Hey everyone, In my Lit class a few weeks ago, we were annotating a poem by Carol Ann Duffy and discussing the influence of the USA (Americanisation) on the rest of the world, most specifically the UK. I can't remember the name of the poem (I'll find it later), but it discussed topics such as the nuclear family as presented by Hollywood in the 1950s/1960s, and there were allusions to It's A Wonderful Life, which regarded by many as quintessentially American and the only 'true' representation of the ideal American family at the time the movie was realised. Although I've never actually seen It's A Wonderful Life, there is a quote in the movie that I've grown up hearing, and it has to possibly be my favourite movie quote of all time: 'What is it that you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.' I have no idea why, but it's just stuck with me since my childhood. I'll make sure to watch the movie this Christmas. As for my favourite literary quote, there are too many to pick just one, so I'll go with 'The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?' from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, without saying anything about it. What are your favourite movie/literary quotes?
I love Fight Club! “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.” “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
Actually, I have two quotes that has really caught my attention and one of them is even my motto They are followin. "You try, you fail. You try, you fail. But the only true failure is when you stop trying." - Madame Leota from The Haunted Mansion (that's my motto ) "Who honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us, and at the same time sings that we will never die? Who teaches us what's real and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us? And who holds the key that can set us free... It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!" Sweet Pea from Sucker Punch
Most of my favorite quotes are from Robin Hobb's books One I particularly like : "Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too." Don't really have a movie favorite quote, I rarely watch movies
"You have no power over me" from the movie Labyrinth. I have many literary quotes I like... For example, these two from the book When God was a rabbit: "They tell me I'm different and I know I am, but only with them does it feel wrong". "We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears".
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Gray (in the prologue), "All art is quite useless." If you know anything about Wilde, you know that almost nothing he says is what he's saying. ee cummings, Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, honestly the entire poem is amazing, but this line always stuck out to me, "One day anyone died I guess/ (and noone stooped to kiss his face)". The other stanza I love is, "someones married their everyones/ laughed their cryings and did their dance/ (sleep wake hope and then) they/ said their nevers they slept their dreams". I have so many favourite literary quotes but those 3 are the best I think.
"She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice. It was supposed to make you feel something." Rainbow Rowell is one of my favorite authors. This quote is from Eleanor & Park
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must the the truth." - Spock quoting Sherlock quoting Spock quoting Sherlock, Star Trek (2009) Get it?
From The Blues Brothers Elwood: There's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark out, and we're wearing sunglasses. Elwood: Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now. Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome Pigkiller: Remember; no matter where you go, there you are
“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of time.” I have a soft spot for Jack London. This particular quote comes from Call of the Wild.
The 100: "Who we are and who we need to be to survive are two very different things" - Bellamy Even though I don't like Bellamy in the show (Or atleast in seasons 1 & 3), I love this quote
“the whole world is a work of art that we are parts of the work of art. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself. And I see this when I have a shock.” From Virginia Woolf's Moments of Being
"La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va." - Victor Hugo (Loosely translated by "It happened, simply and by itself, like night unfolds when the day is gone".)
My favorite quote is an older, better version of "What do we say to death?" It's in a book called Return of a Mad Look at Old Movies in the Blazing Blades episode. There's a pirate who is about to be executed and he is being given his last meal. When asked what he wants to eat he picks "Lamb chops en brochette." So they bring him out the skewer with lamb on it, and the guy who wants to kill him's like: "Lamb chops? An odd choice for a man about to die!" And then the best line ever— "But an EXCELLENT choice for a man about to live!" Cue pirate using the whole lamb chop skewer as a sword to start an epic duel.