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Judging Amy

Judging Amy (1999–2005) was an American television series, airing on CBS, about a single mother who has left a high profile legal firm in New York behind to become a Family Court judge in Hartford, Connecticut.

Pilot

 * Amy: Yes, you nailed it. He's a cross-dressing serial killer.

 * Maxine: I know more about her ovaries than I do my own.

 * Vincent: This is what we call 'middle class angst.

 * Lauren: [about her book report] I was gonna do The Secret Garden, but I'm doing Everybody Poops instead.
 * Amy: How about... 'Everybody Poops in the Secret Garden'?

 * Lauren: Why are they talking about us like we're not here?
 * Amy: It's a family tradition, sweetie.

 * Bruce: Do you have a problem with me not being a woman?
 * Amy: Not if you don't.

 * Vincent: She's asleep.
 * Amy: She doesn't want me to tuck her in?
 * Vincent: No. No, she's not interested. She says that she loves you, but that she's not in love with you. No, that was another conversation.

 * Lauren: That's ridiculous! Cars just don't start moving.
 * Vincent: Please, Judge, give me a chance. I don't want to go to jail.
 * Lauren: Well, what are you going to do for me?
 * Vincent: I don't think Judge Barbie's supposed to say that.
 * Amy: Ok, bedtime!

 * Amy: What? I don't look judicial?
 * Maxine: No! You look like a deranged minister!

 * Vincent: No, no, no. It's a very bad idea to drink alone.
 * Amy: Well, it's either that or matricide.
 * Vincent: Then go ahead. I'll wait.

 * Vincent: You sure can clear a room.
 * Maxine: It hasn't worked on you yet.

Short Calendar

 * Maxine: Lauren, your opinions are not as fascinating as you think they are.

 * Lauren: What's anorexia?
 * Maxine: A disease women get from reading magazines.

Trial By Jury

 * Maxine: Peter, go over there and deal with that sales girl. Something about her scares me. I think it's her teeth.

 * Amy: I happen to remember something Professor Larkin said about you. He said you had a brilliant mind for theatrics, and you would do well in the courtroom, until you met a judge who was smarter than you. Well, guess what just happened.

 * Amy: I have to check my compassion at the door.
 * Greta: Says who?
 * Amy: I've got to think about the law, not the people.
 * Greta: Well, what do you think the law is for? When you uphold the law, you uphold the good of the people. Not just the people in your courtroom. All of them. Nobody loses.

Victim Soul

 * Amy: Where's Vincent?
 * Maxine: He said something about a freelance writing job.
 * Lauren: It's the lady from the hardware store, he met her looking for screws.

Last Tango in Hartford

 * Vincent: Writing is writing. It's even better when you get paid for it.

An Impartial Bias

 * Vincent (to Maxine): I just found this letter of acceptance for Dad. Why didn't he go to Yale Medical School?
 * Maxine: The week your father was accepted, we found out I was pregnant with Peter.
 * Vincent: So Dad quit his dreams and went into the insurance business?
 * Maxine: No, he didn't quit his dreams, he traded them for a different one. Your father was a pragmatist, Vincent and he loved his family very much.
 * Vincent: So he wanted a family more than medical school?
 * Maxine: Yes. When we had Amy, I figured perfect one boy, one girl, now we have our family, but your father wanted one more. He finally talked me into it.
 * Vincent: So you never wanted me?
 * Maxine: Just in the abstract, dear.

Near Death Experience

 * Maxine: No, if I sit still, I'll think terrible things. Like, how hard is it to hire a hitman? And, do they take credit cards?

The Persistence of Tectonics

 * Maxine: And this is a very nice gay man, Justin, whom we just met. And this is my son, Vincent, who isn't gay. He's a writer.

 * Maxine: I was just down in the basement...Hooking a rug.

 * Maxine: After 40 years of cooking Thanksgiving dinner, even the word 'Thanksgiving' makes me mad.

 * Vincent: Something smells good.
 * Amy: That would be Socrates' breath.

 * Amy: You could be a little more sympathetic.
 * Bruce: I don't do sympathetic.
 * Amy: Of course not.

 * Maxine: You know what I read the other day? That Denver, Colorado is moving closer to San Francisco, California by an inch every ten years.
 * Amy: Is this relevant?
 * Maxine: An inch every ten years. That's the way the Rocky Mountains were formed, and that's the way the world changes. Not by stamping your foot to get your way. Not even by the bang of a gavel. It's by the choices that we make, you know, all the time. You do what you think is right, every time. Slowly, the world starts to change. That's how we leave our imprint on life -- an inch every ten years.
 * Amy: Where do you come up with this stuff?
 * Maxine: I don't know; just pops into my head. It's a curse, really.

