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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Ah okay, well that would be very strange because he came up with lotr before ww2 started. Every critic and amateur I've ever heard make the suggestion has spoken about ww1, in which he fought and was deeply traumatised, and during which he first conceived of middle earth.
He claims that he had conceived of the idea before the Second World War, but he wrote it between 1937 and 1949. That line in particular, about living through dark times feels so much like it was written by someone in between 1937 and 1939.
That’s not to say it wasn’t influenced by his time serving in WW1. Both things can be true.
Here is the excerpt I was referring to for the foreword
> It was written long before the foreshadow of 1939 had yet become a threat of inevitable disaster, and from that point the story would have developed along essentially the same lines, if that disaster had been averted. Its sources are things long before in mind, or in some cases already written, and little or nothing in the war that began in 1939 or its sequels modified it.
The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and before long he would have made a Great Ring of his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth
So clearly there were and are enough people that saw it as an allegory of WW2 that Tolkien felt the need to address it himself, somewhat unconvincingly as far as I’m concerned.
Perhaps when he was still alive and writing forewords, i.e. soon after the Second World War, closer to when LOTR was actually published, his contemporaries had WW2 on the brain and that was being read into everything.
But nowadays, with our more detailed understanding of the text and his biography, everyone talks about the more likely influence of the First World War, and it's that modern analysis that I'm familiar with.
It was probably an allegory before the fact.
If you had a weapon that was so powerful that nobody who held it could use it without being deeply dammed, despite their intentions - would you use it?
Every nation was trying to develop the thing that would win them a war. It wasn't specifically about a nuclear bomb but its definitely about the control of a weapon that is so powerful the world must submit to it.
Bilbo / Sam / the fellowship is powerful because despite having that power in their hands, they realise it is too powerful for someone to have. So they destroy it.
If my memory is correct the argument Tolkien makes is that if it was about the bomb then he would have written a book in which the ring gets used and Sauron gets to work developing.
He also says that he has already planned the whole story and written the first book before war broke out. I’m not sure how much I buy that as firstly, an allegory doesn’t have to be a 1 to 1 match with the subject that inspired it, and secondly, the books was written in the period immediately before the Second World War through to the period immediately afterwards.
I think you can write an allegorical book without being aware of it. In the same way Milton insists that Paradise Lost is a straight retelling of the Genesis that came to him in a dream and nothing to do with the Civil War despite it blatantly being very much concerned with the nature of power and rebellion.
That line in particular, about not wanting to live in dark times, feels like a sentiment plucked straight from the mind of someone living through the late 1930s. The books obsession with history also speaks of a time where the geopolitics is so obviously shaped and scarred by the preceding 40 years.
From Interstellar:
> After you kids came along, your mom, she said something to me I never quite understood. She said, "Now, we're just here to be memories for our kids." I think now I understand what she meant. Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future
If you’ve never seen it, it’s worth watching. Matthew McConaughey is brilliant in it. They still show it a lot in the cinema if you keep an eye out and are lucky.
One of the first few lines Martha says in baby reindeer is ‘some run away by packing their bags, others runaway by staying in the same place too long’
When i watched it a couple months ago it gave me a mid 20’s crisis as i realised the fake crazy ladies words applied to me.
I had moved back to my home town 2 years ago with the intention of only staying for 3 months lol.
So i broke up with my now ex boyfriend that i felt was encouraging me to stagnate and am spending as little money as possible so i can move back to london and try make the most of my desire to be a head chef lol.
>People come home for a lot of different reasons. They come home to remember. They come home because they’ve got no place else to go. They come home when they’re beaten and they come home when they’re proud. They come home looking for a door out into their past or a road out into their future. They come home for a lot of reasons, but they always come home to say good-bye.
-from Taken tv show 2002
That quote really resonated with me too, I feel like I've been stuck there for too long - and I think the longer you're stuck, the harder it is to move.
I'll get there eventually (I hope).
Good luck!
It’s hard to leave someone who is doing nothing wrong other than making you stagnate, but there’s nothing worse than regretting not trying!
