No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.
A gold cage is still a cage. -King David I Oh, go cry in a bag of money. -Queen Christina
Margot: I think we're just gonna to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie.
Narrator: All memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums had been erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster.
[the priest breaks his ankle and is being loaded into the ambulance] Raleigh: Do you have an alternate? Priest: No. Raleigh: Are there priests on call?
Henry Sherman: I just wanted to apologize for the other day, when I proposed to you. Ethel: Why? I thought it was very sweet.
In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Peter Bradley: [interviewing Eli Cash on television] Now, your previous novel... Eli: Yes, Wildcat. Peter Bradley: Not a success. Why? Eli: Well... Wildcat was written in a kind of obsolete vernacular... [long pause as he starts to become spaced out]...
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.
Keep practicing," he told her. "Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.
I wouldn't want to get you into trouble." Gordon hesitated still... Maddie laughed carelessly. "Wouldn't be the first time. Probably wouldn't be the last.
I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.
Richie: I have to tell you something... Margot: What's that? Richie: I love you. Margot: I love you, too.
Raleigh: You don't love me any more, do you? Margot: I do, kind of. I can't explain it right now.
[at the hospital, after Richie has slashed his wrists] Margot: Dudley, where is he? Dudley Heinsbergen: [has Richie's blood splattered all over his shirt] Who?
Eli: [immediately after landing in the front room after crashing his car into the house] Where's my shoe? [on cue, Dudley retrieves his shoe]
I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.
Which road, which road did you take That brought you here at last? No road, no road did I take. I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.
There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure!
Anything happening,” she whispered. “Aside from you blundering about like a lost elephant?” he asked, in the same low tone. She nodded, accepting the rebuke. “Aside from that.
Eli: I wish you'd've done this for me when I was a kid. Richie: But you didn't have a drug problem then. Eli: Yeah, but it still would've meant a lot to me.
