors have serious limitations."

. . .

"If we don't tell them the truth - who will?!"

- A Dangerous Method -

"Standing room only for beheadings on the square."

. . .

"The whole country's watching you - they just don't know it."

. . .

"So you want to come to Hollywood,

act like a big shot without actually doing anything?

You'll fit right in!"

. . .

"We did suicide missions in the army that had better odds than this."

. . .

"If you want to sell a lie - get the press to sell it for you."

. . .

"If I'm doing a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit!"

. . .

"I was a terrible father. The b---s--- business is like coal-mining.

You come home to your wife and kids and you can't wash it off."

. . .

"This is the best bad idea we have."

. . .

"I think my story is the only thing between you and a gun to your head."

. . .

"If we wanted applause, we would have joined the circus."

Reply: "I thought we had."

- Argo -

"I give my respect to those who have earned it.

To everyone else I am civil."

- The Deep Blue Sea -

"I'm a hillbilly from Pennsylvania."

. . .

"This isn't a tourist destination;

this is a war zone.

If you stay here you're going to get killed."

. . .

"If we allow ourselves to be full of hate then they won.

We must not let them take our hearts."

- Machine Gun Preacher -

"There is no right or wrong, there is only opinion."

. . .

"C'mon you like me.

I'm an acquired taste."

- The Secret to My Success -

"We know how different she is. Different - not less."

. . .

"I know that there's a lot that I can't understand

but I still want my life to have meaning."

. . .

"You have a very special mind;

you see the world in special ways that other people can't."

- Temple Grandin -

"You have two choices - you can eat yourself into poor health

or you can eat yourself into good health and a long healthy life.

And that road is on a plant-centered dietary pattern."

. . .

"Eat to live and don't live to eat."

- Forks into Knives -

"How safe do you feel?"

. . .

"Good God, are you still alive?"

"Nice to see you too!"

- Skyfall -

"Need a hug?" asks Bruce Willis's character.

"We're not a hugging family," his son reminds him.

- A Good Day to Die Hard -

"How are you Sheriff?"

"OLD!"

- The Last Stand -

"You need to dance for yourself and not for anyone else."

- Take the Lead -

"We see what we want to believe."

. . .

"Belief and Seeing: They're both often wrong."

. . .

"How much evil must we do to do good?"

. . .

"Reason has limits."

- The Fog of War -

Stepdad to son: "Your father - he's on the naughty list."

"No!!!!!!!!!!!" the human elf son screeches.

"Some people have lost sight of what's important in life."

- Elf -

"I did something bad, right? Should I know what it is?!

. . .

"Thing to remember is: If we're all alone, then we're all together in that too."

- P.S. I Love You -

"I'm sorry you're so stubborn."

- A Christmas Carol -

"You gonna stop a bullet with a baseball bat?!"

. . .

"Does this darkness have a name - this cruelty?"

. . .

"What happened to us? When did we lose our way?"

- One Tree Hill -

"Anybody can oppose - it's fun to be against things.

But there comes a time when you have to be for things as well."

- The Libertine -

"Go ahead, make my day."

- Sudden Impact - and - Dirty Harry -

"It's amazing how fast your life can change."

- Rizzoli & Isles -

"You did not bear the shame - you resisted."

- Valkyrie -

"We can see that men have some value and so we accept them as equal."

- The Other Boleyn Girl -

"Every single day is a different adventure. You know - the journey is the destination."

- The Music Never Stopped -

"My intention is to exalt the fine music of these mountains."

He questions: "Exalt?!"

She explains: "Yes, it means to lift up."

He counters: "You mean to exploit. It means to steal."

. . .

"Never mind Tom. He's like most of those fellas who went to the other world and come back.

Heaa - just never seem to be the same;

they just can't seem to be able to settle down and be happy."

- Songcatcher -

"It's not a weakness to see the good in people."

. . .

"We operate on an alternative revenue stream."

. . .

"Sometimes the 'bad guys' make the best good guys."

- Leverage -

"Somewhere along the way it all became personal."

- Last Man Standing -

"You were lucky captain, this time.

I hope I'm on another ship when your luck runs out."

- K19 The Widow Maker -

"There's only two men I trust. One of them's me and the other is not you."

. . .

{And at the end of the movie -}"There's three men I now trust."

- Con Air -

"So much of our experience is intangible.

So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed."

. . .

"Start challenging this corporate-slave state!"

. . .

"The quest is to be liberated from the negative."

. . .

"I think what we don't take into account when we're young is our endless curiosity!"

. . .

"Our cells are regenerating every 7 years - we've already become completely different people several times over; and yet we always remain quintessentially ourselves."

. . .

"Which is the most universal human characteristic - fear or laziness?!"

- Waking Life -

"I was born with the umbilical cord around my neck; I've been angry ever since."

. . .

Go out . . . . Earn a point of view then come back when you've got something to say!"

{And he did! This is a true story.}

- Music Within -

"One of the many differences between men and women when it comes to love,

is the need to tell the world every little detail."

. . .

"Love is a minefield.

You take a step, get blown to pieces;

put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step.

I guess that's human nature.

It hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow up than be single."

. . .

"They say you have to kiss a lot of frogs to get to the prince."

. . .

"Love is ecstasy and agony, freedom and imprisonment,

belonging and loneliness.

It's what keeps us together when life tears us apart."

- Love & Sex -

"Can you put your guns down?!? Cowboys!"

. . .

Let's stop stumbling into each other and work together."

- The Mentalist -

"There's plain crazy and then . . . there's psycho-crazy; I think she is the latter!"

