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My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. — Forrest Gump · 1994 Hello. My name's Forrest, Forrest Gump. — Forrest Gump · 1994 I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. — Forrest Gump · 1994 Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Forrest Gump · 1994 My mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. — Forrest Gump · 1994 I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floatin’ around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both get happening at the same time. — Forrest Gump · 1994 All 13 quotes →

John Keating10 quotes

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. — John Keating · 1989 Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. — John Keating · 1989 The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? — John Keating · 1989 No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989 Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is...to woo women. — John Keating · 1989 We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — John Keating · 1989 All 10 quotes →

Morpheus9 quotes

You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. — Morpheus · 1999 The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room. — Morpheus · 1999 I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it. — Morpheus · 1999 All I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more. — Morpheus · 1999 You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. — Morpheus · 1999 Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. — Morpheus · 1999 All 9 quotes →

Joel Barish8 quotes

I can't see anything that I don't like about you. Right now I can't. — Joel Barish · 2004 What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger. — Joel Barish · 2004 Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? — Joel Barish · 2004 Please let me keep this memory, just this one. — Joel Barish · 2004 It will be different. If we could just give it another go-round. — Joel Barish · 2004 Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. — Joel Barish · 2004 All 8 quotes →

General George S. Patton7 quotes

Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969 Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. — General George S. Patton · 1969 I won't have cowards in my army. — General George S. Patton · 1969 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! — General George S. Patton · 1969 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." — General George S. Patton · 1969 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. — General George S. Patton · 1969 All 7 quotes →

Harry Burns7 quotes

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Harry Burns · 1989 No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989 Why, 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 · 1989 When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side. — Harry Burns · 1989 I 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 Right now, everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love, and that's wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of that's-mine-this-is-yours. — Harry Burns · 1989 All 7 quotes →

Rick Blaine7 quotes

Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. — Rick Blaine · 1942 We'll always have Paris. — Rick Blaine · 1942 Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. — Rick Blaine · 1942 Here's looking at you, kid. — Rick Blaine · 1942 Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. — Rick Blaine · 1942 When it comes to women, you’re a true democrat. — Rick Blaine · 1942 All 7 quotes →

Tony Montana7 quotes

Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983 The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. — Tony Montana · 1983 In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. That's why you gotta make your own moves. — Tony Montana · 1983 You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be! You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy!" — Tony Montana · 1983 You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked! — Tony Montana · 1983 All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break 'em for no one. Do you understand? — Tony Montana · 1983 All 7 quotes →

Walter Sobchak7 quotes

That rug really tied the room together, did it not? — Walter Sobchak · 1998 Smokey, my friend, you're entering a world of pain. — Walter Sobchak · 1998 Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos. — Walter Sobchak · 1998 Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules? Mark it zero! — Walter Sobchak · 1998 Aw fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling. — Walter Sobchak · 1998 Life does not stop and start at your convenience you miserable piece of shit. — Walter Sobchak · 1998 All 7 quotes →

Chris McCandless6 quotes

The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences. — Chris McCandless · 2007 And just remember if you want something in life, reach out and grab it. — Chris McCandless · 2007 Happiness only real when shared. — Chris McCandless · 2007 I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. — Chris McCandless · 2007 Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Chris McCandless · 2007 But you're wrong if you think the joy of life comes principally from human relationships. God's placed it all around us. It's in everything, in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at those things. — Chris McCandless · 2007

Don Vito Corleone6 quotes

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. — Don Vito Corleone · 1972 A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. — Don Vito Corleone · 1972 I spend my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men. — Don Vito Corleone · 1972 How did things ever get so far? I don't know. — Don Vito Corleone · 1972 Never tell anyone outside the family what you're thinking again. — Don Vito Corleone · 1972 You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me? — Don Vito Corleone · 1972

Dorothy Gale6 quotes

There's no place like home. — Dorothy Gale · 1939 Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy Gale · 1939 Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. — Dorothy Gale · 1939 Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my! — Dorothy Gale · 1939 I think I'll miss you most of all. — Dorothy Gale · 1939 My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward! — Dorothy Gale · 1939

Edward Bloom6 quotes

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

Gordon Gekko6 quotes

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind. — Gordon Gekko · 1987 The most valuable commodity I know of is information. — Gordon Gekko · 1987 If you need a friend, get a dog. — Gordon Gekko · 1987 I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought. — Gordon Gekko · 1987 The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price of a paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market and you're a part of it. Yeah, you got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I still got a lot to teach you. — Gordon Gekko · 1987 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 · 1987

James Bond6 quotes

Just a drink. A martini, shaken, not stirred. — James Bond · 1964 Bond. James Bond. — James Bond · 1962 I know when a woman is afraid and pretending not to be. — James Bond · 2012 Sheer magnetism, darling. — James Bond · 1973 Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something. — James Bond · 1963 Do I look like I give a damn? — James Bond · 2006

