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Listen, you promise me something, OK? Just if you’re ever in trouble, don’t true to be brave. You just run, OK? Just run away.

Jenny Curran

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 1.3

Film · Epic (film) · War (film) · Epic · War

Tell her that when you found me, I was here I was with the only brothers I had left and there's no way I was gonna desert them.

Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan · 1998

★ 1.3

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it.

Jack Twist

Brokeback Mountain · 2005

★ 1.3

Film · Action (film) · Adventure (film) · Action · Adventure

70% of all archeology is done in the library. Researching. Reading. We cannot afford to take mythology at face value.

Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · 1989

★ 1.3

Film · Neo-noir · Crime (film) · Crime

And besides, isn’t it more exciting when you don’t have permission?

Mia Wallace

Pulp Fiction · 1994

★ 1.3

Film · Crime drama · Thriller (film) · Crime · Thriller

No one gives it to ya, you have to take it.

Frank Costello

The Departed · 2006

★ 1.3

Forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There won't be any last minute, surprise witnesses. No one will break down on the stand with a tearful confession.

Joe Miller

Philadelphia · 1993

★ 1.4

Film · Neo-noir · Crime (film) · Crime

Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.

Jules Winnfield

Pulp Fiction · 1994

★ 1.4

We're consumers. We're by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

Tyler Durden

Fight Club · 1999

★ 1.4

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Science fiction (film) · Romantic drama · Science fiction

What if you stayed this time?

Clementine Kruczynski

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004

★ 1.4

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Science fiction (film) · Romantic drama · Science fiction

Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let's pretend we had one.

Clementine Kruczynski

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004

★ 1.4

Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Christmas · Comedy drama

Yeah, there's a lot of bad 'isms' floatin' around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same. Don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck.

Alfred

Miracle on 34th Street · 1947

★ 1.8

Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Christmas · Comedy drama

You see, Mrs. Walker, this is quite an opportunity for me. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.

Kris Kringle

Miracle on 34th Street · 1947

★ 1.8

Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Christmas · Comedy drama

Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind...and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it.

Kris Kringle

Miracle on 34th Street · 1947

★ 1.8

Film · Western (film) · Western

You're a good looking boy, you have big broad shoulders, but he is a man. It takes more than big broad shoulders to make a man, Harvey, and you have a long way to go.

Helen Ramirez

High Noon · 1952

★ 1.8

Film · Courtroom drama (film) · Drama (film) · Courtroom drama · Drama

What kind of a man are you? You have sat here and voted "guilty" with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket?

Juror #11

12 Angry Men · 1957

★ 1.8

Film · Epic (film) · Epic

If we've told lies, you've told half-lies. A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Mr. Dryden

Lawrence of Arabia · 1962

★ 1.8

Film · Biography (film) · Drama (film) · Biography · Drama

When a man takes an oath, he's holding his own self in his own hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again.

Sir Thomas More

A Man for All Seasons (film) · 1966

★ 1.8

Film · Thriller (film) · Thriller

Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. You know, the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living...until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then...ah, then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin', and the ocean turns red.

Quint

Jaws · 1975

★ 1.8

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

What is finished...is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished, because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-than-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods.

Howard Beale

Network · 1976

★ 1.8

Film · Coming of age (film) · Coming of age

I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America feel better, Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that?

Kevin Dolenz

St. Elmo's Fire · 1985

★ 1.8

Film · Epic (film) · War (film) · Epic · War

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Corporal Upham

Saving Private Ryan · 1998

★ 1.8

We find it’s always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there’s less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

Bob Slydell

Office Space · 1999

★ 1.8

We'll drive. Keep driving. Head out to the middle of nowhere, take that road as far as it takes us. You've never been west of Philly, have ya? This is a beautiful country, Monty. It's beautiful out there, looks like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches.

James Brogan

25th Hour · 2002

★ 1.8

Every man, woman, and child alive should see the desert one time before they die. Nothin' at all for miles around. Nothin' but sand and rocks and cactus and blue sky. Not a soul in sight.

James Brogan

25th Hour · 2002

★ 1.8

Film · Documentary (film)

We all make mistakes. We know we make mistakes. I don't know any military commander, who is honest, who would say he has not made a mistake. There's a wonderful phrase: "the fog of war." What "the fog of war" means is: war is so complex it's beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables. Our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. And we kill people unnecessarily.

Robert McNamara

2003

★ 1.8

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama · Romantic comedy

I’m messed up. I am. You know, on the one hand, I want to forget her. On the other hand, I know that she’s the only person in the entire universe that will make me happy.

Tom

(500) Days of Summer · 2009

★ 1.8

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama · Romantic comedy

Do you ever do this, you think back on all the times you’ve had with someone and you just replay it in your head over and over again.