. . .

"Why are your hands so freakishly big?"

"I don't know. Why are you so freakishly annoying?!"

. . .

"Your breath is so bad it makes my ear numb."

. . .

"Turns out I don't need a medal to tell me I'm a good guy.

'Cause if that little kid likes me - how bad can I be?"

- Wreck-It Ralph -

"You're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss - a real hairy boss."

- Monsters Inc. 3D -

[One thing is for sure - ] " . . . his unfailing ability to destroy the things he loves."

- King Kong -

"He is short on temper

and long on haste."

- Garrow's Law -

"I hate them for making hate necessary."

- Michael Collins -

"You want to know what I dreamed last night?"

"What?"

"I dreamed that you weren't such a son of a b----."

"Not dreaming - that's wishful thinking."

- An Unfinished Life -

"Do you want to be the richest guy in the cemetery?"

. . .

"You think money's gonna fix this?"

Reply: "What else is there?"

. . .

"I'm on my path. It's up to you to move with it or against it."

- Arbitrage -

"You're too young to be feeling sorry for yourself and too old to be so stupid."

- The Long Shots -

"Only by being on the edge can we really know who we are."

- Die Another Day -

"Don't just bring it - sing it!"

- Pitch Perfect -

"Everybody needs a hobby. What's yours?"

"Resurrection."

- Skyfall -

"Just do what I do - pretend the audience is naked."

- The Muppets -

"Does anybody speak to anybody on this island?"

. . .

"Soon you will know us all too well - with my apologies."

- Girls with the Dragon Tattoo -

"Reality is a figment of your imagination. So, if what we can see is often wrong,

how can we ever know what is real, and what isn't?"

. . .

"Sometimes the billions of neurons firing in our brains

help us concoct elaborate scenarios. . . .

"All these fantasies - good and bad - stem from an evolutionary imperative.

Our brains are exploring potential outcomes that might help us achieve our goals or avoid danger.

But if we allow fantasy to overtake our thinking, we can miss the reality that's right in front of us.

And sometimes, reality's not so bad."

- Perception -

"The question on the table is: How drunk is drunk enough?"

. . .

"First, the sadness cells die,

so you smile real big.

Then, the quiet cells die,

and you say everything real loud for no reason at all but that's okay -

because then, the stupid cells go next,

so everything you say is real smart.

And finally come the memory cells. These are tough s-- of b------ to kill."

. . .

"The only question in Junuh's mind was which demon was giving him more aggravation."

. . .

"This is becoming embarassing."

"No, son, it's been embarassing for quite some time now."

- The Legend of Bagger Vance -

"If she's like you she won't know what she's lost until it's gone."

- The Thomas Crown Affair {1999} -

"There's no chance to fail if you never give up."

- Lovely, Still -

"Life is --"beep"-- short and you can't waste a minute of it!"

- Friends with Benefits -

"Adapt or die."

. . .

"A revolt would at least be a sign."

. . .

"Only by surviving can we conquer them."

. . .

"I thought I'd be able to cry."

- The Counterfeiters -

"Weakness is provocative; strength deters."

. . .

"Think tanks are now an integral part of the military industrial complex. . . .

They were to produce "the evidence.""

. . .

"It turns out that is not that hard to get a country to go to war . . .

An administration can just dominate the debate, dominate the argument. . . .

So much of the truth is obscured."

. . .

"If you join the military now, you are not defending the United States of America

but some policy makers."

. . .

"We have a congress that failed in every way to hold the president (G. W. Bush) accountable. . .

I would think Eisenhower is rolling over in his grave."

. . .

"It's a terrible thing when the American public cannot trust their president.

The government exploited my feelings . . .

I was so insane in wanting to get even that I was willing to believe anything."

. . .

"American power . . . is flaunted in other people's faces around the world."

. . .

"Our attempt at democracy here is a constant struggle between capitalism and democracy . . .

clearly capitalism is winning."

- Why We Fight -

"Even with this ending, I wouldn't change this life for any other life in the world.

I've looked for so many things in this life, so many things,

and all the time paradise was in this room with the three of you."

Terminally ill Mother's last words to her family before ending her life

- Depression: Out of the Shadows -

"I never believed people are born evil. . . .

I always say if we knew their story, we would understand."

. . .

"Our kids are out there parenting themselves because their parents are in pain. . . .

We have generation after generation after generation, who are wounded

and have never gotten any help."

. . .

"We pay for not caring about those who are not properly nourished.

They are your worst nightmare.

They will show up in your neighborhoods;

they will show up anywhere and everywhere if we don't do our part."

Terri M. Williams quoted in - Depression: Out of the Shadows -

"Are you trying to make me diabetic or just fat?!"

. . .

"So that's my theory: these moments of impact define who we are."

- The Vow -

"Greatness is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice."

. . .

"You're a pig!"

- Boss -

"For a few to be immortal, many must die."

. . .

"Is it stealing if it's already stolen?"

. . .

"You almost missed your calling!"

- In Time -

"Fear thy neighbor."

- Arlington Road -

"There's threats everywhere, and the world is draped in camouflage."

. . .

"You live your life by a code - an ethos."

. . .

"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."

- Act of Valor -

"You can't be me. You had a hard enough time being you

- and that's why you're in here"{prison}.

- The Fighter -

"Do you ever want to delete every sentence you're saying - even as you're saying it?"

. . .

"I think I screwed up," the now-to-become "ex" boyfriend concludes.

"Not from my perspective," replies the wanna-be boyfriend.

. . .