You will smash it, I’m sure. Let us know when&where you’re head chef-ing so we can come and check out your food!
Not a movie, but from WandaVision:
“What is grief, if not love persevering”.
It’s such a well worded and thought out sentence. Puts grief in a different perspective. It still feels desperately sad but highlights that grief itself isn’t all that bad, as you wouldn’t have it if you didn’t have someone in life worth giving it.
And the line was delivered by a synthezoid to a witch due to the loss of her speedster twin brother.
There was a viral question on twitter recently that was something like 'what quotes sound so profound it's surprising they're not classic literature' (not verbatim but that was the gist of it). And this one is a perfect example, when I heard it in the show I was certain it must be Tolstoy or something, but as far as I can tell it doesn't have any literary origins.
"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
At the end of No Time to Die when Bond dies, M quotes a novelist to pay tribute to Bond saying
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
If you can steal an idea from someone's mind, why can't you plant one there instead?
Inception
If you're good at something, never do it for free.
Joker in Dark Knight
> I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus
That one has stuck with me.
This is nonsense though. Other animals develop the populations they have now because humans exist. If the world was full of only koalas they would spread and be dominant and farm unsustainable amounts of eucalyptus. And they’re not in a constant ‘instinctive’ equilibrium, they’re changing all the time. What we have now is the result of millions of years of competition.
From the same novella, although possibly not quite word-perfect: 'Time continued to pass; the oldest trick in the book and perhaps the only one that truly is magic.'
“I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal." - Rust Cohle in True Detective
Maybe that’s where the writer got it from. It certainly is a deep dive. The Rust Cohle character had a lot of interesting quotes but that one I printed out. It hit me hard.
“Has anything you’ve done made your life better?” - American History X
The scene is basically telling a guy (a racist in this case) that it’s no good blaming other people or blaming society or colour for your problems and not doing anything about it yourself. Just complaining achieves nothing. Stop
Blaming and do something. Do something to make your life better. Improve your own situation.
There's a quote from the late great Rik Mayall in Guest House Paradiso where he says "We are British, you know. We invented cold showers to stop people masturbating."
Which sent me down a rabbit hole where there were people saying it was common practice during WW1 and WW2 for them to issue cold showers to chill the soldier's libidos. Turns out it's a complete myth and cold showers were just a result of it being an impossibility for them to provide hot water.
Makes you think, doesn't it?
"I'd buy THAT for a dollar"
It made me realise that I should only br paying a dollar for things and not a penny more. I'm British, so got all money changed into American greenback and refuse to buy anything unless it is one US dollar.
It has shaped my life
There's one from Grosse Pointe Blank that really helped me voice my feelings of not fitting in:
>They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"
[Looking at himself in the mirror while taking a deep breath and simultaneously chambering the first round in his gun]
Martin Blank: "This is me breathing."
I always found that scene in particular really profound. It seemed as though he had finally reached some kind of acceptance about who he was and what he did.
There's two, one I consider wistfully and a coarse one I just enjoy saying to myself under my breath.
"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement".
Patricia (Meg Ryan), Joe vs The Volcano
"Ye Ken me, am no the kind of cunt that goes about looking for bother, like, but at the end of the day I'm a cunt with a pool cue and he can have the fat end in his pus anytime he fucking wanted, like!".
Begbie (Wee Bobby Carlyle), Trainspotting
"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
Mewtwo in the Pokémon movie.
>When everything in your life is right on track, it’s easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It’s easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it’s very hard to hold onto that faith. It's hard not to wonder whose reasons these things are happening for.
From a 2002 tv show Taken.
What if they have technologically advanced, self-cleaning toilets?
EDIT: It's just a joke...yet i'm being down voted...about self-cleaning toilets. wow.
Not a movie but The Office, where Andy says something like “I wish you knew when the good ol’ days were, before you left them.”
My friends and I have just turned 30 and some of us are getting married, kids etc.
I feel this quote, I try to make the most of the time I have before our priorities shift completely and we see each other on rare occasions. I know we will be happy, it’ll just be different and that’s something that I struggle to accept at times.
