My Favorite Quotes

Coach Gary Gaines: "Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didnt let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasnt one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect!"

Brian Chavez: "I'm gonna miss the heat."
Don Billingsley: "I'm gonna miss the lights."
Brian Chavez: "Yeah, me too. Stay low boys, keep those feet moving."
Don Billingsley: "Hey Chavo! Be perfect."
Brian Chavez: "You be perfect."

Mike Winchell: "My mind's not right."

Brian Chavez: "We will win State."
Don Billingsley: "Chavez, you're like a human piñata. You get your ass all beat more than anybody I know, and you just sit there and spit out candy."
Mike Winchell: "That's because he's out of here. He's got the grades. And no matter what we win or loose he knows he's getting out. He's got one foot out the door, man."
Brian Chavez: "Give me the gun."
Don Billingsley: "You're going to be drinking martinis, eating lamb chops, getting manicures...
Brian Chavez: You're just jealous."
Don Billingsley: "...removing your freakin' shoes"

Coach Gary Gaines: "Gentlemen, the hopes and dreams of an entire town are riding on your shoulders. You may never matter again in your life as much as you do right now."

Brian Chavez: "We got to lighten up. We're 17."
Don Billingsley: "Do you feel 17?"
Mike Winchell: "I don't feel 17."

Mike Winchell: "You ever feel cursed, Coach? Like, no matter what, inside your heart you feel that you're gonna lose. Like something's hanging over you, following you like a witch or a demon that just... I feel like that all the time. Even when things are going good. When we're winnin', it's there. And when we're losin', it's there."
Coach Gary Gaines: "It took me a long time to realize that, uh, there ain't much difference between winnin' and losin', except for how the outside world treats you. But inside you, it's about all the same. It really is. Fact of the matter is, I believe that, uh, our only curses are the ones that are self-imposed. You know what I'm sayin'? We, all of us, dig our own holes"

Coach Gary Gaines: "I've seen you fight. I've seen you not quit. Can you give me a great effort and just a little bit more. Can you be perfect?"

Mike Winchell: "Did you think is was going to be this big?"
Brian Chavez: "Yeah."
Mike Winchell: "Bullshit man."
Brian Chavez: "I do."
Mike Winchell: "You act like that. You think it's just a game. Something to check off on your list. Know what I think?"
Brian Chavez: "What's that?"
Mike Winchell: "I think you're scared just like the rest of us. But I think you're smart enough to see that one day when you look back from whatever big job or big house, or whatever it is that you got, that when you look back at this time, I dare you to beat it. I dare you."
Brian Chavez: "It's just a game."
Don Billingsley: "It doesn't feel like just a game to me."
Brian Chavez: "So what's it feel like?"
Don Billingsley: "Feels like... feels like we're going to war."

Tutor: "What does it feel like when you're dancing?"
Billy: "Don't know. Sorta feels good. Sorta stiff and that, but once I get going... then I like, forget everything. And... sorta disappear. Sorta disappear. Like I feel a change in my whole body. And I've got this fire in my body. I'm just there. Flyin' like a bird. Like electricity. Yeah, like electricity."

Bertier: "I was afraid of you, Julius. I only saw what I was afraid of, and now I know I was only hating my brother"
Big Ju: "I'll tell you what, though. Um, when all this is over... me and you are gonna move out to the same neighborhood together. OK? And, um... and we'll get old, and we'll get fat. And there ain't gonna be all this black-white between us"
Bertier: "Left side."
Big Ju: "Strong side"


Nurse: "Only kin's allowed in here.
Bertier: "Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother."

Matt Campbell: "One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came and killed those two dead boys."

"Roses are red, violets are blue... Fuck you, whore!"

Tom Hansen : "People don't realize this, but loneliness is underrated."

Anthony Swofford: "A story. A man fires a rifle for many years. and he goes to war. And afterwards he comes home, and he sees that whatever else he may do with his life - build a house, love a woman, change his son's diaper - he will always remain a jarhead. And all the jarheads killing and dying, they will always be me. We are still in the desert."

