Movie Quotes

Good talk, son.

Twitter had something called the #BestMovieLineEver trending today.

Which isn't easy, of course. Too many movies. Too many great lines.

I immediately reached for my Ferris Bueller's Day Off bag of tricks to use "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Oh yeah (chibba cha kaaaaaa).

Chris Kaelin chimed in with some goodness from The Godfather (again, highly quotable).

There were others, and I'm sure you get the idea.

Horror quotes. Literary quotes. Dramatic quotes. Humorous quotes.

In a 2005 list published by the American Film Institute, they went with "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone with the Wind at number one.

In truth, can you go wrong with any quote?

We can go for Caddyshack, Bull Durham, Major Leauge, Airplane!, Blazing Saddles, any of the Star Wars movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, any John Hughes movie, Pulp Fiction...well, you get the idea.

So many quotes and so much fun.

The best is when you hear the quotes and never know where they came from. Sean (he of the brand new learners permit) didn't realize how many quotes came from Caddyshack until he watched it for the first time last year.

We could just do a list of sports quotes.

"Just a bit outside."
"Dynamite drop-in, Monty. That broadcast school has really paid off."
"If you build it, he will come."
"MOONLIGHT GRAHAM."
"The rose goes in the front."
"Candlesticks make a nice wedding present."
"Lollygaggers!"
"I mean anything travels that far oughta have a damn stewardess on it."
"You Adrian!"
"WE'RE LOSIN'! They're burying us alive!" "Eddie Shore?" "Oh, piss of Eddie Shore!"
"Come on, Hobbs, knock the cover off the ball!"
"There's no crying in baseball!"
"The cathedral that is Yankee Stadium belongs to a chapel."

And, speaking of crying...
"I love Brian Piccolo. And I'd like all of you to love him, too. And so tonight, when you hit your knees, please ask God to love him."

I haven't even gotten to Rudy, Remember the Titans, Hoosiers, Miracle, and so on.

I mean, I'm just giving you a small sample.

So, anyway, how could we possibly come up with one single quote and call it the best ever?

Besides, many quotes get bungled anyway (Ilsa doesn't say "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca. She says, "Play it, Sam.").

So to close, I say, "Good talk, son" (which is from National Lampoon's Vacation) and is often misquoted as "Good talk, Russ."

Incidentally, Vacation is by far the best of the National Lampoon movies, but that's a debate for another time.