The World Beyond BetterMost > The Culture Tent
Favorite Lines from Books and Movies
Ellemeno:
From The Life of Brian:
Brian (having just opened his shutters first thing in the morning, and seeing throngs of people below, who are waiting for his pearls of wisdom): "No, no, don't you understand? You are all individuals!"
Throng, in droning unison: "We are all individuals."
delalluvia:
From Titanic:
Bruce J. Ismay [shocked]: But this ship can't sink!
Thomas Andrews [grim]: She's made of iron, sir! I assure you, she can. And will.
From Chronicles of Riddick:
Imam: Have you heard a single word I have said?
Riddick: About it all circling the drain...the universe...
Imam nods.
Riddick: Had to end sometime.
From two unpublished works:
Did he want something more than these young American girls, so repressed, so concerned at being labeled 'bad girls' that they couldn't enjoy life?
So must the gods appear in their lust, beautiful and unashamed.
delalluvia:
From the HBO series Rome,
Mark Antony [uncomfortable in a patron civil role]: Well, I will have to get used to this political manuevering even if it kills me.
[Looking around the crowded room with a half smile] - Or anyone else for that matter.
From the movie Gladiator,
Quintus [looking grimly at the yelling horde of German rebels]: A people should know when they're conquered.
Maximus: What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
Maximus: At my signal, unleash hell.
Kd5000:
From the charming romantic comeday "BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY's," I liked this exchange between Holly Golighty and Paul Varjack . :)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Holly Golightly: He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.
Paul Varjak: Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store.
Holly Golightly: That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's!
HerrKaiser:
Here's a couple; what makes these special is how they were delivered......
Marlene Dietrich to Orson Welles in Touch of Evil:
"..honey you're a mess"
Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity
Stanwyck: I wonder if I know what you mean......
macMurray: I wonder if you wonder.
bette davis to olivia dehavilland in Hush hush sweet charlotte
"you're a vile, sorry little bitch!"
rosiland russell in the Women
"of course she adores the Fowler family, particuarly my husband!"
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version