Tyler Durden: "God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

Danny Vinyard: "So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'"

Brian Johnson: "Saturday, March 24,1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed."

Christopher McCandless: "If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed." - By Tolstoy

Christopher McCandless: "The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head." - By Primo Levi

Christopher McCandless: "It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations.
Absolute freedom. And the road has always led west." - By Wallace Stegner

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more" - By Lord Byron

Donnie Darko: "Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?"
Frank: "Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"

Jack Torrance: "Wendy? Darling? Light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash 'em right the fuck in. Ha, ha"

Jay Addams: "I'll let you bang my mom"

Maximus: "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next"

Young Noah: "So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out"

Young Allie: "Now, say you're a bird."
Young Noah: "If you're a bird I'm a bird"

Martha Shaw: "Look, a woman know when a man looks into her eyes and sees someone else."
Young Noah: "Now you know that I want to give you all the things that you want, right? But I can't, because they're gone... They're broken."

Young Noah: "My Dearest Allie. I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you. Noah"

John Connor: "No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative," or some shit like that. You say "no problemo." And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say "eat me." And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vista, baby."
The Terminator: "Hasta la vista, baby."
John Connor: "Yeah but later, dickwad. And if someone gets upset you say, "chill out"! Or you can do combinations
The Terminator: "Chill out, dickwad."
John Connor: "Great! See, you're getting it!"
The Terminator: "No problemo."

Harvey Milk: "All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words."

Marshall Stouffer: "They were most dangerous when they had a camera in their hands. They had a camera in their hands a lot."

Narrator: "Alors Mathilde s'adosse bien droite sur sa chaise. Croise les mains sur ses genoux, et le regarde... dans la douceur de l'air, dans la lumière du jardin, Mathilde le regarde... Elle le regarde... Elle le regarde..." ("Mathilde leans back against her chair, folds her hands in her lap, and looks at him. In the sweetness of the air, in the light of the garden, Mathilde looks at him. She looks at him... She looks at him...")

Olive: "Grandpa, am I pretty?"
Grandpa: "You are the most beautiful girl in the world."
Olive: "You're just saying that."
Grandpa: "No! I'm madly in love with you and it's not because of your brains or your personality."


Dwayne: "You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest."

Captain Spaulding: "Howdy Folks! You like blood? Violence? Freaks of nature? Well then, come on down to Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Mad-Men. See the Alligator Boy, ride my famous Murder Ride. Most of all, don't forget to take home some of my tasty fried chicken! Ha ha! It just tastes so damn good!"

Benny Rodriguez: "Anyone who wants to be a can't-hack-it pantywaist who wears their mama's bra, raise your hand." [everyone raises their hands]


Squints: "It's about time Benny, my clothes are goin' outa style."


"The Babe": "Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die, follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong."

Jesse: "Who's Johnny Potsmoker?"
Chester: "Oh ,that's my alter ego."
Jesse: "Wait, I thought Johnny Potsmoker was MY alter ego."
Chester: "No. Yours is Smokey McPot."
Jesse: "Oh yeah."

The Writer: [referring to Chris] "Although I hadn't seen him in more than ten years, I know I'll miss him forever."

Gordie: "Do you think I'm weird?"
Chris: "Definitely."
Gordie: "No man, seriously. Am I weird?"
Chris: "Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird."

Chris: "I'm never gonna get out of this town am I, Gordie?"
Gordie: "You can do anything you want, man."
Chris: "Yeah, sure. Give me some skin."
Gordie: "I'll see ya."
Chris: "Not if I see you first."

John Keating: "Why do I stand up here? Anybody?"
Dalton: "To feel taller!"
John Keating: "No!"
John Keating: "Thank you for playing Mr. Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way."

John Keating: "They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it?... Carpe... hear it?... Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."

John Keating:"No matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

Tyler: "Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it. Because nobody else will. Like when someone comes into your life and half of you says you're nowhere near ready, but the other half says: make her yours forever"