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"But love don't make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflake is perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die."

Detective: "Can I help you?"
Bigelow: "I'd like to see the man in charge."
Detective: "In here..."
Bigelow: "I want to report a murder."
Captain: "Sit down. Where was this murder committed?"
Bigelow: "San Francisco, last night."
Captain: "Who was murdered?"
Bigelow: "I was."

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms."

"I'll meet you tonight under the moon. Oh, I can see you now, you and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you."

"I was cured, all right."

"We all have it comin'."

"Follow the money."

"May the Force be with you."

"Killed him? She executed him."

"Greet the dawn with a breath of fire."

"Norman. Come here. Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back."

"Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life."

"You wanna bite somebody?...Well, pick your spot."

"Please, sir. I want some more."

"Are you not entertained?!"

"I'll let you in on a little secret, Ray. K-Mart sucks."

"Let's just say we're doing it for a pal in the Army."

"In a pinch I can be tougher than you are, and I guess maybe this is the pinch."

"It took me three hours to figure out 'F.U.' was Felix Unger. It's not your fault, Felix; it's a rotten combination, that's all."

"Say, mister, I love the way you wear that hat."

"I've got to have more steps. I need more steps. I've got to get higher, higher."

"The judge has left town, Harvey's quit, and I'm havin' trouble gettin' deputy(ies)."

"Nobody believes good unless they have to, if they've got a chance to believe something bad."

"I'm going to show you what yum-yum is. Here's yum. Here's the other yum. And here's yum-yum."

"Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb."

"I'm hysterical and I'm wet. I'm in pain and I'm wet, and I'm still hysterical."

"There it is, Wendy. Second star to the right and straight on till morning."

"If you're impatient, you have no business growing trees."

"OK, well, this is the damnedest season I've ever seen. I mean, the Durham Bulls can't lose and I can't get laid."

"There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society - outside of a kennel."

"There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."

"And I caaan't stan' 'im."

"Some folks call it a sling blade; I call it a Kaiser blade."

"How dear of you to let me out of jail."

"Never give a sucker an even break."

"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"

"ROCKY DIES YELLOW KILLER COWARD AT END."

"Listen, Meg, when a man takes an oath, he's holding his own self in his own hands like water. And if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again."

"To the gallant officers and men of the silent service, to our submarines now on war patrol in hostile waters, good luck and good hunting."

- "Now on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third."
- "That's what I want to find out. I want you to tell me the names of the fellows on the St. Louis team."
- "I'm telling you: Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third..."

- "What is the law?"
- "Not to run on all fours. That is the law. Are we not men?"

- "Hi, Curly, kill anyone today?"
- "Day ain't over yet."
AND
"I crap bigger'n you."

"Why am I Mr. Pink?"

"Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight?"

"When we get back to the ranch, I want ya to change the brand. It'll be like this, the Red River 'D', and we'll add an 'M' to it. You don't mind that, do ya?...You've earned it."

"Chance is the fool's name for fate."

"In the summer of '42, we raided the Coast Guard station four times, we saw five movies, we had nine days of rain. Benjie broke his watch. Oscy gave up the harmonica, and in a very special way, I lost Hermie forever."

"Democracy can be a wickedly unfair thing. Nobody poor was ever called democratic for marrying somebody rich."

"To you, my little prairie flower: I'm thinkin' of you every hour. Though now you're just a friend to me, I wonder what the end will be. Oh, you would make my life divine If you would change your name to mine."

- "Waiter. Have you got any milk-fed chicken?"
- "Yes."
- "Well, squeeze the milk out of one and bring me a glass."

"He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?...Adios."

"'Twas I informed on your son, Mrs. McPhillip. Forgive me."

"One thing I can't stand, it's a dame that's drunk."

"Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Bates."

"You be careful out among them, English."

"No pattyfingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats."

"In this world, Elwood, you must be, oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. For years, I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me."

"Then you get ahold of some dough and what happens? All those nice, sweet, lovable people become heelots. A lotta heels!"