"Tonight you've given me a great turn -

you've given me temporary amnesia."

- How Do You Know -

"Friends don't let friends think - we gotta do something!"

- The Amateurs -

"We can't plan everything - some things just happen!"

- Day Zero -

"Think of it: catastrophe equals opportunity."

- King of California -

"It's a very rare person who's taken for what s/he truly is."

. . .

"You have all the power you need if you dare to look for it."

- The Last Unicorn -

"It builds character . . . in which you are of short supply."

. . .

"Today I finally understood Homer, the journey's the thing."

. . .

"Bad things happen sometimes and there is nothing you can do. "

. . .

"Where we go one - we go all."

- White Squall -

"I've purposely gone after not being typecast. . . .

I have this thing to confuse the audience in a good way . . . the dude, the president. . . .

Shake it up."

- Jeff Bridges interviewed on the Henry Rollins Show -

"Nothing's alluding you - you're just stuck in your head."

. . .

"She seems like a great girl. . . . You know I've been around - had a chance to meet a few people.

There are not as many great ones out there as you would think."

. . .

"There ain't no tomorrow quite as nice as today."

. . .

"I'd kill a man to be 25 again."

. . .

"You mustn't ever ignore the ride, honey."

- The Open Road -

"With the sheer overload of information we are now assaulted with and the high-speed access with which we have access to tons of more information,

I wonder if we're not as overwhelmed as we are empowered?

Now that we have a handful of Blackberry and Blue Teeth hanging from our ears,

are we really getting more done or taking more time talking to people we don't want to far too often,

sorting through unwanted text messages,

risking identity theft and looking to upgrade rather than to improve.

I like technology . . .

but what good is technology when we use it as a crutch rather than a tool?"

- Henry Rollins on his show -

"To live with fear is a life half-lived."

- Strictly Ballroom -

"It's hard to get at the top; there's a long line at the elevator."

"Doesn't matter - we take the stairs."

. . .

"Money is the mother's milk of politics."

- Masked and Anonymous -

"I don't think we need to know everything about the people we love."

. . .

"My mind has an endless capacity for useless information."

- Playing By Heart -

"There is no greater grief than a parent laying their child to rest"

- The Ides of March -

"When someone don't fit into a neat lil' box, the answer isn't to squeeze them in a little harder.

You build a bigger box!"

. . .

"People who ain't around make very few mistakes."

. . .

"The man had 5 kids, he must have loved something!"

. . .

"There's not enough love in our hearts."

. . .

"God gives you girls so your Momma can tell you, 'I told you so!'"

. . .

"There're always gonna be jerks who want to treat you badly!"

- Joyful Noise -

"Is infatuation love? No! But it feels like it is.

All those chemicals pumping through your brain and turning any word he says into poetry."

- Love and Sex -

"What's a wedding without a family drama!"

- Breaking Dawn: Part 1 -

"Grief often gets in the way."

- Rumor of Angels -

"I'm terribly smart; wouldn't it have been great to be intelligent?!"

- Bus Stop - Oberlin Summer Theater Festival 2012 -

"I wish there was some way I could just pay the fine and go home."

. . .

"Somebody will take care of him."

"WHO? Mother Teresa is retired!"

. . .

"Did you lose your mind all of a sudden or was it a slow, gradual process?"

. . .

"I might be going out on a limb here - but you don't seem like a happy camper."

. . .

"I can't believe I'm on a first name basis with these people."

. . .

"It's easy being nuts - try being ME!"

. . .

"I think they were made for each other."

"It's scary but true!"

. . .

"I can control my own destiny - not some floating overweight fairies!"

- The Fisher King -

"Everything will come out all right in the end; so if things are not right, it's not yet the end."

- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel -

"Why is it that a man always gets thrown

his best party when he dies?"

- Blown Away -

"This is Time Square with its modern day corporate lack of character."

. . .

"Ah, you have a big hairy back - I like that in a woman."

. . .

"You may have given up on yourself, but your friends haven't given up on you!"

. . .

"You're making it easier for the psycho!"

. . .

"My tears are real - you're not."

- Madagascar 3 -

"It is true - I have never married.

I never had time to fool with it."

. . .

"Time just gets away from us."

- True Grit -

"These walls are funny. First you hate them; then you get used to them and enough time passes and you get so you depend on them.

That's institutionalized."

. . .

"Funny, on the outside I was an honest man.

I had to come to prison to become a crook."

. . .

"Terrible thing livin' in fear. . . .

Hope is a good thing -

may be the best of things.

And no good thing ever dies."

. . .

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- The Shawshank Redemption -

"Who is it this time - Jesus Christ or Joan of Arc?!"

. . .

"You humans. Sometimes it's hard to imagine how you've made it this far."

- K Pax -

"My Mom said bad news is just good news in disguise."

"Is that before she abandoned you?!"

- Ice Age -

"I had an attack of nostalgia but it's passed - like gas."

. . .

"The only thing I'm good at is pissing people off and he won't even let me do that!"

- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People -

"How can I give an A or a B for writing the truth --- right?"

. . .

"Success follows experience."

. . .

"Her tears hit my shirt like bullets."

. . .

"Even an ordinary . . . teenager

can with small ways turn on a small light in a dark room.

You are the heroes.

Your faces are engraved in my heart."

. . .

"You can't teach them - you don't even like them."

- Freedom Writers -

"The game is changing."

. . .

"You know, I had you pegged for a loser the first time I saw you but I was wrong;

you're worse -

you're a coward."

. . .

"You never could commit to anything - not even a conversation."

