Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches the personality like a seed that germinates after a long time and sends forth many...
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money — it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous — because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people — and work hard on making those gi...
It was a fossilized path: the will which had cut this gash out of these solitary places so that the blood and sap would flow there was long since dead - and dead too were the circumstances which had guided this will. A whitish and indurated scar rema...
Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants that died long ago. We can give thanks to these ancestors of our present-pay foliage, but we can't give back to them. We can, however, give forward. When we are unable to return the favor, we can pay it...
Wallace: I'm sorry, Gromit. I know you're doing this for my own good, but the fact is I'm just crackers about cheese. Look, if I must change me ways, at least let me do it my way, with technology. [Lowers the Mind Manipulation-omatic onto his head] W...
[referring to Frannie] Peter: She looks sick. Roger: Come on, wouldn't you be? Peter: No, man, I mean she really looks ill. Stephen: She's pregnant. Roger: [nervously] Hey, maybe we should get moving. Peter: We can handle it. Roger: Yeah, but what if...
Mrs. Teasdale: Your excellency, the ambassador's here on a friendly visit. He's had a change of heart. Rufus T. Firefly: A lot of good that'll do him: he's still got the same face. Ambassador Trentino: I'm sorry we lost our tempers; I'm willing to fo...
Mary: It's your turn to do the dishes, fellas. Michael: I set and cleared. Elliot: [in a stern tone] I set and cleared. Michael: [quickly] I did breakfast. Gertie: [solemnly] I did breakfast. Michael: [noticing how upset Mary is] What's the matter, m...
Seedy Guy in Park: That's a hell of a way to treat a vet, man. Bill Foster: You're an animal doctor? Seedy Guy in Park: No, a vet. A veteran. I was in 'Nam, man. Bill Foster: What were you - a drummer boy? You must've been 10 years old. Seedy Guy in ...
Ferris: I do have a test today, that wasn't bullshit. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists, it stil...
Saito: [thinking it's Eames shape shifted into Browning] Hey, I see you've changed. Peter Browning: [confused] Sorry? Eames: [appears in the background and silently warns Saito it's not him] Saito: Ahh... I'm sorry. I mistook you for a friend. Peter ...
[first lines] Sydney Schanberg: Cambodia. To many westerners it seemed a paradise. Another world, a secret world. But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst its borders, and the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia. In 1973 I went to cover this sid...
[first lines] Andy Kaufman: Hello. I am Andy and I would like to thank you for coming to my movie. I wish it was *better*, you know, but... it is so stupid! It's terrible! I do not even like it. All of the most important things in my life are changed...
Samir: No one in this country can ever pronounce my name right. It's not that hard: Na-ghee-na-na-jar. Nagheenanajar. Michael Bolton: Yeah, well, at least your name isn't Michael Bolton. Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name. Michael ...
Nikola Tesla: Mr. Angier, have you considered the cost of such a machine? Robert Angier: Price is not an object. Nikola Tesla: Perhaps not, but have you considered the *cost*? Robert Angier: I'm not sure I follow. Nikola Tesla: Go home. Forget this t...
Macaulay Connor: [speaking of Tracy] What are her leading characteristics? C. K. Dexter Haven: She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house. Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Leading characteristics to be filled in later. Macaulay Connor: I can fil...
Charlie: What was it we cleared, eight-six thousand and change? Raymond: Eighty-six thousand, five hundred... Charlie: So, eighty thousand to pay the cars off. What did I say I had to pay to get the Rolex out of hock? Raymond: Thirty-five hundred dol...
Captain Miller: Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her, and how I'll ever be able to, tell about days like today. Ahh, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care. The ...
Bithiah: They're going away, Moses, and the secret's going with them. No one need ever know the shame I brought upon you. Moses: Shame? What change is there in me? Egyptian or Hebrew, I am still Moses. These are the same hands, the same arms, the sam...
[at the pre-tour party one of the waiters is on his way back to the kitchen with an entire tray of food] Morty the Mime: Whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah. How come you got so much here? Mime Waiter: I don't know, they're not eating it. Morty the Mim...
Bass: The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon... it lies. Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave? Edwin Epps: Ha! Bass: Suppose! ...
