Movie Quotes

One thing I assume of age, is weariness. Damned if I don't get more tired every day. Tired of what I do. Following arcs like lobbed rocks, the inevitability of truth. But the complexity and the gray lie not in the truth. But what you do with the truth once you have it. I think you have something you wanna tell me.

Hey. There's no reasons about it. Just money.

Zak: Carl, You are my best friend. And... and you are my family. Carl: Well, that's it. Friends are the family you choose.

(Louise "Barnstormer" Nash): Well, as I live and breathe. If it ain't Lightning McQueen. (Lightning McQueen): Ms. Nash, it's a pleasure to meet you. (Louise "Barnstormer" Nash): You've had a tough year, haven't you? (Lightning McQueen): Oooh! Uhhh. Well... River Scott: Shouldn't you be running practice laps in Florida by now? (Lightning McQueen): Yeah, sure, but... Junior "Midnight" Moon: They're here to steal our secrets. River Scott: Looking for your lost mojo? (Lightning McQueen): Wow! You don't mince words around here, do you? (Smokey): Truth is always quicker, kid.

I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.

Ivy: How is it you are brave when all the rest of us shake in our boots? Lucius: I don’t worry about what will happen, only what needs to be done.

Irv: You wanna know why I cheated right? Derice: Yes I do. Irv: That’s a fair question. It’s quite simple really. I had to win. You see Derice, I’d made winning my whole life, and when you make winning your whole life, you have to keep on winning. No matter what. You understand that? Derice: No I don’t understand coach. Ya had two gold medals. Ya had it all. Irv: Derice…A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.

Melvin Udall: (Door slams coming out of the therapist’s office) What if this is as good as it gets? Patient: Oh! Other Patients: (Silent contemplation…Door slams leaving the therapist’s office).

Erin Sullivan (Teacher): Having all read Huckleberry Finn, can anyone tell me what the good lie means? Sari Woman (Student): Huck uses lies to survive in undesirable situations. Erin Sullivan (Teacher): Exactly. But later in the book the lies change. How so? Mamere: They change because Huck changes. Erin Sullivan (Teacher): Yes. Keep going. Mamere: When he tells the slave hunters that he has no slaves, his lie is credible. So he lies well. But what is more important it that it is an unselfish lie because it saves Jim. Jim’s freedom means more to Huck than the money he would get for turning him in. So it is a good lie. Erin Sullivan (Teacher): Could not have said it better.

A compass I learned when I was surveying, it’ll, it’ll point you true north from where you’re standing. But it’s got no advice about the swamps, deserts, and chasms that you’ll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination you plunge ahead headless of obstacles and achieve nothing more than to sink into a swamp? What’s the use in knowing true north?

Joker: Now. Our operation is small, but there is a lot of potential for aggressive expansion. So which one of you fine gentlemen would like to join our team. Oh, there’s only one spot open right now so we’re going to have tryouts! Make it fast.

R2D2: Beeps, clicks, whistles, etc. Luke: Oh no. We’ll never get it out now! Yoda: So certain are you? Always with you it cannot be done. Do you nothing that I say? Luke: Master moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different. Yoda: No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned. Luke: Alright, I’ll give it a try. Yoda: No. Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.

Tank Evans: I love being the center of attention, because it’s really where I should be.

Tank Evans: Right. No, I get ya. What’s winning without the losers?…Feels better when there’s a lot of losers around. Was, was that your question?

Tank Evans: A role model? No, but I do consider myself somebody that everyone should look up to. Kids should try to, uh, pretend that they’re tank. I mean they should try. Huh huh. Good luck kids! Narrator: You never want to get in there and like you know, help ‘em out, and show ‘em how to surf, and spend some time with the kids? Tank Evans: No. No. I don’t wanna do that…Anyway, this is my wave. Narrator: Always classy Tank Evans.

Spock: You have to shoot. If you are logical, you have to shoot. Lt. Valeris: I do not want to. Spock: What you want is irrelevant. What you have chosen is at hand. Kirk: I’d just as soon you didn’t.

Coach Gary Gaines: Well it took me a long time to realize that uh…there ain't much difference between winning and losing except for how the outside world treats you. But inside you it's about all the same ya know. It really is. Fact of the matter is. I believe that uh, our only curses are the ones that are self-imposed. You know what I'm sayin'? We uh, all of us, dig our own holes.

