Ability quotes
779 ability quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- From the movie: She's So Lovely
“Can you type 170 words a minute? Can you sew? Can you dance? What can you do?”
- From the movie: Hudson Hawk
“In one day - less than one day of planning, and you did it. You started the week by stealing the Sforza and ended by swiping the Codex. What are your plans for the weekend? Hoisting away the Coliseum? Tell me, did the Devil make you do it, or did Darwin and Minerva Mayflower?”
- From the movie: Six Days Seven Nights
“- Robin Monroe: Aren't you one of those guys?
- Quinn Harris: What guys?
- Robin Monroe: Those guys, you know, those guys with skills.
- Quinn Harris: Skills?
- Robin Monroe: Yeah. You send them into the wilderness with a pocket knife and a Q-tip and they build you a shopping mall.” - From the movie: Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
“I can do it because I can do anything!”
- From the movie: Fire Birds
“You could crash this thing at twenty G's and survive but I am not going to prove it to you!”
- From the movie: The Boost
“Faith may move mountains; this stuff makes them fly.”
- From the movie: Eating Raoul
“It's amazing what you can do with a cheap piece of meat if you know how to treat it.”
- From the movie: Patriot Games
“- Jack Ryan: The people in those camps know probably better than we do exactly what time the satellite's going to pass overhead. And Marty... unless you authorize us to retask those satellites so we can get a look before they're overhead from the side, we are never gonna know which camp they're at.
- Marty Cantor: Jack, do you have any idea how...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Trees Lounge
“- Splinter: Were you seen?
- Leonardo: Of course not, Master Splinter.
- Donatello: We practiced Ninja.
- Michaelangelo: The art of invisibility.”- From the movie: Airplane!
“We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused, this is due to periodic air pockets we encountered, there's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight... By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?”
- From the movie: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
- From the movie: The Legend of Custer
“- General Alfred Terry: For the record, I don't like you. You're too sure of yourself, too much your own man.
- Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer: Then why did you bring me back?
- General Alfred Terry: Because, by the Almighty, you're a soldier. There's another kind of war brewing out here on the frontier. We're going to need every...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Mercury Rising
“My wife says my people skills are like my cooking skills: quick and tasteless.”
- From the movie: Nixon
“You got people dying because he didn't make the varsity football team. You got the Constitution hanging by a thread because the old man went to Whittier instead of Yale.”
- From the TV Series: Friends
- From the movie: Heat
“I've been knocked down, blown up, lied to, shit on, shot at, I'm not a virgin except in my heart, nothing much surprises me anymore except what people do to each other. I'm a licensed pilot, I lectured on economics at Yale, and I can memorize the front page of the New York Times in five minutes, and repeat it back to you in five weeks. I was...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Commando
- From the movie: Kiki's Delivery Service
“Without even thinking about it, I used to be able to fly. Now I'm trying to look inside myself and find out how I did it.”
- From the movie: Enchanted April
- From the movie: Top Secret!
“- Agent Cedric: Know any good white basketball players?
- Blind Souvenir Vendor: There are no good white basketball players.” - From the movie: Surviving the Game
“Stevie Wonder could follow these tracks!”
- From the movie: Stargate
“You think you've solved in fourteen days what they couldn't solve in two years?”
- From the movie: The Adventures of Pinocchio
“- Geppetto: Excuse me, but haven't you two got a pushcart to rob?
- Volpe: We've already done that.”
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