Tim: So what do you do? Mary: I'm a reader at a publisher. Tim: No! Do you read for a living? Mary: Yes, that it. I read. Tim: Oh that's so great! If that someone else asking: "What do you do for a living ?" Oh, well, I breathe. I'm a breather. I get...
Henri Ducard: When you lived among the criminals, did you start to pity them? Bruce Wayne: The first time I stole so that I wouldn't starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the f...
[about Bonnie's poem] Clyde Barrow: You know what you done there? You told my story, you told my whole story right there, right there. One time, I told you I was gonna make you somebody. That's what you done for me. You made me somebody they're gonna...
[Blanche wants a cut of the loot] Blanche Barrow: Well why not? I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody... I'm a nervous wreck and that's the truth. I have to take ...
[last lines] Brandon: [voiceover] Dear Lana, By the time you read this, I'll be back home in Lincoln. I'm scared of what's ahead, but when I think of you I know I'll be able to go on. You were right. Memphis isn't far at all. I'll be making a trip ou...
Danny Archer: American, huh? Maddy Bowen: Guilty. Danny Archer: Well, Americans usually are. Maddy Bowen: ...Says the white South African? Danny Archer: Ts ts ts ts. I'm from Rhodesia! Maddy Bowen: We say Zimbabwe now, don't we? Danny Archer: Do we? ...
[seeing a poster for the Enchantment Under the Sea dance] Dr. Emmett Brown: Look! There's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up. Marty McFly: Of course! The Enchantment Under the Sea dance! They're supposed to go to this. That's where they kiss for ...
Sam: Why do you act like a dick all the time? Do you just do it to antagonize people? Mike Shiner: Maybe. Sam: You really don't give a shit if people like you or not? Mike Shiner: Not really. Sam: That's cool. Mike Shiner: Is it? I don't know.
[Butch is robbing Woodcock's train for the second time] Butch Cassidy: You can't want to get blown up again. Woodcock: Butch, you know that if it were my money, there is nobody that I would rather have steal it than you. But, you see, I am still in t...
[Mr. Thorpe has offered Derry a job as asst. floor manager and part-time soda jerk] Fred Derry: At what salary? Mr. Thorpe: Thirty-two fifty per week. Fred Derry: Thirty-two fifty. I used to make over four hundred dollars a month in the Air Force. Mr...
[Oda has been shot multiple times by Kiriyama in the chest] Toshimori Oda: [laughing] Wow! I survived thanks to my great bullet-proof vest! [hears noise above and behind him and looks] Kazuo Kiriyama: [pulls a samurai sword from its scabbard and leap...
Kara: Now, last time I checked, you were giving ultimatums. Brendan Frye: It worked. You went to Laura, didn't you? Told her my tale. Kara: Part of the plan? Brendan Frye: Turned out to be. Kara: I feel so cheap and used. Brendan Frye: God, I must se...
Jesse: There's these breeds of monkeys, right, and all they do is have sex, all the time, you know? And they turn out to be the least violent, the most peaceful, the most happy, you know? So maybe fooling around isn't so bad. Celine: Are you talking ...
Vivian: So you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors. My, you're a mess, aren't you? Philip Marlowe: I'm not very tall either. Next time I'll come on s...
Philip Marlowe: Oh, Eddie, you don't have anybody watching me, do you? Tailing me in a gray Plymouth coupe, maybe? Eddie Mars: No, why should I? Philip Marlowe: Well, I can't imagine, unless you're worried about where I am all the time. Eddie Mars: I...
Stefan Vanderhoof: [talking about the first time he saw Scott showing a dog] They had the same prance, the same rhythm, it was like they were two members of the same body. Scott Donlan: I knew a guy who had two members on the same body, dated him for...
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great neces...
I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a feudal order: the aristocratic dispensation of leisure time, the refinements of the self. With the shift from fe...
Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it’s time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do a...
I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything w...
When I say that deciding to not kill myself was the worst part, I should clarify that I don’t mean it in a retrospective sense. From where I am now, it seems like a solid enough decision. But at the time, it felt like I had been dragging myself thr...
