Purpose quotes
168 purpose quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Our Town
“- Emily Webb: Am I pretty enough to get anybody?
- Mrs. Webb: You're pretty enough for all normal purposes.” - From the movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
“Mordor... the one place in Middle-Earth we don't want to see any closer, the one place we're trying to get to... is just where we can't get. Let's face it, Mr. Frodo. We're lost!”
- From the movie: Gettysburg
- From the movie: Bolero
“I'm all dressed up and no place to go!”
- From the movie: Lucy
“I'm just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe.”
- From the movie: Hot Shots! Part Deux
“Thank you, Topper. I can kill again! You've given me a reason to live.”
- From the movie: X: First Class
- From the movie: The Last of the Mohicans
“- Jack Winthrop: You're not coming with us?
- Hawkeye: I've got a reason to stay.
- Jack Winthrop: That reason wear a striped skirt and work in the surgery?
- Hawkeye: It does. No offense, but it's a better looking reason than you, Jack Winthrop.” - From the movie: The Matrix Revolutions
“It was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to end.”
- From the movie: Double Indemnity
“It's just like the first time I came here, isn't it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet.”
- From the TV Series: Frank Herbert's Dune
“Hard tasks need hard ways.”
- From the movie: Vanilla Sky
“What is any life without the pursuit of a dream?”
- From the movie: Bait
“When he's served his purpose, when he draws our man out of the shadows, well, you know what happens to bait.”
- From the movie: A Clockwork Orange
“Initiative comes to thems that wait.”
- From the movie: Now, Voyager
“If I were free, there would be only one thing I'd want to do - prove you're not immune to happiness.”
- From the movie: Star 80
“He really believed in this girl. Or, else, he just wanted to screw her. I'm still not sure which.”
- From the movie: Flubber
“If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.”
- From the movie: Bruce Almighty
“- Grace Connelly: You know that everything happens for a reason.
- Bruce Nolan: That is a cliché. That is not helpful to me.” - From the movie: The Petrified Forest
“- Mrs. Chisholm: You're in love with her, aren't you?
- Alan Squier: Yes, I suppose I am. And not unreasonably. She has heroic stuff in her.” - From the movie: Fallen
- From the movie: Volunteers
“We must all do what we must do, for if we do not, then what we must do does not get done.”
- From the movie: The Fly
“- Seth Brundle: The disease has just revealed its purpose. We don't have to worry about contagion anymore... I know what the disease wants.
- Veronica Quaife: What does the disease want?
- Seth Brundle: It wants to turn me into something else. That's not too terrible, is it? Most people would give anything to be turned into something else.” - From the movie: Flubber
- From the movie: The Matrix Revolutions
“- The Oracle: The great and powerful Oracle. We meet at last. I suppose you've been expecting me, right? The all-knowing Oracle is never surprised. How can she be, she knows everything. But If that's true, then why is she here? If she knew I was coming, why didn't she leave?
- Agent Smith: Maybe you knew I was going to do that, maybe you didn't....” (continue)(continue reading)
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