I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Santa: Do you know why I only eat roots? Jep Gambardella: No, why? Santa: Because roots are important.
Field Marshal Herring: We've just discovered the most wonderful, the most marvelous poisinous gas. It will kill everybody.
Melvin B. Tolson: I am here to help you to find, take back, and keep your righteous mind.
Melvin B. Tolson: We'll be one of the first Negro colleges to ever debate a white college. If we beat them, we beat the best.
Hilts: I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war is over.
Ashley-Pitt: [watching Hilts be brought back into camp] I didn't think he'd get caught so soon. Bartlett: He wasn't caught.
Danny: Oh, Hendley. I need a pick. Big, heavy one. Hendley: Only one? Danny: Two would be better.
Bartlett: What about the goon towers? Hilts: That's a chance you're gonna have to take. But they're gonna be watching the compound, not the woods.
Stratwitch: I will not take action against you, now. This is the first day here and there has been much stupidity and carelessness... on both sides!
Herr Kuhn: [to Bartlett] Squadron Leader Bartlett, if you escape again, and are captured, you will be SHOT! Herr Kuhn: [to Von Luger] Heil Hitler!
Carol Connelly: [Melvin enters the restaurant in his suit] You look so se-... um, you look great. You look great.
Helen: Have a great day, honey. Help customers, climb ladders... Bob: Bring bacon. Helen: All that jazz.
Diane Court: Nobody thinks it will work, do they? Lloyd Dobler: No. You just described every great success story.
Lester Burnham: [narrating] It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
Great future through ignorance often ends in great regret because God often times gives us what we need in a package we do not want.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!
