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It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night is a 1934 film about a spoiled heiress, running away from her family, who is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story but who then falls for her.
 * Directed by Frank Capra. Written by Robert Riskin, based on a story by Samuel Hopkins Adams.

Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies! taglines

Peter Warne

 * [to his boss, on the phone] In a pig's eye, you will!...Hey listen monkey face, when you fired me, you fired the best newshound your filthy scandal sheet ever had...That was free verse, you gashouse palooka!
 * [to his boss, who has already hung up] Oh, so you're changing your tune, eh? You're a little late with your apologies. I wouldn't go back to work for you if you begged me on your hands and knees. And I hope this will be a lesson to you.
 * I never did like the idea of sitting on newspaper. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.
 * [to Ellie] Now listen, I put up a stiff fight for that seat. So if it's just the same to you - scram!
 * [in a telegram] Am I laughing? The biggest scoop of the year just dropped in my lap. I know where Ellen Andrews is...How would you like to have the story, you big tub of mush...Will try and get it. What I said about never writing another line for you still goes. Are you burning? PETER WARNE
 * [to Ellie] Now that's my whole plot in a nutshell. A simple story for simple people. If you behave yourself, I'll see that you get to King Westley. If not, I'll just have to spill the beans to Papa.
 * [to Shapeley] I got a couple of machine guns in my suitcase. I'll let you have one of 'em. May have a little trouble up North. Have to shoot it out with the cops. But if you come through all right, those five G's are as good as in the bag, maybe more. I'll have a talk with the Killer, see that he takes care of ya....yeah, yeah, the big boy, the boss of the outfit. You ever hear of Bugs Dooley?...He was a nice guy, just like you. But he made a big mistake one day. Got a little too talkative. Do you know what happened to his kid?...Well, I can't tell you, but when Bugs heard about it, he blew his brains out.

Ellie Andrews

 * [to Peter] There is a brain behind that face of yours, isn't there? You've got everything nicely figured out for yourself.
 * [to Peter] You think I'm a fool and a spoiled brat. Well, perhaps I am, although I don't see how I can be. People who are spoiled are accustomed to having their own way. I never have. On the contrary. I've always been told what to do, and how to do it, and when, and with whom. Would you believe it? This is the first time I've ever been alone with a man!...It's a wonder I'm not panic-stricken...Nurses, governesses, chaperones, even bodyguards. Oh, it's been a lot of fun.

Mr. Andrews

 * [to King Westley] I admit I'm licked. But it's only because I'm worried. If I don't find her soon, I'll go crazy...if she returns, I won't interfere with your marriage.
 * [to Ellie, as she is walking down the aisle] That guy Warne is OK. He didn't want the reward. All he asked for was $39.60, what he spent on you. Said it was a matter of principle. You took him for a ride. He loves you Ellie. He told me so. You don't want to be married to a mug like Westley. I can buy him off for a pot of gold. And you can make an old man happy and you won't do so bad for yourself. If you change your mind, your car's waiting back at the gate.

Others

 * Detective: We're wasting our time. Can you imagine Ellie Andrews riding on a bus?
 * Shapeley: Shapeley's the name - and that's the way I like 'em!
 * Shapeley: [to Ellie] Well, shut my big nasty mouth! It looks like you're one up on me. You know, there's nothing I like better than to meet a high-class mama that can snap 'em back at ya. 'Cause the colder they are, the hotter they get. That's what I always say. Yes, sir, when a cold mama gets hot, boy, how she sizzles. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Now, you're just my type. Believe me, sister, I could go for you in a big way. 'Fun-on-the-side' Shapeley they call me, with accent on the fun, believe you me.

Dialogue

 * Ellie: You've been telling me what not to do ever since I can remember.
 * Mr. Andrews: That's because you've always been a stubborn idiot.
 * Ellie: I come from a long line of stubborn idiots.

 * Ellie: I don't want it reported!...Can you understand English? Would you please keep out of my affairs. I want to be left alone.
 * Peter: Why, you ungrateful brat!

 * Peter: Remember me? I'm the fellow you slept on last night.
 * Ellie: You needn't concern yourself about me. I can take care of myself.
 * Peter: You'll never get away with it, Miss Andrews.

 * Ellie: Listen, if you promise not to do it, I'll pay you. I'll pay you as much as he will. You won't gain anything by giving me away, as long I'm willing to make it worth your while. I've got to get to New York without being stopped. It's terribly important to me.
 * Peter: You know, I had you pegged right from the jump. Just a spoiled brat of a rich father. The only way you get anything is to buy it, isn't it? You're in a jam and all you can think of is your money. It never failed, did it? Ever hear of the word humility? No, you wouldn't. I guess it would never occur to you to just say, 'Please mister, I'm in trouble, will you help me?' No, that would bring you down off your high horse for a minute. Well, let me tell you something, maybe it will take a load off your mind. You don't have to worry about me. I'm not interested in your money or your problem. You, King Westley, your father. You're all a lot of hooey to me!

 * Ellie: I just had the unpleasant sensation of hearing you referred to as my husband.
 * Peter: Oh yeah, I forgot to tell ya about that. I registered as Mr. and Mrs.
 * Ellie: Oh, you did...Well, what am I expected to do? Leap for joy?
 * Peter: I kinda half expected you to thank me.
 * Ellie: Your ego is absolutely colossal.
 * Peter: Yeah, yep. Not bad. How's yours?
 * Ellie: You know, compared to you, my friend Shapeley is an amateur. Just whatever gave you any idea I'd stand for this?
 * Peter: Hey now, wait a minute. Let's get this straightened out right now. If you're nursing any silly notion that I'm interested in you, forget it. You're just a headline to me.
 * Ellie: A headline? You're not a newspaper man are you?
 * Peter: Chalk up one for your side.

 * [Peter hangs a blanket between the twin beds in their rented room]
 * Ellie: That, I suppose, makes everything quite all right?
 * Peter: Oh this? Well, I like privacy when I retire. Yes, I'm very delicate in that respect. Prying eyes annoy me. Behold the walls of Jericho! Uh, maybe not as thick as the ones that Joshua blew down with his trumpet, but a lot safer. You see, uh, I have no trumpet. Now just to show you my heart's in the right place, I'll give you my best pair of pajamas.
 * [Peter offers Ellie his pajamas - she ignores them - so he tosses them at her]
 * Peter: Uh, do you mind joining the Israelites?
 * [He indicates he wants her to go on the other side of the blanket - she doesn't move]
 * Peter: You don't want to join the Israelites? Alright.
 * [He begins to undress]
 * Peter: Perhaps you're interested in how a man undresses. You know, it's a funny thing about that. Quite a study in psychology. No two men do it alike. You know, I once knew a man who kept his hat on until he was completely undressed. Yeah, now he made a picture. Years later, his secret came out. He wore a toupee. Yeah. You know, I have a method all my own. If you notice, the coat came first, then the tie, then the shirt. Now, uh, according to Hoyle, after that, the, uh, pants should be next. There's where I'm different... I go for the shoes next. First the right, then the left. After that it's, uh, every man for himself.
 * [When he starts to unbuckle his pants, she runs to the other side of the blanket]
 * Peter: Aw, don't be a sucker. A good night's rest'll do you a lot of good. Besides, you got nothing to worry about: the walls of Jericho will protect you from the big bad wolf.

 * Ellie: By the way, what's your name?
 * Peter: What's that?
 * Ellie: Who are you?
 * Peter: Who me? [smiling] I'm the whippoorwill that cries in the night. I'm the soft morning breeze that caresses your lovely face.
 * Ellie: You've got a name, haven't you?
 * Peter: Yeah, I got a name. Peter Warne.
 * Ellie: Peter Warne. I don't like it.
 * Peter: Don't let it bother you. You're giving it back to me in the morning.
 * Ellie: Pleased to meet you, Mr. Warne.
 * Peter: The pleasure is all mine, Mrs. Warne.

 * Peter: Hey, where'd you learn to dunk? In finishing school?
 * Ellie: Aw, now don't you start telling me I shouldn't dunk.
 * Peter: Of course you shouldn't - you don't know how to do it. Dunking's an art. Don't let it soak so long. A dip and [he stuffs the donut in his mouth] plop, in your mouth. Let it hang there too long, it'll get soft and fall off. It's all a matter of timing. Aw, I oughta write a book about it.
 * Ellie: [Laughing] Thanks, professor.
 * Peter: Just goes to show you - twenty millions, and you don't know how to dunk.
 * Ellie: Oh, I'd change places with a plumber's daughter any day.

