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Favorite Movie Quotes: Network

"Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th, and this is my last broadcast. Yesterday I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide, admittedly an act of madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened, I just ran out of bullshit. Am I still on the air? I really don't know any other way to say it other than I just ran out of bullshit. Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living. And if we can't think up any reasons of our own, we always have the God bullshit. We don't know why we're going through all this pointless pain, humiliation, decays, so there better be someone somewhere who does know. That's the God bullshit. And then, there's the noble man bullshit-- that man is a noble creature that can order his own world,  who needs God? Well, if there's anybody out there that can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me, that man is full of bullshit. I don't have anything going for me. I haven't got any kids. And I was married for thirty-three years of shrill, shrieking fraud. So I don't have any bullshit left. I just ran out of it, you see."

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Tacoma Shark

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Music Man

"Oh, my dear little librarian. You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering."

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Tacoma Elephants

Favorite Movie Quotes: Matilda

Matilda's Dad: "To read? Why would you want to read when you got the television set sitting right in front of you? There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster."

This is another great movie where the librarian has a pivotal and positive role.

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Tacoma Elephant

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Maltese Falcon

"Look what you did to my shirt."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 67]

The Yard Birds Crow piggy bank was the closest prop I had for this film.

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Steps to Centennial Park, Olympia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

"The patient came to me with a large hole in his abdomen,  heh-heh, caused by a fire poker used on him by his wife. Hee-hee. He almost bled to death and gangrene had set in. I didn't give him much of a chance. There were other complications. Hnh-hnh. The man had cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and a touch of the grippe. Heh. I decided to operate."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 47]

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Olympia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Left Hand of God

"Saint? You know how I got rid of Yang? I shot dice with him!"

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Jumanji

"You think that mosquitoes, monkeys, and lions are bad? That is just the beginning. I've seen things you've only seen in your nightmares. Things you can't even imagine. Things you can't even see. There are things that hunt you in the night. Then something screams. Then you hear them eat, and you hope to God that you're not dessert. Afraid? You don't even know what afraid is. You would not last five minutes without me."

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I found Jean-Marie's icon

Favorite Movie Quotes: Inspector Gadget

"A dashing appellation. What is that? A hillbilly with a tuxedo?"

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Tacoma Tiger

Favorite Movie Quotes: Grand Hotel

"I'm a prodigal son, the black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows."

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Tacoma Tiger

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Frisco Kid

"You are a Rabbi. I'm a bank robber. I'm a card player and a whoremonger. That's what I am. You are a Rabbi. You can fall in the mud, you can slip on your ass, you can travel in the wrong direction. But even on your ass, even in the mud, even if you go in the wrong direction for a little while, you're still a Rabbi! That's what you are, right?"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 62]

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Tacoma Tapir

Favorite Movie Quotes: Four Rooms

"Everybody starts out as strangers, Ted. It's where we end up that counts."

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Drowning Pool

"Did you come to that conclusion out of patriotism or just greed?"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 43]

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Penguins

Favorite Movie Quotes: Doctor Zhivago

"The personal life is dead in Russia. History killed it."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 59]

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He is the walrus

Favorite Movie Quotes: Batman (1966)

"Penguin, Joker, Riddler, and Catwoman too! The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!"

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Puffin

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Barefoot Contessa

"Mind you, if there is one thing I know about its Mr. John Q. Public. He wants clean people on the screen for himself and his children to look at. Don't let the eggheads tell you he wants high class acting and fine stories and fancy dialogue. He wants to forget his troubles for awhile and look at clean people. He wants to escape. He doesn't want to look at drunks, hopheads, sex maniacs, divorcees, communists, murderers ..."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 8]