- The Fabulous Baker Boys -

"I was fed, clothed, carpooled."

- HappyThankYouMorePlease -

"Every day you're not dead in the ground and you wake up in the morning,

you're going to have to make some decisions.

You're going to have to ask yourself this question:

Am I going to believe all them bad things that fools say about me today?!

Do you hear me?"

. . .

"Courage sometimes skips a generation.

Thank you for bringing it back to our family."

- The Help -

"This ain't no place for the weary kind;

this ain't no place to lose your mind.

This ain't no place to fall behind -

pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try."

. . .

"Never see it 'til it's gone."

. . .

"Now that I'm a brand new man - you belong to someone else."

- Lyrics sung by Bad Blake {Jeff Bridges} in Crazy Heart -

{I have to admit, never listened much to "Country" or "Western" but Jeff is fantastic! ;-}

"Make it happen."

. . .

"Don't give up on family!"

- The Smurfs -

"A wise king never seeks out war but he must always be ready for it."

. . .

I had it all backwards; I had it all wrong!" confesses Thor.

"That's not a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers.

Then you start asking the right questions," counters the other.

-Thor -

"It was a sound of someone trying not to make a sound."

. . .

"We'll be spending the whole summer looking for the right word."

. . .

"Don't expect mercy from me; I'm going to grind you into fine powder."

- Door in the Floor -

"I heard you were like this -

I'm so glad it's true."

- Stick It -

"They are prepared to teach not preach." {In reference to teachers}

. . .

"You have only one choice: don't be embarrassed."

. . .

"They can get you being a human - but that's all."

. . .

"Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they're inconvenient."

- The Contender -

"Yeah, first date where I feel like I'm winning in a game show."

. . .

"To tell you the truth, I think your theories about relationships are bullsh--. I believe in love . . . I want mess and chaos. . . . I want it all!"

. . .

"She eats carrots now. Isn't that tragic?!"

. . .

"He's insane," states the Mom as he screams outside for her daughter.

"I know, isn't it wonderful?" replies the daughter as she runs out to him in the street wearing her PJs.

"I don't care if you are pretty - I love you anyway!"

- The Mirror has Two Faces -

"Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief!"

- Emma -

"Scars remind us where we have been -

they don't have to dictate where we're going."

- Criminal Minds -

"Here's my day so far: went to jail, lost the girl of my dreams, got my b---- kicked pretty good; still, things could be a lot worse."

. . .

"Could you stamp my frequent kidnapping card?"

. . .

"Even fate picks its favorites - no big deal."

. . .

"You're so naive . . . you see the good in everybody,

even when it's not there!"

. . .

"Just think about it: we have it all - - yet we have nothing."

. . .

"I knew you would come!"

"Well that makes one of us!"

. . .

"It suddenly hit me - I DO have a choice."

. . .

"I made you a hero - you did the fool thing all by yourself."

. . .

"Funny, I guess destiny is not the path given to us,

but the path we choose for ourselves."

- Megamind -

He notes: "And might I say you were a little pitchy."

She counters: "You hit notes only dogs can hear."

- 27 Dresses -

"I don't think people like you to know things before they're ready to tell you. So I should just learn to keep my mouth shut."

- Black Widow -

"We'd never get you here unless you had a chance to shoot someone."

. . .

"I really do want world peace."

- Miss Congeniality -

"People don't say what they mean."

. . .

"We like to hope that good and bad, right and wrong are miles apart -

but many times they are all tangled up."

- Get Low -

"We can't leave you alone anymore," the son explains to his father suffering from dementia.

The father counters: "You think I'm not alone?"

- Tenure -

"What would you say to someone that, um, said to you: this is a psychiatric hospital and that you're a patient here and I am your psychiatrist?" {asks Marlon Brando}

"I would say that he has a rather limited and

uncreative way of looking at the situation." {replies Johnny Depp}

. . .

"I just feel we have surrendered our lives to the momentum of mediocrity. What happened to all the celestial fire that used to light our way?"

. . .

"You need me for a transfusion because your blood has turned to dust and clouds your heart. . . . It's only in my world you can breathe - ISN'T IT?!"

- Don Juan DeMarco -

"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."

- The Matrix -

"Sell crazy some place else - we're all stocked up here."

. . .

Though in total disagreement with this analogy, I still admire the wit and Jack Nicholson's delivery in this scene:

Fan gushes: "You have NO idea what your work means to me . . .

How do you write women so well?"

The writer replies: "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability."

. . .

"C'mon in and try not to ruin everything by being you."

- As Good As It Gets -

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."

- The Hunger Games -

"We gotta work together - that's the only way."

. . .

"He's teaching me to remove oneself from the equation."

. . .

"It's amazing how productive doing nothing can be."

. . .

"Sometimes life has a way of moving you past things like wants and hopes."

. . .

"The only way to win is not to play."

. . .

"You're messin' with my Zen thing, man."

. . .

"I screwed it up chasing after perfection -

chasing after what was right in front of me."

. . .

"I guess we're supposed to change the world."

. . .

"This is going to be QUITE a ride!!!" (Is that a wonderful Welsh accent? ;-)

- Tron: Legacy -

"If you got a song in your heart - - - you better sing it."

- The Wonder of It All -

"I find you completely unprecedented."

. . .

"What should we do with this moment we are in?"

. . .

"Maybe it makes a sad girl happy, and a desperate guy think."

. . .

"Aahh - the stench of truth."

- Autumn in New York -

"Luckily I'm not."

"Not what?"

"In my right mind."