 * Ellie: A man here to see you, sweetheart.
 * Peter: Who, me? You wanna see me?
 * Detective: What's your name?
 * Ellie: Are you addressin' me?
 * Detective: Yeah, what's your name?
 * Peter: Hey, wait a minute! That's my wife you're talkin' to. What do you mean comin' in here? What do you want anyway?
 * Detective: We're lookin' for somebody.
 * Peter: Yeah. Well, look your head off and don't come bustin' in here. This isn't the public park...
 * Ellie: Now, don't get so excited Peter. The man just asked you a simple question.
 * Peter: Ohh. Is that so? Say, how many times have I told you to stop buttin' in when I'm having an argument?
 * Ellie: Well, you don't have to lose your temper.
 * Peter: [mocking her] 'You don't have to lose your temper.' That's what you said the other time too, every time I try to protect ya. The other night at the Elks Dance when that big Swede made a pass at ya.
 * Ellie: He didn't make a pass at me. I told you a million times.
 * Peter: Oh no. I saw him. Kept pawin' you all over the dance floor.
 * Ellie: He didn't. You were drunk.
 * Peter: Aw nuts. You're just like your old man. Once a plumber's daughter, always a plumber's daughter. There's not an ounce of brains in your whole family.
 * Ellie: Oh Peter Warne, you've gone far enough. I won't sit here and...
 * Peter: Aw, shut up!...Quit bawlin'! Quit bawlin'!
 * Detective: [leaving] I told you they were a perfectly nice married couple.
 * Peter: Hey you know, you weren't bad jumping in like that. You've got a brain, haven't you!
 * Ellie: Well, you're not so bad yourself.
 * Peter: You know, we could start a two-people stock company. If things get tough, we'll play the small-town auditoriums...
 * Ellie: What about Cinderella or a real hot love story?
 * Peter: Oh no, no, no. That's too mushy.
 * Ellie: Oh I like mushy stuff.

 * [Peter puts Ellie over his shoulder so he can carry her across a creek]
 * Ellie: You know this is the first time in years I've ridden piggy-back.
 * Peter: This isn't piggy-back.
 * Ellie: Course it is.
 * Peter: You're crazy.
 * Ellie: I remember distinctly my father taking me for a piggy-back ride.
 * Peter: And he carried you like this I suppose.
 * Ellie: Yes.
 * Peter: Your father didn't know beans about piggy-back riding.
 * Ellie: My uncle, mother's brother, has four children and I've seen them ride piggy-back.
 * Peter: I'll bet there isn't a good piggy-back rider in your whole family. I never knew a rich man yet who could piggy-back ride.
 * Ellie: You're prejudiced.
 * Peter: You show me a good piggy-backer and I'll show you a real human. Now you take Abraham Lincoln for instance. A natural born piggy-backer. Where do you get all of that stuffed-shirts family of yours?
 * Ellie: My father was a great piggy-backer.
 * [He slaps her behind for that remark]

 * Ellie: I'm hungry and - scared.
 * Peter: You can't be hungry and scared both at the same time.
 * Ellie: Well, I am.
 * Peter: If you're scared, it scares the hunger out of ya.
 * Ellie: Not if you're more hungry than scared.
 * Peter: All right, you win. Let's forget about it.
 * Ellie: I can't forget it. I'm still hungry.
 * Peter: Holy Smoke! Why did I ever get mixed up with you? If I had any sense, I'd be in New York by this time.
 * Ellie: What about your story?
 * Peter: Taking a married woman back to her husband. Hmm, mmm. I turned out to be the prize sucker. All right, come on. Your bed's all ready.
 * Ellie: I'll get my clothes all wrinkled.
 * Peter: Then take 'em off.
 * Ellie: What!?
 * Peter: All right, don't take 'em off. Do whatever you please, but shut up about it. [He walks off]
 * Ellie: You're becoming awful disagreeable lately. You just snap my head off every time I open my mouth. If being with me is so distasteful to you, you can leave. You can leave anytime you see fit. Nobody's holding you here. I can get along.
 * [Noticing he is gone, she screams out his name, then hugs him when he returns. He kisses her and gives her his coat]
 * Ellie: What are you thinking about?
 * Peter: By a strange coincidence, I was thinking of you.
 * Ellie: Really?
 * Peter: Yeah. I was just wondering what makes dames like you so dizzy.

 * Ellie: What do you say we're supposed to be doing?
 * Peter: Hitchhiking.
 * Ellie: Oh. Well, you've given me a very good example of the hiking. Where does the hitching come in?
 * Peter: A little early yet. No cars out.
 * Ellie: If it's just the same to you, I'm going to sit right here and wait til they come.

 * Ellie: [on Peter's hitchiking skills] There's no end to your accomplishments, is there?
 * Peter: It's all in that ol' thumb, see?...that ol' thumb never fails. It's all a matter of how you do it, though. Now, you take number one, for instance. That's a short, jerky movement like this - that shows independence, you don't care whether they stop or not. You've got money in your pocket, see...
 * Ellie: Clever!
 * Peter: But number two, that's a little wider movement - a smile goes with this one, like this, that means you've got a brand new story about the farmer's daughter...
 * Ellie: Hmm, mmm. You figured that out all by yourself!
 * Peter: Number three, that's the pits. Yeah, that's a pitiful one you know. When you're broke and hungry and everything looks black. It's a long sweeping movement like this, but you've got to follow through though...
 * Ellie: Oh, that's amazing.
 * Peter: It's no good though, if you haven't got a long face to go with it. Keep your eye on that thumb, baby, and see what happens. [a car drives by without stopping]
 * Ellie: I still got my eye on the thumb.
 * Peter: Something must have gone wrong. I'll try method number two.
 * Ellie: When you get to 100, wake me up.
 * Peter: [after failing to get over a dozen cars to stop] I don't think I'll write that book after all.
 * Ellie: Let me try.
 * Peter: You? Don't make me laugh.
 * Ellie: Oh, you're such a smart alec. Nobody knows anything but you. I'll stop a car and I won't use my thumb.
 * Peter: What're you going to do?
 * Ellie: It's a system all my own.
 * [She pulls her skirt above her knee and the next car screeches to a halt]

 * Ellie: Aren't you going to give me a little credit?
 * Peter: What for?
 * Ellie: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
 * Peter: Why didn't you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars.
 * Ellie: Oh, I'll remember that when we need forty cars.

 * Peter: Well, we're on the last lap. Tomorrow morning, you'll be in the arms of your husband.
 * Ellie: Yeah. You'll have a great story won't you?
 * Peter: Yeah.

 * Peter: Well, you certainly outsmarted your father. I guess you ought to be happy.
 * Ellie: Am I going to see you in New York?
 * Peter: Nope.
 * Ellie: Why not?
 * Peter: I don't make it a policy to run around with married women.
 * Ellie: No harm in your coming to see it.
 * Peter: Not interested.
 * Ellie: Will I ever see you again?
 * Peter: What do you want to see me for? I've served my purpose. I brought you back to King Westley didn't I? That's what you wanted, wasn't it?

 * Ellie: Have you ever been in love, Peter?
 * Peter: Me?
 * Ellie: Yeah. Haven't you ever thought about it at all? Seems to me you, you could make some girl wonderfully happy.
 * Peter: Sure I've thought about it. Who hasn't? I never meet the right sort of girl. Aw, where you gonna find her? Somebody that's real. Somebody that's alive. They don't come that way anymore. I never thought about it. I've even been suckered enough to make plans. I saw an island in the Pacific once. I've never been able to forget it. That's where I'd like to take her. She'd have to be the sort of a girl who'd jump in the surf with me and love it as much as I did. Nights when you and the moon and the water all become one. You feel you're part of something big and marvelous. That's the only place to live. The stars are so close over your head you feel you could reach up and stir them around. Certainly, I've been thinking about it. Boy, if I could ever find a girl who was hungry for those things...
 * [Ellie comes around the blanket to his bed]
 * Ellie: Take me with you, Peter. Take me to your island. I want to do all those things you talked about.
 * Peter: You'd better go back to your bed.
 * Ellie: I love you. Nothing else matters. We can run away. Everything will take care of itself. Please Peter, I can't let you out of my life now. I couldn't live without you. [She cries in his arms]
 * Peter: You'd better go back to your bed.
 * Ellie: Sorry. [Returning to her own bed, she cries herself to sleep on her pillow]
 * Peter: Hey, brat. Did you mean that? Would you really go? [He looks over the blanket and sees she is asleep]

 * Peter: Supposin' I was to tell you that Ellen Andrews was going to have her marriage annulled...She's going to marry somebody else...Would a story like that would be worth a thousand bucks to you...I got it, Joe.
 * Joe: Who's the guy she's gonna marry?
 * Peter: I am, Joe. I met her on a bus coming from Miami. I've been with her every minute. I'm in love with her, Joe...You gotta get me this money now. Quick. Minutes count. She's waiting for me in an autocamp, just outside Philadelphia. I gotta get right back. You see, she doesn't even know I'm gone. You know, a guy can't propose to a gal without a cent in the world, can he?

