Movie Quote of the Week

You know, in my world, Casey, there were limitless oceans as far as the eye could see. A beautiful home until it started to dry up. So I escaped, came here and met you. All of you. All of you were different from the others. You were lost and lonely, just like me. And I thought that maybe I could give you a taste of my world: a world without anger, without fear, without attitude. Where the underachiever goes home to parents who care. The jock can be smart, the ugly duckling beautiful, and the class wuss doesn't have to live in terror. And the new girl -- Well, she can just fit right in with people who are just like her. You see, Casey, even Marybeth's feelings can be hurt... by a bunch of pathetic, lost, little outcasts... who truly believe that their disaffected lonely life... is the only way they can survive. I can make you a part of something so special, Casey, so perfect, so fearless. Don't you want that, Casey?
--Laura Harris, The Faculty (1998)

TV Quote of the Week

There’s one thing I learned, Lieutenant, is that we all have a cross to bear. Including those of us who seem most fortunate. My problem is just the opposite. Born smart, as they say. A blessing, you’d think. I had no real childhood, I was an imitation adult, because that’s what was expected of me. Most people don’t like smart people. Most children despise smart children. So early on I had to hide my so-called gift and conceal it from my own brothers and sisters, my classmates, in the service. Painful. Lonely years.
--Theodore Bikel, Columbo, The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case"

Quote of the Week

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows anybody.
--Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Movie Quote of the Week

Lies, deceit, mixed messages... this is turning into a real marriage.
--John Travolta, Face/Off (1997)

TV Quote of the Week

Nothing solves everything forever like a wedding.
--Julia Kavner, The Simpsons, "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh"

Quote of the Week

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
--Dorothy Parker

Movie Quote of the Week

It is not our abilities that tell us what we truly are ... it is our choices.
--Richard Harris, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

TV Quote of the Week

But, if you remember nothing else, then please remember this. Chess is just a game. Real people aren't pieces. You can't assign more value to some of them than to others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is... that anyone who looks on the world as if it was a game a chess deserves to lose.
--Michael Emerson, Person of Interest, "If-Then-Else"

Quote of the Week

The officers and I did not assume that the United States was going to decline like those ancient empires. That is not the lesson of classical history. Rather, it is that change is inescapable and the more gradual and hidden the change, the more decisive: the great shifts in fortune for ancient empires were usually not apparent to those living at the time.
--Robert D. Kaplan, An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future

Movie Quote of the Week

When *you* was my age? When my old man was my age, when my brother was my age -- You was never my age, none of ya! And the sooner you creeps get hip to that, the sooner you'll dig us!
--Tony Mordente, West Side Story (1961)

TV Quote of the Week

My body fascinates him because it's so old. You'd think it would repel him, wouldn't you?
--Siân Phillips, I, Claudius, "Queen of Heaven"

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Tonio Kruger!

Believe it or not, I expect my official birthday celebration to be a bit more lively than this. But if not, it won't be the worst thing in the world.

At least I'm still in a position to actually celebrate my birthday -- and several months ago, I was not sure that would be possible.

Anyway, I hope all my readers have a good day today as well.

¡Feliz Cuatro de Julio!

On behalf of myself and my family, Ms. Julianne Hough has taken it upon herself to wish all of my readers a happy Fourth of July. I hope that you all enjoy the day as well. After all, today is also the birthday of my late father so it would be very special to me in any case.

Movie Quote of the Week

You shall not pass!
--Ian McKellen, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

TV Quote of the Week

Enough with the timeline crap, Abed.
--Gillian Jacobs, Community, "Remedial Chaos Theory"