I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!
Max Cherry: If you've got time, you think you can find out where he's staying? Winston: Cops can't locate him, huh? Max Cherry: They don't have your winning personality.
Liesel Meminger: [about Jewish neighbor] I don't understand. What did he do so wrong? Max Vandenburg: He reminded people of their humanity. Liesel Meminger: Can't he apologize? Max Vandenburg: To who? Hitler?
Max Jerry Horovitz: When I was young, I invented an invisible friend called Mr Ravioli. My psychiatrist says I don't need him anymore, so he just sits in the corner and reads.
The People Eater: We are down 30,000 units of gasoline, 19 canisters of nitro, 12 assault bikes, 7 pursuit vehicles: the deficit mounts, and now sir, you have us stuck in a quagmire.
Max: Holy shit! Noodles! Noodles! Come here, come here. Look, the blond by the piano... [points at Carol] Noodles: Who's that? Max: Who is that? You and this broad were practically engaged at one point!
[Max interrupts Noodles passionately kissing Deborah] Young Noodles: Were you in there? Young Max: You're one lousy kisser. I seen you go in there after that ball-buster.
Ernie: What kind of fish? Max Fischer: Barracuda, stingrays, electric eels, trout, hammerheads, piranha, giant squid, octopi... Herman Blume: Piranhas? Really? Max Fischer: Yes, I'm talking to a guy in South America.
Herman Blume: Why did you ask me to come here? Max Fischer: Oh, I was going to drop that tree on you. Herman Blume: That big one? Max Fischer: Yeah. Herman Blume: It would've flattened me like a pancake.
Max Von Mayerling: You see those offices up there? That was Madame's dressing room, the whole row. Joe Gillis: Didn't leave much for Wallace Reid. Max Von Mayerling: Oh, he had a big bungalow on wheels.
Max: The Von Trapp Family Singers. Here are your names: Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Brigitta, Kurt, Marta and Gretl. Gretl: Why am I always last? Max: Because you are the most important.
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
Max: Ladies and gents, I drink to the demise of Fat Moe's speakeasy. Who the hell wants to drink here legally anyway, am I right? Okay, come on, Moe, set them up! Go on, get in there! [raises a toast] Max: Here's mud in your eye! Boys, let's drink to...
Miracle Max: He probably owes you money huh? I'll ask him. Inigo Montoya: He's dead. He can't talk. Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between most...
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
For the next several minutes we forgot about scones and lollipops and SATs and politicians and the Secret Service and hovered in a blissful place, population of two—Max and me. When I was kissing Max, the rest of the world, and all my problems fade...
In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.
it is true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.