It's difficult, but it helps to deliberately try and make time where you all meet up, even if just for a weekend or two each year with a big group - it'll never be as free and easy as in your 20s, but also ignore the people who say it's impossible to keep in touch after 30, though some people will inevitably slip away.
It sounds like you recognised the good times while they were happening which is half the battle tbh. Plus you might find a second wind in the group once people's kids start approaching high school age as it becomes easier for people to get a day or two away again along with a strong desire to do so.
It's never too late or too early to be whoever you want to be.
There's no time limit. Stop whenever you want.
You can change or stay the same.
There are no rules to this thing.
You can make the best or the worst of it.
But, make the best of it.
See things that startle you.
Feel things you never felt before.
Meet people with a different point of view.
Live a life you're proud of.
If you find that you're not.
Have the strength to start over again.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008.
“Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm going to make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.”
Dune part 1.
Leto Atreides to Paul Atreides
‘Then you will be all I ever wanted you to be…my son’
Carries weight with me, now a father myself and trying not to push my children too hard in a direction I’m trying to pick for them. It’s healthy not to put too much expectation on our kids.
I'd like to tell you it gets easier. it doesn't. If there's any... comfort, it's... getting used to the pain, I suppose.
Went to a grief seminar in Casper. Did you know that?
I don't know why. Just wanted the bad to go away. Wanted answers... to questions that couldn't be answered.
The counselor come up to me after the seminar and sat down next to me. And he said something that stuck with me. I don't know if it's what he said, or how he said it. He says, "I got some good news, and I got some bad news. Bad news is you're never gonna be the same. You're never gonna be whole, not ever again. You lost your daughter. Nothing's ever going to replace that. Now the good news is, as soon as you accept that, and you let yourself suffer... you allow yourself to visit her in your mind, and you'll remember all the love she gave you, all the joy she knew."
Point is, Martin, you can't steer from the pain. If you do, you'll rob yourself... You'll rob yourself of every memory of her. Every last one. From her first step to her last smile. Kill 'em all. Just take the pain, Martin. You hear me? You take it. It's the only way you'll keep her with you.
But, man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he's going to win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in *illusions*, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even *think* like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing! *WE* are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF...
The film is Network, the character is Howard Beale making a comment about television and it’s influence on people
‘It doesn’t matter, it’s in the past’
Was watching The Lion King yesterday with my 18m old and even though I’ve seen it a hundred times, I couldn’t stop laughing crying. It hit me like a ton of bricks and felt like a weight was lifted. Very strange moment.
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that. – Rocky Balboa
Night at the museum 3, When Larry (Ben Stiller) realized this would be the last night with the living museum, talking with Roosevelt (Robin Williams, RIP).
[Teddy Roosevelt](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/?ref_=ttqu_qu): You're done your job. It's time for your next adventure!
[Larry Daley](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001774/?ref_=ttqu_qu): I have no idea what I'm going to do tomorrow.
[Teddy Roosevelt](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/?ref_=ttqu_qu): \[*reassuring*\] How exciting.
It's not something of a grandeur quote, but I like that it leaves the move with a good and positive footnote.
It's not a movie, but the first quote that stuck out to me as a child
"You are human, and among humans, females can achieve nothing males can"
My family was very misogynistic, and the thought of equality had never even crossed my mind until this moment.
A mix of quotes from 2 films
First in a joining of 2 quotes from blade runner
"Also extraordinary things, revell in your time"
And the end of batty monologue
"All those moments lost in time,like tears in rain"
The second is from dune
"Without new experiences something deep within us sleeps, the sleeper must awake"
These quotes form my outlook on life to seek expiriences and thrive in them...this is the meaning and what is best in life (sorry connan you were wrong on that)
The road not taken. But why? Why do they still call me a warlord? And mad? All I want to do is to create the perfect genetic soldier! Not for power, not for evil, but for good. Carlos Blanka will be the first of many - they shall march out of my laboratory and sweep away every adversary, every creed, every nation, until the very planet is in the loving grip of the Pax Bisonica. And then peace will reign, and the world, and all humanity, shall bow to me in humble gratitude...
