Monthly Archives: October 2013
Movie Quote of the Day – Out of Sight, 1998 (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Jack Foley: It’s like seeing someone for the first time — you can be passing on the street — and you look at each other and for a few seconds, there’s a kind of a. . .a recognition. Like you both know something. But then the next moment the person’s gone, and. . .and it’s too late to do anything about it and you always remember it because it was there and you let it go, and you think to yourself, “What if I had stopped? What if I had said something? What if? What if?” It may only happen a few times in your life.
Karen Sisco: Or once.
Jack Foley: Or once.
Movie Quote of the Day – Permanent Vacation, 1980 (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Leila: Where have you been? I haven’t seen you since Thursday.
Allie: Walking, just walking around. I can’t seem to sleep at night, not in this city.
Leila: Doesn’t seem like you sleep at all.
Allie: Well, I have my dreams while I’m awake.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Sapphires, 2013 (dir. Wayne Blair)
Dave: Before we go again, girls, when I met you, you were doing your country and western thing and that’s fine, we all make mistakes. But here’s where we learn from that mistake. Country and western music is about loss. Soul music is also about loss. But the difference is, in country and western music, they’ve lost, they’ve given up and they are just at home whining about it. In soul music they are struggling to get it back, and they haven’t given up, so every note that passes through your lips should have the tone of a woman who’s grasping and fighting and desperate to retrieve what’s been taken from her. You understand? Now, what it is you’re searching for, that’s up to you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Love & Other Drugs, 2010 (dir. Edward Zwick)
Jamie Randall: I used to worry a lot about who I’d be when I grew up. You know, like how much money I’d make or someday I’d become some big deal. Sometimes the thing you most want doesn’t happen. And sometimes the thing you never expect to happen, does. Like giving up my job in Chicago and everything and deciding to stay and apply to med school. I don’t know. You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.
Movie Quote of the Day – Battle Circus, 1953 (dir. Richard Brooks)
Lt. Ruth McGara: Don’t be angry, Major, it’s just when I go for somebody, it’s got to be all the way.
Maj. Jed Webbe: Yesssss?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Saint, 1997 (dir. Phillip Noyce)
Dr. Emma Russell: Wait. When am I gonna see you?
Simon: I’ll find you. You found me.
Dr. Emma Russell: Yeah, I did.
Movie Quote of the Day – Little Children, 2006 (dir. Todd Field)
Sarah Pierce: I think I understand your feelings about this book. I used to have some problems with it, myself. When I read it in grad school, Madam Bovary just seemed like a fool. She marries the wrong man; makes one foolish mistake after another; but when I read it this time, I just fell in love with her. She’s trapped! She has a choice: she can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle.
Mary Ann: Some struggle. Hop into bed with every guy who says hello.
Sarah Pierce: She fails in the end, but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion. My professors would kill me for even thinking this, but in her own strange way, Emma Bovary is a feminist.
Mary Ann: Oh, that’s nice. So now cheating on your husband makes you a feminist?
Sarah Pierce: No, no, it’s not the cheating. It’s the hunger. The hunger for an alternative, and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness.
Mary Ann: Maybe I didn’t understand the book! She just looks so pathetic.
Movie Quote of the Day – Django Unchained, 2012 (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Calvin Candie: White cake?
Dr. King Schultz: I don’t go in for sweets, thank you.
Calvin Candie: Are you brooding ’bout me getting the best of ya, huh?
Dr. King Schultz: Actually, I was thinking of that poor devil you fed to the dogs today, D’Artagnan. And I was wondering what Dumas would make of all this.
Calvin Candie: Come again?
Dr. King Schultz: Alexander Dumas. He wrote “The Three Musketeers.” I figured you must be an admirer. You named your slave after his novel’s lead character. If Alexander Dumas had been there today, I wonder what he would have made of it?
Calvin Candie: You doubt he’d approve?
Dr. King Schultz: Yes. His approval would be a dubious proposition at best.
Calvin Candie: Soft hearted Frenchy?
Dr. King Schultz: Alexander Dumas is black.
Movie Quote of the Day – Wristcutters: A Love Story, 2006 (dir. Goran Dukic)
Zia: So you’re trying to leave? You don’t like it here?
Mikal: Are you joking? Do you guys like it here? Who the hell likes being stuck in a place where you can’t even smile? It’s hot as balls, everybody’s an asshole. I just wanna go home.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Night at the Opera, 1935 (dir. Sam Wood)
Otis B. Driftwood: It’s nice seeing you again. But I was expecting my other suit. Did you see it?
Fiorello: Yeah. Took up too much room, so we sold it.
Otis B. Driftwood: Did you get anything for it?
Fiorello: $ 1.40
Otis B. Driftwood: That’s my suit, all right.
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