"Would you like me to tell you the little story of right hand, left hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E. It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E. You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man - the right hand, friends, the hand of love."

- "I'm sorry, Pepe. He thought you were going to escape."
- "And so I have, my friend."

- "This is a very strange love affair."
- "Why?"
- "Maybe the fact that you don't love me."

"Not much meat on her, but what's there is cherce."

"Say it! Say it! Say 'I lost the nest-egg.' Go on, say it!"

"We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well and live."

"My soul, woman, I give you three murders and you're still not satisfied."

"I'd horsewhip you, if I had a horse."

"You mean, all this time we could've been friends?"

"Every one of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking. Keep watching the skies."

"You see, Hopsie, you don't know very much about girls! The best ones aren't as good as you probably think they are, and the bad ones aren't as bad. Not nearly as bad."

"Very regimental, Din."

"Don't f--k with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo."

"I am your father."

"The von Trapp children don't play. They march."

"It's going to be a long night...and I don't particularly like the book I've started...You know what I mean?"

"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever."
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"THESE go to eleven."
AND
"Money talks, and bulls--t walks."

"If you ain't eating Wham, you ain't eatin' ham."

"Well, come see a fat old man sometime!"

"What can I do, old man? I'm dead, aren't I?"

"You are a TOY!"

- "If you ever need anything, no matter what it is or wherever you happen to be - "
- "Yes, I know. I just dial O for O'Malley."

"My business is anything that comes between man and the spirit of God."

"There's a lot to be said for making people laugh! Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan! Boy"

"Y'know, at one time I had quite a decision to make: whether to write the nation's songs or go my way."

"Who's gonna read the second paragraph?"

"It's K-K-K-Ken c-c-c-coming to k-k-k-kill me!"
AND
"Don't EVER call me STUPID!"

"I'm old-fashioned. I like two sexes."

"I've there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it."

- "What happened, Mother? Why did we all run?"
- "Man was in the forest."

"I love it. God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life."

"My, she was yar..."

"Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killin' yet."

- "Coulda been worse."
- "Yeah, you can say that about nearly everything, I guess."

"Dear George, Remember no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings! Love Clarence."

"Sing out, Louise. Sing out."

"This isn't a hospital! It's an insane asylum!"

"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."

"Welcome to Sherwood, my lady!"

"Monsters, John. Monsters from the Id."

"I guess they'll let you in the front door from now on."

"He said once they [lost causes] were the only causes worth fighting for."

"Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway."

"Mama, Mama, I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it. Mama, do you hear me, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mama. Mama, I did love you."

"I don't want to stop. I like it. Take the picture, take the picture."

"We'll begin with a reign of terror - a few murders here and there. Murders of great men, murders of little men. Just to show we make no distinction."

"Do you know what's wrong with you?"
- "No, what?"
- "Nothing."

"The only fun I get is feeding the goldfish, and they only eat once a day."

"The old man was right, only the farmers won. We lost. We'll always lose."

"Even a man who is pure in heart, And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, And the autumn moon is bright."

"Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization."

"Made to commit acts too unspeakable to be cited here by an enemy who had captured his mind and his soul, he freed himself at last and in the end heroically and unhesitatingly gave his life to save his country. Raymond Shaw...Hell...Hell."

"Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them life is so simple, believe me."

"If you can't sleep at night, it isn't the coffee - it's the bunk."

"I'm hard to get, Geoff. All you have to do is ask me."

"Are you a good girl, Tuggle?"

"Do you expect me to talk?"
- "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."

"That's silly, honey. People just don't get smaller."

"Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?"

"A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur out of me."

"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel as you are."

"Is it this or that - all the universe or nothing? Which shall it be, Passworthy? What shall it be?"

"I mean, any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty-dollar bill for the powder room."

"There are a lot of inconveniences to yachting that most people don't know anything about."

- "What's wrong with you?"
- "Nothing you can't fix."

"It's the first time I've tasted women. They're rather good."

"Te adoro, Anton."

"He forgave you from the cross. Can I do less?"