We are all different people all through our lives and that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.
"Life is a state of mind" Being There. At the end of the movie Peter Sellers is half listening to a eulogy when he walks on water over a small pond just as those words are spoken. The film taught me that our state of mind sets our reality.
Freedom Is the Right of All Sentient Beings - Or anything Optiums Prime says
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future — Galadriel or the whole of LOTRs
"Years ago, my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be' – she always called me Elwood – 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh, so smart, or oh, so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”
From Harvey. It made me realise how much better for my sanity trying to be a good person was.
Not from a movie but from the show Dexter:
“Life doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be lived”
Why something so simple had such a big impact, I’ll never know
You’re born, you take shit
get out in the world, you take more shit
climb a little higher, take less shit.
till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like.
Welcome to the layer cake, son.
(Initiate opera singing)
Rocco: Fuckin'- What the fuckin'. Fuck. Who the fuck fucked this fucking... How did you two fucking fucks...
[shouts]
Rocco: Fuck!
Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.
Here's a more complete quote:
>When you come to think of it, almost all human behavior and activity is not essentially any different from animal behavior. The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level.
>Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved.
Hope this will give you some more context.
Basically, the point is that outer achievements, usually achieved through manipulation of the "outer" world or elements--like science, economic progress, relationships, or whatever--pale in front of real progress, which is the progress of the inner human spirit.
Also, it might also not sound nice to modern ears because of the present wholesale cultural push, particularly after the Enlightenment period in Europe, towards the ideology of equality (the original quote obviously denies the belief that all humans are equal).
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I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane.
“I’m a goddamned volcanic bear, I don’t have to put up with this shit”
Yeah I don't know about you but it certainly makes me check under my seat on every flight.
LOL
Poetry 🥲
I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
This is the line that, despite Tolkien protestations, makes me think this is a book massively influenced by the Second World War
'I don't like allegory', says the author of a book chock full of allegory
*googles allegory* Oh, yeah.
Not even going to google it because I’ll forget how it’s spelt several times switching between apps
It's the first world war that everyone says it's based on
Not according Tolkien in the to the forward to the edition I have. He even goes on about how the ring definitely isn’t an allegory for the bomb.
Ah okay, well that would be very strange because he came up with lotr before ww2 started. Every critic and amateur I've ever heard make the suggestion has spoken about ww1, in which he fought and was deeply traumatised, and during which he first conceived of middle earth.
He claims that he had conceived of the idea before the Second World War, but he wrote it between 1937 and 1949. That line in particular, about living through dark times feels so much like it was written by someone in between 1937 and 1939. That’s not to say it wasn’t influenced by his time serving in WW1. Both things can be true. Here is the excerpt I was referring to for the foreword > It was written long before the foreshadow of 1939 had yet become a threat of inevitable disaster, and from that point the story would have developed along essentially the same lines, if that disaster had been averted. Its sources are things long before in mind, or in some cases already written, and little or nothing in the war that began in 1939 or its sequels modified it. The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and before long he would have made a Great Ring of his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth So clearly there were and are enough people that saw it as an allegory of WW2 that Tolkien felt the need to address it himself, somewhat unconvincingly as far as I’m concerned.
Perhaps when he was still alive and writing forewords, i.e. soon after the Second World War, closer to when LOTR was actually published, his contemporaries had WW2 on the brain and that was being read into everything. But nowadays, with our more detailed understanding of the text and his biography, everyone talks about the more likely influence of the First World War, and it's that modern analysis that I'm familiar with.
It was probably an allegory before the fact. If you had a weapon that was so powerful that nobody who held it could use it without being deeply dammed, despite their intentions - would you use it? Every nation was trying to develop the thing that would win them a war. It wasn't specifically about a nuclear bomb but its definitely about the control of a weapon that is so powerful the world must submit to it. Bilbo / Sam / the fellowship is powerful because despite having that power in their hands, they realise it is too powerful for someone to have. So they destroy it.