 * Mr. Andrews: Now don't tell me you've fallen in love with a bus driver...Who is he?
 * Ellie: I don't know very much about him. Just that I love him.
 * Mr. Andrews: Well, if it's as serious as all that, we'll move heaven and earth to...
 * Ellie: No, it's no use. He despises me.
 * Mr. Andrews: Oh, come now.
 * Ellie: Yes he does. He despises everything about me. He says that I'm spoiled and selfish and pampered, and-and thoroughly insincere.
 * Mr. Andrews: Oh, ridiculous.
 * Ellie: He doesn't think so much of you either...He blames you for everything that's wrong with me. He says you raised me stupidly.
 * Mr. Andrews: Now that's a fine man to fall in love with.
 * Ellie: Oh, he's marvelous! I practically threw myself at him. I don't want to stir up any more trouble. I've done it all my life. I've made your life miserable and mine too. I'm tired Father. I'm tired of running around in circles...I've got to settle down. It doesn't matter how or where or with whom.

 * Mr. Andrews: Mr. Warne?
 * Peter: Yeah.
 * Mr. Andrews: Please sit down.
 * Peter: Thanks.
 * Mr. Andrews: I was surprised to get your note. My daughter hadn't told me anything about you, about your helping her.
 * Peter: That's typical of your daughter. Take those things for granted. Why did you think I lugged her all the way from Miami - for the love of it?
 * Mr. Andrews: She thinks you're entitled to anything you can get.
 * Peter: Oh she does, eh? Now isn't that sweet of her. You don't, I suppose.
 * Mr. Andrews: I don't know. I'll have to see on what you base your claim. I presume you feel justified -
 * Peter: If I didn't, I wouldn't be here. [He pulls a list from his pocket] I've got it all itemized.
 * Mr. Andrews: [Reading the list] 'Cash outlay, $8.60; topcoat, $15; suitcase, $7.50; hat, $4; three shirts, $4.50. Total, $39.60. All the above items had to be sold to buy gasoline.'
 * Peter: And I sold some shorts and socks too. I'm throwing those in.
 * Mr. Andrews: Yes, I know -
 * Peter: What's the matter? Isn't it cheap enough? A trip like that would cost you a thousand dollars. Maybe more!
 * Mr. Andrews: Now let me get this straight. You want $39.60 in addition to the $10,000?
 * Peter: What $10,000?
 * Mr. Andrews: The reward.
 * Peter: Who said anything about a reward?
 * Mr. Andrews: I'm afraid I'm a little bit confused. I assumed that you -
 * Peter: Look, look, look, all I want is $39.60. And if you give me a check for it, I'll get outta this joint. It gives me the jitters.
 * Mr. Andrews: You're a peculiar chap.
 * Peter: Yeah, we'll go into that some other time.
 * Mr. Andrews: The average man would go after the reward. All you seem to -
 * Peter: Listen, did anybody ever make a sucker out of you? This is a matter of principle. Something you probably wouldn't understand. But when anybody takes me for a buggy ride, I don't like the idea of having to pay for the privilege.
 * Mr. Andrews: Were you taken for a buggy ride?
 * Peter: Yes. With all the trimming. So how about the check? Do I get it?
 * Mr. Andrews: Certainly.
 * Peter: Thanks.
 * Mr. Andrews: [Smiling, he writes a check] Here you are.
 * Peter: Thank you.
 * Mr. Andrews: Oh, ah, do you mind if I ask you a question frankly? Do you love my daughter?
 * Peter: Any guy that'd fall in love with your daughter ought to have his head examined.
 * Mr. Andrews: That's an evasion.
 * Peter: She picked herself a perfect running mate: King Westley! The pill of the century! What she needs is a guy that'd take a sock at her once a day - whether it is coming to her or not. If you had half the brains you're supposed to have, you'd have done it yourself long ago.
 * Mr. Andrews: Do you love her?
 * Peter: A normal human being couldn't live under the same roof with her without going nutty. She's my idea of nothing!
 * Mr. Andrews: I asked you a simple question! Do you love her?
 * Peter: [As he departs and slams the office door] Yes! But don't hold that against me. I'm a little screwy myself.

 * Ellie: Well, here's to the merry go round.
 * Peter: Perfect. Now you look natural.
 * Ellie: I hope you got your money.
 * Peter: You bet I did.
 * Ellie: Congratulations.
 * Peter: Thanks, same to you.
 * Ellie: Stay around and watch the fun. You'll enjoy it immensely.
 * Peter: I would, but I've got a weak stomach.

 * Peter: [in a telegram] What's holding up the annulment, you slowpoke? The walls of Jericho are a-toppling.
 * Mr. Andrews: Send them a telegram right away. Just say, 'Let 'em topple.'

 * Zeke's Wife: Funny couple, ain't they?
 * Zeke: Yeah.
 * Zeke's Wife: If you ask me, I don't believe they're married.
 * Zeke: They're married all right. I just seen the license.
 * Zeke's Wife: They made me get them a rope and a blanket on a night like this. What do you reckon that's for?
 * Zeke: Blamed if I know. I just brung 'em a trumpet.
 * Zeke's Wife: A trumpet?
 * Zeke: Yeah, one of them toy things. They sent me to the store to get it.
 * Zeke's Wife: But what in the world do they want a trumpet for?
 * Zeke: Dunno.
 * [The trumpet sounds, and the blanket falls to the floor]

Taglines

 * Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies !
 * Together for the first time!

Cast

 * Clark Gable - Peter Warne
 * Claudette Colbert - Ellie Andrews
 * Walter Connolly - Alexander Andrews
 * Roscoe Karns - Oscar Shapeley
 * Jameson Thomas - King Westley
 * Alan Hale - Danker
 * Arthur Hoyt - Zeke
 * Blanche Friderici - Zeke's wife
 * Charles C. Wilson - Joe Gordon

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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a series of novels written by Ann Brashares. They chronicle the summers of four teenage girls who share a pair of blue jeans which magically fit all four. The series was also adapted into two films in 2005 and 2008 respectively.

Also by Brashares: The Last Summer (of You and Me)

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001)

 * Once upon a time there was a pair of pants. They were an essential kind of pants - jeans, naturally, blue but not that stiff, new blue you see so often on the first day of school.

 * We started being "we" before we were born.

 * ''We the sisterhood hereby instate the following rules to govern the use of the Traveling Pants:

 * 1. You must never wash the Pants.

 * 2. You must never double-cuff the Pants. It's tacky. There will never be a time when this will not be tacky.

 * 3. You must never say the word "phat" while wearing the Pants. You must also never think to yourself "I am fat" while wearing the Pants.

 * 4. You must never let a boy take off the Pants (although you may take them off yourself in his presence).

 * 5. You must not pick your nose while wearing the Pants. You may, however, scratch casually at your nostril while really kind of picking.

 * 6. Upon our reunion, you must follow the proper procedure for documenting your time in the Pants:
 * On the left leg of the Pants, write the most exciting place you have been while wearing the Pants.
 * On the right leg of the Pants, write the most important thing that has happened to you while wearing the Pants. (For example, "I hooked up with my second cousin, Ivan, while wearing the Traveling Pants.")

 * 7. You must write to your Sisters throughout the summer, no matter how much fun you are having without them.

 * 8. You must pass the Pants along to your Sisters according to the specifications set down by the Sisterhood. Failure to comply will result in a severe spanking upon our reunion.

 * 9. You must not wear the Pants with a tucked in shirt and belt. See rule #2.

