Quotes of: Defining-moment Keyword

When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing.

Stephen Mangan

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

Stephen Rea

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

Serena Williams

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

William Shatner

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

Christine Elise

Becky: [to Dante] Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, it's forgivable to go ass to mouth. Randal Graves: [chuckling] Heh. I knew it.

Clerks II

Natasha Romanoff: I'm sorry... [takes off mask] Natasha Romanoff: did I step on your moment?

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Fortunato: Just a moment. I'd like to say a few words in face of such mockery.

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

Narrator: Marla's philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't.

Fight Club

Andrew Largeman: I don't want to waste another moment of my life without you in it.

Garden State

Olive: What are you guys talking about? Grandpa: [thinks for a moment] Politics. Olive: Oh.

Little Miss Sunshine

Jonathan Mardukas: What you think Serrano is most afraid of? Jack Walsh: [pause for a moment] going cross-country with you!

Midnight Run

Livingston: The moment you set foot on that casino floor, they'll be watching you like hawks. Hawks with video cameras.

Ocean's Eleven

Mark Zuckerberg: [impressed with the meeting with Sean Parker] Shit! Eduardo Saverin: [a moment later, exasperated] Yeah.

The Social Network

Constance Petersen: Are you making love to me? Dr. Fleurot: I will in a moment. I'm just clearing the ground first.

Spellbound

[Death approaches Antonius Block] Antonius Block: Wait a moment. Death: You all say that. But I grant no reprieves.

The Seventh Seal

Speed Levitch: Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each others presence.

Waking Life

Gordon Gekko: [awed by the morning light] I've never seen a painting that captures the beauty of the ocean, at a moment like this.

Wall Street

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

Richard Dooling