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They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true... What they don't tell you is that once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. — Edward Bloom · 2003 Now there comes a point when a reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit he's made a terrible mistake. The truth is…I was never a reasonable man. — Edward Bloom · 2003 There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they are faster or stronger than other fish, they're just touched by something extra. — Edward Bloom · 2003 Did you ever think that maybe you're not too big, but maybe this town is just too small? — Edward Bloom · 2003 I've been nothin' but myself since the day I was born, and if you can't see that it's your failin', not mine. — Edward Bloom · 2003 Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring. — Edward Bloom · 2003

Ryan Bingham6 quotes

Everybody needs a co-pilot. — Ryan Bingham · 2009 If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life, were you alone?... Life's better with company. — Ryan Bingham · 2009 You know that moment when you look into somebody's eyes and you can feel them staring into your soul and the whole world goes quiet just for a second? — Ryan Bingham · 2009 Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are right now. And it's because they sat there that they were able to do it. That's the truth. — Ryan Bingham · 2009 Tonight most people will be welcomed home by jumping dogs and squealing kids. Their spouses will ask about their day, and tonight they'll sleep. The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over. — Ryan Bingham · 2009 All the things you probably hate about travelling—the recycled air, the artificial lighting, the digital juice dispensers, the cheap sushi—are warm reminders that I'm home. — Ryan Bingham · 2009

Jefferson Smith4 quotes

Dad always used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes. — Jefferson Smith · 1939 Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again! — Jefferson Smith · 1939 I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if behind them they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too. — Jefferson Smith · 1939 Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that. — Jefferson Smith · 1939

Lester Burnham4 quotes

Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. — Lester Burnham · 1999 This isn't life! This is just stuff! And it's become more important to you than living! Well, honey, that's just nuts. — Lester Burnham · 1999 Remember those posters that said, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life'? Well, that's true of every day except one, the day you die. — Lester Burnham · 1999 And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. — Lester Burnham · 1999

Mark Renton4 quotes

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchased in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life...but why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? — Mark Renton · 1996 When you're on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you're off it, you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can't get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins, about human relationships and all the things that really don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit. — Mark Renton · 1996 Excuse me, excuse me, I don't mean to harass you, but I was very impressed with the capable and stylish manner in which you dealt with that situation. I was thinking to myself, now, this girl's special. — Mark Renton · 1996 You see if you ask me we're heterosexual by default, not by decision. It's just a question of who you fancy. It's all about aesthetics and it's fuck all to do with morality. — Mark Renton · 1996

Alex Goran3 quotes

We all fall for them. Pricks are spontaneous, they're unpredictable, and they're fun. And then we're surprised when they turn out to be pricks. — Alex Goran · 2009 You're young. Right now, you see settling as some sort of a failure. — Alex Goran · 2009 I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis. — Alex Goran · 2009

Alvy Singer3 quotes

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies, and I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. — Alvy Singer · 1977 I don't want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is you can make a right turn on a red light. — Alvy Singer · 1977 I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. You know, the horrible be like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life, it's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So when you go through life, you should be thankful that you're miserable, because you're very lucky, to be miserable. — Alvy Singer · 1977

Jerry Maguire3 quotes

Help me, help you. Help me, help you. — Jerry Maguire · 1996 I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996 I don't think we need to do the thing where we tell each other everything. — Jerry Maguire · 1996

Melvin Udall3 quotes

This is New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. — Melvin Udall · 1997 You make me want to be a better man. — Melvin Udall · 1997 What if this is as good as it gets? — Melvin Udall · 1997

Troy Dyer3 quotes

Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself. — Troy Dyer · 1994 I love her. She breaks my heart again and again, but I love her. — Troy Dyer · 1994 There's no point to any of this. It's all just a...a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know...a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter becomes a cackle. And I sit back, and I...I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt. — Troy Dyer · 1994