Tom

(500) Days of Summer · 2009

★ 1.8

Song · Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

A foggy day in London Town Had me low and had me down. I viewed the morning with alarm. The British Museum had lost its charm.

Ira Gershwin

A Foggy Day · 1937

★ 1.9

Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way.

Ma Joad

The Grapes of Wrath · 1940

★ 1.9

Film · Film noir · Crime drama (film) · Crime drama

Murder's never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later, and when two people are involved it's usually sooner.

Barton Keyes

Double Indemnity · 1944

★ 1.9

Film · Western (film) · Western

Look, this is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important. Now get out.

Judge Percy Mettrick

High Noon · 1952

★ 1.9

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

You're getting on. You're pushing 30, slugger. You know, it's time to think about getting some ambition.

Charley Malloy

On the Waterfront · 1954

★ 1.9

It's absurd to bring children into this world and think they'll be better off than we are.

Dr. Evald Borg

Wild Strawberries · 1957

★ 1.9

Film · Western (film) · Western

You never had a rope around your neck. Well, I'm going to tell you something. When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the devil bite your ass!

Tuco

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly · 1966

★ 1.9

Film · Road movie · Drama (film) · Drama

It doesn't make any difference what city, all cities are alike. That's why I'm out here now.

Stranger on Highway

Easy Rider · 1969

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · War (film) · Biography · War

I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose!

Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" you won't have to say, "Well...I shoveled shit in Louisiana."

Patton · 1969

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · War (film) · Biography · War

For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph—a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning, that all glory is fleeting.

Patton · 1969

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · War (film) · Biography · War

Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

Patton · 1969

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · War (film) · Biography · War

It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.

Patton · 1969

★ 1.9

Film · Dystopian (film) · Crime (film) · Dystopian · Crime

Tramp

A Clockwork Orange · 1971

★ 1.9

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Hedley Lamarr

Blazing Saddles · 1974

★ 1.9

Film · Neo-noir · Mystery (film) · Mystery

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Noah Cross

Chinatown · 1974

★ 1.9

Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh, erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it?

Dr. Frank-N-Furter

The Rocky Horror Picture Show · 1975

★ 1.9

Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space and meaning.

The Criminologist

The Rocky Horror Picture Show · 1975

★ 1.9

Film · Superhero (film) · Superhero

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Lex Luthor

Superman · 1978

★ 1.9

I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I’m a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood’s gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! “You’re cured, mate.” Bloody do-gooder.

Ex-Leper

Monty Python's Life of Brian · 1979

★ 1.9

I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen and all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.

Ty Webb

Caddyshack · 1980

★ 1.9

Film · Sports (film) · Historical drama (film) · Sports · Historical drama

Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way and where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Eric Liddell

Chariots of Fire · 1981

★ 1.9

Film · Christmas movie · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

It was all over—I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Mmph. Mere child's play compared to what surely awaited me.

Ralphie Parker

A Christmas Story · 1983

★ 1.9

Film · Christmas movie · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

Ralphie Parker

A Christmas Story · 1983

★ 1.9

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful with a dog shits ya!

Harry Callahan

Sudden Impact · 1983

★ 1.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Comedy (film) · Coming of age · Comedy

That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else.

Jim Baker

Sixteen Candles · 1984

★ 1.9

Film · Teen (film) · Horror (film) · Teen · Horror

It doesn't matter how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose. And even that doesn't make all that much difference.

Coach Finstock

Teen Wolf · 1985

★ 1.9

Film · Teen (film) · Coming of age (film) · Teen · Coming of age

You ought to spend a little more time trying to do something with yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.

Richard Vernon

The Breakfast Club · 1985

★ 1.9

Film · Sports (film) · Drama (film) · Sports · Drama

Let's win this one for all the small schools that never had a chance to get here.

Merle

Hoosiers · 1986

★ 1.9

Film · War (film) · War

Some of you think you have problems because you're against the war. You demonstrated in school, you wear peace symbols on your steel, and you have attitudes. I'm an orphan, my brother's queer, the city of Chicago got the clap from my sister, Mom drinks, Dad coughs blood, I have ringworm, immersion foot, the incurable crud and the draft ruined my chances of being a brain surgeon. People, you have no problem. Except me and him.

Sgt. Adam Frantz

Hamburger Hill · 1987

★ 1.9

Film · War (film) · War

On guard at night you'll write letters, play with your organ, and think of your girl back home. Forget her. Some hair head has her on her back right now and is telling her to fuck for peace.

Sgt. Adam Frantz

Hamburger Hill · 1987

★ 1.9

Film · Road movie · Comedy (film) · Comedy

You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

Del Griffith

Planes, Trains and Automobiles · 1987

★ 1.9

The main thing about money, Bud, is makes you do things you don't want to do.

Lou Mannheim

Wall Street · 1987

★ 1.9

It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street · 1987

★ 1.9