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Work7 quotes
Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. — Female Temp · 1999I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot. — Hansel · 2001So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, um, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life. — Peter Gibbons · 1999Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements! — Peter Gibbons · 1999I don’t like my job and I don’t think I’m gonna go anymore. — Peter Gibbons · 1999I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. — Bill Lumbergh · 1999All 7 quotes →
Love6 quotes
Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife. — Del Griffith · 1987Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase? — Wayne Campbell · 1992I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. — Harry Burns · 1989Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. — Westley · 1987I could never find time for love. It's too heavy. It's an anchor that drowns a man. Besides, I got the sky, the smell of jet exhaust, my bike. — Topper Harley · 1991Love, it's a motherfucker, huh? — Waiter · 2003
Christmas4 quotes
There's room for everyone on the nice list. — Buddy · 2003We plunged into the cornucopia quivering with desire and the ecstasy of unbridled avarice. — Ralphie Parker · 1983The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. — Buddy · 2003Treat every day like Christmas. — Buddy · 2003
Optimism4 quotes
So you’re telling me there’s a chance! — Lloyd Christmas · 1994Always look on the bright side of life. — Lead Singer Crucifee · 1979Why, don't you have a dark side? No, you're probably one of those cheerful people who dot their i's with little hearts. — Harry Burns · 1989You be positive. I'll be realistic. — Uncle Frank · 1990
Sex4 quotes
By the way...I faked every orgasm! — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988So, the psychiatrist has a patient, draws a circle, what do you think of when you see this? He says, sex. That's not the joke, wait a second. He draws a picture of a tree, what do you think of when you see it? Sex. He draws a picture of a car, house, sex, sex, sex. The doctor says, you know, you're obsessed with sex. The patient says, well you're the one drawing all the dirty pictures! — Bob Wiley · 1991Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. — Harry Burns · 1989Imagine how many people out there right now are fuckin’ man...just goin’ at it. — Ron Slater · 1993
Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. — Female Temp · 1999So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, um, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life. — Peter Gibbons · 1999Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements! — Peter Gibbons · 1999
If you wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans. — Reg · 1979Listen, the only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front! — Reg · 1979All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? — Reg · 1979
No, we will not die like dogs, we will fight like lions because we are the three amigos! — Dusty Bottoms · 1986In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo! — Lucky Day · 1986Is this a breakthrough, that I'm a sailor? I sail? I sail now? — Bob Wiley · 1991
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. — Harry Burns · 1989I'm all for that. Especially with women. You know, they may not admit it, but they all want a man to…take charge. Tell them what to do. — Darryl Jenks · 1988
Giving up3 quotes
This quitting thing, it's a hard habit to break once you start. — Coach Morris Buttermaker · 1976Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you're just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man. The Man, oh, you don't know the Man? Well, he's everywhere. In the White House, down the hall, Miss Mullins, she's the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, and he's burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank, ok? And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock 'n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don't waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome 'cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just give up! — Dewey Finn · 2003When life gives you lemons, just say "Fuck the lemons," and bail. — Chuck · 2008
Marriage3 quotes
Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us together today. Mawage, that blessed awangement, that dweam wifin a dweam. — The Impressive Clergyman · 1987Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife. — Del Griffith · 1987They always say the key to a solid marriage is laughter. — Mrs. Doubtfire · 1993
I want a woman that will arouse my intellect as well as my loins. — Prince Akeem · 1988No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you. — El Guapo · 1986
Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you. — El Guapo · 1986Let me tell you a little something I've learned about women. They want you to come get them. They love it. — Garth Algar · 1992I'm all for that. Especially with women. You know, they may not admit it, but they all want a man to…take charge. Tell them what to do. — Darryl Jenks · 1988
Politics3 quotes
If you wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans. — Reg · 1979Listen, the only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front! — Reg · 1979Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. — Dennis · 1975
Reputation3 quotes
I'm kind of a big deal...people know me. — Ron Burgundy · 2004I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. — Ron Burgundy · 2004I'd rather go to jail than lose my reputation. — Brooke Taylor Windham · 2001
Revenge3 quotes
Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. — Inigo Montoya · 1987We have an old saying in Delta: don't get mad, get even. — Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day · 1978You know, it's very strange. I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life. — Inigo Montoya · 1987
Shitty jobs3 quotes
Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements! — Peter Gibbons · 1999I don’t like my job and I don’t think I’m gonna go anymore. — Peter Gibbons · 1999I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. — Bill Lumbergh · 1999
True love3 quotes
I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. But if you spew and she bolts, it was never meant to be. — Wayne Campbell · 1992Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. — Westley · 1987This is true love. You think this happens every day? — Westley · 1987
Women3 quotes
Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you. — El Guapo · 1986Let me tell you a little something I've learned about women. They want you to come get them. They love it. — Garth Algar · 1992I'm all for that. Especially with women. You know, they may not admit it, but they all want a man to…take charge. Tell them what to do. — Darryl Jenks · 1988
Alienation2 quotes
Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. — Female Temp · 1999Do 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
America2 quotes
America is great indeed. Imagine a country so free, one can throw glass on the streets! — Prince Akeem · 1988Hey, guys, one more thing, hey, this summer, when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don’t forget what you’re celebrating, and that’s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn’t want to pay their taxes. — Ms. Stroud · 1993
Bad luck2 quotes
Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us. — Ralphie Parker · 1983If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it's that a male model's life is a precious, precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident. — Derek Zoolander · 2001
Beatitudes2 quotes
Well, what Jesus fails to appreciate is it's the meek who are the problem. — Reg · 1979I think it was, "Blessed are the cheesemakers!" — Spectator I · 1979
You’re rather...attractive, for a beautiful girl with a great body. — Ty Webb · 1980Her hair was the color of gold in old paintings. She had a full set of curves and the kind of legs you'd like to suck on for a day. She was giving me a look I could feel in my hip pocket. — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988
Beauty2 quotes
You’re rather...attractive, for a beautiful girl with a great body. — Ty Webb · 1980Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Derek Zoolander · 2001
Jane, since I've met you, I've noticed things that I never knew were there before...birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights. — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. — Harry Burns · 1989
Cats2 quotes
He can't lift the seat, Greg. He lacks the strength in the opposable thumbs. — Jack Byrnes · 2000You see, Greg, when you yell at a dog, his tail will go between his legs and cover his genitals, his ears will go down. A dog is very easy to break, but cats make you work for their affection. They don't sell out the way dogs do. — Jack Byrnes · 2000
Clothing2 quotes
If I saw myself in clothes like those, I'd have to kick my own ass. — Happy Gilmore · 1996Oh, I like your outfit too, except when I dress up as a frigid bitch, I try not to look so constipated. — Elle Woods · 2001
Courage2 quotes
No, we will not die like dogs, we will fight like lions because we are the three amigos! — Dusty Bottoms · 1986I thought you were incredibly brave. And I mean that in strictly the most clinical and professional sense possible, with no emotional, intimate, sexual, or any other undertones that you could possibly infer. — Denise · 2008
Love, it's a motherfucker, huh? — Waiter · 2003That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else. — Jim Baker · 1984