{Thus he perseveres with a seemingly impossible task and is very successful.}

- Dolphin Tale -

"Good guys win every once and a while."

- Hoot -

"You don't know me from a can of paint."

. . .

"I do know a fighter when I see one. And I could tell that with one look in your eyes."

- Waiting to Exhale -

"I believe that wealth corrupts us all!"

. . .

"No wonder I feel lonely, I'm surrounded by morons."

- The Last Station -

"Men - they pontificate and no one can get a word in edgewise."

. . .

"I've been married 6 times. You're always happy at first; it's how you feel at the end that counts."

- The Jane Austin Book Club -

". . . as always, the poorest paid the most."

- Inside Job -

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."

. . .

"There are moments in life when you hope your decisions weren't rash."

- Little Black Book -

"Why should I hide who I am?"

. . .

"Sometimes truth isn't good enough."

- The Dark Knight -

"Some people search all their life for this and never find it.

Others don't even think it exists. "

. . .

"We are the choices we have made."

. . .

"We're no longer two people. . . . Don't throw us away."

. . .

"This kind of certainty comes but only once in a lifetime."

. . .

"You all came home, and with you, my life of details."

. . .

"Do what you have to - to be happy in this life. There is so much beauty."

- Bridges of Madison County -

"You're in America . . . Sell! Sell! Sell!"

- Greatest Movie Ever Sold -

"There's this theory that given an infinite universe and infinite time,

all things will happen."

. . .

"Legends of every major culture contain some sort of character,

whose purpose is to grant wishes

- except Americas.

The Arabs have genies; the Irish have leprechauns;

the Chinese have dragons and monkeys; the Europeans have fairies and wood sprites -

but what do we have?

. . .

"I guess tonight is everybody's full-of-sh-- night!"

. . .

"You're the wrong sex, the wrong color, and your family has too much money.

I'm sorry."

. . .

"We see what we expect to see, not necessarily what's really there."

. . .

"Makes you wonder how many other things are right in front of you

- sites, sounds, smells -

that you can't experience because you've been conditioned not to."

. . .

"Your brain's wiring is like the interstate highway system. It's easier to go from one well-traveled place to another but the places in between, off the highway, even though they're there -

most people just zip right past them."

. . .

"So what does someone choose to do with their freedom? Become slaves!"

- Highway 60 -

"How do people live here?" he asks.

"It's not a living - just existing," is the reply.

. . .

"We all have problems -

how we deal with them is a measure of our worth."

- Code 46 -

"It's your parting gift - in that it will part you;

part of you here, part of you there, and part of you WAY over there, staining the wall."

. . .

"Remember Dragon Warrior, anything is possible when you have inner peace."

. . .

"I find your evilness extremely annoying."

. . .

"You gotta let go of that stuff from the past 'cause it just doesn't matter.

The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now."

- Kung Fu Panda 2 -

"The human heart is such a mystery."

. . .

"We go together like Chinese food and chocolate pudding, let's face it."

. . .

"Someone didn't love you enough when you were little did they. {?!}"

- Talladega Nights - the Ballad of Ricky Bobby -

"I've never sworn before in my life - not even in my mind."

. . .

"A bruised heart will often speak harshly."

. . .

"You people, your cream drinks and your parties and your subterfuges. You're all playing at love - one minute her and the next minute someone else. Flip, flip, flip; I'm not playing. Love is not a game."

. . .

"I am an expert on the lack of love Delysia, and that is a fate from which I most fervently wish to save you."

. . .

"You must not waste a second of this precious life."

. . .

"He smiled whenever he saw me and we could have built a life on that."

. . .

"I'm grateful for the truth - for a change."

- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day -

"Love is fragile . . . and we're not always its best caretakers.

. . .

Some day you are going to open your heart and you are going to play again. . . because music, love are going to bring you joy."

. . .

"At least you have the courage to feel."

- The Last Song -

"Sometimes it is necessary to disconnect."

- Hanging Up -

"If they can make the river green on St. Patrick's Day,

why can't they make it blue the rest of the year?"

. . .

"You almost got away with it, didn't you???!!!"

- The Fugitive -

He exclaims: "We are going to die!"

She counters: "I don't want the kids to live with your mother - she's awful!"

. . .

"I'd choose you every time."

- Date Night -

"I dance because dance can change things.

One move can set a whole generation free . . . ."

. . .

"To travel is better than to arrive."

- Step Up 3 -

"To live or die - that's the important choice.

It is not always in our hands."

- Grey's Anatomy -

"You can be as you choose to be. It is an act of discipline sometimes -

but it can be done."

. . .

"I'm afraid of not being there."

- Bodyguard -

"How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special?"

- Marley and Me - {In reference to the power of canine affection!}

"I just don't think that love and fame can live in the same place."

- Country Strong -

"Stop the fighting - show a little decorum."

- The Brave -

"You waste my time and I'll waste you!"

. . .

To the skilled and very pregnant spy: "Push out a big one - a little fire-breather."

. . .

"Citizens of the world . . . you fill your days with meaningless pursuits

instead of spending time with those you love."

. . .

"It's not about how much time you have; it's about what you choose to do with it."

- Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D -

"You are ugly but you are beautiful."

- John Carter -

"That's me - - - the guy who still cares."

. . .

"So who invited the giant furry peanut?"

. . .

"It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become!"

- The Lorax -

"Sometimes the hurt is so deep, deep, deep - you think you're going to drown."

- Irish Jam -

"Is that a car alarm?"

"His laugh, his laugh."

- Just Go with It -

"WOW! That's a feeling I never want to get used to!"

. . .

