Ability quotes
779 ability quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Sixteen Candles
“- Brenda Baker: Can you remember to turn off the stove in twenty minutes?
- Samantha: I can remember lots of things.” - From the movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer
“- Bruce Pandolfini: Your son creates like Fischer. He sees like him, inside.
- Fred: You can tell this by watching him play some drunks in the park?
- Bruce Pandolfini: Yes. You want to know what I want. I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.” - From the animation: Anastasia
“What do they teach you in those orphanages?”
- From the movie: Impromptu
“- George Sand: The style's a bit precious. Mind if I rewrite it?
- Alfred De Musset: Not at all. We'll have a horse sent in.” - From the animation: The Land Before Time
“- Petrie: I fly?
- Ducky: No, you falled.
- Petrie: I fall?
- Ducky: You cannot fly? But how did you get way up there?
- Petrie: I climb.
- Littlefoot: But you are a flyer, not a faller.
- Petrie: Hard thing, to fly.” - From the movie: The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
- From the movie: Fair Game
“- Jodi Kirkpatrick: They were the Navy SEALS of the spy world. Wet works, black bag jobs, electronic surveillance, if it was bad, these guys did it!
- Det. Max Kirkpatrick: Fuck did, they're doing! And they're right on my ass!
- Jodi Kirkpatrick: Avoid anything that leaves electronic footprints because they will find it! Seriously, these people...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Paradise
“You know what the worst thing is about Billie? She's always right. She has the best instincts of anybody I ever met. God only knows where she got them.”
- From the movie: Above the Rim
“- Mailika: Folks either move past the things that happen to them, or they stop moving at all. But you're young. You can do anything, except sing.
- Shep: I can sing a little bit.
- Mailika: Not even a little bit.” - From the movie: Dead & Buried
“- Harry: I was just telling these guys about that accident last night. Find out who that guy was?
- Dan Gillis: Not a thing. No ID. No license plates. No nothing.
- Ernie: Dan, old buddy, with that fancy salary the city of Potters Bluff pays you, and the amount of money the state spends getting you educated, you ought to be able to find some clues.” - From the movie: Tootsie
- From the movie: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
“I see you have constructed a new light saber. Your skills are complete. Indeed you are powerful as the Emperor has foreseen.”
- From the movie: All Through The Night
“- Barney: I don't get it. I marry Annabelle and I spend my honeymoon with you.
- Sunshine: Well, I can cook.” - From the movie: Supergirl
“What good is a sword if it's not unleashed?”
- From the movie: Nothing in Common
“- David Basner: I could've been a great doctor.
- Max Basner: You could've been a great anything, son.” - From the movie: Three Men and a Baby
“I'm an architect for Christ sake, I build 50 story skyscrapers, I assemble cities of the future, I can certainly put together a goddamn diaper.”
“- Darth Vader: You have learned much, young one.
- Luke Skywalker: You'll find I'm full of surprises.”- From the movie: Unforgiven
“- Little Bill Daggett: Being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don't do no harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he'll kill ya.
- W.W. Beauchamp: But if the other fella is quicker, and fires first...
- Little Bill Daggett: Then he'll be...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Balto
“We were in the water, we were moving, we got wet and... Muk. We were swimming!”
- From the movie: Jetsons: The Movie
“- George Jetson: Hey, you've done everything.
- Rudy 2: Everything but press the button that gets it all going. That's your job, George, and Mr. Spaceley says you're the best.
- George Jetson: Well I wouldn't say that... but - well yes, maybe I would.” - From the movie: Jackie Brown
“A good cop will never let you know he knows you're full of shit.”
- From the movie: Jackie Brown
“- Ordell Robbie: How the fuck did he find me?
- Max Cherry: That's what Winston does. He finds people who don't want to be found.” - From the movie: Without a Clue
“Really, Watson, I think you underestimate my own natural deductive abilities.”
- From the movie: Benny & Joon
“Don't underestimate the mentally ill. We know how to count.”
- From the movie: The Worst Witch
“A true witch isn't always one who comes out on top of the tests. A true witch has witchcraft in her at all times, and this is what you have, Mildred Hubble.”
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