Amanda: This is Grinell, Iowa, my hometown, where all my family and friends live. But I'm not there now. I'm here, New York City. Home to eight million people, roughly half of whom are men. Which means half of the city is genetically predisposed to lie to the other half. You see, I'm the woman who has the world's worst judgment in men. I know what you're thinking. You might think that you do, but you don't. I do. My grade school boyfriend, Tommy, left me for someone with boobs. My high school boyfriend, Charlie, left me for, well, someone who didn't have any boobs. But that's all behind me now. I have a great job restoring paintings at the Metropolitan Museum. I'm in the Renaissance art division, where the men are easier to deal with.
Amanda: maybe that's why I like art better than real life. They can stay in love forever.
Polly: Nothing, just that you're going to die alone.
Amanda: Seriously, why do I need a personal life if my work makes me happy?
Polly: Because work isn't enough. You need someone to share your life with. And if you give up on that now, it might not be so easy to find later.
Holly: Okay, remember, when you walk in you're the most beautiful woman in the room.
Roxanna: Well, you're in the top four.
Roxanna: Oh, and most important, don't forget to turn them on, the headlights.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
I Am Number Four
John: This is the part I hate the most: the running. But it's the only thing in my life that is real. The rest is a lie, even Henry. People think he's my father, he's not. He's a warrior from my planet, designed to keep me alive. I don't remember my father. All he left for me was some kind of box. Henry says he'll pass it on to me when the time is right. I got my first scar when I was nine years old, at the border of Mexico. It woke me in my sleep. It was the first sign that the Mogadorians had found us here on Earth. The second scar came when I was twelve. I was in Colorado, in the middle of a spelling bee. As soon as I felt it, I knew Number Two was dead. Last night I got my third scar. I was just a kid when the Mogadorians invaded my planet. Nine of us children escaped. We were gifted, meant to protect our people when we grew up. We never got the chance, everyone was killed. We are the last of our kind. Three of us are gone. Dead. They are hunting us down one by one in order. I know I am next. I am Number Four.
Dad: Worst advice you ever got? Pull this.
Mom: Your parents will never know you're gone.
Sarah: Oh, mom. Telling me that self tanner looks totally natural.
Brother: She was orange.
Sarah: Like a traffic cone, on picture day.
John: What, you're allowed to look at everyone else-take our pictures- and we're not allowed see you?
Sarah: Okay, that's enough.
John: Seems like you want to run away.
Sarah: Just be happy when I can get out of here.
John: I don't know - been to a lot of places...
Sarah: You don't have to give me that "there's no place like home" speech, I've heard it.
John: No, No. You can go wherever you want. See whatever you want to but, um... a place is only as good as the people you know in it. I... I think this is a pretty good place.
Mark: Did you have a nice time last night, John? You see, in football, a quarterback needs a few things: speed, strength, mostly though, you need intuition. A feeling when things are going south. First time we talked I should have listened to mine. There you go, John. Good boy. Maybe you got some intuition working for you too.
John: It's not my fight and it never was. I can't even remember a world before this one.
Sam: My entire childhood has been an episode of X-files. You know what it's like to feel something so strong, and everyday you keep telling yourself your Dad's gonna come back and take you away from this shit hole? And that everything that we believed in was true, and that we're not crazy. Please.
Number 6: Red bullets is for pussies.
John: This is the first time I've left without Henry. But also the first one I have a reason to come back to. Henry was right. We're stronger together. So we will find the others. My planet is called Lorian, but Earth is my home now. It is as good a place as any in the universe, and that's how it's going to stay.
Dad: Worst advice you ever got? Pull this.
Mom: Your parents will never know you're gone.
Sarah: Oh, mom. Telling me that self tanner looks totally natural.
Brother: She was orange.
Sarah: Like a traffic cone, on picture day.
John: What, you're allowed to look at everyone else-take our pictures- and we're not allowed see you?
Sarah: Okay, that's enough.
John: Seems like you want to run away.
Sarah: Just be happy when I can get out of here.
John: I don't know - been to a lot of places...
Sarah: You don't have to give me that "there's no place like home" speech, I've heard it.
John: No, No. You can go wherever you want. See whatever you want to but, um... a place is only as good as the people you know in it. I... I think this is a pretty good place.
