Words quotes
368 words quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Mary Poppins
“Supercalafragalisticexpealadocious.”
- From the movie: The Sum of All Fears
“Choose your words carefully, words have a habit of being turned into policy.”
- From the movie: The Princess Bride
“- Vizzini: He didn't fall? Inconceivable.
- Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” - From the movie: Alex & Emma
- From the movie: Crimes of Passion
“The messenger of God will return. And this time he'll bring the final word.”
- From the movie: Love's Labour's Lost
- From the movie: 100 Girls
- From the movie: Movie Movie
“It was the late great Gloves Malloy who said how hard it is to say what there are no words for.”
- From the movie: Henry Fool
There's three kinds of "there". There's "there", t-h-e-r-e: "There are the donuts". Then there's "their", t-h-e-i-r, which is the possessive: "It is their donut". Then finally, there's "they're", t-h-e-y-apostrophe-r-e. A contraction meaning: "They're... they're the donut people". Got it?
- From the movie: Dick
“You can't let Dick control your life!”
- From the movie: Local Hero
- Townsman: Are you sure there are two l's in "dollar", Gideon?
- Gideon: Yes! And are there two g's in "bugger off"? - From the movie: The Devil and Max Devlin
“- Max Devlin: Oh my God!
- Barney Satin: I wish you wouldn't say that.
- Max Devlin: I'm sorry!
- Barney Satin: Yeah.” - From the movie: Cinderella
- From the movie: Brassed Off
- From the movie: Finding Forrester
- William Forrester: Paragraph three starts...with a conjunction, "and." You should never start a sentence with a conjunction.
- Jamal Wallace: Sure you can.
- William Forrester: No, it's a firm rule.
- Jamal Wallace: No, it was a firm rule. Sometimes using a conjunction at the start of a sentence makes it stand out. And that may be what the... (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Top Gun
No, boys. There's two "O"s in Goose.
- From the movie: Traffic
- From the movie: Major Payne
“You'll get no sympathy from me! You want sympathy, look in the dictionary between shit and syphilis!”
- From the movie: Barcelona
- Fred: "Yankee" and "gringo" are obviously pejorative, but it's the standard dictionary term that's the most insulting of all. "Estadunidense". Dense. D-E-N-S-E. It's the same spelling. Dense: thick, stupid. Every time you hear it. Estadunidense-dense-dense. It's like a direct slap in the face. It's incredible.
- Montserrat: I think you are too... (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
- From the movie: Mansfield Park
“Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.”
- From the movie: In The Cut
- From the movie: Big Bully
“- Young Fang: Mrs. Fitsimonds let you pick the words, and you picked USSR and everybody laughed when I got it wrong.
- Young David: I make the same mistake myself. Is it one S or two?” - From the movie: Fame
“- Farrell: Diction! Watch your diction, Ralph. You're slurring your words.
- Ralph: What? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Marlon Brando slurred his words, you know. Montgomery Cliff slurred his words. James Dean slurred his words. They were the greatest actors in the whole world and nobody could understand a word they said.” - From the movie: Angela's Ashes
- Father O'Halloran: Clarke, define "resplendent".
- Clarke: I think it's shining, sir.
- Father O'Halloran: Pithy, but adequate. McCourt, give us a sentence with "pithy".
- Young Frank: Clarke is pithy but adequate, sir.
- Father O'Halloran: Adroit, McCourt. You have a mind for the priesthood, my boy, or politics. Tell your mother to come and... (continue)(continue reading)
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