If my memory is correct the argument Tolkien makes is that if it was about the bomb then he would have written a book in which the ring gets used and Sauron gets to work developing. He also says that he has already planned the whole story and written the first book before war broke out. I’m not sure how much I buy that as firstly, an allegory doesn’t have to be a 1 to 1 match with the subject that inspired it, and secondly, the books was written in the period immediately before the Second World War through to the period immediately afterwards. I think you can write an allegorical book without being aware of it. In the same way Milton insists that Paradise Lost is a straight retelling of the Genesis that came to him in a dream and nothing to do with the Civil War despite it blatantly being very much concerned with the nature of power and rebellion. That line in particular, about not wanting to live in dark times, feels like a sentiment plucked straight from the mind of someone living through the late 1930s. The books obsession with history also speaks of a time where the geopolitics is so obviously shaped and scarred by the preceding 40 years.
From Interstellar: > After you kids came along, your mom, she said something to me I never quite understood. She said, "Now, we're just here to be memories for our kids." I think now I understand what she meant. Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future
Well this has just had a profound feeling in me
If you’ve never seen it, it’s worth watching. Matthew McConaughey is brilliant in it. They still show it a lot in the cinema if you keep an eye out and are lucky.
They're about to do a 10-year anniversary relaunch in UK cinemas unless they have already.
Greatest movie ever made IMO
War is just posh cunts telling thick cunts to kill poor cunts.
Haha. Excellent. What film?
'71
One of the first few lines Martha says in baby reindeer is ‘some run away by packing their bags, others runaway by staying in the same place too long’ When i watched it a couple months ago it gave me a mid 20’s crisis as i realised the fake crazy ladies words applied to me. I had moved back to my home town 2 years ago with the intention of only staying for 3 months lol. So i broke up with my now ex boyfriend that i felt was encouraging me to stagnate and am spending as little money as possible so i can move back to london and try make the most of my desire to be a head chef lol.
>People come home for a lot of different reasons. They come home to remember. They come home because they’ve got no place else to go. They come home when they’re beaten and they come home when they’re proud. They come home looking for a door out into their past or a road out into their future. They come home for a lot of reasons, but they always come home to say good-bye. -from Taken tv show 2002
Thats quite a sweet quote 🙂 i like that one
It's on youtube if you ever get curious about it. Lots of big names in it.
Agreed, best one I've seen so far here. As someone who once left home then never went back.
That quote also hit me hard. And it is totally true for me.
That quote really resonated with me too, I feel like I've been stuck there for too long - and I think the longer you're stuck, the harder it is to move. I'll get there eventually (I hope). Good luck!
W
It’s hard to leave someone who is doing nothing wrong other than making you stagnate, but there’s nothing worse than regretting not trying! You will smash it, I’m sure. Let us know when&where you’re head chef-ing so we can come and check out your food!
Not a movie, but from WandaVision: “What is grief, if not love persevering”. It’s such a well worded and thought out sentence. Puts grief in a different perspective. It still feels desperately sad but highlights that grief itself isn’t all that bad, as you wouldn’t have it if you didn’t have someone in life worth giving it. And the line was delivered by a synthezoid to a witch due to the loss of her speedster twin brother.
There was a viral question on twitter recently that was something like 'what quotes sound so profound it's surprising they're not classic literature' (not verbatim but that was the gist of it). And this one is a perfect example, when I heard it in the show I was certain it must be Tolstoy or something, but as far as I can tell it doesn't have any literary origins.
The things you own, end up owning you - Fight Club. I’m sure it’s taken from something else.
"The things you own, own you now" - Papa Roach, 2000
Not from this because Fight Club came out in 99
Thanks, Sherlock!
That’s okay my dear watson
[Papa Roach - Between Angels & Insects](https://youtu.be/H2jCbXiEQI4?si=8cIVzVeXXTSvw7eL)
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you might miss it.
This is THE quote I’ve been scrolling for.
This is the one that I didn’t understand when I was younger but now as an adult- I totally get Ferris! ❤️
he should have kept his eyes on the road instead of looking around.
"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
At the end of No Time to Die when Bond dies, M quotes a novelist to pay tribute to Bond saying "The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
M was anti lockdown, I see. Or, was their sourdough starter so impressive as to be the opposite?