 * 10. Remember: Pants=Love. Love your pals. Love yourself.''

 * I'm sorry you asked me out, she told him silently. Otherwise maybe I could have liked you.

 * You would hate this place. Wholesome, all-American people doing sports all day. High fives are common. I even witnessed a group hug. Sports cliches all day long.

 * I hope these Pants bring you... Courage? No, you have too much of that. Energy? No, you have way too much of that. Not love. You get and give loads as it is. Okay, how 'bout this? I hope they bring you good sense.

 * And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

 * She would just stay here holding Bailey's hand for all time, so Bailey wouldn't be afraid there wasn't enough of it.

 * Bridget looked down at the Pants, grateful to have them. They meant support and they meant love, just as they'd all vowed at the beginning of the summer. But with Lena right here, right next to her, she almost didn't need them.

 * Still, the Pants promised us there was time. Nothing would be lost. There was all year if we needed it. We had all the way until next summer, when we would take out the Traveling Pants and, together or apart, begin again.

 * "it's easier to be mad at the people you trust. Because you know they'll always love you, no matter what."

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Hi. I am a user in Wikipedia English, Malay, Simple English, Wikimedia Commons and Wikiquote. I joined Wikiquote on August 12 2006 while I was in the English Wikipedia. I joined Bahasa Melayu Wikipedia on the same date.

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Joan of Arcadia

Joan of Arcadia is an American television fantasy/family drama, which aired on Fridays on CBS from 26 September 2003 until 22 April 2005. The title is a portmanteau of Joan of Arc and the fictional city of Arcadia, Maryland. The stories involve a teenage girl, Joan Girardi (played by Amber Tamblyn), who sees and speaks with God in the form of various people and is asked to perform tasks that often appear to be trivial or contrary, but always end up positively improving a larger situation.

Pilot

 * Sammy: (on the phone) Is it breathing? It's moving? If it's moving and breathing then its not dead! It's hopping? If it's hopping then it's really not dead!

 * Sammy: (on the phone) This is why I didn't want to get a rabbit for a pet! They're not pets, they're food!

 * Luke: So, what you do is that you shoot these photons at this piece of paper...
 * Joan: There's a pervert in the yard!!
 * Luke: ..and a pervert appears in the yard.

 * Joan: What about my hair?
 * Luke: It's on your head.

 * Joan: Who are you?
 * Cute Boy God: I've known you since before you were born, Joan.
 * Joan: I'm going to ask you one more time.
 * Cute Boy God: I'm God.
 * Joan: You're what?
 * Cute Boy God: God.
 * Joan: Don't ever...talk to me again.

 * Luke: As the great physicist Faraday once said, 'Nothing is too wonderful to be true.'

 * Joan: Let's... let's say you're God.
 * Cute Boy God: Joan, I am God.
 * Joan: Okay, well, let's see a miracle.
 * Cute Boy God: Okay. How 'bout that?

''Camera pans to a large tree nearby. Cute Boy God stops beneath it.''
 * Joan: That's a tree.
 * Cute Boy God: Let's see you make one.

The Fire and the Wood

 * Joan: So, my true nature is to be a catalyst? That is mad anti-climatic.
 * God: Anti climactic. Anti-climatic means you're against the weather.

 * Kevin: I remember normal. Back when I was normal, I wanted them to buy me a car.  You know what they said?  They said "No." they said "Be a man.  Get a job, buy your own car."  So, what's changed since then?  Huh?  Joan, what's changed?
 * Joan: You know what's changed.
 * Kevin: Yep. Nobody expects me to be a man anymore.
 * [Kevin leaves, Joan yells after him]
 * Joan: You stopped trying! You just sit around and smoke in the park like some subdefective!

 * Joan: Make Kevin walk, please? I just ask this one favor and then I'll never ask for one again.  It's so easy for you.  All you have to do is snap your fingers or blink your eyes.  Just let Kevin stand up.
 * God: People ask me to do things - big things, little things - billions of times, every day.
 * Joan: What do you expect? You're God!
 * God: I put a lot of thought into the Universe; came up with the rules. It sets a bad example if I break them - not to mention, shows favoritism.  Why should one person get a miracle, and not everybody else?  Can you imagine the confusion?  It's better when we all abide by the rules.
 * Joan: No miracles?
 * God: Miracles happen within the rules.

Touch Move

 * Will: [On the phone] Yes sir. I understand, but I assure you, my guys are on it.

 * Joan: Sir? Who does he call Sir?

 * Luke: His boss.

 * Joan: He doesn't have a boss.

 * Luke: Sure he does. The Commissioner, the Mayor, the Attorney General, Mom.

 * Woman: Joan Girardi? Sign Here.

 * Joan: Oh. I never get anything in the mail.

 * Woman: You owe eleven dollars and fifty cents.

 * [Joan turns around to call her mom for the money.]

 * Woman: Un uh. You have twelve dollars in you pocket you were going to use to buy a Frappuccino and a muffin when you skip history class after lunch. Which by the way. Do not do that.

 * Joan: Oh God. You're just a three ring circus aren't you?

 * God: Ok, price went up. Give me the whole twelve.

 * Joan: What are you going to do with money?

 * God: It's not what I'm going to do with it. It's what you're going to do without it.

 * Grace: Tell your brother to stop with the after-shave. First, he has nothing to shave. Second, it smells like picked eggs. And third, he sits behind me and I'm allergic. I have like, one working sinus left.

 * Grace: You smell that? It's like essence of pimp.

 * Joan: Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's really girly. Hard to believe he's straight.

 * Grace: Hard to believe and hard to care.

 * Joan: You know, I know he's not your type, I know he isn't mine. (Grace gives her a look) If he weren't my brother. I'm more into athlete type. You know that's my thing. Football players, wrestlers. Abs. Big forearms.

 * Grace: Small cerebral cortex.

 * Adam: (in a whisper) Wrestlers?

 * Joan: Mind your own business.

 * God: Oh Joan, it would have been so much easier if you just read the book. Now I'm gonna have to send you to the basement.

 * Joan: You mean like, Hell?

 * God: No, I mean, like, the basement. There's one in the school. Check it out.

 * Girl 2: You hit on Dax Hibbing?

 * Joan: I don't know Dax Hibbing.

 * Girl 2: Are you insane? They are like, such a unit. You can't get in there.

 * Joan: I don't know Dax Hibbing.

 * Girl 2: You're either a complete freak or my hero.

 * Joan's Chess Partner: Benjamin Franklin. (Joan clicks her timer) Interesting. Fianachetto.

 * Joan: I have no idea what I'm doing.

 * Joan's Chess Partner: Yeah, like I'm falling for that.

 * Joan: A horse can jump people right?

 * Joan's Chess Partner: That's funny.

 * Teacher: How's it going?

 * Joan's Chess Partner: Shes bold. Kudos for the Dresden variation, but I'm about take her queen.

 * Joan: Which one is the queen? This one?

 * Joan's Chess Partner: Oh yeah, you're psyching me out.

 * Joan: (makes a move) Can I do that?

 * Joan's Chess Partner: Wow. I should have seen that. I should have seen it. Crap. In six moves, by a girl.

 * Joan: (To the teacher who is looking shocked) What happened? Did I win?

 * Ms. Bloome: When I was 29 I was in a car accident and I died. And no, I don't remember a tunnel. I didn't see any dead loved ones, no angels. Nothing like that. It's just that when I woke up, everything was different. I was different. I asked the doctor, and he said this was not uncommon among near-death survivors. And then shortly after that, I began having dreams that came true. And weird visions. It was like I could hear peoples thoughts. I don't know the why of it, but I made the decisions that as long as I had this bizarre ability, I might as well use it to help people.

 * Will: And get paid for it. Help people for a price.

 * Ms. Bloome: Yeah, like you. Is it because of the tragedy? I mean that this makes you so angry and unwilling. You've had a tragedy.

 * Will: Who hasn't?

 * Helen: (To Charlotte) So, are you a detective?

 * Ms. Bloome: No. Actually I'm a psychic.

 * Helen: A psychic, that's interesting.

 * Ms. Bloome: Your daughter has a very special connection to the universe.

 * Joan: [Awkwardly] No I don't.

 * Luke: No, it's true. She is from another planet.

 * [Ms Bloome walks over to Kevin and whispers something in his ear that leaves him shocked.]

