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Movie Quote of the Day – Chilly Scenes of Winter, 1979 (dir. Joan Micklin Silver)
Charles: Could you imagine living with a man named Ox?
Susan: Yes, if she’s happy.
Charles: She’s not happy.
Susan: Are you happy?
Charles: What’s happy?
Movie Quote of the Day – Nuit #1, 2011 (dir. Anne Émond)
Clara: Being alone is unbearable, but there’s no one I want to be with either.
Movie Quote of the Day – Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., 1993 (dir. Leslie Harris)
Chantel: Yo, people today be buggin’. The other day, I was on the number 2 train with my friends, just buggin’ out, having a good time, and people started starring at us like we were some sort of street girls with no future. Yo, when I’m with my friends, I act like it don’t matter, cuz it don’t! But between you and me, that shit pisses me off. When they think they can just judge you by the way you dress, uh-uh! I always get As and Bs in all my classes. I’m the best student in my calc class! People be trippin’ when they find out how smart I really am. Ahahahaha!
Movie Quote of the Day – Overnight, 2012 (dir. Valerie Breiman)
Abby: I thought you might want a ride to the airport.
Tom: I was going to get a cab, actually.
Cute Girl: Well, anyway, it was nice meeting you. Thanks again.
Abby: Was that a String Theory groupie?
Tom: My first. Thank you for that.
Movie Quote of the Day – Children of a Lesser God, 1986 (dir. Randa Haines)
James: [Translating Sarah’s sign language] Until you let me be an “I,” the way you are, you can never come inside my silence and know me. And I won’t let myself know you. Until that time, we can’t be like this. . .joined.
Movie Quote of the Day – Now and Then, 1995 (dir. Lesli Linka Glatter)
Scott: That was great.
Roberta: It was okay. Scott?
Scott: Yeah?
Roberta: If you mention this to anyone, especially your brothers, I’ll beat the shit out of you.
Scott: Okay.
Movie Quote of the Day – Vital Signs, 1990 (dir. Marisa Silver)
Gina: Why is it that when a guy comes into a bar to be alone with his drink, no one thinks twice about it, but, when a women comes in alone, everyone assumes she’s waiting to be picked up? Why is that?
Michael: I have no idea.
Movie Quote of the Day – Pariah, 2011 (dir. Dee Rees)
Arthur: You tell your mother that’s not true.
Alike: You already know.
Arthur: No, I don’t know. You tell your mom it’s just a phase.
Alike: It’s not a phase.
Audrey: You shoulda done something! You shoulda done something!
Alike: There’s nothing wrong with me!
Movie Quote of the Day – Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, 2012 (dir. Lorene Scafaria)
Penny: I wish I’d met you a long time ago. When we were kids.
Dodge: It couldn’t have happened any other way. It had to happen now.
Penny: But it isn’t enough time.
Dodge: It never would have been.
Penny: I’m scared.
Dodge: I. . .am madly in love with you, Penny. You’re my favorite, favorite thing.
Penny: I thought that somehow we’d save each other.
Dodge: We did. Penny. I’m really glad I got to know you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Kung Fu Panda 2, 2011 (dir. Jennifer Yuh)
Mantis: You know, guys, I never expected to die like this. I thought I’d meet a nice girl, settle down, and then she’d eat my head.
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