Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Real Genius, 1985 (dir. Martha Coolidge)
Chris: You are very beautiful.
Sherry: Thank you.
Chris: Uh, how did I come off? Too stuffy?
Sherry: Well, you certainly don’t act like one of the top ten minds in America.
Chris: Really? How many of them have you met?
Sherry: Seven.
Chris: Really?
Sherry: You’ll be eight. Professor Hostetler at M.I.T. was number six.
Chris: Old Professor Hostetler? Isn’t he dead?
Sherry: He is now.
Movie Quote of the Day – Deep Impact, 1998 (dir. Mimi Leder)
Jenny Lerner: We know everything.
Alan Rittenhouse: Nobody knows everything.
Movie Quote of the Day – Puccini for Beginners, 2006 (dir. Maria Maggenti)
Allegra: It’s hell being alone.
Woman on Bench: No honey, hell is other people.
Movie Quote of the Day – Jumpin’ Jack Flash, 1986 (dir. Penny Marshall)
Terry Doolittle: Drag the river! There are killers running around the fucking city!
Detective: How would you like me to wash your mouth out with a wire brush?
Terry Doolittle: How would you like if I kicked you in the nuts so hard they get lodged in your fucking nostrils?
Marty Phillips: My, that’s a vivid image, isn’t it?
Movie Quote of the Day – Boys Don’t Cry, 1999 (dir. Kimberly Peirce)
Lana’s Mom: I invite you into my home and you expose my daughter to your sickness. Did you ever think about Lana in all this?
Brandon: That’s all I’ve been thinking about.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cookie, 1989 (dir. Susan Seidelman)
Lenore: You both stop it! Now listen, I raised you all by myself. I was a single mother long before they were talking about it on Oprah Winfrey. And you! I waited for you for 13 years! And I had plenty of offers, let me tell you! I didn’t have to wait around with my tits on hold my entire life! Now you two learn to love each other! Right now!
Movie Quote of the Day – Gas Food Lodging, 1992 (dir. Allison Anders)
Darius: The way I see it, chicks are the ones that want to go to outer space. That’s why they push it so hard. It’s like Adam and Eve. He was fine grooving in Paradise, but Eve wanted something scary. She wanted the fucking edge. She wanted to jump off cliffs just so she could see what it was like to fall.
Movie Quote of the Day – Fort Bliss, 2014 (dir. Claudia Myers)
Maggie: I didn’t expect you to understand.
Luis: Why not? Because I wasn’t there? Because I don’t know what it’s like?
Maggie: You don’t.
Luis: You don’t have to be in a war to see people get killed for no reason.
Movie Quote of the Day – She-Devil, 1989 (dir. Susan Seidelman)
Bob: Okay Ruth, I’ll give you a few days, then you’ve got to come back for the kids. Where can I reach you?
Ruth: I’m not coming back, Bob, they’ll have a much better life here with you.
Bob: Wait a minute, Ruth, where’re you going?
Ruth: I don’t know, Bob, into my future I guess.
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