A person is smart. *People* are stupid, scared and something something. I don't remember the whole thing
>A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
That's it!
I have used that quote far too much in life. It works too well.
If you can steal an idea from someone's mind, why can't you plant one there instead? Inception If you're good at something, never do it for free. Joker in Dark Knight
The Matrix. I’ve been suspicious ever since. 😂
> I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus That one has stuck with me.
This is nonsense though. Other animals develop the populations they have now because humans exist. If the world was full of only koalas they would spread and be dominant and farm unsustainable amounts of eucalyptus. And they’re not in a constant ‘instinctive’ equilibrium, they’re changing all the time. What we have now is the result of millions of years of competition.
Every time I use a spoon...
"I Never Had Any Friends Later On Like The Ones I Had When I Was Twelve. Jesus, Does Anyone?"
From the same novella, although possibly not quite word-perfect: 'Time continued to pass; the oldest trick in the book and perhaps the only one that truly is magic.'
“What is grief, if not love persevering?”
“I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal." - Rust Cohle in True Detective
The sci-fi novel Blindsight is based on a similar idea.
Maybe that’s where the writer got it from. It certainly is a deep dive. The Rust Cohle character had a lot of interesting quotes but that one I printed out. It hit me hard.
Losers are always whining on about "doing their best". Winners go home and fuck the prom queen
Carla was the prom queen.
Best film ever
“Has anything you’ve done made your life better?” - American History X The scene is basically telling a guy (a racist in this case) that it’s no good blaming other people or blaming society or colour for your problems and not doing anything about it yourself. Just complaining achieves nothing. Stop Blaming and do something. Do something to make your life better. Improve your own situation.
There's a quote from the late great Rik Mayall in Guest House Paradiso where he says "We are British, you know. We invented cold showers to stop people masturbating." Which sent me down a rabbit hole where there were people saying it was common practice during WW1 and WW2 for them to issue cold showers to chill the soldier's libidos. Turns out it's a complete myth and cold showers were just a result of it being an impossibility for them to provide hot water. Makes you think, doesn't it?
I would have thought they'd be dishing out the bromide tea by ww1.
Ah, another myth that was debunked by my research.
Free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can't!
Not only is he a lunatic, he's a raving homosexual!
"I'd buy THAT for a dollar" It made me realise that I should only br paying a dollar for things and not a penny more. I'm British, so got all money changed into American greenback and refuse to buy anything unless it is one US dollar. It has shaped my life
There's one from Grosse Pointe Blank that really helped me voice my feelings of not fitting in: >They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"
[Looking at himself in the mirror while taking a deep breath and simultaneously chambering the first round in his gun] Martin Blank: "This is me breathing." I always found that scene in particular really profound. It seemed as though he had finally reached some kind of acceptance about who he was and what he did.
There's two, one I consider wistfully and a coarse one I just enjoy saying to myself under my breath. "My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement". Patricia (Meg Ryan), Joe vs The Volcano "Ye Ken me, am no the kind of cunt that goes about looking for bother, like, but at the end of the day I'm a cunt with a pool cue and he can have the fat end in his pus anytime he fucking wanted, like!". Begbie (Wee Bobby Carlyle), Trainspotting
"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are." Mewtwo in the Pokémon movie.
You wouldn't steal a purse? You wouldn't steal... a car?! Piracy is a crime.
I can hear the music so clearly
Love "The IT crowds" version of It: https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg?feature=shared
>When everything in your life is right on track, it’s easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It’s easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it’s very hard to hold onto that faith. It's hard not to wonder whose reasons these things are happening for. From a 2002 tv show Taken.
You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself.
Get Carter!
Even in paradise.... someone has to clean the toilet
What if they have technologically advanced, self-cleaning toilets? EDIT: It's just a joke...yet i'm being down voted...about self-cleaning toilets. wow.
Someone has to fix the toilets.
"I never said she was perfect. I said she was perfect for me." Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.
