Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – A Raisin in the Sun, 1961 (dir. Daniel Petrie)
Walter: You look young this morning, baby.
Ruth: Yeah?
Walter: Yeah. Just for a second, stirring them eggs, you looked real young again.
Ruth: [gives him the look]
Walter: It’s gone now. You look like yourself again.
Ruth: Man, if you don’t shut up and leave me alone. . .
Walter: You know, the first thing a man ought to learn in this life is not to make love to no woman early in the morning. You all are some evil creatures 8 o’clock in the morning.
Movie Quote of the Day – Blades of Glory, 2007 (dir. Josh Gordon, Will Speck)
Chazz: Mind-bottling, isn’t it?
Jimmy: Did you just say mind-bottling?
Chazz: Yeah, mind-bottling. You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle?
Movie Quote of the Day – Chamber of Horrors, 1940 (dir. Norman Lee)
June: I for one can think of a much better way to spend the evening.
Dick: Some nightclubs are not much better.
Movie Quote of the Day – Wild Wild West, 1999 (dir. Barry Sonnenfeld)
Artemus Gordon: I only have one request: that you aim for my heart, my heart which has loved this country so much.
Dr. Arliss Loveless: Shoot him in the head.
Artemus Gordon: Damn.
Movie Quote of the Day – Evil Dead II, 1987 (dir. Sam Raimi)
Annie: Recitation of this first passage will make this dark spirit manifest itself in the flesh.
Ash: Why the hell would we want to do that?
Movie Quote of the Day – Tristana, 1970 (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Don Lope: It’s good to have dreams, even if they’re frightening. . .The dead don’t dream.
Movie Quote of the Day – When Harry Met Sally. . ., 1989 (dir. Rob Reiner)
Marie: I’m on your side, I’m just trying to help you have good taste.
Jess: I have good taste!
Marie: Everybody thinks they have good taste and a sense of humor, but they couldn’t possibly all have good taste.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Perfect Murder, 1998 (dir. Andrew Davis)
David Shaw: Ok. So what’s Plan B?
Steven Taylor: It’s a little coincidental if there’s another attempt on her life.
David Shaw: Gee, you think?
Steven Taylor: So we wait.
David Shaw: For what?
Steven Taylor: I’ll let you know.
David Shaw: Hey, Steve. . .Do I keep fucking your wife in the meantime, or what?
Movie Quote of the Day – Orange County, 2002 (dir. Jake Kasdan)
Bud: A writer! What do you have to write about? You’re not oppressed! You’re not gay!
Shaun: Not all writers are gay.
Bud: Yeah, well, they’re all poor. I can tell you that.
Shaun: That’s not true. What about Tom Clancy, Stephen King, Anne Rice?
Bud: Three people! In the history of literature!
Movie Quote of the Day – Jane Eyre, 1970 (dir. Delbert Mann)
Jane Eyre: Why do you confide in me like this? What are you and she to me? Do you think that because I am poor and plain, I have no feelings? I promise you, if God had gifted me wealth and beauty, I should make it as hard for you to leave me now as it is for me to leave you. But He did not. Yet, my spirit can address yours as if both had passed through the grave and stood before Him equal
Mr. Rochester: Jane.
Jane Eyre: Let me go, sir.
Mr. Rochester: I love you. I love you!
Jane Eyre: Please, don’t make me foolish.
Mr. Rochester: Foolish? I need you. What is Blanche to me? I know what I am to her. Money to manure her father’s lands with. Marry me, Jane, say you’ll marry me.
Jane Eyre: You mean it?
Mr. Rochester: You torture me with your doubts. Say yes. Say yes.
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