"You need to unlock your inner bear."

- The Zookeeper -

"Act like the FBI - YOU find him."

- The Client -

"What I want to do - and do - are two separate things."

"You're already a ba-----, you might as well be an enlightened one."

"What does coffee and donuts have to do with God?"

- Simon Burch -

"C'mon, you can pick your nose later."

"You lookin' for something special today?" asks the car salesman.

"Yeah, your head on a stick!" is the reply.

He concludes: "This is gonna be a tough sale."

- Made in America -

"The time has come for all women to say enough!"

- Made in Dagenham -

"Life without love is not worth anything."

- Holiday Switch -

"Never give up - find a way; because that is what winners do."

"What's your dream?"

"To go away!"

"He lived so hard because he wasn't afraid to live;

he wasn't afraid to die."

"You are happier than you look."

"That was entertaining in a horrifying way."

"The wave is the perfection of beauty and danger."

"She's big on you - she called you cr--!"

"Why don't you head over to the snack bar over there and get yourself

a BIG BOWL OF SHUT-UP?!"

"How does it feel to win?"

"I WON?!!!"

- Surf's Up -

"Life is messy - it just is."

- Glee -

"I'll go with you but I won't touch you."

- The Green Hornet -

"For once, that was a good question."

- The Bounty Hunter -

"And there's the insult we were missing."

- Cars 2 -

"He refuses to be proud of killing."

- War Horse -

"People don't understand . . . circumstance."

- Monster -

"In guerrilla warfare tactics you turn your weaknesses into strengths.

If you're small and they're big - you're mobile and they're slow;

you can hide and they're exposed."

. . .

"You won the war and now we're fighting the peace; it's much more volatile."

. . .

"Privacy has been dead."

. . .

"You're either incredibly smart or incredibly stupid."

- Enemy of the State -

"Do you know what they call a FL cop in a 3-piece suit?

- The Defendant."

. . .

"Do you know what they call 50 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

- A good start."

- Fair Game -

"All these Martians care about is order and discipline."

- Mars Needs Moms -

"What in the world is different because of me?"

. . .

"What difference has my life made to anyone?"

- About Schmidt -

"Humans must not know that magic exists -

it would be complicated."

-The Sorcerer's Apprentice -

"I wish I could meet someone exactly like you - almost."

- Outsourced -

"This world is full of those who . . . want us in our graves.

We don't need to give them any help."

- Honeydripper -

"How do you change the world?

"One Act of Random Kindness at a time." {Ark}

- Evan Almighty -

"The key to success is taking sh--!"

- Horrible Bosses -

"I'd tell you to go to he-- - but I think you're already there."

- Lord of War -

"The measure of our lives is not only how we live but what we leave behind . . . touching others."

- Gideon -

"I was an angry guy - mainly angry at myself for letting people treat me like cr--!"

- Anger Management -

"I neither seek or invite your advice."

- The Young Victoria -

"If I had my way, I'd take metal out of this world -

every blade, every gun."

- Cold Mountain -

"I fear I've done some things in life too late but others too early."

- The Duchess -

"Yesterday is history; tomorrow is a mystery.

Today is a gift - that's why it's called the present."

- Kung Fu Panda -

"You wine 'em and dine 'em and spray 'em with weed killer?"

"I might not be a smart bird, but I know what love is."

"If I die, what kind of ending is THAT?!"

- Gnomeo and Juliet -

"A world without string is chaos."

- Mousehunt -

"A single mom who works two jobs and finds time to take her child to soccer practice is a miracle.

. . .

"Behind every great man there's a woman rolling her eyes."

- Bruce Almighty -

"I don't know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is gonna come out of this. I don't know what that is. I really wish I did."

"Listen to your instinct - trust it."

- Soul Surfer -

". . . free will is a gift you will never know how to use until you fight for it."

- The Adjustment Bureau -

"You can't afford to lose it. Other people lose it. We're supposed to FIND it."

. . .

"I'm the girl who loves black but is wearing pink."

. . .

"Don't make the same mistakes I made - make your own mistakes.

They'll be plenty of them - believe me."

. . .

"Whatever choice you make - let it come from your heart."

- Princess Diaries 2 -

"Does it feel like a boy?" asks the husband.

"No, it feels like a stomach flu!" replies his wife.

"I'm cursed with a functional family."

"No one ever really took the time to give me a hard time before."

- In Good Company -

"With love comes hostility."

- Grown Ups -

"I want to see if there's an us in you and me."

- Possession -

"If you send your kids here they're going to be miserable in four languages."

- Daddy Daycare -

"Your ignorance offends me."

. . .

"Please understand, it was all business - it wasn't personal."

"It was all personal to me," replies the father and former CIA-agent,

whose goal is to save his daughter from slavery and prostitution,

firing off another round and killing one of the ring leaders of human trafficking in Paris.

- Taken -

"This conversation is feeling very one-sided."

- How to Train a Dragon -

"We eat to live, these guys {humans}, live to eat."

. . . .

"So you think they had enough? Well, they don't.

Food, food, food, food -

for humans, enough is never enough."

- Over the Hedge -

"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes."

- Independence -

"We plan.

We get there,

and all h--- lets loose."

...

"Don't pity the dead;

pity the living, especially those who live without love."

...

"Is this for real or in my head?" asks Harry Potter.

Dumbledore responds: "Of course it's in your head but that does not mean it's not real."

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 -

"We live in a kingdom controlled by fear."

- Three Musketeers (2011) -

"Honey, just because I talk slow doesn't mean I'm stupid."

