The World Beyond BetterMost > The Culture Tent
Favorite Lines from Books and Movies
injest:
that one is funny, Kerry
very nice!
injest:
"Villians that come in twirling their mustaches are easy to spot. It is the ones who cloak themselves in good deeds that we must be eternally vigilant against"
"the first word censored, the first link forged....enslaves us all"
Star Trek The Next Generation
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Kerry on December 30, 2006, 10:46:26 pm ---“Jasper had the palest blue eyes I’d ever looked into. They were hydrangea blue, the blue of a summer mid-afternoon, or, rather, the blue that you find at the base of a flame. I never got tired of looking into them, of having Jasper to look at, or of having Jasper look at me. Jasper was, I thought, as handsome as a man can be, without his being Italian.
Sometimes in Rome, in fact every day in Rome, I have seen men more handsome than Jasper. You can see better-looking men than Jasper every day in the Piazza del Popolo or on the Via del Corso. In Rome, even the policemen are so handsome that Dominic, full of grappa one night, could not resist flirting with a group of them, at three in the morning, in the Piazza Barberini. They were amused, thank God.
But this is Rome, it is only in Rome.
It could be Florence, Siena, Bologna, Genoa, Venice, but it isn’t. It just isn’t true there. It is only in Rome that you will be overcome by the dark, opulent beauty of the men.
Dominic said that God knew what He was doing when He made Italians.
Of course, this is what all Italians say.”
From “Such Times,”
by Christopher Coe
--- End quote ---
As a fellow lover of all things and people Italian, I know what you mean!! I even married one!!
One of the lines I love is from a movie called "Boys Don't Cry" where Lana says to Brandon, "I don't care if you're a big hairy monkey." Lana is played by Chloe Sevigny and Brandon is played by Hillary Swank.
Kerry:
“I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds. My first sight of him was in the door of Germer’s, and, on that occasion, I was struck less by his looks than by the fact that he was carrying a large teddy-bear.
‘That,’ said the barber, as I took his chair, ‘was Lord Sebastian Flyte. A most amusing young gentleman.’
‘Apparently,’ I said coldly.
‘The Marquis of Marchmain’s second boy. His brother, the Earl of Brideshead, went down last term. Now he was very different, a very quiet gentleman, quite like an old man. What do you suppose Lord Sebastian wanted? A hair brush for his teddy-bear; it had to have very stiff bristles, not, Lord Sebastian said, to brush him with, but to threaten him with a spanking when he was sulky. He bought a very nice one with an ivory back and he’s having “Aloysius” engraved on it - that’s the bear’s name. The man, who, in his time, had had ample chance to tire of undergraduate fantasy, was plainly captivated.”
From “Brideshead Revisited”
(the sacred and profane memories of
Captain Charles Ryder)
by Evelyn Waugh
isabelle:
Very interesting thread!
I'll post along as I remember some lines...
The first that comes to mind is from Some Like It Hot:
Jack Lemmon: "I'm not a woman; I'm a man"
Answer: "Nobody's perfect!"
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version