Angela Oakhurst: Charlie, before you go, I'd like to say something. Look, the fact is you had a family and you suffered a great loss, and until you discuss that and we can really talk about that, this is all just an exercise. I can be patient, Charli...
Priest: If men don't trust each other, this earth might as well be hell. Commoner: Right. The world's a kind of hell. Priest: No! I don't want to believe that! Commoner: No one will hear you, no matter how loud you shout. Just think. Which one of the...
Colette: Horst has done time. Linguini: What for? Colette: No one know for sure. He changes the story every time you ask him. Horst: I defrauded a major corporation. Horst: I robbed the second-largest bank in France using only a ball-point pen. Horst...
Vaughan Cunningham: Please don't tell anybody at the store that Albert was here. You know how this town is. Everybody spreads cruel rumors. Melinda: You mean about you and Albert being that way...? I think everybody at the store already knows about i...
Alvin Straight: Anger, vanity, you mix that together with liquor, you've got two brothers that haven't spoken in ten years. Ah, whatever it was that made me and Lyle so mad... don't matter anymore. I want to make peace, I want to sit with him, look u...
Joe Turner: What does Operations care about a bunch of damn books? A book in Dutch. A book out of Venezuela. Mystery stories in Arabic. Atwood: Wait! Joe Turner: What the hell is so important about... [He stops as he sees the connection] Joe Turner: ...
[watching guests arrive for Andy's party] Rex: Any dinosaur-shaped ones? Hamm: Oh, for crying out loud, they're all in *boxes*, you idiot. Rex: They're getting bigger... Slinky Dog: Wait, there's a nice little one over there. [boy turns around, revea...
Buzz: [in Sid's backpack, approaching his home] Sheriff, I can see your indwelling from here. You're almost home. Alien: Nirvana is coming, the mystic portal awaits. Woody: Will you be quiet? You guys don't get it, do you? Once we go into Sid's house...
R.K. Maroon: What are you going to do to me, Valiant? Eddie Valiant: I'm going to listen to you spin the Cloverleaf scenario. The story of greed, sex and murder. And the parts that I don't like, I'm going to edit out. R.K. Maroon: You got it all wron...
Riff: Four-and-a-half years I live wit' a buddy an' his family. I think I'm diggin' a guy's character... Boy, I'm a victim of disappointment in you. Tony: End ya sufferin', little man. Why dontcha just pack up ya gear an' move out? Riff: 'Cause ya ma...
Tony: I- I didn't believe hard enough. Maria: Loving is enough. Tony: Not here. They won't let us be. Maria: Then we'll run away. Tony: Yeah, we can. Maria: Yes. Tony: We will... Maria: [singing] Hold my hand and we are halfway there, hold my hand an...
Tony: You know what Maria and me are gonna do out in the country? We're gonna have kids, lots of 'em, and name them all after you-even the girls. That way when you come and visit... Doc: [slaps him] Wake up! Is this the only way to get to you? Fight ...
Riff: Come on, Jets, round out! Not you, Anybodys, beat it. Anybodys, Tomboy: Ah, Riff, you gotta let me in the gang! Didn't you just see me, I was smash, I'm a killer, I wanna fight! A-Rab: How else's she gonna get a guy to touch her? Anybodys, Tomb...
Action: What are we doin', poopin' around with dumb broads for? Graziella, Riff's Girl: I and Velma ain't dumb! Are we, Velma? Velma, Ice's Girl: No thank you. [snap] Velma, Ice's Girl: oo [snap] Velma, Ice's Girl: Ooo-belee-oo. Graziella, Riff's Gir...
I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a music fan. I probably have the most eclectic collection of music in my Grand Cherokee. Literally, in a span of a week, I'll go from 2Pac to Boyz II Men...
Ben Bradlee: Look, McGovern's dropped to nothing, Nixon's guaranteed the renomination, the Post is stuck with a story no one else wants, it'll sink the goddamn paper. Everyone says, "Get off it, Ben", and I come on very sage and I say, uh, "Well, you...
John Chambers: Look, if you're gonna this, you gotta do it. The Kho-maniacs are Froot Loops, but they got cousins who sell prayer rugs and eight-tracks on La Brea. You can't build cover stories around a movie that doesn't exist. You need a script, yo...
Evan: I just thought that you should know. Kayleigh Miller: Know what? Evan: That you were happy once... with me. Kayleigh Miller: You know there's one major hole in your story, there is no fucking way on this planet, nor any other I would ever be in...
Stefan Vanderhoof: [talking about the first time he saw Scott showing a dog] They had the same prance, the same rhythm, it was like they were two members of the same body. Scott Donlan: I knew a guy who had two members on the same body, dated him for...
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. H...
Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip onto a barely related subject, or slack off in the last forty pages. Everything is right now, right here, in the reader's grasp and mi...