Bob Harris2 quotes

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. — Bob Harris · 2003 It's the most terrifying day of your life the day the first one is born. — Bob Harris · 2003

Daniel Hillard2 quotes

Do you ever wish you that sometimes you could freeze frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, "this is not my life?" — Daniel Hillard · 1993 We've come to this planet looking for intelligent life. Oops, we made a mistake. — Daniel Hillard · 1993

Edwin Hoover2 quotes

A real loser is somebody who's so afraid of not winning they don't even try. — Edwin Hoover · 2006 Fuck a lot of women, kid. I have no reason to lie to you. Not one woman, a lotta women. — Edwin Hoover · 2006

Everett2 quotes

I detect, like me, you're endowed with the gift of gab. — Everett · 2000 Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated. — Everett · 2000

Howard Beale2 quotes

I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! — Howard Beale · 1976 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 · 1976

Jean2 quotes

Everything you touch turns to shit, like King Midas's idiot brother. — Jean · 2013 You know you don't want to go anywhere, and that's why the same shit is going to keep happening to you, because you want it to. — Jean · 2013

Jimmy Dugan2 quotes

It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. — Jimmy Dugan · 1992 Well, anything worth doing is worth doing right. — Jimmy Dugan · 1992

Kris Kringle2 quotes

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 · 1947 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 · 1947

Lelaina Pierce2 quotes

I was really going to be something by the age of 23. — Lelaina Pierce · 1994 Alright, fine. You wanna be in a band? Fine. Go ahead. Play every night. Play three times a night! Don't just dick around the same coffee house for five years. Don't dick around with her or with me. I mean, try at something for once in your life. Do something about it, but you know what? You better do it now, and you better do it fast, because the world doesn't owe you any favors. And whether you know it or not, you're on the inside track to loserville, USA. — Lelaina Pierce · 1994

Lester Bangs2 quotes

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool. — Lester Bangs · 2000 Music, you know, true music, not just rock n roll, it chooses you. — Lester Bangs · 2000

Mrs. Doubtfire2 quotes

Well, they say a man who has to buy a big car like that is trying to compensate for smaller genitals. — Mrs. Doubtfire · 1993 They always say the key to a solid marriage is laughter. — Mrs. Doubtfire · 1993

Natalie Keener2 quotes

Men get such hard-ons from putting their names on stuff. You guys don't grow up. It's like you need to pee on everything. — Natalie Keener · 2009 I don't mind being married to my career. And I don't expect it to hold me in bed as I fall sleep. — Natalie Keener · 2009

Ricky Fitts2 quotes

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999 Never underestimate the power of denial. — Ricky Fitts · 1999

Rod Tidwell2 quotes

Show me the money! — Rod Tidwell · 1996 You are hanging on by a very thin thread and I dig that about you! — Rod Tidwell · 1996

Rupert Pupkin2 quotes

Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime. — Rupert Pupkin · 1982 You know, Jerry, I'm going to tell you something. Friendship is a two-way street. Do you know that? And you couldn't care less about me. — Rupert Pupkin · 1982

Thelma2 quotes

Wide awake. I don't ever remember feeling this awake. You know what I mean? Everything looks different. — Thelma · 1991 I know it's crazy, but I just feel like I got a knack for this shit. — Thelma · 1991

Tom2 quotes

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 · 2009 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 · 2009

Warren Schmidt2 quotes

I know we're all pretty small in the big scheme of things, and I suppose the most you can hope for is to make some kind of difference, but what kind of difference have I made? What in the world is better because of me? — Warren Schmidt · 2002 Relatively soon, I will die. Maybe in 20 years, maybe tomorrow, it doesn't matter. Once I am dead and everyone who knew me dies too, it will be as though I never even existed. What difference has my life made to anyone. None that I can think of. None at all. — Warren Schmidt · 2002

Alfred1 quote

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 · 1947

Ben Braddock1 quote

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me...aren't you? — Ben Braddock · 1967

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