2009

And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.

Michael Scott

The Office · 2009

★ 5.5

A man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

Justice is love on legs, spilling over into the public sphere.

First Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2009

★ 4.6

Interview

Cornel West

2009

★ 4.6

Facebook

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

Sarah Palin

2009

★ 4.4

TV program · Comedy (TV)

Do you respect wood, Susie?

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm · 2009

★ 4.0

Everybody needs a co-pilot.

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 3.9

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.

I just woke up one day and I knew.

First Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2009

★ 3.8

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

Summer

(500) Days of Summer · 2009

★ 3.8

Guys love it when you can show them you're better than they are at something they love.

Leslie Knope

Parks and Recreation · 2009

★ 3.8

If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life, were you alone?... Life's better with company.

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 3.8

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

When you got a career, there ain't enough time in the day. You look at your watch, time just flies, like God damn, whoa, it's 5:35! Damn, I gotta come in early tomorrow and work on my project. Cause there ain't enough time when you got a career. When you got a job, there's too much time. That's right, you look at your watch like, ah shit. 9:08.

2009

★ 3.7

Standup comedy · Comedy

Chris Rock

2009

★ 3.7

Film · Science fiction (film) · Epic (film) · Science fiction · Epic

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

Jake Sully

Avatar · 2009

★ 3.7

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen. 50 years I spent like that, finding myself awake at 3 in the morning. But, you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. I came to realize it's that fear that's the worst of it. That's the real enemy.

Walter White

Breaking Bad · 2009

★ 3.7

Sexually harassing? That makes no sense to me. Why would I harass someone who turns me on?

Pierce Hawthorne

Community · 2009

★ 3.7

Look, it doesn’t take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn’t have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes?

Oscar Martinez

The Office · 2009

★ 3.7

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

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 3.7

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?

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 3.7

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

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 3.7

Nothing haunts like the things we don't say.

Mitch Albom

Have a Little Faith · 2009

★ 3.5

Speech · TED Talk

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Danger of a Single Story · 2009

★ 3.5

Interview · Magazine

Instead of looking at things, look between things.

John Baldessari

2009

★ 3.5

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.

I just-I can’t stand the sound of the human voice.

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 2.9

TV program · Comedy (TV)

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm · 2009

★ 2.3

Interview · Newspaper

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2009

★ 2.2

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Stay out of my territory.

Walter White

Breaking Bad · 2009

★ 2.2

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos, and masturbating do not constitute "plans" in my book.

Walter White

Breaking Bad · 2009

★ 2.1

Because doing more than the minimum work is my definition of failing.

Jeff Winger

Community · 2009

★ 2.1

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

Mr. Fox

Fantastic Mr. Fox · 2009

★ 2.1

TV program · Drama (TV) · Drama

If you don’t like what is being said, then change the conversation.

Don Draper

Mad Men · 2009

★ 2.1

I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really really well.

Andy Dwyer

Parks and Recreation · 2009

★ 2.1

If you don't believe in love, what's the point of living?

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation · 2009

★ 2.1

Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.

Michael Scott

The Office · 2009

★ 2.1

You're young. Right now, you see settling as some sort of a failure.

Alex Goran

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 2.1

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.

First Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2009

★ 2.0

What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.