 * Ms. Bloome: [To Helen] It was nice to meet you. You have a lovely family.

 * Helen: Nice to meet you.

 * Will: [To Kevin] What did she say to you?

 * Kevin: Nothing.

 * Helen: It's just... I was raised Catholic and I was taught that you don't ask God for specific things, but there is this one miracle that I would really, really like to have. Like something you see in a store and you can't stop thinking about it, and you start to believe that it already belongs to you, and it's just misplaced, but is it wrong? Can it actually do harm to pray for something you want?

 * Priest: I think prayer can never hurt. As long as you understand you might not recognize the answer right away. Most miracles occur in hindsight.

 * Helen: Why don't I ever feel better after I talk to you?

 * Priest: I don't know.

 * Joan: Because my life is completely unraveling. I'm up to my eyeballs in the drama of the high school mating ritual, and now, thanks to you, I've been mistaken as the school chess champion. How did this happen to me?

 * God: Which part?

 * Joan: How did I beat that kid at chess?

 * God: He was using logic. You weren't. It's impossible to guard against chaos. It's rare, but it happens. Black's move.

 * Joan: I don't want to... I don't know how to play this game.

 * God: And yet you play the game.

 * Joan: Because I'm forced to.

 * God: Forced to? Your friends make a suggestion, which you follow up on, and then you're surprised at the outcome? It's a causal universe. Move.

 * Joan: Wait a minute, I'm being punished because I made a tiny little effort to fit in?

 * God: It's not about punishment. It's that actions have consequences, and to be in denial of that is to be disengaged from the laws of the universe, which renders you powerless and vulnerable to an inordinate amount of pain. Other than that, it's no big deal... move.... (She touches one of the pieces and then changes her mind)No....

 * Joan: No?

 * God: It's a rule called "touch move." Once you touch a piece, you have to move that piece.

 * Joan: I'm not allowed to change my mind? What kind of universe is that?

 * God: Oh, you can change your mind, but you still have to play that piece. So you should think before you move.

 * Joan: Wait a minute, this is a metaphor... Yeah, I looked up "metaphor" and that's definitely an example... Yep... took the bait. So now I'm in the game. How do I get out?

 * God: There are many ways to get out; surrender is one, losing is another. Winning, cheating, which I don't recommend, but you have to do something. You have to have a strategy. See the number one rule in chess is this; whatever you do, don't play the other person's game. Play your own... Your move.

 * Kevin: Joan, can I borrow your hair dryer so I can look extra handsome for my job interview at Wiener World? Joan?

 * Joan: [Springing up from under her blanket] WHAT?

 * Kevin: [Jumps] Don't scare the cripple, my fight or flight impulse is very confused. What were you doing?

 * Kevin: So, I was in the "in" crowd. I just got to see the jerks closer up. Why do you think I spent so much time playing sports? I didn't like that social thing so much. People were mean, it was boring. I wanted to play my own game.

 * Joan: Oh my god! Somebody just said that to me yesterday. About chess.

 * Kevin: Well, it's the basic rule of any sport. Otherwise you're always on the defensive posture, always reacting to the other guy.

 * Joan: You really weren't happy in high school? You really felt like a reject sometimes?

 * Kevin: Everybody does. Even the ones who claim they don't. You-- you are going to find some people who totally get what a non-repulsive, sub-defective you are. Trust in yourself a little bit, you'll figure it out. And if you need me to roll over anyone, let me know.

 * Joan: Sub-defective.

 * Girl 2: Back off, Pin Head.

 * Luke: That's Mister Pin Head to you.

 * Joan: You know what? I don't care about Dax Hibbing or Lynnie Charmichael, or my social resumé, or who's gay or who's not. I can't spend my time on this planet worrying about that stuff. There's other things to do.

 * Girl 1: Like what? Chemistry and chess?

 * Joan: Yeah, Like that. Now those guys might be nerds but at least they know what they're here for.

 * Luke: [After the girls walk away] You called me a nerd.

 * Joan: It was a metaphor.

 * Joan: Can I interrupt this moment of family tension to say that I will not be representing the school in the chess tournament.

 * Luke: Was that ever a possibility?

 * Joan: There was a brief moment of insanity.

 * Helen: Joan, that is such an honor. Why would you turn that down?

 * Joan: Because I don't know how to play chess. I keep telling everybody that but no one believes it.

 * Luke: I believe you.

 * Joan: Thank you. I don't understand it.

 * Luke: It's just strategy and a little bit of living in the future.

 * Will: Please, no more talk about the future.

 * Luke: That's how it works, Dad. I mean, you see four moves ahead, it's empirical. You see five moves ahead, it's still grounded in science. I mean, who knows where the demarcation is? Now, if you see twelve moves ahead, maybe you're crossing over into psychic phenomenon. And maybe that's what a psychic does. She just sees the board of life better then we do.

 * Will: There are a million people with white cars and dogs.

 * Kevin: [Interrupting to make a point] She said I'd dance at my wedding. That's what she told me. Then again, she said Joan has a special connection to the universe, so go figure.

Just Say No

 * God: You should be nicer to your mother.
 * Joan: She's against me having a life.
 * God: She's against you getting hurt. She knows something about that.
 * Joan: Is this about those paintings?
 * God: Where do you think that kind of thing comes from in a person?
 * Joan: A mood?
 * God: You have a mood, you eat french fries. But when you have pain, it takes a little more work to deal with it.
 * Joan: She had to have done this before she had Kevin...
 * God: Before your father, even.
 * Joan: What happened to her?
 * [God doesn't answer]
 * Joan: Is that why she's so weird about me dating?
 * [God doesn't answer]
 * Joan: How bad was it?
 * God: It was evil, and I don't throw that word around.

 * Will: I need you to tell her. I don't know why, but I really need it, Helen.  Maybe it's because I'm so afraid of her not knowing how close it is to her, all of the time.  Please do this for me.

 * [Helen enters Joan's room to talk about being raped]
 * Helen: I have something to tell you.
 * Joan: I know.

Bringeth It On

 * Joan: Well I can't do any stunts. No, No, and how about the jumps? So, so. So why am I here, well it's really odd, but I'm here to cheer on a mission from God. So put me in the game or leave me on the bench, so you can go to heaven and I'll get out of French.

 * Joan:
 * Go Eagles! Go Eagles!
 * Go, go, go Eagles!
 * We live to cheer,
 * we're so sincere,
 * unless you get in trouble,
 * then we're out of here.
 * It's such a royal pain
 * when friend gets arrested.
 * How could I have known?
 * How could I have guessed it?
 * It's not like she's my sister,
 * (Whoops, is that my beeper)
 * and even if she was,
 * am I my sister's keeper?
 * Sorry, got to go
 * tryouts are today
 * Tell them that we'll think of her
 * Every time that we say
 * Go Eagles! Go Eagles!
 * Go, go, go Eagles!
 * My name is Joan,
 * this cheer is my own,
 * so kiss my feathers
 * 'cause this bird has flown

 * Luke: There's this moose. And the moose is telling this other moose that the other moose is really an elk and as such should be running with another herd.
 * Kevin: Uh huh?
 * Luke: OK? But the moose is basing his whole assessment on what appears to be questionable evidence.
 * Kevin: Like his horns are kinda small?
 * Luke: Actually, it's more of a behavioral observation. Like, say the moose in question was seen sniffing a flower, which according to the first moose is elk-like. But the second moose isn't so sure. I mean, he doesn't feel like an elk, he doesn't have elk thoughts. Does it make him an elk just because he likes this one flower?
 * Kevin: Did you want to try a science metaphor?
 * Luke: ...Does it mean I'm gay if I like a lesbian?
 * Kevin: Who have you been talking to?
 * Luke: I'd rather leave the moose out of it.
 * Kevin: Well, first of all, No. Liking a girl is liking a girl. And who says she's a lesbian?
 * Luke: That would be the moose again.
 * Kevin: Right, you know, usually this kinda thing you just know.
 * Luke: I know, but apparently there are all these indicators about me.
 * Kevin: Here's your only indicator. You ready? When you're alone, just kinda passing the time, what do you think about?
 * Luke: How to get past level five on Diablo. That kinda thing?
 * Kevin: No, I mean, OK, when you're in the shower?
 * Luke: OH! Right, well, sometimes I think about Condaleeza Rice. I mean, her influence is second only to Kissinger.
 * Kevin: :[Stares]
 * Luke: Um, and then there's Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Christina Ricci, Batgirl.
 * Kevin: Ok, stop. See, that's all you need to know.
 * Luke: So, I'm definitely a moose?
 * Kevin: Don't ever make me walk you through this again, OK?

