Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Crime of Passion, 1957 (dir. Gerd Oswald)
Kathy Ferguson Doyle: I hope all your socks have holes in them and I can sit for hours and hours darning them!
Police Lt. Bill Doyle: I have other plans for you.
Kathy Ferguson Doyle: Oh?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Breaking Point, 1950 (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Harry Morgan: You women – you remember everything a guy says and then you hit him with it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Boomerang!, 1947 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Henry: You didn’t answer my question.
Madge: You ought to know by now that I’ll go anywhere you go, Henry.
Movie Quote of the Day – Criss Cross, 1949 (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Anna: All those things that happened to us. . .everything that went before. . .you’ll forget it. You’ll see. I’ll make you forget it. After it’s done, after it’s all over and we’re safe, it’ll be just you and me. You and me, the way it should’ve been all along from the start.
Oh, the Horror!,: October 2013 in Films
October was a busy month for me (I saw An American Werewolf in London on the big screen not once, but TWICE), but I think I got a fair amount of film watching in. I did keep up with a horror film a day, as well as a few others here and there – also saw several 2013 releases, four of which I will discuss a little more after the cut.
Movie Quote of the Day – Armored Car Robbery, 1950 (dir. Richard Fleischer)
Lt. Jim Cordell: Aged in the glass bourbon.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Witches, 1990 (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
Miss Eva Ernst: Any questions?
Millie: Madam, what would happen if one of the chocolates we give away was accidentally eaten by a grown-up?
Miss Eva Ernst: Then that’s just too bad for ze grown-up.
Movie Quote of the Day – Atlantic City, 1980 (dir. Louis Malle)
Sally: Teach me stuff.
Lou: Like what?
Sally: What you know.
Lou: You want information or wisdom?
Sally: Both.
Movie Quote of the Day – 30 Days of Night, 2007 (dir. David Slade)
The Stranger: Mr. and Mrs. Sheriff. So sweet. So helpless against what is coming.
Stella Oleson: He’s just trying to freak us out.
Jake Oleson: It’s working.
Movie Quote of the Day – Mona Lisa Smile, 2003 (dir. Mike Newell)
Katherine Watson: It’s brilliant, really. A perfect ruse. A finishing school disguised as a college. Well, they got me.
Bill Dunbar: What do you expect?
Katherine Watson: More! More! I thought I was headed to a place that would turn out tomorrow’s leaders, not their wives!
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