Movie Quotes

Quotes from various films, some of which are used in relation to various literature texts
 

Banality

Submitted by scotese on Tue, 2006-09-26 10:49

Pablo Neruda: When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand it.

Il Postino
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Life

Submitted by scotese on Sun, 2006-10-22 20:27

Mrs. Arvedsson: Life is hard sometimes
It's not easy to be left alone.

My Life as a Dog
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Ready to Wear

Submitted by scotese on Tue, 2006-09-26 10:00

[Instructing Robby the robot on making a new dress]
Altaira Morbius: But it must be different - absolutely nothing must show - below, above or through.
Robby: Radiation-proof?
Altaira Morbius: No, just eye-proof.

Forbidden Planet
3
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At the Top Again

Submitted by scotese on Tue, 2006-09-26 10:03

[to Altaira]
Commander John J. Adams: Alta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.

Forbidden Planet
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Born in the U.S.A.

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2006-11-18 08:27

Halley Reed: [of Lester] He's an American phenomenon.
Clifford Stern: Yeah, like acid rain.

Crimes and Misdemeanors
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Everything

Submitted by redsharpie on Tue, 2008-12-30 11:29

(responding to charges of being a socialist)

Albert Markovski: No, I'm not. I'm talking about not covering every square inch with houses and strip malls until you can't remember what happens when you stand in a meadow at dusk.
Bret: What happens in the meadow at dusk?
Albert Markovski: Everything!
Mrs. Hooten: Nothing!
Albert Markovski: Everything.
Mrs. Hooten: Nothing!
Albert Markovski: Everything!
Mrs. Hooten: Nothing!
Albert Markovski: It's beautiful.
Tommy Corn: It's beautiful.

I Heart Huckabees
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Wig Laugh

Submitted by scotese on Tue, 2006-09-26 10:59

Rufus T. Firefly: Oh, uh, I suppose you would think me a sentimental old fluff, but, uh, would you mind giving me lock of your hair?
Mrs. Teasdale: A lock of my hair? Wh-why, I had no idea.
Rufus T. Firefly: I'm letting you off easy: I was going to ask for the whole wig.

Duck Soup
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Sum of our Choices

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2006-11-18 08:29

Professor Levy: We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points. But we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, Human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. it is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe.

Crimes and Misdemeanors
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No Return

Submitted by scotese on Tue, 2006-09-26 11:08

Ambassador Trentino: I am willing to do anything to prevent this war.
Rufus T. Firefly: It's too late. I've already paid a month's rent on the battlefield.

Duck Soup
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Fear Strikes Out

Submitted by scotese on Tue, 2006-10-03 20:31

Baron Munchausen: Come on, Berthold.
Berthold: Get your hands off me!
Baron Munchausen: You're coming with us.
Berthold: No chance!
Baron Munchausen: Why not?
Berthold: I can't remember.
Baron Munchausen: You're not frightened, are you?
Berthold: That's it!

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
3
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