Failure quotes
291 failure quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- La trovi in History of Cinema in Quotes
“This picture is going to be one of the biggest white elephants of all time [talking about 'Gone With the Wind'].”
- From the movie: K-19: The Widowmaker
“We deliver, or we drown.”
- From the movie: Annapolis
- From the movie: The Banger Sisters
“I'd rather fail doing my own thing, doing what I wanna do than doing that doing what someone else wants me to do and succeeding.”
- From the movie: Out of the Past
“It was the bottom of the barrel and I scraped it. But I didn't care. I had her.”
- From the movie: Bubba Ho-Tep
- From the movie: Mad City
- From the movie: Mouse Hunt
- From the movie: Schindler's List
“- Oskar Schindler: In every business I tried, I can see now, it wasn't me that failed. Something was missing. Even if I'd known what it was, there's nothing I could have done about it because you can't create this thing. And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure.
- Emilie Schindler: Luck?
- Oskar Schindler: War.” - From the movie: Stand Up Guys
“- Doc: This is not a good idea, Val.
- Val: Yeah, well, my life is full of not good ideas.” - From the movie: Strange Days
- From the movie: RoboCop 3
“Oh, my God, Johnson. Our stock has dropped to nothing. We're ruined.”
- From the movie: Pi
“Failed treatments to date: Beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, adrenalin injections, high dose ibuprofen, steroids, Trager Mentastics, violent exercise, cafergot suppositories, caffeine, acupuncture, marijuana, Percodan, Midrine, Tenormin, Sansert, homeopathics. No results. No results...”
- From the movie: Glengarry Glen Ross
“You do not know your job. That's what I'm saying. A man is his job and you are fucked at yours.”
- From the movie: Elizabethtown
“So you failed. Alright you really failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You think I care about that? I do understand. You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the TV Series: Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
“You set your heart too much on frivolous things and then crash down into despair when you don't get them.”
- From the movie: Shoot 'Em Up
“- Mr. Hertz: Are you trying to tell me that some bum came to her rescue? Well well well, this is a fine mess.
- Killer Shot in Behind: I won't make this mistake again. I got a piece of lead in my butt as a reminder!
- Mr. Hertz: Yeah, I can appreciate that. And let that be a reminder never to fail me again.” - From the movie: The Royal Tenenbaums
“All memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums had been erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster.”
- From the movie: Summer School
“- Francis 'Chainsaw' Gremp: You passed and I failed! You asshole! How could you do that to me?
- Dave Frazier: It was an accident. I'll take it again. I can fail, I know I can.” - From the movie: The Fury
“- Susan Charles: When he fails... he's intolerable.
- Childress: How is he performing in bed?
- Susan Charles: Robin wants to please me. That's the main thing, isn't it? He needs a rest. No more tests for at least a month.
- Childress: Sorry.” - From the movie: Paradise Alley
“Do you know how many men could've been sitting on top of the world, but they let a dame tell them what to do and the only thing they ended up sitting on top of was a toilet.”
- From the movie: Batman Begins
“Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
- From the movie: Since You Went Away
“- Jane Hilton: You're fine and strong, but you're just sensitive, that's all.
- Cpl. Bill Smollett 2nd: But don't you think I'm a failure after everything I've told you?
- Jane Hilton: A failure? Just because you're not an officer? Why, an officer I know, he said that you are the boys doing the fighting.” “Against the power of Mordor there can be no victory.”
- From the movie: The Awful Truth
“Take good care of her. Maybe you'll succeed where I failed.”
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