“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, ‘In this world, Elwood… you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.’ Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”
—Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey
“If there’s a bright center to the universe you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.”
—Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
“The crime rate in New York’ll kill you. There’s so many problems, you never feel like you’re accomplishing anything… But in Amity one man can make a difference.”
—Martin Brody, Jaws
“The crime you see now, it’s hard to even take its measure. It’s not that I’m afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don’t want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don’t understand.”
— Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, No Country for Old Men
“I think it’s terrible! Girls chasing boys. When I was your age I never chased a boy or called a boy or sat in a parked car with a boy.”
—Lorraine McFly, Back to the Future
“Feminine weaknesses and fainting spells are the direct result of our confining young girls to the house, bent over their needlework, and restrictive corsets.”—Marmee March, Little Women
“I would rather Meg marry for love and be a poor man’s wife than marry for riches and lose her self-respect.”
—Marmee March, Little Women