Jesse6 quotes

If I could change one thing about you, it would be for you to stop trying to change me. — Jesse · 2013 But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013 Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004 You know, I think you gotta be a little deluded to stay motivated. — Jesse · 2013 Happiness is in doing, not in the getting what you want. — Jesse · 2004 You know what I think? I think its from the time we leave our parents house until we have kids - that's the only time your life is completely your own. You know I think I had about a decade of that. It was great. It was just like one long, flowing... a day, a week, a year, there wasn't much difference. — Jesse · 2013

Peter Gibbons6 quotes

So 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 · 1999 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 · 1999 The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care. — Peter Gibbons · 1999 I don’t like my job and I don’t think I’m gonna go anymore. — Peter Gibbons · 1999 Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be. — Peter Gibbons · 1999 I'd say in a given week, I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work. — Peter Gibbons · 1999

Rhett Butler6 quotes

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. — Rhett Butler · 1939 With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. — Rhett Butler · 1939 No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how. — Rhett Butler · 1939 How fickle is woman. — Rhett Butler · 1939 Did you ever think of marrying just for fun? — Rhett Butler · 1939 Scarlett! Look at me! I love you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman. — Rhett Butler · 1939

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

Sean6 quotes

You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. — Sean · 1997 You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997 People call these things imperfections, but they're not. That's the good stuff and then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds. — Sean · 1997 You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense, this girl you've met, she's isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other. — Sean · 1997 You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997 He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that. — Sean · 1997

Tyler Durden6 quotes

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. — Tyler Durden · 1999 Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. — Tyler Durden · 1999 The things you own end up owning you. — Tyler Durden · 1999 It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Tyler Durden · 1999 How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? — Tyler Durden · 1999 We're consumers. We're by-products of a lifestyle obsession. — Tyler Durden · 1999

Antonius Block5 quotes

No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957 We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957 Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together. — Antonius Block · 1957 Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call. — Antonius Block · 1957 My body is ready, but I am not. — Antonius Block · 1957

Bodhi5 quotes

This was never about money for us, it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something. To those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins, we show them that the human sprit is still alive. — Bodhi · 1991 Just feel what the wave is doing. Then accept its energy. Get in sync and charge with it. You don't need to see. — Bodhi · 1991 Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true. So, it's simple, you project strength to avoid conflict. — Bodhi · 1991 If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love. — Bodhi · 1991 It's basic dog psychology, if you scare them and get them peeing down their leg, they submit. But if you project weakness, you draw aggression, that's how people get hurt. — Bodhi · 1991

Buddy5 quotes

There's room for everyone on the nice list. — Buddy · 2003 I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite. — Buddy · 2003 The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. — Buddy · 2003 Treat every day like Christmas. — Buddy · 2003 You sit on a throne of lies! — Buddy · 2003

Dominic Toretto5 quotes

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all that bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free. — Dominic Toretto · 2001 We talkin' or we racin'? — Dominic Toretto · 2011 I don't have friends, I got family. — Dominic Toretto · 2015 You can have any brew you want...as long as it's a Corona. — Dominic Toretto · 2001 The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here, right now. Salute, mi familia. — Dominic Toretto · 2011

Lt. Frank Drebin5 quotes

By the way...I faked every orgasm! — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988 Just think, next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested. — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988 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 · 1988 Protecting the safety of the Queen is a task that is gladly accepted by Police Squad. No matter how silly the idea of having a queen might be to us, as Americans, we must be gracious and considerate hosts. — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988 Her 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

Noah5 quotes

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, and makes us reach for more, that, plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me and what I hope to give to you forever. — Noah · 2004 If in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. — Noah · 2004 You need to learn how to trust. — Noah · 2004 I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore because I know that what we had was real. — Noah · 2004 So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday. — Noah · 2004

Obi-Wan Kenobi5 quotes

The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977 Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977 Your father...was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1983 He's more machine now than man. Twisted and evil. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1983 If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977

Phil5 quotes

What if there were no tomorrow? — Phil · 1993 What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing that you did mattered? — Phil · 1993 Anything different is good. — Phil · 1993 Well maybe the real God uses tricks, you know? Maybe he's not omnipotent. He's just been around so long he knows everything. — Phil · 1993 I think people place too much emphasis on their careers. I wish we could all live in the mountains at high altitude. That's where I see myself in five years. How about you? — Phil · 1993

Ralphie Parker5 quotes

We plunged into the cornucopia quivering with desire and the ecstasy of unbridled avarice. — Ralphie Parker · 1983 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 · 1983 In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. — Ralphie Parker · 1983 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 · 1983 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 · 1983

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