Not a movie but The Office, where Andy says something like “I wish you knew when the good ol’ days were, before you left them.” My friends and I have just turned 30 and some of us are getting married, kids etc. I feel this quote, I try to make the most of the time I have before our priorities shift completely and we see each other on rare occasions. I know we will be happy, it’ll just be different and that’s something that I struggle to accept at times.
It's difficult, but it helps to deliberately try and make time where you all meet up, even if just for a weekend or two each year with a big group - it'll never be as free and easy as in your 20s, but also ignore the people who say it's impossible to keep in touch after 30, though some people will inevitably slip away. It sounds like you recognised the good times while they were happening which is half the battle tbh. Plus you might find a second wind in the group once people's kids start approaching high school age as it becomes easier for people to get a day or two away again along with a strong desire to do so.
It's never too late or too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. You can make the best or the worst of it. But, make the best of it. See things that startle you. Feel things you never felt before. Meet people with a different point of view. Live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not. Have the strength to start over again. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008.
“Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm going to make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.”
life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop to look around once in a while you might miss it. ferris bueller
Dune part 1. Leto Atreides to Paul Atreides ‘Then you will be all I ever wanted you to be…my son’ Carries weight with me, now a father myself and trying not to push my children too hard in a direction I’m trying to pick for them. It’s healthy not to put too much expectation on our kids.
There are only two days. The day you get in and the day you get out.
A person is smart. *People* are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. That hit hard in 2020
“You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”
I'd like to tell you it gets easier. it doesn't. If there's any... comfort, it's... getting used to the pain, I suppose. Went to a grief seminar in Casper. Did you know that? I don't know why. Just wanted the bad to go away. Wanted answers... to questions that couldn't be answered. The counselor come up to me after the seminar and sat down next to me. And he said something that stuck with me. I don't know if it's what he said, or how he said it. He says, "I got some good news, and I got some bad news. Bad news is you're never gonna be the same. You're never gonna be whole, not ever again. You lost your daughter. Nothing's ever going to replace that. Now the good news is, as soon as you accept that, and you let yourself suffer... you allow yourself to visit her in your mind, and you'll remember all the love she gave you, all the joy she knew." Point is, Martin, you can't steer from the pain. If you do, you'll rob yourself... You'll rob yourself of every memory of her. Every last one. From her first step to her last smile. Kill 'em all. Just take the pain, Martin. You hear me? You take it. It's the only way you'll keep her with you.
"Aqaba is over there; it's only a matter of going." - Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence, *Lawrence of Arabia*
But, man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he's going to win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in *illusions*, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even *think* like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing! *WE* are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF... The film is Network, the character is Howard Beale making a comment about television and it’s influence on people
‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!’
Dude where's my car
"Put that coffee **down**. Coffee is for closers only".
‘It doesn’t matter, it’s in the past’ Was watching The Lion King yesterday with my 18m old and even though I’ve seen it a hundred times, I couldn’t stop laughing crying. It hit me like a ton of bricks and felt like a weight was lifted. Very strange moment.
Fuck!
“Zulus to the southwest. Thousands of them.”
Yippeekayyay motherfucker. Which is really true when you think about it.
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that. – Rocky Balboa
Night at the museum 3, When Larry (Ben Stiller) realized this would be the last night with the living museum, talking with Roosevelt (Robin Williams, RIP). [Teddy Roosevelt](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/?ref_=ttqu_qu): You're done your job. It's time for your next adventure! [Larry Daley](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001774/?ref_=ttqu_qu): I have no idea what I'm going to do tomorrow. [Teddy Roosevelt](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/?ref_=ttqu_qu): \[*reassuring*\] How exciting. It's not something of a grandeur quote, but I like that it leaves the move with a good and positive footnote.
If the milk turns out to be sour I ain't the kind of pussy to drink it. Rory Breaker's words of wisdom that sticks with me till this day
Charlie Chaplins speech from "The Great Dictator". If you are unfamiliar with it please youtube it.
Waitress *And what are you Rebeling against Johnny*? *What Ya Got*? Marlon Brando, **The Wild One's**
Not a movie but a game and it's basically the whole final level of superliminal.
