So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of clarity. It is that discovery of the past in the present on which a writer depends again and again as if our lost childhoods, like the su...
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.
Joe Franklin: [reporting on the Ghostbusters] Well, everybody's heard ghost stories around the campfire. Heck, my grandma used to spin yarns about a spectral locomotive that would rocket past the farm where she grew up! But now, as if some unforeseen...
Paul Edgecomb: [to Dean Stanton who is standing in the doorway with a broom] You let him get past you. Dean Stanton: No I did not. Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Three grown men... outsmarted by a mouse.
Nicholas Angel: [investigating Tim Messenger's murder] Did you find anything? DS Andy Wainwright: Yeah, I looked at my watch, and I found out that it's way past time to stop working and that I should be at the pub!
Captain Ramius: We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll... while we conduct missile drills.
Dith Pran: We must be like the ox, and have no thought, except for the Party. And have no love, but for the Angka. People starve, but we must not grow food. We must honor the comrade children, whose minds are not corrupted by the past.
Adult Simba: Well... Timon: Yeah? Adult Simba: Somebody once told me that the great kings of the past are up there, watching over us. Pumbaa: Really? Timon: You mean a bunch of royal dead guys are watching us?
The Boss: [showing a picture] That was my son. Notice how I said was? Slevin: Yeah. The Boss: That's because he's dead. Murdered. Relegated to the past tense. Sent from an is to a was before he'd had his breakfast. Slevin: Bummer.
Mr. Robertson: I see you've had some disciplinary problems in the past. Jane: I've had nothing but straight As in all my classes since the first grade. Mr. Robertson: Yes. Have you ever been with a man? Jane: Have you?
Shahryar: You weren't a person who gets used to this country. You should stay in one side of the stream. You can't put one of your foots on one side and the other foot in the other side! Stream will get bigger at the end.
Teddy Daniels: Is there a reason, doctor, why you keep referring to your patient in the past tense? Dr. John Cawley: Take a look outside, marshall. [nods to the storm outside] Dr. John Cawley: . Why do you think?
[Woody explains his newfound past to his old friends] Woody: Oh, you should have seen it. There was a record player. And a yo-yo. Buzz, I was a yo-yo! Mr. Potato Head: [to Hamm] WAS?
Pietro Maximoff: [to Erik] They told me you can control metal. You know My mom once knew a guy who could do that. [Erik looks a little worried]
Charles Xavier: I'm just not very good with violence... [sees Magneto] Erik Lehnsherr: Charles... [Charles knocks him out] Erik Lehnsherr: Good to see you too, old friend.
Professor X: So many battles waged over the years... and yet, none like this. Are we destined to destroy each other, or can we change each other and unite? Is the future truly set?
Hank McCoy: I rigged up this communications device to allow us to see all the networks America is airing! Logan: [sarcastically] Wow, all three networks. Hank McCoy: And PBS!
Logan: Whatever happens from now, promise me one thing. Storm, Scott, Jean... you'll look out for these names and protect them. Charles Xavier: I'll do my best, Logan.
[Eric points a gun at Raven] Charles Xavier: Eric, what are you doing? Erik Lehnsherr: I'm sorry, Charles. We can't risk keeping her alive, now that we know what happens...
[deleted scene] [Logan's body is fished out of the Potomac river] Cop: What name should we give him, sir? Maj. Bill Stryker: Just put down X.
