Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Cover Girl, 1944 (dir. Charles Vidor)
Maribelle Hicks: Now, just a minute. You’re a perfectly enchanting person, Mr. Coudair. Not even bad looking, in a strange sort of way, but I have an engagement and it’s not with you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Bull Durham, 1988 (dir. Ron Shelton)
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Ooh, I’ve heard of stuff like this. Bring it on!
Annie Savoy: Sweetie, Have you heard of Walt Whitman?
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: No. Who’s he play for?
Movie Quote of the Day – Johnny Eager, 1941 (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
Jeff Hartnett: I seem to have offended your light of love by using a polysyllabic word.
Johnny Eager: You’re drunk.
Jeff Hartnett: Now, Eager. . .that’s. . .obvious. Very obvious. Don’t be obvious. You’re out of character when you’re obvious. Adroitness is your racket. Hard, clever and. . .adroit. That’s your description.
Johnny Eager: Oh, now not again, Jeff.
Jeff Hartnett: Just because I’ve said it before, doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Eager, you’re. . .a man. . .you shouldn’t be obvious. Observed, analyzed and recorded for history because you’re unique. Absolutely unique!
Johnny Eager: Here we go again, kids.
Movie Quote of the Day – Brideshead Revisited, 2008 (dir. Julian Jarrold)
Sebastian Flyte: It’s rather a pleasant change. . .when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after, yourself.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Place Beyond The Pines, 2013 (dir. Derek Cianfrance)
Robin: You know something, Luke? If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.
Movie Quote of the Day – Van Helsing, 2004 (dir. Stephen Sommers)
Van Helsing: You’re a genius!
Carl: A genius with access to unstable chemicals!
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.
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