Monthly Archives: January 2015
Movie Quote of the Day – Boys Don’t Cry, 1999 (dir. Kimberly Peirce)
Lana’s Mom: I invite you into my home and you expose my daughter to your sickness. Did you ever think about Lana in all this?
Brandon: That’s all I’ve been thinking about.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cookie, 1989 (dir. Susan Seidelman)
Lenore: You both stop it! Now listen, I raised you all by myself. I was a single mother long before they were talking about it on Oprah Winfrey. And you! I waited for you for 13 years! And I had plenty of offers, let me tell you! I didn’t have to wait around with my tits on hold my entire life! Now you two learn to love each other! Right now!
Movie Quote of the Day – Gas Food Lodging, 1992 (dir. Allison Anders)
Darius: The way I see it, chicks are the ones that want to go to outer space. That’s why they push it so hard. It’s like Adam and Eve. He was fine grooving in Paradise, but Eve wanted something scary. She wanted the fucking edge. She wanted to jump off cliffs just so she could see what it was like to fall.
Movie Quote of the Day – Fort Bliss, 2014 (dir. Claudia Myers)
Maggie: I didn’t expect you to understand.
Luis: Why not? Because I wasn’t there? Because I don’t know what it’s like?
Maggie: You don’t.
Luis: You don’t have to be in a war to see people get killed for no reason.
Movie Quote of the Day – She-Devil, 1989 (dir. Susan Seidelman)
Bob: Okay Ruth, I’ll give you a few days, then you’ve got to come back for the kids. Where can I reach you?
Ruth: I’m not coming back, Bob, they’ll have a much better life here with you.
Bob: Wait a minute, Ruth, where’re you going?
Ruth: I don’t know, Bob, into my future I guess.
Movie Quote of the Day – Belle, 2014 (dir. Amma Asante)
Dido Elizabeth Belle: Elizabeth said something when we arrived in London. “We women are but the property of gentlemen.” But it came into my head that I have been blessed with freedom twice over. As a negro and as a woman.
John Davinier: I suppose you have.
Dido Elizabeth Belle: Or have I? Must not a lady marry even if she is financially secure? For who is she without a husband of consequence? It seems silly – like a free negro who begs for a master.
John Davinier: Well…unless… she marries her equal. Her true equal. A man who respects her.
Movie Quote of the Day – I Will Follow, 2010 (dir. Ava DuVernay)
Maye: My aunt Amanda actually got me hooked on makeup, especially eye makeup. . .lashes, liner, mascara, the whole nine. She said that if your eye makeup looked great you’d always be happy ’cause you’d never want to cry and mess up all that hard work you did. Good one, huh?
Movie Quote of the Day – Cristo Rey, 2013 (dir. Leticia Tonos)
Janvier: Life isn’t fair. You don’t deserve this.
Laurence: Life is fair. Men aren’t good.
Movie Quote of the Day – Hanging Up, 2000 (dir. Diane Keaton)
Pat: Let me think how to put this. Motherhood doesn’t turn out to be a reason.
Eve: For what?
Pat: What I mean is, I’m not one of those women who needed to be a mother. When I was growing up, all the girls wanted to be, so I thought I did too. But it didn’t take. Just being honest.
Eve: Well. . .Thank you.
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