Movie Quotations

Several weeks ago, my friend Erin published a list of some quotations from her favorite movies so her readers could figure out the corresponding movie. I thought it might be fun to do the same, so here are quotations from some of my favorite movies; I really enjoy movies and have a lot of favorites, but the following are ones which I could watch multiple times a week. Enjoy the guessing game- and no cheating by means of Google or IMDB!

1. "I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy."

2. "This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This hasn't happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here you can build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, is each other."

3. "Well, sir, I think you'd sooner hold back the tide than tame the mountains."

4. "But your good opinion is rarely bestowed, and therefore, more worth the earning."

5. "I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No...not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that...over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable- like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love- like there has never been in a play."

6. "How many dead hemophiliacs do you need? How many people have to die before it'll be cost effective for you people to do something about it? A hundred? A thousand? Give us a number so we won't annoy you until the amount of money you start losing on lawsuits makes it profitable for you to save people than to kill them!"

7. "I want my couscous!"

8. "'There is a war on! How is that you are headed west?'
'Well, we kind of face to the north and then, real sudden-like, turn left.'"

9. "'I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just...I could have got more.'
'There are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.'
'If I'd made more money...I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...'
'There will be generations because of what you did.'
'I didn't do enough!'
'You did so much.'
'This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people...this pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person. For this. I could have gotten one more person...and I didn't! And I...I didn't!'"

10. "Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself."

11. "This is it! Don't get scared now!"

12. "Have fun stormin' the castle!"

13. "I don't think you're an idiot at all. I mean, there are elements of the ridiculous about you. Your mother's pretty interesting. And you really are an appallingly bad public speaker. And, um, you tend to let whatever is in your head come out of your mouth without much consideration of the consequences...but the thing is, um, what I'm trying to say, very inarticulately, is that, um, in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you, very much. Just as you are."