March 31, 2020

Buddy Russo: What was the weight of the car when you got it, Irv?
Police Mechanic: 4795 pounds.
Buddy Russo: You sure?
Police Mechanic: That's what it was: 4795 pounds when it came into the shop.
Buddy Russo: Owners manual says 4675. That's 120 pounds overweight. And when it was booked into Marseilles it was 4-7-9-5. That's still 120 pounds overweight! Jimmy's gotta be right.
Police Mechanic: Listen, I ripped everything outta there except the rocker panels.
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: C'mon Irv, what the hell is that!

- The French Connection

March 30, 2020

How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

March 29, 2020

Charlie Allnut: A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

- The African Queen

March 28, 2020

Grandpa Joad: It's my dirt! Eh-heh! No good, but it's - it's mine, all mine.

- The Grapes of Wrath

March 27, 2020

Your problem is not that you misread signs; all you see are signs.

- André Aciman, Enigma Variations

March 26, 2020

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

- Biz Stone

March 25, 2020

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

- Thalassa Cruso

March 24, 2020

Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet paper squirreled away. Keep your phone charged.

- Gretchen Rubin

March 23, 2020

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

- Karl Pilkington

March 22, 2020

All over the world, people are being quarantined and are being compelled to practice social distancing. We are trying desperately to remain sane in a world that seems bordering on the insane.

- Avijeet Das

March 21, 2020

General Jack D. Ripper: Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.

- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

March 20, 2020

It’s admittedly funny when a supermarket is out of almost everything, but can’t give away pineapple pizza, chickpea pasta or anything with the word “corona” on it, like Corona beer.

Social media is interpreting these shopping choices as an odd sign of hope: A way Americans are demonstrating that, despite living in desperate times, we’re still not desperate enough to eat a tofu hot dog.

- Mark Price, "Desperate shoppers not desperate enough for odd foods on picked-over grocery shelves," The Charlotte Observer, 3/26/2020

March 19, 2020

With few exceptions, time spent in
the company of others is therapeutic,
while every minute spent brooding
alone only increases separation.

- Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

March 18, 2020

When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.

- Robert Redford

March 17, 2020

Just take those old records off the shelf
I'll sit and listen to 'em by m'self.

- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, "Old Time Rock & Roll"

March 16, 2020

Rosebud.

- Citizen Kane

March 15, 2020

I love to be beside your side, beside the sea,
Beside the seaside, by the beautiful sea!

- Harry Carroll & Harold R. Atteridge, "By the Beautiful Sea" | Some Like it Hot

March 14, 2020

You never know what you have until its gone: toilet paper for instance.

- Author Unknown

March 13, 2020

New Rule: Instead of killing 99.9 percent of germs, Lysol has to just go ahead and kill them all. Why spare the remaining 0.1 percent? So they can return to their villages and tell the other germs, "Dude, do not mess with Lysol"?

- Bill Maher

March 12, 2020

[The Purge Siren]

March 11, 2020

Juror #3 : He said 20 seconds.
Juror #8 : [looks at him] He said fifteen!
Juror #3 : He said twenty seconds! What are you tryin' to distort...
Juror #11 : He said fifteen.
Juror #3 : [pause, then shouts] How does he know how long fifteen seconds is? You can't judge a thing like that!
Juror #9 : He said fifteen seconds. He was very positive about it!
Juror #3 : He was an old man! Half the time he was confused! How could he be positive about anything?

- 12 Angry Men

March 10, 2020

Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.

- John Lasseter

March 09, 2020

Woody: You, are, a, toyyyyy! You're not the real thing. You're an action figure. You are a child's play thing!

- Toy Story

March 08, 2020

It’s better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

- Fridtjof Nansen

March 07, 2020

Leap and grow your wings on the way down.

- Les Brown

March 06, 2020

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

- Wayne Dyer

March 05, 2020

Here's looking at you, kid

- Casablanca

March 04, 2020

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

- Kathe Kollwitz

March 03, 2020

There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan. Boy!

- Sullivan's Travels

March 02, 2020

Look at that big hand move along,
Nearin' high noon.

- Tex Ritter, "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)"

March 01, 2020

Night is a world lit by itself.

- Antonio Porchia