Crowded House

 * Maxine: Please, don't let me break your concentration by living here.

Presumed Innocent

 * Donna: Some people believe that before we’re born, when we’re still in spirit form, we make a deal with the universe... choose the families we’re born into. We have different reasons, based on the lessons we need to learn. I’m not sure what I was thinking when I chose mine. But, it’s obvious why Judge Gray chose hers. I’m just really glad I could be a part of it. God bless us... every one.
 * Maxine: Amen

Zero to Sixty

 * Maxine: [about a naked baby picture] My father took that one. If I lose a few teeth and start drooling, I'll be right back there again.
 * Amy: Wearing a few more clothes, I hope.

 * Maxine: I find it very self-aware that the parties object to being referred to as 'parents.'

 * Maxine: My best solution isn't repeatable in court, Your Honor.

Shaken, Not Stirred

 * Maxine: Ten-year-old children cannot take care of themselves. They need their parents, but if their parents betray them, they need us.

 * Donna: Judge Gray?
 * Amy: Uh, Donna?
 * Donna: Are you seeing someone?
 * Amy: Excuse me?
 * Donna: You're glowing.
 * Amy: No, I'm not.
 * Donna: Oh yeah, you are.
 * Amy: Donna, I'm not glowing.
 * Donna: Sorry.

Culture Clash

 * Amy: It's my brother's book! My baby brother. Vincent Gray.
 * Vincent: She's out on a day pass.

The Wee Hours

 * Lauren: Leesha says she a Libertarian. What's that?
 * Amy: Somebody who doesn't have children.

 * Amy: [to Bruce] Well, maybe four hours sleep isn't enough for you, Mr. Smarty-Pants.
 * Bruce: May I assume since you're calling me "Mr. Smarty-Pants" that the official part of the reprimand is over?

Drawing the Line

 * Maxine: Amy, why on earth are you teaching a class at Yale?
 * Amy: Because they asked me."
 * Maxine: There's a handy little two-letter word you might want to learn.
 * Amy: Mom, it's an honor to be asked. You should be congratulating me.
 * Maxine: I'll congratulate you when you learn how to take a nap.

 * Amy: You know, Leesha, you might want to watch how many sentences you begin with "Michael said." People might not think you have any thoughts of your own.

Human Touch

 * Amy: Here's a new idea. Why don't you tell her how you feel?
 * Vincent: What, and let down my whole gender?
 * Amy: Do you love her?
 * Vincent: I don't know. What? I'm standing here with a mocha latte talking to my sister about love. My sperm count is plummeting!
 * Amy: You love her!
 * Vincent: Shut up! I gotta run.

 * Amy: God, Peter, when we were growing up you were the cool one. You were the guy in the band. You were the guy who could ditch all your classes and still make straight "A"s. You were looking to legalize marijuana! What happened to that guy? When did you become... this guy?
 * Peter: Dad died and I grew up. Someone had to.

The Out-of-Towners

 * Maxine: If I end up in a dumpster, it's your fault.

 * Vincent: Are we going to be one of those couples that solves every dispute by having wild monkey sex?
 * Lisa: God, I hope so.

 * Maxine: And why is it so hard for you to believe that I'm attractive to men?
 * Peter: Uh...you're my mother?
 * Maxine: And I got that way by being attractive to men.

The God Thing

 * Greta: Life is full of endless opportunities to make a fool of yourself.
 * Amy: Well, if somebody's keeping score, then I should be heading into the bonus round right about now.

 * Kimberly: This is obviously a case of professional jealousy.
 * Maxine: [smiling]...the lawyer wishes she could be a wire-bender?

 * Amy: My friend, Greta, found God.
 * Bruce: I didn't know He was missing.

Gray vs. Gray

 * Maxine: The truth is, we're all going to die. The blessing is, we don't know when. And that's what allows us to go on.

Zero Tolerance

 * Amy: [to Vincent in the hospital] Wouldn't it be great if it could be Mom's fault?

Unnecessary Roughness

 * Terry Ventrella: Are you sorry about slamming my Johnny in that door?
 * Maxine: Nope. Keep your damn Johnny out of my gas tank.

The Burden of Perspective
Amy: Yeah, one of those "Our family can beat up your family" shots.

Waterworld

 * CD Announcer: You are giving your baby the gift of non-violent birth.

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 * Maxine: Anyway, I can see how Carol might not like you, but I'm adorable.

The Undertow

 * Maxine: I never said I broke up with Jared.
 * Amy: Are you saying you didn't?
 * Maxine: What I'm saying is whether I did or not is none of your business!