Death Be Not Whatever

 * Mr. Price: Ahem. Pardon me, but the point of this afternoon is to pretend that you might one day make a valuable contribution to society. Perhaps you could play along. For example, Ms. Polk, you might want to look into journalism, which is a profession where they actually pay people to be cynical and disaffected.

 * Grace: Not since all the publications got consumed by media conglomerates who manipulate information and--

 * Mr. Price: Go. And what career would you like to explore, Mr. Rove?

 * Adam : I want to do something soulless and corporate, Mr. Price.

 * Mr. Price: Good choice.

 * Sylvia: Yeah, I need a baby-sitter. I need a cheap baby-sitter who's not a psycho.

 * Joan: I can do it. And I'm not a psycho.

 * Sylvia: Rocky, my kid, he's really a great kid. He mostly entertains himself. And you're really not a psycho?

 * Joan: No, I'm-- I'm totally normal. You can even ask my friend. [They both turn to look at Adam who is banging his head against the window.] Um, maybe you should just take my word for it.

 * Will: What you reading? [she shows him the book] Why?

 * Helen: Because for me, sometimes it's like Kevin died, and I need to deal with that.

 * Will: Helen--

 * Helen: I know. I'm the one who's always preaching gratitude and moving on, and I was clinging to that so hard, and then it-- it stopped working for me. I felt alone, and I, um... I talked to a priest. I didn't want to bother you.

 * Will: That was the deal we made a long time ago. You get to bother me. You don't have to do anything alone.

 * Helen: I'm sorry I lied to you about the priest. That's who I met on my lunch break.

 * Will: You come to me, not some stranger. Promise me.

The Devil Made Me Do It

 * Luke: You know, I'm not certain this magnet is powerful enough for my needs.

 * Kevin: Mm-hmm.

 * [He puts a little jar of paint in is pocket.]

 * Luke: See, 'cause what I want to do is make a rail gun that lessens the power requirements of the compulsator by increasing the magnetic field using ceramic magnets.

 * Kevin: Just give me the magnet!

 * [He puts the magnet and another jar of paint in his pocket.]

 * Luke: Oh. Well, Mr. Big bucks has a job and wants to show off. Thanks. What are you-- what are you doing?

 * Kevin: It's called the wheelchair discount.

 * [Kevin puts only 1 or 2 jars of paint on the counter. We know he has many more in his pockets.]

 * Clerk: Will that be all?

 * Kevin: Yeah.

 * Luke: Kev? What?

 * Kevin: Shut up.

 * Luke: Give me the magnet.

 * Kevin: Fine. Be jelly. I'm just trying to help you out here.

 * Luke: Be that as it may--

 * Kevin: [To the clerk] You want me to empty out my pockets or anything?

 * Clerk: No, it's ok.

 * Kevin: 'Cause sometimes my chair sets off the alarm.

 * Clerk: Uh, it won't be necessary. $3.87, please. See?

 * Kevin: [To Luke] It's like being invisible. Isn't that one of those geek powers you always used to wish for?

 * Luke: [To the clerk] Is this the strongest magnet you've got?

 * Clerk: Uh, yeah. $6.49.

 * Kevin: [To Luke] That's $6.49 you could have saved. [And he wheels out]

 * Luke: Keep the change.

 * Clerk: Out of a 20?

 * [Kevin rolls back up to the counter and puts the remaining paint jars on the counter and leaves.]

 * Luke: I'm sorry, um, I'll pay for these.

 * Clerk: Poor guy, right? I mean, he's got it tough. Poor bastard.

 * Luke: Ok. See, what you're doing right there, you might as well spit on him. It even makes me want to steal from you. I know you're trying to be a nice guy, here, but still, I'd like to smash your face.

 * Luke: [Knocking on the door frame] I brought you the stuff you needed.

 * Kevin: The stuff you bought for me, you mean? I don't need it. I'm getting rid of all my toys.

 * Luke: Well, scale models are not toys.

 * Kevin: It's time for me to grow up.

 * Luke: I wasn't aware that was something you could just decide.

 * Kevin: I was the perfect big brother. Come on, admit it. I'm stronger, faster, better-looking.

 * Luke: Well, not better-looking.

 * Kevin: It's a reality, kid. Face it. People were nice to you because you were Kevin Girardi's kid brother. Probably kept you from being beat up about a hundred times.

 * Luke: I do seem to attract threats of violence.

 * Kevin: Last night, the natural order was reversed. You were the Big Brother. You were smarter and stronger and tougher.

 * Luke: And better-looking?

 * Kevin: I'm the big brother in this family, in or out of the wheelchair, so get off of my cloud.

 * Luke: The cloud reference eludes me.

 * Kevin: Yesterday... that will not happen again.

 * Luke: Are you apologizing to me? No, no, of course not. Why--why would you? It's an explanation, and that's enough.

 * Kevin: If you can't get your money back, I'll reimburse you.

 * Luke: Well, that's ok. Of course. Yes, I can use the money. And you're fully capable.

 * Kevin: You're going to be proud of me again.

St. Joan

 * Book store owner: Joan, I have a Master's degree in English Literature. I could've done a number of things with my life.
 * [Joan gives him a look]
 * Book store owner: At least three things, and I chose to open a bookstore because I believe in the power of knowledge which comes from books.

 * Painter God: Here's the thing you need to learn from the martyrs, Joan: they did it the hard way.

 * Kevin: For God's sake, I can't stand it. Can we - can we please just talk about the gigantic stain on the carpet?  We've been dancing around it for almost two years now, and it's making me crazy and maybe it's why I'm pissed off all the time.  'Cause no one will say it out loud, so I have to.  The accident: it was my fault.  This is my fault.  The guys and I were out partying after the game.  My friend Andy was wasted.  I tried to take his keys.  He got pissed off.  I was afraid of not being cool so I went for the ride.  I went for the ride.  So, here we all are.  I did this.  I did do it.  The Universe didn't conspire; the planets didn't align against me.  Can somebody just please say it out loud?  I did this!

Drive, He Said

 * [Kevin is waiting for the bathroom]
 * Kevin: Ok, Joan, here's the thing: it's the face you were born with - there's only so much you can do.

 * Helen: First of all, Eminem's birthday does not count as a religious holiday, and second, his birthday was October 17th.

 * Joan: Adam!
 * [Adam turns around and walks away]
 * Joan: [Sigh] He's never going to forgive me.
 * Grace: The dude has a photographic memory. Everytime he thinks he might forgive you, the image of you smashing his artwork just pops into his head.  Not that I've discussed it with him.

 * Man with gun: Thirteen bucks?
 * Will: I've got a wife and kids.
 * Man with gun: Oh, that changes everything, wife and kids. There's a free pass for that one.
 * Will: I'm not begging for mercy, I'm explaining why I only have thirteen bucks in my wallet.

 * Joan: I don't want to drive. Why are you making me?
 * God: Most young people want to drive. Why are you so hesitant?
 * Joan: Well you know everything. Why don't you tell me?
 * God: Perhaps your mother is correct. You're afraid of hurting yourself and ending up like Kevin.
 * Joan: Yeah, maybe she's right.
 * God: Balderdash! You've always been a headstrong, brave child not overly concerned with your own well-being - a trait you inherited from your father.  What you fear is hurting someone else.  You fear that one instance of bad judgement might entail consequences.  Consequences like those...
 * Joan: Like Kevin? That's... that's why I don't want to drive.  I mean, isn't that... isn't that a pretty good reason?
 * God: Being an adult isn't merely about risking your own well-being, it means risking others' - in cars, in love, in family - hurting others is always a possibility. That's what's difficult about being an adult: facing the harsh fact that you may hurt others even when you don't want to.
 * Joan: Then it's a flaw in the design, and who's fault is that?
 * God: It might help if you think of the Universe as an obstacle course. There's no flaw in the design, it's just -
 * Joan: Obstacles?
 * God: Time's up.

 * Joan: I have to wash my hair!
 * Plumber/God: Well I'm God, my needs come first.

 * Friedman: Why are you talking so fast?
 * Luke: [caffeine buzzed] Why are you listening so fast?

