Memorable things characters said

DEAR GOD, MAKE ME A BIRD. SO I COULD FLY FAR FAR AWAY FROM HERE.
--Forrest Gump (1994)

MY MOMMA ALWAYS SAID, "LIFE WAS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET."
--Forrest Gump (1994)

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES
--Forrest Gump (1994)

absolutely love this movie!!!

"You know...like Katherine Hepburn in Summertime? Why can't I be Katherine Hepburn????"-Michael Jeter's character in The Fisher King

Soliloquy of Molly Bloom (conclusion) - from last chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses.

O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down Jo me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail-
Guard: Where'd you get the coconuts?
Arthur: We found them.
Guard: Found them? In Mercia?! The coconut's tropical!
Arthur: What do you mean?
Guard: Well, Mercia's a temperate zone!
Arthur: The swallow may fly south with the sun, and the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land.
Guard: ... Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

Jack in "as good as it gets", "I'm drowning here and your describing the water". great movie.

I have a fweind in wome named bigus dickus, twhow him to the fwoor.

"NO!" - Marcel Marceau in Mel Brooks Silent Movie.....the only word in it and it was spoken by a mime.

"You don't know me...I will **** you up."
Jasmine Guy's character in Dead Like Me

and this from fight club

Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

i think this should be the new american pledge of allegiance



That explains a lot about the attitude of the Tea Party.

You broke the first rule.

*claps hands to mouth*

Not yet, Squinney, but thanks for posting it. I'll look into it for sure.

There's another little quote from The Thorn Birds that I'm unable to dig. SOmething about how we keep doing things that are not good for us, even when we know they are not good for us.

there are people who would tell you these are real people, but i find that hard to believe

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan

I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
Bill Clinton

I'm not a crook.
Richard Nixon

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective — a new world order — can emerge
George Bush Sr.

Too many doctors are going out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their...their love with women all across this country.
George Bush Jr.

One of my favorite lines. Don Cheadle in Devil in a Blue Dress.

"If you didn't want him dead, then why'd you leave him with me?"

Yep. That was priceless.
Another of my favs was in the same movie, between the same two characters.
"I don't want your kinda help, Mouse. You ain't been in my house five minutes and already you done shot somebody."

Tombstone with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.
"Where's Wyatt?"
"Oh, he's down by the creek...walkin' on water."