Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Inception, 2010 (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Eames: You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
Movie Quote of the Day – Mister Roberts, 1955 (dir. John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy and Joshua Logan)
Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver: Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin’ palm tree overboard! Now what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?
Movie Quote of the Day – Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942 (dir. Michael Curtiz)
George M. Cohan: Mr. President, I’ve just begun to earn this medal. It’s quite a thing.
The President: Well, it’s the best material we could find, what with priorities and all.
George M. Cohan: Goodbye, sir. And I want you to know, I’m not the only one that’s grateful. My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, and my sister thanks you, and I assure you, I thank you.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Sixth Sense, 1999 (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Cole Sear: I want to tell you my secret now.
Malcolm Crowe: Okay.
Cole Sear: I see dead people.
Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams?
[Cole shakes his head no]
Malcolm Crowe: While you’re awake?
[Cole nods]
Malcolm Crowe: Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?
Cole Sear: Walking around like regular people. They don’t see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they’re dead.
Movie Quote of the Day – From Here To Eternity, 1953 (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
Alma: I do mean it when I say I need you. ‘Cause I’m lonely. You think I’m lying, don’t you?
Robert E. Lee “Prew’ Prewitt: Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
Movie Quote of the Day – Patton, 1970 (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
Gen. George S. Patton Jr.: Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Movie Quote of the Day – Days of Heaven, 1978 (dir. Terrence Malick)
Linda: This girl, she didn’t know where she was goin’ or what she was gonna do. She didn’t have no money on her. Maybe she’d meet up with a character. I was hopin’ things would work out for her; she was a good friend of mine.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Misfits, 1961 (dir. John Huston)
Perce Howland: You know, I can’t figure you, floatin’ around out here like this. You belong to Gay?
Roslyn Taber: I don’t know where I belong.
Movie Quote of the Day – October Sky, 1999 (dir. Joe Johnston)
Ike Bykovsky: What do you boys think about this? Isn’t that something?
Roy Lee: Let ’em have outer space. We got rock ‘n’ roll.
Movie Quote of the Day – Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Uncle Charlie: What’s the use of looking backward? What’s the use of looking ahead? Today’s the thing – that’s my philosophy. [beat] Today.
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