Quotes of: His Keyword

Shaman of Maypore: Like monsoon... [moves his hand over his eyes] Shaman of Maypore: ...it moves darkness, over all country.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Mr. Potter: Ernie Bishop, you know the fella who sits around all day on his brains in his taxi?

It's a Wonderful Life

Isaac Davis: [after reading his ex-wife's book about their relationship] [to his ex-wife] Isaac Davis: I came here to strangle you!

Manhattan

Man #4: [Burst out of the bathroom with his gun] Die you motherfuckers! [He empties his entire gun, hitting nothing but air]

Pulp Fiction

Warden Barrot: [to Papillon upon his release from solitary confinement after two years following his first escape attempt] Your term is completed.

Papillon

Nikola Tesla: You're familiar with the phrase "man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve.

The Prestige

Stanley Goodspeed: You're not leaving! There's a madman in there with his hand on a... ON A BUTTON! John Mason: Shh! [to himself] John Mason: Some sniper's gonna get his ass.

The Rock

[after tying up Benz with his own suit] James Bond: I'm not mad about his tailor, are you?

From Russia with Love

David Mills: [greeting his wife after coming home from work] Hey, loser. Tracy Mills: Hi, idiot.

Se7en

Mrs. Lovett: Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker. Sweeney Todd: What was his crime? Mrs. Lovett: Foolishness.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Primus: [speaking of his father] There was not a horse or beast he could not master. So much so that in his youth, he took to riding a camel... which was comical.

Stardust

Dale: [after seeing Tucker's fingers wrapped in his shirt] Oh my God, they cut off his bowling fingers!

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Isak Borg: [under his breath, while preparing for his journey] Honorary Doctor! They might as well appoint me Honorary Idiot.

Wild Strawberries

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain...

Henry A. Wallace

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.

Jay Leno

But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.

Louis Stokes

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

Lactantius

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Lao Tzu

Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiato...

Elliott Abrams

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Maimonides

In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.

Sarah Churchwell