- Sweet Home Alabama -

"I'm on the last great journey here . . . one we all gotta take.

Maybe I can teach people what to pack for the trip."

. . .

"When you know how to die, you know how to live."

. . .

"What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

Why do people only feel comfortable when they're filling the air with words?"

. . .

"You know, dying is just one thing to be sad about.

Living unhappily - that's another matter."

. . .

"Aging isn't just about decay you know, it's growth."

. . .

"That's what I call the tension of opposites . . .

life pulling you back and forth like a rubber band.

Pull you one way, you think that's what you want to do.

Pull you another way, you think that's what you have to do."

. . .

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

. . .

"When I'm dead - you talk, I'll listen."

- Tuesdays with Morrie -

"I am warning you as your Prime Minister that when war comes,

opposition will soon be called sedition."

. . .

"You're discussing politics with your eyes,

you might as well do it with your mouths."

- Amazing Grace -

"So, tell me more about Halloween."

"It's the best. You get candy.

Everybody pretends to be someone else,

and nobody knows who you really are."

"Sounds familiar."

- The Spy Next Door -

"What will your contribution be? How will history remember you? . . .

You will be confronted with a life lived without virtue, without principle,

and for that I pity you . . . . "

"Who gives a sh-- about your principles, your virtues?

I live in the real world . . . ."

{And then he notices his young son has overheard his response.}

- The Emperor's Club -

"Brother, did anyone ever tell you that you talk too much?

. . .

It is said that some lives are connected through time,

joined by a calling through the ages."

- Prince of Persia/Sands of Time -

"You're wrong about one thing Padre.

The thing that hurts a man most

is the things he isn't ordered to do."

- Gran Torino -

"Why don't you tell me what you really think about it?"

{A notorious quote not originating here.}

- Salt -

"Do you know why you hate me so much Jeffrey?

Because I look the way you feel."

- With Honors -

"You know, they say the great thing about being a kid

is that it is so easy to pretend."

- Doctor Dolittle -

"They're too many d-- machines around here.

They're all missing the big picture."

- Creator -

"How is it that we never meet without you pointing something at me?!"

. . .

"It's not so much the destination as the journey."

- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides -

"Go live your dream!"

"I will."

"Your dream stinks. I was talking to her."

- Tangled -

"We're sitting here and eating and talking, but no one's really saying anything."

- Dear John -

"When life knocks you down,

you can choose whether to get up or not."

- Karate Kid -

"You wouldn't be here right now in this mess you're in if you could ever appreciate the awe you'd find in that moment -

the worthiness of the journey."

Policeman convincing a youth to make the right decision

and become a U.S. citizen in Crossing Over

"We have broken the dam of major prejudice in this country."

. . .

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door."

. . .

"And no offense meant, but if it were true that children mimic their teachers,

we'd have a h- of a lot more nuns running around."

. . .

"Without hope, life is not worth living.

So you and you and you:

you gotta give 'em hope!

You gotta give 'em hope!"

- Milk -

"You and I share a bond I think.

We both know how it feels to look in the mirror

and not like what we see."

. . .

"We're not people who jam staples into peoples' heads -

that's CIA crap."

- Get Smart -

"Lie back and think of Scotland."

- Stone of Destiny -

"It doesn't matter what I think.

It doesn't matter what I feel.

The dead are still dead."

- The Reader -

"You're not an idiot. I see idiots everyday and you're not even close."

- My Sister's Keeper -

"I used to have this appetite for my life - for food. . . .

I don't know how to be here."

"The sweetness of doing nothing."

An Italian saying shared in Eat, Pray, Love

"One way to start healing is to trust."

- Eat, Pray, Love -

"Oh Arthur, you know I would do anything for you

---- for money."

D.W. (Arthur's little sis) in the series, Arthur

"The fences aren't just around the farm.

They're up here in your heads."

- Chicken Run -

"They made him laugh, they made him cry,

he never should have said good-bye;

and now he knows he could never part,

from those little kittens that changed his heart."

- Despicable Me -

"There is a lot more to me than there is to me."

"We'll iron out all these thorny details over strudel."

- The Producers -

"Sometime we get so soaked up in all the misery,

we can't even fathom the depth of hurt in others."

- All Roads Lead Home -

"C'mon, the way I see it, is the reason there are so many unhappy people in the world, because they're clinging to some version of 'what if,'" exclaims the "Tooth Fairy," to which his girlfriend replies, "Ok, so dreams are bad?"

He explains further: "Well, they lead to unrealistic expectations - and yes."

Consequently, his girlfriend counters: "This is ridiculous . . . you are leaving."

{Don't worry - they find a way.;-}

- The Tooth Fairy -

"This woman is about as subtle as a gun."

- The Proposal -

"Living in the past is my future."

. . .

"How can you be so sure about everything at your age?"

. . .

"Looking in the mirror staring back at me isn't so much a face

as an expression of a predicament."

- A Single Man -

"Why can't people think before they spew?"

. . .

"Funerals are awkward at best."

- Moonlight Mile -

"I tell ya somethin' dude, if I gotta get up in front of that council,

then you are gonna learn how to dance!" exclaims Ren to his buddy.

"Doesn't take much time for corruption to take root Reverend," warns the parish member, to which the Pastor replies:

"How long is that Roger?

About as long as it takes compassion to die?"

. . .

"I don't know if I believe in everything you believe in -

but I believe in you," confesses the daughter to her father.

. . .

"If we don't start trusting our children,

how will they become trustworthy?"

- Footloose -

After rescuing Chuck - a naked human man - the "alien" observes:

"That's a funny place for his antenae."