Tyler Durden: An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables. Slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes. Working jobs we hate so we can buy s*** we don't need. We're the middle children of history man. No purpose or place. We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

Tyler Durden: We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. We're slowly learning that fact.

The Narrator: What? Tyler Durden: The things you own end up owning you.

Tyler Durden: Do you know what a duvet is? The Narrator: A comforter. Tyler Durden: It’s a blanket. It’s just a blanket. Then why do guys like you and I know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then? The Narrator: Consumers. Tyler Durden: Right! We’re consumers. We’re byproducts of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty. These things don’t concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines. Television with 500 channels. Some guy’s name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.

It’s not the power of the curse. It’s the power you give the curse.

Economics Teacher: Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? (Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron skipping school, having a perfect day at the art museum)

John Keating: I would like you to step forward over here. And peruse some of the faces from the past. You've walked past them many times. I don't think you've really looked at them. They're not that different from you are they. Same haircuts. Full of hormones just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you. Their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on. Lean in. Listen. You hear it? Carpe...Carpe...Carpe Diem. Seize the day boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

John Keating: Seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. Why does the writer use these lines? Charlie Dalton: Because he’s in a hurry. John Keating: No. Ding! Thanks for playing anyway. Because we are food for worms lads. Because believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Professor Higgins: You mean to say you’d sell your own daughter for 50 pounds? Colonel Pickering: Have you no morals man? Alfred Doolittle: No. No. I can’t afford em’ governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Alfred Doolittle: Well. Look at it my way. What am I? I ask you what am I? I’m one of the undeservin’ poor, that’s what I am. Now think what that means to a man. It means he’s up against middle class morality for all of time. If there’s anything going and I puts in fer a bit of it, it’s always the same story. Your undeservin' so you can’t have it. But my needs is as great as the most deservin' widows that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. Heh. I don’t need less than a deservin’ man. I need more. I don’t eat less hardy than he does. And I drink…oh a lot more. I’m playin’ strait with you. I aint pretending to be deserving. No. I’m undeserving. And I mean to go on being undeserving. I like it and that’s the truth.

Beast: I wanna do something for her. But what? Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things. Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep. Lumière: Ah, no no. It has to be something very special. Something that sparks her interest.

Batman: Babe look. If this relationship is ever going to work between us, I need to feel free to party with a bunch of strangers whenever I feel like it. Wyldstyle: What?

Billy Beane: You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing Chave. I hate it! I hate losing more than I even wanna win. And there's a difference.

Messala: The Emperor is displeased. He wishes Judea made into a more obedient and disciplined province. He has ordered the new governor and me to restore order. I intend to carry out his wishes. Sextus: Yes, but how Messala? Oh you can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea? Especially a new idea? ... Messala: Sextus, you ask how to fight an idea. Well, I'll tell you how. With another idea.

Ellie Arroway: Hey Dad? Ted Arroway: Yeah. Ellie Arroway: You think there's people on other planets? Ted Arroway: I don't know sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Alice More: Arrest him! Sir Thomas More: For what? Alice More: He's dangerous! William Roper: He's a spy! Margaret Roper: Father that man is bad! Sir Thomas More: There's no law against that. William Roper: There is; God's law. Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him. Alice More: While you talk he is gone. Sir Thomas More: And go he should if he were the Devil himself until he broke the law! William Roper: So, now you'd give the Devil the benefit of law? Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes! I'd cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast; Man's laws, not Gods. And if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes. I'd give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake.

Samantha Booke (Jurnee Smollett): Without welfare Mr. Tolson, people would be starving. Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Who is starving Ms. Booke? Samantha Booke (Jurnee Smollett): The unemployed are starving. Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Mr. Burgess here. He's unemployed. Obviously he's not starving. I drew you in Ms. Booke. You gave a faulty premise so your syllogism fell apart. Samantha Booke (Jurnee Smollett): Syllogism? Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Your logic fell apart. Major premise: the unemployed are starving, minor premise Mr. Burgess is unemployed. Conclusion...Mr. Burgess is starving. Your major premise was based on a faulty assumption. Classic fallacy.

