Ability quotes
779 ability quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Withnail and I
“- Monty: You're going to finish the vegetables.
- Withnail: I don't know how to do them.
- Monty: Well, of course you don't, you are incapable of indulging in anything but pleasure, am I not right? You don't deserve such loyalty. Now, come along, I'm going to teach you how to peel a potato.” - From the movie: The Rocketeer
“- Howard Hughes: How did it feel, strapping that thing to your back and flying like a bat out of hell?
- Cliff: It's the closest I'll ever get to heaven.” - From the movie: Andre
“- Thalice: How do you spell Mississippi?
- Toni: M-I-S-S-I... Who cares, mom? I live in Maine!” - From the movie: Gorillas in the Mist
“- Dian Fossey: It's nice to see a married man who can sew.
- Bob Campbell: How did you know I was married?
- Dian Fossey: The night you arrived, you shook the rain off your parka outside the door so you wouldn't get the floor wet.
- Bob Campbell: Does it matter?
- Dian Fossey: Apparently not.” - From the movie: Yankee Doodle Dandy
“He's the most original thing that ever hit Broadway. And do you know why? Because he's the whole darn country squeezed into one pair of pants. His writing, his songs, why even his walk and his talk. They all touch something way down here in people [he gestures to his heart]. Don't ask me why it is, but it happens every time the curtain goes up....” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Red Dawn
“Even the tiniest flea can drive a big dog crazy.”
- From the movie: Lord of the Flies
“You better start learning to live with yourself, because we ain't gonna get rescued.”
- From the movie: Where the Buffalo Roam
“You couldn't invent someone like Carl Lazlo. He was a... he was one of a kind. He was a mutant. A real heavyweight water buffalo type... who could chew his way through a concrete wall and spit out the other side covered with lime and chalk and look good in doing it.”
- From the movie: Sharpe's Rifles
- From the movie: Friday Night Lights
- From the movie: Kill The Messenger
“I know I pissed off a lot of people over the years, many of whom are in this room right now. But I think that's what good investigative reporting does. It ruffles feathers.”
- From the movie: 1941
“- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: All of our navigational equipment is inoperable. It's all crap! What kind of submarine did your government sell us?
- Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt: The instruments on this vessel are the finest Swiss-made. The problem is with your crew. Even children in the Hitler youth learn by the age of ten how to operate a simple...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Amadeus
“A young man trying to impress beyond his abilities.”
- From the movie: Men of War
“- Nick Gunar: Why didn't you recommend Keefer?
- Colonel Merrick: Keefer... This op, for what I'm told, isn't just slash and burn. This one calls for the touch of the poet.” - From the movie: Biker Boyz
“You talk like a man, let's see if you could ride like one.”
- From the movie: American Sniper
“- Instructor #2: D, what are you still doing in my line trying to make this team? Everybody knows black guys don*t swim!
- 'D': It's alright Sir, I'm not black!
- Instructor #2: No?
- 'D': No I'm the new black. We run slow, we jump low, we swim good, and we shop at Gap. And I make the white folk proud, and I hose down their ladies. I dick 'em down!” - From the movie: Blow Out
“I didn't hire her for her scream, Jack, I hired her for her tits!”
- From the movie: Barb Wire
“I abhor torture. But your words just don't match your thoughts. There are too many details you're just not sharing with us. Our little mind-reading device doesn't lie.”
- From the movie: Circle of Iron
“Tie two birds together, and even though they have four wings, they cannot fly.”
- From the movie: Poison Ivy II: Lily
- From the movie: Paul Blart: Mall Cop
“What are you trained to do? Nothing...”
- From the movie: The Boondock Saints
“- Connor: We haven't really got a system of deciding who, Roc. It's, uh...
- Rocco: Me! Me! I'm the guy! I know everyone! Their habits, who they hang out with, who they talk to! I've got phone numbers, addresses! I know who they're fucking! I know where they live! We could kill everyone.
- Murphy: So what do you think?
- Connor: I'm strangely...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Vertical Limit
“- Peter: Can you climb?
- Monique: Peter wants to know if I can climb!
- Skip: Worst I ever seen. Couldn't climb a ladder.
- Peter: You're that good, huh?
- Monique: Yes... But it was a very tall ladder.” - La trovi in Career in Cinema
- From the movie: Hanover Street
“- David Halloran: You don't seem like the farm type to me.
- Margaret Sellinger: I can milk a cow.
- David Halloran: Her ladyship can milk a cow?
- Margaret Sellinger: She can.
- David Halloran: With her very own hands?
- Margaret Sellinger: No, with her feet.”
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