- Planet 51 -

"A person's a person no matter how small."

- Horton Hears A Who -

"What would you do if you were stuck in one place and

every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?"

"Well, that sums it up for me."

- Groundhog Day -

"But did you ever make a big mistake - or a huge one -

that could change your life? What about that?"

"Well, Jenna, I know I've made a lot of mistakes but I don't regret making any of them, because if I hadn't made them,

I wouldn't have learned how to make things right."

- 13 Going on 30 -

"It is a historical fact, sharing the world has never been

humanity's defining attribute."

- X2, X-Men United -

"We scare because we care."

- Monsters, Inc. -

"Do you remember when we could tell the good guys from the bad guys?"

- Spy Game -

"If there's one thing family does -

is believe against all odds in the best of each other."

- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past -

"When men and women think, the first step in progress is taken."

- One Woman One Vote -

Chili: "How'd you get in here?"

Ray: "It was easy. I told them I was you. I acted real stupid, and they believed me."

- Get Shorty -

Dorothy (Dolly Parton) exclaims in her Southern accent:

"You steal the wrong body from the hospital and

all you can say is,"I must have made a mistake?!!!'"

Violet (Lily Tomlin) replies:

"It could happen to anyone."

- 9 to 5 -

"Kissing?! ME?! A BOY?!

You're mad. You're all bloody mad!" exclaims Jess.

. . .

"Your parents don't always know what's best for you."

. . .

"I guess I don't want to give up on you."

. . .

" . . . I've seen her play. She's brilliant.

I don't think anybody has the right -- to stopping her."

Jess's Dad in Bend it Like Beckham

"Who wants the pressure of being SUPER all the time? . . .

I still have time."

Mr. Incredible in The Incredibles

"I never look back darlin', it distracts from the now."

Edna in The Incredibles

". . . I'm so busy pruning the plum tree

and taking you to soccer,

and picking up all your sh--,

and taking the dog to his upteenth distemper shot that ---

I've lost me."

- The Banger Sisters -

"We're just trying not to throw up, ya know,

before the next game," confesses Mia Hamm.

"Remember when Karly peed her pants? . . .

she had been potty-trained for a while

and you're like,

'Karly what happened?'

and she goes, 'Mom, I just lost my focus;'

and Joy goes,

"This is how you know your kid has sat through too many meetings - Hahaha."

. . .

[He said]"'Do you know what's going on here?

This is a revolution.

You guys are making a difference!'

and we're like,

'Really?!'"

Female World Champion Soccer Players Reminiscing in Dare to Dream

"We have to make the invisible visible."

- Race - The Power of an Illusion -

"There's nothing worse than bitterness and revenge.

Keep your dignity and be true to yourself."

- Persepolis -

"The thing about courage is ...

it's somethin' that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives.

You know, it's not just in you.

It's in every choice we make, each and every day."

Gerard Butler in Nim's Island

"Don't think of it as naked . . . it's nude."

- Calendar Girls -

"Poverty is the worst kind of violence."

- Gandhi -

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are - it is our choices."

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -

"Nowadays people want glamour and tears - the grand performance.

I'm not good at that. I never have been.

I prefer to keep my feelings to myself."

Helen as The Queen

"I've never had anyone fight for my honor before. I kinda like it."

Kirsten Dunst in Wimbledon

"Basketball is like poetry in motion."

- He Got Game -

" . . . for the heart is an organ of fire."

. . .

"You speak so many bloody languages,

and you don't want to talk."

. . .

"You can't kill me - I died years ago"

-The English Patient-

"I know where I'm going 'cause I know where I've been."

Queen Latifah singing "I know where I've been" in Hairspray

"You made me younger - very diplomatic."

Grandma to Grandson in Chocolat

. . .

"I'm undone - but it's not my favorite."

Recipient of chocolate to the chef in Chocolat

. . .

"I think we can't go 'round measuring goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include."

The pastor in Chocolat

"My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South. Not when Negroes are denied housing, turned away from schools, hospitals, and not when we are lynched. St. Augustine said an unjust law is no law at all, which means I have a right - even a duty - to resist - with violence or civil disobedience; you should pray I choose the latter."

Denzel Whitaker's closing remarks as James Farmer Jr. in the historic debate

between Wiley College and Harvard University in The Great Debaters

"They say they built the train tracks over the Alps between Vienna and Venice before there was a train that could make the trip. They built it anyway. They knew one day the train would come."

. . .

"You have to live spherically - in all directions.

Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way."

{Quoting Fellini in Under The Tuscan Sun}

. . .

"What is it about love that makes us sooo stupid?"

- Under The Tuscan Sun -

"How can human beings on your planet be so large in form yet feel so small inside?"

. . .

"The information you are seeking is not within the grasp of your understanding."

. . .

"Couple of kids, big wad of cash, what could go wrong?"

- Race to Witch Mountain -

"I don't think you could handle it."

Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blond answering a fellow's inquiry about how he would be as a blond.

"Let's start from the very beginning, a very good place to start."

. . .

"I was singing out there today without permission. I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things -

anything and everything I think and feel."

Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music

"I choose us."

- The Family Man -

"Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridges to cross and

which bridges to burn."

- The International -

{Isn't that THE TRUTH?! Ach ja, wirklich wahr, oder!?!}

"Ancients behaving badly"

- PBS Special -

" ... without the culinary arts, the crudeness of reality would be unbearable."

- Kate & Leopold -

{Did you know that according to the new FDA regulations, chocolate is its own food group?! ;-}