Mark: Did you have a nice time last night, John? You see, in football, a quarterback needs a few things: speed, strength, mostly though, you need intuition. A feeling when things are going south. First time we talked I should have listened to mine. There you go, John. Good boy. Maybe you got some intuition working for you too.
John: It's not my fight and it never was. I can't even remember a world before this one.
Sam: My entire childhood has been an episode of X-files. You know what it's like to feel something so strong, and everyday you keep telling yourself your Dad's gonna come back and take you away from this shit hole? And that everything that we believed in was true, and that we're not crazy. Please.
Number 6: Red bullets is for pussies.
John: This is the first time I've left without Henry. But also the first one I have a reason to come back to. Henry was right. We're stronger together. So we will find the others. My planet is called Lorian, but Earth is my home now. It is as good a place as any in the universe, and that's how it's going to stay.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Final Destination 3
Jason: The real fear of these rides comes from the feeling of having no control. Everyone imagines weird stuff when they get scared. But it never turns out to be what they imagine. Never.
Erin: A roller coaster is just elemental physics. A conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy.
McKinley: Yeah. Odds are like one in 250 million of dying in a roller coaster.
McKinley: You're more likely to die driving to an amusement park than dying at one.
Priest: We may feel that our lives are not our own. That Death controls, frames our lives. Our birth's nothing but death begun. Yet, whether it is with this tragic loss of young lives, which we have suffered much of late, or with a soft passing of the elderly in the night, we are all equal in Death's eyes.
McKinley: "Equal in Death's eyes?" Seriously? How can you say that? Dude, think it through. Charlie Manson made it to 70. Osama, still kickin'. Pimps, vice-presidents walking around. All the atrocities they've committed, they're alive and well. These two girls, who'd never done shit to anybody, they don't get to make it to 18? Where's the fucking equality in that?
Frankie: Seein' women as nothing but fun bags. I mean, if I'd have seen their, whatever, humanity, they wouldn't have felt the pressure to look so good. Impress Franklin Cheeks. Go on diets. Deodorize. Stretch. Tan.
Wendy: If there's any place that makes you feel like there's no life after death, it's a cemetery.
Kevin: It's never better staying ignorant. Willful ignorance is surrendering control.
Lewis: Lewis ain't afraid of no death. Fuck Death! Death is a fucking Denver fan. Death wear blue and orange. Real men wear black. Lewis ain't afraid of no Death. Death is afraid of me! Death fears me!
McKinley: We're biological entities and Death is just the end of biological function. It's as simple as that.
McKinley: Kevin, how come when a guy dies of a plain heart attack no one goes, "Oh, wow, he was eating French toast when Princess Diana died in Paris and then he saw her funeral on TV, and now he's dead"? You know why? Because they'd sound crazy so guess how you two sound right now? Crazy.
McKinley: So, Newton's third law of motion, and well, look I'm just guessing that it goes for Death too when he's working in our world. Newton says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So, that means that if Death has taken action, so can we. And that action we take has an opposite reaction that thwarts Death's intent. What if, for example, the last in line were to make the utilitarian choice... Kill themselves. Wow! Wow! That's going to ruin any plan that Death's put in motion. And even better, hey, it's gonna save five skipped lives. Any takers? Nah, I didn't think so.
Erin: A roller coaster is just elemental physics. A conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy.
McKinley: Yeah. Odds are like one in 250 million of dying in a roller coaster.
McKinley: You're more likely to die driving to an amusement park than dying at one.
Priest: We may feel that our lives are not our own. That Death controls, frames our lives. Our birth's nothing but death begun. Yet, whether it is with this tragic loss of young lives, which we have suffered much of late, or with a soft passing of the elderly in the night, we are all equal in Death's eyes.
McKinley: "Equal in Death's eyes?" Seriously? How can you say that? Dude, think it through. Charlie Manson made it to 70. Osama, still kickin'. Pimps, vice-presidents walking around. All the atrocities they've committed, they're alive and well. These two girls, who'd never done shit to anybody, they don't get to make it to 18? Where's the fucking equality in that?
Frankie: Seein' women as nothing but fun bags. I mean, if I'd have seen their, whatever, humanity, they wouldn't have felt the pressure to look so good. Impress Franklin Cheeks. Go on diets. Deodorize. Stretch. Tan.
Wendy: If there's any place that makes you feel like there's no life after death, it's a cemetery.
Kevin: It's never better staying ignorant. Willful ignorance is surrendering control.
