April 30, 2020

Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.

- To Kill a Mockingbird

April 29, 2020

[Dorothy Michaels' screen test]
Rita: I'd like to make her look a little more attractive, how far can you pull back?
Cameraman: How do you feel about Cleveland?
Rita: Knock it off.

- Tootsie

April 28, 2020

[cleaning their bloody hands]
Jules: Fuck, nigga, what the fuck did you do to his towel?
Vincent: I was dryin' my hands.
Jules: You're supposed to wash 'em first!
Vincent: You watched me wash 'em.
Jules: I watched you get 'em wet.
Vincent: I was washing 'em. But this shit's hard to get off. Maybe if I had Lava or something, I coulda done a better job.
Jules: I used the same fuckin' soap you did and when I got finished, the towel didn't look like no goddamn Maxi-Pad!

- Pulp Fiction

April 27, 2020

Walter Neff: That's a honey of an anklet you're wearing, Mrs. Dietrichson.

- Double Indemnity

April 26, 2020

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

- 2001: A Space Odyssey

April 25, 2020

P.A. Announcer: Attention. Tonight's movie has been "M*A*S*H." Follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines, operating as bombs - operating as bombs and bullets burst around them; snatching laughs and love between amputaions and penicillin.

- M*A*S*H

April 24, 2020

Red: These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.
Heywood: Shit. I could never get like that.
Ernie: Oh yeah? Say that when you been here as long as Brooks has.

- The Shawshank Redemption

April 23, 2020

Alvy Singer: Oh, do ya? Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here, so, so, yeah, just let me...
[pulls McLuhan out from behind a nearby poster]
Alvy Singer: come over here for a second... tell him!
Marshall McLuhan: I heard what you were saying! You know nothing of my work! You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing!
Alvy Singer: Boy, if life were only like this!

- Annie Hall

April 22, 2020

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

April 21, 2020

C.C. Baxter : It's a wonderful thing, dinner for two.
Fran Kubelik : Do you usually eat alone?
C.C. Baxter : Oh no. Sometimes I have dinner with Ed Sullivan. Sometimes Dinah Shore, or Perry Como. The other night I had dinner with Mae West. Of course she was much younger then.

- The Apartment

April 20, 2020

Aragorn: Gentlemen, we do not stop 'til nightfall.
Pippin: What about breakfast?
Aragorn: You've already had it.
Pippin: We've had one, yes. What about second breakfast?
Merry: I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
Pippin: What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?
Merry: I wouldn't count on it.

- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

April 19, 2020

In every jigsaw puzzle, there is one key piece, and the only tough job is to identify that key piece from the mess out there. We have to identify that piece. The puzzle would never be completed without it.

- Sapan Saxena, Finders, Keepers

April 18, 2020

The process of discarding and organizing confronts your emotions about the past, as well as your fears about the future. Your stuff (things that bring you joy and things that don’t) will show you what you value most in life.

- Marie Kondo

April 17, 2020

That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.

- Ethan Coen

April 16, 2020

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

- Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

April 15, 2020

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

- Marina Abramovic

April 14, 2020

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return.

- Munia Khan

April 13, 2020

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

- Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

April 12, 2020

It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.

- Nora Roberts, Key of Knowledge

April 11, 2020

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

- Erno Rubik

April 10, 2020

Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story.

- Marty Rubin

April 09, 2020

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

- Taxi Driver

April 08, 2020

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

- The Wizard of Oz

April 07, 2020

So, Do, La, Te, Do, Re, Do
Good!
But that doesn't mean anything!
So we put in words, one word for every note, like this:
When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything
Together!
When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything.

- "Do Re Mi," Sound of Music

April 06, 2020

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

- Jonathan Kellerman

April 05, 2020

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.

- Cat Deeley

April 04, 2020

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

- Jorma Kaukonen

April 03, 2020

In a short time, this will be... a long time ago.

- Slow West

April 02, 2020

Clyde: This is a stickup. Just take it easy and nothin' will happen to you. Gimme the money.
Teller: Heighdy.
Clyde: Gimme the money!
Teller: What money? There ain't no money here, mister.
Clyde: What do you mean there ain't no money? This here is a bank, ain't it?
Teller: This was a bank. We failed three weeks ago.

- Bonnie and Clyde

April 01, 2020

Nick: And I come down here... and you're stumbling around going 'clink,' for God's sake, 'clink.' You've all gone crazy.

- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?