Quotations quotes

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?
Robert Preston - Harold Hill

“Do not cite the Deep Magic to me Witch. I was there when it was written.”
Liam Neeson - Aslan

My Mama always said "you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on".
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Max: Gentlemen, welcome to the first day of the rest of our lives!
- Bobby: That's pretty deep. You get that line off a bumper sticker?”
Jason Marsden - Max Goof
Pauly Shore - Bobby Zimmeruski

- Riker: Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements".
- Zefram Cochran: That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
- Riker: You did, ten years from now.
Jonathan Frakes - William Riker
James Cromwell - Zefram Cochran

“- Doug McKenzie: I am your father, Luke. Give in to the dark side of the force, you knob.
- Bob McKenzie: He saw Jedi 17 times, eh.”
Dave Thomas - Doug McKenzie
Rick Moranis - Bob McKenzie

“It was the late great Gloves Malloy who said how hard it is to say what there are no words for.”

Harry Hamlin - Joey Popchik

“You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
Robin Williams - John Keating

“My father used to say that not playing to win is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail, with a blouse full of goodies, but... it's just illegal. Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth who do nothing but play the banjo... eat apple sauce through a straw... pork farm animals.”
Charlie Sheen - Lt. Topper Harley

- Janey Briggs: I knew it. That's a line from "She's All That". I masturbate to that movie.
- Jake Wyler: [to nosy Flight Attendant right behind them] Do you mind?
- Flight Attendant: Not at all, I think masturbation is very healthy.
Chyler Leigh - Janey Briggs
Chris Evans - Jake Wyler
Molly Ringwald - Flight Attendant

- Michael Anderson: Here's to true love, and gainful employment. I think it was Elvis who said, "Happiness is made up of three things: Someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to".
- Matthew Anderson: Actually, Mike, that was Marx. And that's "Reciprocal love, meaningful labor, and hope for the future".
- Michael Anderson:... (continue)(continue reading)
Dylan Walsh - Michael Anderson
William McNamara - Matthew Anderson

"Oh Captain, my Captain". Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you're slightly more daring, "Oh Captain, my Captain".
Robin Williams - John Keating

“- Bernie White: You got a cop quote?
- Henry Hackett: A what?
- Bernie White: Quote. You know, they talk, you write, we print?”
Robert Duvall - Bernie White
Michael Keaton - Henry Hackett

“- Peaches: I'm having a dinner party Friday night, we're short one man.
- Oscar Madison: How about Abe here, he's a short man.
- Peaches: You can run Oscar, but you can't hide! See ya.
- Oscar Madison: Oh, that's such an original expression. I hate a woman who talks like Muhammed Ali.”
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison

“- Mitch Weaver: There's two kinds of people in this world: those who get stomped on and those who do the stomping.
- Kathy: Where'd you come up with that theory?
- Mitch Weaver: That famous guy said it. What's his name? Uh... oh, yeah: Jesus!”
Norm MacDonald - Mitch Weaver
Traylor Howard - Kathy

- Cameron James: What'd she say?
- Michael Eckman: "Hates him with the fire of a thousand suns". That's a direct quote.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Cameron James
David Krumholtz - Michael Eckman

“He would get these far-off looks in his eyes and he would say 'Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan'. I just wish I'd realized at the time, he was talking about my life.”

Sandra Bullock - Lucy

A person should not believe in an "-ism", he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me".
Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller

- Charmian: Shit, you don't know, do you? You just know you want it, right?
- John Converse: "I desire to serve God and to grow rich like all men".
- Charmian: Who said that?
- John Converse: I don't know. Some great hustler of the past.

Gail Strickland - Charmian
Michael Moriarty - John Converse

“You have absolute power! Yes!”

Robert MacNaughton - Michael

In the immortal words of "The Doors": "The time to hesitate is through".
Rory Cochrane - Lucas

“- Debbie: Please Miss Weathers, it would just be such an honor if I could get a quote from you for my story.
- Gale Weathers: All right. Begin quote.
- Debbie: Great.
- Gale Weathers: Your flattering remarks are both desperate and obvious. End quote!”
Laurie Metcalf - Debbie Salt
Courteney Cox - Gale Weathers

- Nathaniel Williamson: I was very quick to judge you.
- Captain Bully Hayes: Aw, what do they say, son? Don't judge unle... no, let's see, judge not, judge not, judge ye not...
- Nathaniel Williamson: "Judge not lest ye be judged". Matthew 7, verse 1.
Michael O'Keefe - Nathaniel Williamson
Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes

“- Colonel William Sharp: Get off... the nuclear... warhead.
- Rockhound: I was doing that guy from that movie, you know, Slim Pickens, where he rides it all the way in, the nuclear warhead.
- Colonel William Sharp: Now.
- Rockhound: Oh, you didn't see that one, huh?”

William Fichtner - Colonel Willie Sharp
Steve Buscemi - Rockhound

- Bud Schnelker: Why are you here?
- Emmett Fitz-Hume: Why am I here? Why are you here? Why is anybody here? I think it was Jean-Paul Sartre who once said... how do you spell spell "Sartre"?
Jim Staahl - Bud Schnelker
Chevy Chase - Emmett Fitz-Hume