Lewis: Lewis ain't afraid of no death. Fuck Death! Death is a fucking Denver fan. Death wear blue and orange. Real men wear black. Lewis ain't afraid of no Death. Death is afraid of me! Death fears me!
McKinley: We're biological entities and Death is just the end of biological function. It's as simple as that.
McKinley: Kevin, how come when a guy dies of a plain heart attack no one goes, "Oh, wow, he was eating French toast when Princess Diana died in Paris and then he saw her funeral on TV, and now he's dead"? You know why? Because they'd sound crazy so guess how you two sound right now? Crazy.
McKinley: So, Newton's third law of motion, and well, look I'm just guessing that it goes for Death too when he's working in our world. Newton says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So, that means that if Death has taken action, so can we. And that action we take has an opposite reaction that thwarts Death's intent. What if, for example, the last in line were to make the utilitarian choice... Kill themselves. Wow! Wow! That's going to ruin any plan that Death's put in motion. And even better, hey, it's gonna save five skipped lives. Any takers? Nah, I didn't think so.
Final Destination 2
Nora: I think you're a coward. You hide out in here because you're too bitter and selfish to help any other person. In my opinion, you're already dead.
Tim: If he gives me the gas and I end up with my pants unbuttoned, we ain't payin'.
Clear: If the design is flawed, it can be beaten.
Undertaker: People are always most alive, just before they die, don't you think?
Undertaker: Only new life can defeat death. Some people say there's a balance to everything. Where there's a life, there's a death, and death, there is a life. But the introduction to life that was not meant to be, that can validate the list, force death to start anew.
Tim: If he gives me the gas and I end up with my pants unbuttoned, we ain't payin'.
Clear: If the design is flawed, it can be beaten.
Undertaker: People are always most alive, just before they die, don't you think?
Undertaker: Only new life can defeat death. Some people say there's a balance to everything. Where there's a life, there's a death, and death, there is a life. But the introduction to life that was not meant to be, that can validate the list, force death to start anew.
Final Destination
Tod: We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast. But when we say this, we imagine that the hour is placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun, or that death could arrive this same afternoon - this afternoon which is so certain, and which has every hour filled in advance.
Undertaker: In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes. What you have to realize is that we're all just a mouse a cat has by the tail. Every single move we make from the mundane to the monumental, the red light that we stop at or run, the people we have sex with or won't with us, the airplanes that we ride or walk out of, it's all part of death's sadistic design leading to the grave.
Terri: Enough! Both of you. They died, and we lived. Get over it. I will not let this plane crash be the most important thing in my life! I'm moving on, Carter, and if you want to waste your life beating the shit out of Alex every time you see him, then you can just drop fucking dead.
Alex: If I see it, I can intervene. If I intervene, I cheat the design.
Alex: God's not afraid to die. Gods don't die! We do!
Alex: Tetanus. Nice one. I overlooked it. You tried to capitalize, but I caught you. You fuck! I can beat you. Maybe not forever, but I've got this cabin rigged to beat you now.
Undertaker: In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes. What you have to realize is that we're all just a mouse a cat has by the tail. Every single move we make from the mundane to the monumental, the red light that we stop at or run, the people we have sex with or won't with us, the airplanes that we ride or walk out of, it's all part of death's sadistic design leading to the grave.
Terri: Enough! Both of you. They died, and we lived. Get over it. I will not let this plane crash be the most important thing in my life! I'm moving on, Carter, and if you want to waste your life beating the shit out of Alex every time you see him, then you can just drop fucking dead.
Alex: If I see it, I can intervene. If I intervene, I cheat the design.
Alex: God's not afraid to die. Gods don't die! We do!
Alex: Tetanus. Nice one. I overlooked it. You tried to capitalize, but I caught you. You fuck! I can beat you. Maybe not forever, but I've got this cabin rigged to beat you now.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Crossroads
Lucy: When we were ten, growing up in Georgia, Mimi, Kit, and I knew exactly what we wanted out of life. So we put our dreams in a box and we buried it. We made a pact to dig it up at midnight the day of our high school graduation. Now I don't remember what our wishes were except for one: We wished that we'd be best friends forever. Well, that wish didn't come true.
Henry: Reason 1: We've been lab partners for three years. So we really trust each other. Trust is very important. Reason 2: We are both 18 and never done it. Very Important. Reason 3: We both want to do it. Reason 4: Please, Lucy, come on. I'm begging you. Let's just do it.
