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Favorite Lines from Books and Movies
Fran:
From F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby:
They're careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smash things up and retreat into their money, or vast carelessness, or whatever it is that keeps them together, leaving other people to clean up the mess.
serious crayons:
Fran, I also love the last line:
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: cmr107 on April 06, 2007, 04:03:00 pm ---From Love Actually, one of my favorite movies.
Harry: Tell me, exactly, how long it is that you've been working here?
Sarah: Two years, seven months, three days and, I suppose, what, two hours?
Harry: And how long have you been in love with Karl, our enigmatic chief designer?
Sarah: Ahm, two years, seven months, three days and, I suppose, an hour and thirty minutes.
Harry: I thought as much.
Sarah: Do you think everybody knows?
Harry: Yes.
Sarah: Do you think Karl knows?
Harry: Yes.
Sarah: Oh that is bad news.
Harry: Well I just thought maybe the time had come to do something about it.
Sarah: Like what?
Harry: Invite him out for a drink and then after about twenty minutes casually drop into the conversation the fact that you'd like to marry him and have lots of sex and babies.
Sarah: You know that?
Harry: Yes. And so does Karl. Think about it. For all our sakes. It's Christmas.
Sarah: Certainly. Excellent. Will do. Thanks, boss.
[Natalie, a secretary, is greeting the Prime Minister]
Natalie: Hello, David. I mean "sir". Shit, I can't believe I've just said that. Oh, and now I've gone and said "shit" - twice. I'm so sorry, sir.
Prime Minister: It's fine, it's fine. You could've said "fuck", and then we'd have been in real trouble.
Natalie: Thank you, sir. I did have an awful premonition that I was going to fuck up on the first day. Oh, piss-it!
--- End quote ---
Have a fucking good birthday today, cmr107!!
ifyoucantfixit:
Line from Arthur, which had so many...
"you're a HOOKER? I thought I was just doing good with you."
Wishes:
I had to do a quick internet search for the exact words but every time The Blues Brothers is on TV I'll watch just to hear Aretha Franklin say:
"We got two honkies out there dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants."
;D
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