James Farmer, Sr.: What do we do here? James Farmer, Jr.: We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do. James Farmer, Sr.: And what do you have to do right now? James Farmer, Jr.: My homework. James Farmer, Sr.: So get to it.

Henry Lowe (Nate Parker): I'm Henry Lowe, with an E. Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Alright Mr. Lowe. I will name a subject, you speak a few words; a pertinent quote from world literature. Henry Lowe (Nate Parker): Go ahead. Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Beauty. Henry Lowe (Nate Parker): I heard the old oldman say all that is beautiful drifts away. Like the waters. Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Very good...History. And name the author this time. Henry Lowe (Nate Parker): History is a nightmare form which I am trying to awake. James Joyce. Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Self-pity. Henry Lowe (Nate Parker): I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. D.H. Lawrence.

Tis' a simple proposition. If you live in this country you must pay for the privilege. Something...anything. If you pay nothing, you care nothing. What do you care where you throw your rubbish. Your council estate is a mess. Your town - graffiti. What do you care? It's not your problem. It's somebody else's problem. It's the government's problem.

You're talkin' about the American Dream. You find something that you love and then you twist it and you torture it; Try to find a way to make money at it. You spend a lifetime doing that, and at the end you can't find a trace of what you started out loving.

Edward Cole (Nicholson): Only successful marriage I had was me and my work. I started making money when I was 16, and that was that. I never stopped. Carter Chambers (Freeman): I'll be damned. I wanted to be a history professor. Edward Cole (Nicholson): Nobody's perfect. Carter Chambers (Freeman): I made it through two months of City College before Virginia gave me the news. And then...you know; young, black, broke, baby on the way. Take the first decent job that comes along. I always meant to go back. Forty-five years goes by pretty fast. Edward Cole (Nicholson): Like smoke through a keyhole.

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then it subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness. It is not excitement. It is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body...No. Don't blush. I tell you some truths. That is just being in love. Which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is leftover when being in love has burned away. It doesn't sound very exciting does it? But it is.

You know, death is something many of us are uncomfortable speaking about. But to die is to be human. And anything human is mentionable. Anything mentionable is manageable.

An idealist? Well I've never had the courage to believe in nothing.

The Duke: No mention of knight errantry. Sancho Panza: Oh no. One does not speak of the rope in the house of the hanged...proverb.

As the saying goes. Whether the stone hits the pitcher or the pitcher hits the stone, it's going to be bad for the pitcher.

Sanson Carrasco: Why are you poets so fascinated with madmen? Cervantes: We have much in common. Sanson Carrasco: You both turn your backs on life. Cervantes: We both select from life. Sanson Carrasco: A man has to come to terms with life as it is. Cervantes: Life as it is. I've lived for over 40 years and I've seen life as it is. Pain. Misery. Cruelty beyond belief. I've heard all the voices of God's noblest creature. Moans from bundles of filth in the street. I've been a soldier and a slave. I've seen my comrades fall in battle or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I've held them at the last moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. No glory, no brave last words, only their eyes, filled with confusion, questioning "Why?" I do not think they were asking why they were dying, but why they had ever lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness; To surrender dreams this may be madness; to seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness! And maddest of all - to see life as it is and not as it should be!

Margaret: You know all that math you're supposed to be learning? Mark: Maybe. Margaret: I'm going to teach it to you. Mark: Nope. Margaret: I can't keep hanging out with someone who's ignorant of basic logarithmic functions. Mark. Mark look at yourself. You're a nerd who sucks at math. Where does that leave you? So, the first thing you need to know about math is that it is always perfect.

Mark: Margaret, what is the one universal law of all skate-rats everywhere? Margaret: Um, that ironically, you know like, skating completely identifies them they suck at it. Like a lot. Mark: Exactly.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Spirit... Who's lonely grave is this? Ghost of Christmas Future: Why yours Ebenezer. The richest man in the cemetery!

That's really what this multi-billion dollar industry is all about anyway isn't it? Inner beauty...(sarcasm)

Tucker: What's all this cloak and dagger business now? Abe: Yor office is wired. The boardroom. The whole plant. Even the washrooms. Tucker: What? Abe: Ever since you road tested the new car, forty G-men have been following you around the clock. Tucker: What for? Abe: You made the car too good. Tucker: Well that's the whole idea isn't it? To build a better mouse trap. Abe: Not if you're the mouse.