Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Limbo, 1999 (dir. John Sayles)
Joe: I mean what I said before. You’re really good. . .singing.
Donna: Thanks.
Joe: Especially since I’ve. . .like, I’ve never heard of you or anything.
Donna: Do you watch sports?
Joe: Basketball.
Donna: Well, there must be basketball players that are really good that you’ve never heard of.
Joe: Nope.
Donna: No?
Joe: No. If they’re professionals, and they’re really good, everybody’s heard of them.
Donna: Well, singing is different. It’s a matter of taste. Luck. Whatever.
Joe: Oh.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, 2009 (dir. Mark Waters)
Uncle Wayne: One day you’re gonna wake up with some chick, spooning, you know, thinking about love. And at that moment, you have gotta get up. You do not walk, You do not get your shoes, run the hell out of there. Because maybe not the next day or the next week, but sometime in the future, you’re gonna get crushed. Again. And you don’t wanna feel that way, do you?
Teenage Connor: No.
Uncle Wayne: No.
Connor Mead: Yep.
Movie Quote of the Day – Shallow Hal, 2001 (dir. Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly)
Hal: Let me ask you something. Who is the all-time love of your life?
Mauricio: [ponders] Wonder Woman.
Hal: Okay. . .let’s say Wonder Woman falls in love with you. And everyone else in the world didn’t find her attractive.
Mauricio: It wouldn’t matter. Because I know they’d be wrong.
Hal: See! That’s what I had with Rosemary! I saw a knockout, I don’t care what anybody else saw!
Mauricio: I hadn’t thought about it that way. I guess I really did screw you, huh?
Movie Quote of the Day – Office Space, 1999 (dir. Mike Judge)
Milton Waddams: And I said, I. . .I don’t care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I’m, I’m quitting, I’m going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they’ve moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and–
Peter Gibbons: Okay, Milton.
Milton Waddams: Oh, no, it’s not okay because if they, if they take my, my stapler, then I’ll, I’ll have to. . .I’ll set the building on fire.
Peter Gibbons: Okay, that sounds great. I’ll talk to you later, alright? Bye.

