 [Rebecca Askew, a reporter at the newspaper where Kevin works, has written an unfavourable article about Will]
 * Rebecca Askew: How was breakfast this morning?
 * Kevin: Tasty.
 * Rebecca Askew: I meant with your father.
 * Kevin: Testy.

 * Luke: [to Friedman; caffeine buzzed] And you should hear what I'm not telling you, OK, so shut up!

 * Joan: When... when do you plan on having sex?
 * Luke: Oh, at my first opportunity.

 * Joan: What are you? Some kind of Peeping Tom?
 * Luke: It's not my fault I have a... naturally quiet tread.

 * Kevin: And then I woke up in the hospital, I saw Dad's face, and I wondered..."Why does Mom think this man is so good-looking?"

 * Joan: I'm not... pregnant.
 * Luke: Then why was there a pregnancy kit in the bathroom? Because *I'm* not pregnant and I'm pretty sure Kevin's not pregnant, which leaves...
 * Joan: Mom.
 * Luke: Okay, I'm an expert on probability, and given factors such as Mom's and Dad's ages, birth control, and the average frequency of sex after twenty-three...
 * Joan: [covering ears] Ewwwww!

The Uncertainty Principle

 * Luke: So I asked Grace to do this thing with me, and, at the time, she said "yes". Sort of.  But...
 * Joan: Wait, Grace Polk said yes to you?
 * Luke: It was somewhat contingent, but, essentially, yeah.
 * Joan: Huh, you're so gonna get it.
 * Luke: But see, I don't know if she actually remembers me asking, so do I - do I have to do the full reapproach, or...?
 * Joan: What is she going to wear, because they don't make gowns out of fatigues.
 * Luke: What are we talking about?
 * Joan: You asked Grace Polk to the semi-formal.
 * Luke: I asked her to be my partner in the science fair.
 * Joan: Wow. Science really is like sex to you.

State of Grace

 * Grace: Y'know, this whole debate is a joke.
 * Friedman: I have a very strong rebuttal.
 * Grace: Like it matters? No matter what happens in this debate, those metal detectors will still be there.  They will still stop us and search us.
 * Mr. Price: I would like you to leave, Miss Polk.
 * Grace: Oh, gee, remember free speech, Mr. Price?
 * Mr. Enfield: Remember decorum? Manners?  Civility?
 * Grace: Yeah, all the things that used to keep us down? Well guess what, today is about freedom.
 * Joan: You call what you are doing right now free speech?
 * Mr. Enfield: You're not debating this young woman, Miss Girardi. I suggest you not deviate from the rules.
 * Friedman: [In undertone to Glynis] We're so gonna win this debate.
 * Grace: That's right, Girardi. Party line - that's what it's about.
 * Mr. Price: Alright, out!
 * Joan: And what's it about for you, Grace? Your idea of freedom is a world where everyone agrees with you?
 * Grace: You believe in this crap?
 * Joan: I don't know what I believe. I know Ramsey came in here with a gun.  I know people could have died - you, me.  You said I think like this because my father's a cop?  Like that's bad?  Yeah, my dad is a cop and you may think that makes him some kind of bigot, but he deals with those guns every day.  This is not some political thing for him, this is reality.  He's had them pointed at him and shoved in his face and that makes it real for me too, because every time I hear that the cops are in someplace and shots are fired, I wonder if I'm ever going to see my father again.  I don't think we should have to, like, live in some prison - that sucks - but I do know we have to deal with this.  We have to work something out.  Even if it's not what we sort of believe in in the first place.  I know I'm mouthing off, Mr Enfield, and I can't cite some report to back up my theories.  I - this is just how I feel.

 * Security Officer God: Do you know what grace is, Joan?
 * Joan: Yeah, pissed off.
 * Security Officer God: Do you know the meaning of grace? It's a touch of truth that let's you see the world in a new way.  It's a gift that can only be felt when you are open enough to accept it.

Night without Stars

 * [After Will and Helen kiss]
 * Joan: I thought we established the Kitchen as a no PDA zone.

 * Joan: Do you even listen to music?
 * Grace: Nothing legal.

 * Joan: It's just that, I like Adam.
 * Helen: I know, honey.
 * Joan: Mom, please. I know you think I'm dating him but I'm not.  I mean, we kissed once (and, please, never repeat that to me or anyone else because I'm already grossed out I told you,) but it was just a kiss.  You know, just a one-time kiss.
 * Helen: Okay.
 * Joan: It doesn't mean we're dating, does it?
 * Helen: Well -
 * Joan: Right, I know, of course not. It's just I think Adam thought that it did and he was kinda ... y'know, about it.  And I - I - I was sort of ... y'know, too.
 * Helen: Oh...
 * Joan: And now he likes someone else - this, Iris (huh) - and I don't know what he sees in her. I mean, she's all... y'know.  I want him to be happy; I'm not one of those people who gets all perky when someone else is miserable (maybe I am), but - but I do think Adam should be happy.  Just not before I'm happy.  I mean, he can be happy with someone else after I'm happy with someone else.  (Does that make me a total maggot?  Whatever.)  The real question is: should I try to get him back?  I mean, what if he falls in love with her and I realize that I do like him and it's too late but if I break them up and get him back but realize that I really don't want to be with him then he's going to hate me again, which I could not stand because I really like him.  [Sighs]  There's just no good answer here.
 * Helen: Honey, you are dealing with a lot of emotions.
 * Joan: Mom, I can't have this conversation right now, okay?

 * Kevin: Maybe if learned how to shoot some hoops, we could turn you into a real man - put a smile on your face.
 * [Kevin punches Luke in the arm, playfully]
 * Luke: God, why don't you just cut out the cocky athletic crap, Kevin. You're not that guy anymore and never will be again.  [Pause]  I'm - I'm sorry.
 * Kevin: What's your problem? The more things that go my way, the more pissed off you get.  What's that about?
 * Luke: I said, "I'm sorry," okay? It won't happen again.
 * Kevin: Yes it will. What do you and your science friends call that - Law of Inertia?  What is it?
 * [Kevin punches Luke again]
 * Kevin: What's the problem, Luke?
 * Luke: THAT! Right there.  Do you have any idea how much I hated you for shoving me and hitting me and making fun of me all the time?  And no one would say anything about it because you were the big star and I was just a geek.  You know, after your accident, when I heard you'd never walk again, I was happy.

 * [Kids Joan is supervising are beating a Piniata and Iris walks in]
 * Iris: Stop! Stop it!
 * Joan: Don't be such a drag, we're just having a little fun.
 * Iris: Fun? Swinging around a stick and beating things?  My father thought it was fun too, just a little fun.  Beating us with a stick, just like this.  First my mother and then....  Why would you do this?

Double Dutch

 * God: You can't fix everything, Joan.
 * Joan: She's my friend. I want to know what's gonna happen to her.
 * God: I know you do. But sometimes it's enough to plant the seed, walk away, and let the flower grow on its own.

Only Connect

 * Joan: I just want to be a normal couple again. Do you remember normal?
 * Adam: Not really.

 * Cute Boy God: Crazy is destructive. It tears down. I'm all about building up.
 * Joan: Then I suggest you take up carpentry.

 * Will: What's wrong?
 * Helen: Nothing! I'm seeing a nun and a priest!

 * Helen: Luke, one breakdown a year is all we can handle. You'll have to wait.

 * God: It's a creation, Joan. It's not a destruction. And that's what I want you to do. I want you to be creative. I want you to build things.
 * Joan: I build lamps!

 * Joan: You stole that!
 * God: Well, technically, everything's mine.

 * Joan: You hurt me. Really bad. Why should I trust you again?
 * God: Why did you ever?
 * Joan: Look, we had some good times. And I'm fine with you being, you know, the divine "it." But I don't want to see you anymore. It's not you. It's me. I--I'm just-- I'm not the girl for you. I--I had... a taste of normal, and...I really liked it, you know? I really enjoyed being optimistic and... making my lamps.
 * God: Don't you miss me a little?
 * Joan: No... Please go.
 * God: Do you miss yourself? Because I do.

Wealth of Nations

 * Adam: [incredulously] You stole from the homeless?
 * Joan: Yes, I am a horrible human being.
 * Adam: Yeah... Huh.
 * Joan: Well, you weren't supposed to say that.

No Future

 * [after going into a shop with a sign saying "Madame Marie: Fortunes Told"]
 * Joan: Hi, how much of my future can I get for five dollars?

