Words to Live By: Movie Quotes

[ckissick]

Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

-Ferris Bueller



What words of wisdom from the big screen have had a deep, all-important influence in your life?

[stealthn]

Pain heals,

Chicks dig scars,


but glory last forever...

[dhoward]

"looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"
-Steve McCroskey

[slodave]

And now for something completely different.

I feel the need, the need for speed.

I'll make you famous.

Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...

[MRM]

"Ah man's gotta know his limitations"

Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry.

[MRM]

"When I say surf's up, surf's up!"

[bigchillcar]

"wendy...darling...light of my life.." pause "you didn't let me finish my sentence...i said, i'm not gonna hurt ya......i'm just gonna bash your brains in...bash 'em right the eff in!" (laughs)

don't screw with jack..

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by dhoward

"looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"
-Steve McCroskey

I used that as an email response to someone in our billing dept. and they howled.

"Get busy living. Or get busy dying." - Shawshank Redemption

"They can't ask us to do that."

"They are NOT ASKING!" - The Firm

"Here kid. Park my car, grab my bags....and put on some weight." - Caddyshack

[TimT]

"Who are those guys"?

[the]

"In America, first you get the money. Then you get the power. Then you get the wimmmin!"

[gprsh924]

"Always ask yourself, is the juice worth the squeeze?"

-The Girl Next Door

[slodave]

Ty Webb: You take drugs, Danny?
Danny Noonan: Every day.
Ty Webb: Good. Then what's your problem?
Danny Noonan: I don't know.

[bell]

"I always test the transmission that way,
the rear end for stress factors."......gonzo

[slodave]

I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.

[Super_Dave_D]

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
Winnie the Pooh

[Rick Lee]

Couple of gems in this one. In fact, my avatar is at 4:06.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oP1NMB_I0s

[bigchillcar]

"union cards?" pause "suppose we go in there and start playin' anyway...you gonna stop us (reads name on shirt), stein..?" pause "you're gonna look awful funny tryin' to eat corn on the cob with no ****!n teeth!"

[Jim Sims]

"Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid." - Sgt. John M. Stryker, "Sands of Iwo Jima", 1949

[bigchillcar]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

Couple of gems in this one. In fact, my avatar is at 4:06.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oP1NMB_I0s

in my top 5 fave flicks..funny though, just looking at it, for some reason i'd always thought your avatar was from a james bond/connery movie.

[slodave]

Miles: Sometimes you gotta say "What the Fuch", make your move. Joel, every now and then, saying "What the Fuch", brings freedom. Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity brings freedom. So your parents are going out of town. You got the place all to yourself.
Joel Goodson: Yeah.
Miles: What the fuch.

Joel Goodson: Porsche. There is no substitute.
Miles: Fuch you.