Mimi: It's not stealing if he's in the car with us.
Lucy: I used to think I had the answers to everything. But now I know life doesn't always go my way.It feels like I'm caught in the middle and that's when I realize that I'm not a girl and not yet a woman. All I need is time, just a moment that's mine. And while I'm in between, I'm not a girl.
Lucy: She said that she never wanted me. She said that my father made her have me. And that I was just a mistake.
Lucy: This time, we didn't make any wishes for the future. We said goodbye to our past. Now, any of us has any idea where life is gonna take us, cause what he have is now, and right now, we have each other.
Henry: Reason 1: We've been lab partners for three years. So we really trust each other. Trust is very important. Reason 2: We are both 18 and never done it. Very Important. Reason 3: We both want to do it. Reason 4: Please, Lucy, come on. I'm begging you. Let's just do it.
Mimi: It's not stealing if he's in the car with us.
Lucy: I used to think I had the answers to everything. But now I know life doesn't always go my way.It feels like I'm caught in the middle and that's when I realize that I'm not a girl and not yet a woman. All I need is time, just a moment that's mine. And while I'm in between, I'm not a girl.
Lucy: She said that she never wanted me. She said that my father made her have me. And that I was just a mistake.
Lucy: This time, we didn't make any wishes for the future. We said goodbye to our past. Now, any of us has any idea where life is gonna take us, cause what he have is now, and right now, we have each other.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Take the Lead
Eddie: Damn son, what'd you do that for? She wasn't carryin' nothin', she could've opened the door her damn self.
Pierre: It's called courtesy.
Eddie: Yeah, well it makes you look like a punk ass.
Eddie: Punk ass moves like that won't get you no play around here. Trust me, I've tried it.
Pierre: Caitlin, you like dancing?
Caitlin: Yeah.
Pierre: Then you were made to dance.
Pierre: You need to dance for yourself, not for anybody else.
Pierre: In ancient times, it was believe that any man who could kill with .speed and accuracy should be able to dance with grace as well. Ballroom dancing is kings and empresis. It is the dance of strength, romance, and love.
Eddie: Look son, you're talking about a whole bunch of rich white folk, slave runners. I mean, I've never seen Martin Luther King do a waltz.
Danja: Why is that every time you want to fly something by us you claim it's got ties to Africa? But every time you get scared or mad, you blame it on African killer bees, African ebola virus, freakin West Nile fever?!
Rock: Doctor's note. Can't dance, got a heart condition.
Pierre: I see. Interesting man, your doctor. Not many physicians write notes on three hole punch paper.
Pierre: Ballroom dancing is about two bodies moving as one.
Caitlin: It's like sex on hardwood. I would kill if I could dance like that.
Eddie: Check Mr. Dulaine just getting his flirt on.
Principal Augustine: For these kids life is a fight to stay alive, and a hustle to make ends meet. Not ballroom dancing.
Pierre: To follow takes as much strength as to lead.
Pierre: It's called courtesy.
Eddie: Yeah, well it makes you look like a punk ass.
Eddie: Punk ass moves like that won't get you no play around here. Trust me, I've tried it.
Pierre: Caitlin, you like dancing?
Caitlin: Yeah.
Pierre: Then you were made to dance.
Pierre: You need to dance for yourself, not for anybody else.
Pierre: In ancient times, it was believe that any man who could kill with .speed and accuracy should be able to dance with grace as well. Ballroom dancing is kings and empresis. It is the dance of strength, romance, and love.
Eddie: Look son, you're talking about a whole bunch of rich white folk, slave runners. I mean, I've never seen Martin Luther King do a waltz.
Danja: Why is that every time you want to fly something by us you claim it's got ties to Africa? But every time you get scared or mad, you blame it on African killer bees, African ebola virus, freakin West Nile fever?!
Rock: Doctor's note. Can't dance, got a heart condition.
Pierre: I see. Interesting man, your doctor. Not many physicians write notes on three hole punch paper.
Pierre: Ballroom dancing is about two bodies moving as one.
Caitlin: It's like sex on hardwood. I would kill if I could dance like that.
Eddie: Check Mr. Dulaine just getting his flirt on.
Principal Augustine: For these kids life is a fight to stay alive, and a hustle to make ends meet. Not ballroom dancing.
Pierre: To follow takes as much strength as to lead.
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