I have lost patience with the idea of an insignificant human being standing up above the rest of us--whether he is called Reverend or Doctor or Judge--and shouting at us all about this thing or that. As soon as someone starts to pontificate in this w...
Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or indirect connection - as if a word could become an object...
Otto Meyer: [turns around to see a helicopter] [shouts] Otto Meyer: Look out! Nervous Motorist: What? Wh-Who...? Otto Meyer: Don't stop driving man. Keep going! Nervous Motorist: What? What is it? [turns around, sees the helicopter and spins back aro...
Mitch: [after seniors threaten him] Er, Mr. Payne. Sir. You know every second that you could let us out early would really increase our chances of survival. Mr. Payne, junior high school teacher: It's like our sergeant told us before one trip into th...
Malfoy: Ah, come to see the show? Hermione: [shouts] You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach! [Hermione raises her wand at Malfoy. He backs against the wall, whimpering] Ron: Hermione, no! He's not worth it. [Hermione lowers her wand and turn...
Indiana Jones: [shouting, as the boat is being chopped up by a propeller] Why are you trying to kill us? Kazim: Because you are looking for the Holy Grail! Indiana Jones: My *father* was looking for the Holy Grail! Did you kill him too? Kazim: No! In...
Helen: [sobbing] Now I'm losing him! What'll I do? What'll I do? Edna: What are you talking about? Helen: [stops crying] Huh? Edna: [shouts] You are Elastigirl! My God... [swatting Helen with a newspaper] Edna: Pull-yourself-together! "What will you ...
Miss Kenton: Look at it! Is that or is it not the wrong chinaman? Stevens: Miss Kenton, I'm very busy. I am surprised that you have nothing better to do than stand around all day... Miss Kenton: Mr. Stevens, look at that chinaman and tell me the trut...
Sheriff of Nottingham: [Little John is secretly holding a dagger on Prince John and demanding Robin Hood's release] There's something funny going on around here. Little John: [whispering] Now, P.J. tell my pal to kiss Maid Marian, or I've just found ...
Bryan: [after Jean Claude tries to shoot him] That is what happens when you sit behind a desk. You forget things, like the weight in the hand of a gun that's loaded and one that's not. [Bryan pulls his gun and shoots Isabelle in the arm] Jean Claude:...
[Wolverine approaches Stryker, chained to the outside of the dam, while carrying Artie in his arms] William Stryker: Who has the answers, Wolverine? Those people? That creature in your arms? Huh? Huh? [Wolverine looks at Artie, then takes off his "Wo...
[after a dispute has broken out between Haise and Swigert] Jim Lovell: All right, we're not doing this, gentlemen. We are *not* doing this. We're not going to go bouncing off the walls for ten minutes, 'cause we're just going to end up back here with...
[the Caterpillar has called a very frustrated Alice back so he can finish the conversation] Alice: Well? Caterpillar: Keep your temper. Alice: Is that all? Caterpillar: No. "Exaketededly" what is your problem? Alice: Well its exak... exact... Its pre...
Field Marshal Model's aide: Field Marshall, thousands of paratroops have landed in this area, three kilometres from here. Field Marshall Walther Model: What? Why? There is nothing important here... me! I'm important! They must've landed here just to ...
Messala: Look to the West, Judah! Don't be a fool, look to Rome! Judah Ben-Hur: I would rather be a fool than a traitor... or a killer! Messala: I am a soldier! Judah Ben-Hur: Yes! Who kills! For Rome! Rome is evil! Messala: I warn you... Judah Ben-H...
Centurion: There's a Jew outside. He wants to see the Tribune Messala. Messala: I assume he has a name. Centurion: [sneeringly] He says he's a prince, Prince Judah Ben-Hur. Messala: [loud and quickly] Then treat him like one! [quietly] Messala: Tell ...
Happiness is a choice not a result of something you do. Of course when you get what you want you feel good, but the truth is that you don't get what you want until you're already feeling good. You only get what you want when you're in alignment with ...
A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and sel...
You people do not have to live like this!" the man pleaded. "We are humans, made in the image of God. No machine has the right to order us around." The man reached inside his box, no bigger than a foot square, and took out a small black book. "Here i...
He may wear what he likes in the future, for I shall never drive with him again. His conduct was shocking. When we passed Highgate Archway, he tried to pass everything and everybody. He shouted to respectable people who were walking quietly in the ro...
I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys from the squad and listen while they explain, with minute precision, exactly what shape a woman should be, what bits she should shave how, ...