The Book of Questions

 * Girl God: And that's what religions are - different ways to share the same truth.<
 * Joan: And the truth is...?
 * [God leaves]

Romancing the Joan

 * God as a six-year-old girl: Love is big. It's a bright light in the universe, and a bright light casts a big shadow.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

 * Joan: Just explain the electromagnetic spectrum to me.
 * Luke: Nope.
 * Joan: Luke, it's not for school. It's personal.
 * Luke: [staring at Joan; pencil falls from his teeth] You have personal issues with the electromagnetic spectrum?

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My Dinner with Andre

My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 film about two men who share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a chic restaurant in New York City.
 * Directed by Louis Malle. Written by Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn.

Wally Shawn

 * [voiceover] The life of a playwright is tough. It's not easy as some people seem to think. You work hard writing plays and nobody puts them on. You take up other lines of work to try to make a living. I became an actor, and people don't hire you. So you just spend your days doing the errands of your trade. Today I had to be up by ten in the morning to make some important phone calls. Then I'd gone to the stationery store to buy envelopes. Then to the xerox shop. There were dozens of things to do. By five o'clock, I'd finally made it to the post office and mailed off several copies of my plays, meanwhile checking constantly with my answering service to see if my agent had called with any acting work. In the morning, the mailbox had just been stuffed with bills! What was I supposed to do? How was I supposed to pay them? After all, I was already doing my best! I've lived in this city all my life. I grew up on the Upper East Side, and when I was 10 years old, I was rich! I was an aristocrat. Riding around in taxis, surrounded by comfort, and all I thought about was art and music. Now I'm 36, and all I think about is money!

 * [Upon entering the restaurant] I was beginning to realize that the only way to make this evening bearable, would be to ask Andre a few questions. Asking questions always relaxes me. In fact, I sometimes think that my secret profession is that I'm a private investigator, a detective. I always enjoy finding out about people. Even if they are in absolute agony, I always find it very interesting.
 * Yeah, but are you saying it's impossible---? I mean, isn't it a little upsetting to come to the conclusion that there's no way to wake people up anymore, except to involve them in some kind of a strange christening in Poland or some kind of a strange experience on top of Mount Everest? I mean, because, the awful thing is, if you're really saying it's necessary to take everybody to Everest, it's certainly really tough, because everybody can't be taken to Everest. I mean, there must have been periods in history when it would have been possible to save the patient through less drastic measures; there must have been periods when---in order to give people a strong, more meaningful experience---you wouldn't have to take them to Everest!
 * Tell me, why do we require a trip to Mount Everest in order to be able to perceive one moment of reality? I mean... I mean, is Mount Everest more "real" than New York? I mean, isn't New York "real"? I mean, you see, I think if you could become fully aware of what existed in the cigar store next door to this restaurant, I think it would just blow your brains out! I mean... I mean, isn't there just as much "reality" to be perceived in the cigar store as there is on Mount Everest?
 * I just don't think I feel the need for anything more than all this, whereas, you know, you seem to be saying that it's inconceivable that anybody could be having a meaningful life today, and, you know, everyone is totally destroyed, and we all need to live in these outposts; but you know, I can't believe---even for you. Don't you find it pleasant just to get up in the morning?

 * I'm adequate to do any sort of a task, but I'm not adequate just to be a human being.

 * [voiceover] All the other customers seemed to have left hours ago. We got the bill, and André paid for our dinner! I treated myself to a taxi. I rode home through the city streets. There wasn't a street, there wasn't a building, that wasn't connected to some memory in my mind. There, I was buying a suit with my father. There, I was having an ice cream soda after school. When I finally came in, Debbie was home from work, and I told her everything about my dinner with Andre.

Andre Gregory

 * Remember that moment when Marlon Brando sent the Indian woman to accept the Oscar, and everything went haywire? Things just very rarely go haywire now. If you're just operating by habit, then you're not really living.

 * I wouldn't put on an electric blanket for any reason. First, I'd be worried if I get electrocuted. No, I don't trust technology. But I mean, the main thing, Wally, is that I think that kind of comfort just separates you from reality in a very direct way.

 * Do you know, in Sanskrit the root of the verb "to be" is the same as "to grow" or "to make grow".

 * Things don't affect people the way they used to. I mean it may very well be that 10 years from now people will pay $10,000 in cash to be castrated just in order to be affected by something.

 * We're bored. We're all bored now. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now, may very well be a self perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks, and its not just a question of individual survival, Wally, but that somebody who's bored is asleep, and somebody who's asleep will not say no?

Dialogue

 * Andre: What does it do to us, Wally, living in an environment where something as massive as the seasons or winter or cold, don't in any way affect us? I mean, we're animals after all. I mean... what does that mean? I think that means that instead of living under the sun and the moon and the sky and the stars, we're living in a fantasy world of our own making.
 * Wally: Yeah, but I mean, I would never give up my electric blanket, Andre. I mean, because New York is cold in the winter. I mean, our apartment is cold! It's a difficult environment. I mean, our life is tough enough as it is. I'm not looking for ways to get rid of a few things that provide relief and comfort. I mean, on the contrary, I'm looking for more comfort because the world is very abrasive. I mean, I'm trying to protect myself because, really, there's these abrasive beatings to be avoided everywhere you look!
 * Andre: But, Wally, don't you see that comfort can be dangerous? I mean, you like to be comfortable and I like to be comfortable too, but comfort can lull you into a dangerous tranquility.

 * Wally: Suppose you're going through some kind of hell in your own life, well you would love to know if friends have experience similar things. But we just don't dare to ask each other.
 * Andre: No, It would be like asking your friend to drop his role.

 * Andre: Our minds are just focused on these goals and plans, which in themselves are not reality.
 * Wally: Goals and plans are not... they're fantasy. They're part of a dream-life.

Quotes about My Dinner with Andre

 * One of the gifts of "My Dinner with Andre" is that we share so many of the experiences. Although most of the movie literally consists of two men talking, here's a strange thing: We do not spend the movie just passively listening to them talk. At first, director Louis Malle's sedate series of images (close-ups, two-shots, reaction shots) calls attention to itself, but as Gregory continues to talk, the very simplicity of the visual style renders it invisible. And like the listeners at the feet of a master storyteller, we find ourselves visualizing what Gregory describes, until this film is as filled with visual images as a radio play — more filled, perhaps, than a conventional feature film. ... The movie is not ponderous, annoyingly profound, or abstract. It is about living, and Gregory seems to have lived fully in his five years of dropping out. Shawn is the character who seems more like us. He listens, he nods eagerly, he is willing to learn, but — something holds him back. Pragmatic questions keep asking themselves. He can't buy Gregory's vision, not all the way. He'd like to, but this is a real world we have to live in, after all, and if we all danced with the druids in the forests of Poland, what would happen to the market for fortune cookies?
 * Roger Ebert, in his first review of My Dinner with Andre (1 January 1981)

 * Someone asked me the other day if I could name a movie that was entirely devoid of cliches. I thought for a moment, and then answered, My Dinner With Andre. Now I have seen the movie again; a restored print is going into release around the country, and I am impressed once more by how wonderfully odd this movie is, how there is nothing else like it. It should be unwatchable, and yet those who love it return time and again, enchanted.
 * Roger Ebert in a later review of My Dinner with Andre (13 June 1999)

Cast

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 * Wallace Shawn - Wally Shawn

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 * James Thurber: There are two kinds of light—the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
 * Henry David Thoreau: Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson: Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
 * Paul Gauguin: Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
 * Jean Paul: A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
 * Isaac Asimov: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
 * Tom Stoppard: It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
 * Sir Francis Bacon: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
 * Leo Tolstoy: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
 * Albert Einstein: A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
 * Rudyard Kipling: …he wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
 * William Somerset Maugham: Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
 * Sir Francis Bacon: There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
 * Aristotle: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
 * James Thurber: The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
 * Seneca: I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

entertainingly profound

 * Steven Wright: Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
 * Doug Larson: Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
 * Oscar Wilde: My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.

absurd

 * Mae West: His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
 * George Carlin: Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
 * Woody Allen: The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.

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User talk:Emir Kotromanić~enwikiquote

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User talk:Perionyx~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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User talk:Rabadur~enwikiquote

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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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User talk:Sancho~enwikiquote

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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Sancho. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Sancho~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Aduncan

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User talk:Rahulvats101

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