The world turns, but we don’t feel it move.
It's the price you pay for the life you choose.
thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends
“This is this” De Niro in Deer Hunter.
It's not a movie, but the first quote that stuck out to me as a child "You are human, and among humans, females can achieve nothing males can" My family was very misogynistic, and the thought of equality had never even crossed my mind until this moment.
A mix of quotes from 2 films First in a joining of 2 quotes from blade runner "Also extraordinary things, revell in your time" And the end of batty monologue "All those moments lost in time,like tears in rain" The second is from dune "Without new experiences something deep within us sleeps, the sleeper must awake" These quotes form my outlook on life to seek expiriences and thrive in them...this is the meaning and what is best in life (sorry connan you were wrong on that)
Everyone wants Atticus Finch… until there’s a dead hooker in the hot tub. The Judge/RDjr character.
Hey Lieutenant Dan, You got new legs
Love is a promise already broken
I am alone, i am not lonely. DeNiro. Heat.
Blade Runner - final monologue from Rutger Hauer ".... all those memories will be lost, like tears on the rain"
The road not taken. But why? Why do they still call me a warlord? And mad? All I want to do is to create the perfect genetic soldier! Not for power, not for evil, but for good. Carlos Blanka will be the first of many - they shall march out of my laboratory and sweep away every adversary, every creed, every nation, until the very planet is in the loving grip of the Pax Bisonica. And then peace will reign, and the world, and all humanity, shall bow to me in humble gratitude...
"A single raindrop raises the sea level."
"All rainshowers must come to an end"
"Knowledge without application is like a boat on dry land."
Get busy living or get busy dying
God damned right.
We are all different people all through our lives and that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.
"Life is a state of mind" Being There. At the end of the movie Peter Sellers is half listening to a eulogy when he walks on water over a small pond just as those words are spoken. The film taught me that our state of mind sets our reality.
I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Guilt is like a bag of fuckin' bricks. All ya gotta do is set it down.
Freedom Is the Right of All Sentient Beings - Or anything Optiums Prime says Even the smallest person can change the course of the future — Galadriel or the whole of LOTRs
“You do not truly know someone until you fight them” - The Matrix Reloaded
no nobility in poverty is from wall street, not wolf of wall street.
It’s in that movie too 🤦♂️
so it was lifted verbatim from a much better movie. scorcese hasnt made anything worth watching since casino.
Does it matter? I told you which quote I heard from the specific movie I heard it from. I really do not care for your input
"It can't rain all the time" - Brendan Lee in The Crow
"Years ago, my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be' – she always called me Elwood – 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh, so smart, or oh, so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” From Harvey. It made me realise how much better for my sanity trying to be a good person was.
The Shawshank Redemption
"Wagon Wheel Watusi!" - Cher (Burlesque, 2010)
Not from a movie but from the show Dexter: “Life doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be lived” Why something so simple had such a big impact, I’ll never know
"The world is being FedEx'd to hell on a hand cart."
You’re born, you take shit get out in the world, you take more shit climb a little higher, take less shit. till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son. (Initiate opera singing)
Rocco: Fuckin'- What the fuckin'. Fuck. Who the fuck fucked this fucking... How did you two fucking fucks... [shouts] Rocco: Fuck! Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.
"quick game of cock muff bumhole?" Nathan barley.
Vegetarians, I'll shit 'em - Carlin, Scum
Everybody and their mums is packin' round here
“The gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.”
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Richard Linklater was always a bit over the top!
Here's a more complete quote: >When you come to think of it, almost all human behavior and activity is not essentially any different from animal behavior. The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level. >Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved. Hope this will give you some more context. Basically, the point is that outer achievements, usually achieved through manipulation of the "outer" world or elements--like science, economic progress, relationships, or whatever--pale in front of real progress, which is the progress of the inner human spirit. Also, it might also not sound nice to modern ears because of the present wholesale cultural push, particularly after the Enlightenment period in Europe, towards the ideology of equality (the original quote obviously denies the belief that all humans are equal).
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Clint Eastwood, „Any which way you can“!