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 * Amy: Mom, I hate her. But Lauren thinks the sun shines right out of her butt.

Adoption Day

 * Gillian: I love you, Amy.
 * Amy: I love you, too.
 * Gillian: But, I mean, you are way too skinny for someone with such a nice rack.

 * Rob: Sometimes people gotta obliterate everything in their path just to get themselves back on track.
 * Amy: That's exactly how it feels.
 * Rob: And sometimes innocent people get incinerated because they happen to be too close to the blow.

 * Amy: Can tuna actually freeze?
 * Bruce: Apparently so.
 * [Knocking on door]
 * Vincent: Hey. Am I interrupting?
 * Bruce: Just having some tuna Slurpees...

8 1/2 Narrow

 * Amy: Ms. Winston, I am ruling, and you are... shutting up.

Everybody Falls Down

 * Maxine: Oh, Fran. I lack delicacy.
 * Fran: No kidding.

 * Vincent: What's wrong with Katie?
 * Amy: Nothing, if you like perky, nubile teenagers.
 * Vincent: I think I'm gonna let that one pass.

Romeo and Juliet Must Die--Well, Maybe Just Juliet

 * Vincent: When a person kills another person, it leaves a mark.
 * Donna: Yeah, especially when he uses an axe the way Oscar did.

 * Maxine: No, Gillian, I can't think of a reason not to have lunch. Maybe Amy will join us. No, she's been up for hours, doing yoga and writing her autobiography.

Grounded

 * [Lauren finds Jared and Maxine alone, ready to kiss]
 * Lauren: Are you kissing my Grandma?
 * Jared: I was about to, yes.
 * Lauren: OK.

Redheaded Stepchild

 * [Carole enters to see Donna and Lauren playing Barbies and Vincent working on his book]
 * Carole: So, uh, what are we all doing?
 * Lauren: Donna and I are playing 'Parole Board Babes' and Uncle Vincent is cutting his novel to shreds.

Hold on Tight

 * Maxine: It's not the letting go that hurts, it's the holding on.

 * Sean: You are a very scary lady.
 * Maxine: Thank you.

The Last Word

 * Sean: This is because you're in charge over at Sanctuary House.
 * Maxine: Sanctuary House is a collaboration.
 * Sean: Nothing with you is a collaboration.

 * Sean: Everyone's dismissed. Except Maxine.
 * Maxine: Am I being kept after social work?

 * Bruce: Tell you what. You have a complete psychotic breakdown. I'll cover for you. I'll put on a robe and a wig... Come on. I'll walk you to your car. [she doesn't answer] Amy, I'll walk you to your car. Judge Gray?
 * Amy: No. It's okay.
 * Bruce: No, it's not. I'll walk you to your car.

 * Amy: Yeah, I was there when it happened.
 * Stu: I know. You told me to blow it up my butt.
 * Amy: I was hoping you wouldn't remember that part.

 * Maxine: Kimberly, do the civilized world a favor and keep your opinions to yourself.

 * Maxine: Sean, one day you're going to have children. And I'm going to enjoy that so much.

Off the Grid

 * Sean: Listen up. It is about damn time you people became more afraid of me than Maxine Gray.

 * Vincent: (to Lauren) Is guilt a genetic pre-disposition with the Gray women or is it a learned behavior?

 * Vincent: Grandma is so caught up in her own dunnage.
 * Lauren: You're saying a lot of stuff I don't understand today.
 * Vincent: It's this thing women do when they need help or emotional support they retreat into their own world where no man no matter how much they love her is allowed to enter.

Darkness For Light

 * Amy: One day, I'm going to find a man who thinks I'm the meaning of life.
 * Maxine: Amy, don't be trippy. The best you can hope for is a man who doesn't think about the meaning of life when he's with you.

 * Donna: [jumps out of her seat] Ha! Just so you know, Judge Gray was a big shot corporate lawyer on Wall Street before we got her. [Amy and Bruce look at her and she sits]

 * Maxine: [to Sean] Yes, I am sacrificing the good of the many for the good of the one. I am willing to burn in hellfire for all damnation for that, therefore you don't scare me.

 * Bruce: Do you smell chlorine?
 * Amy: I went for a swim. For fitness.
 * Bruce: That would explain it.

The Right Thing To Do

 * Jared: Maxine, I forget. Why are we breaking up?
 * Maxine: Because it's the right thing to do.
 * Jared: I hate the right thing to do.
 * Maxine: So do I. It's a pain in the ass.

 * Vincent: Please marry me.
 * Carol: I'm wearing paper.
 * Vincent: Okay?
 * Carol: I didn't want to be wearing paper when I got engaged.
 * Vincent: I could ask you again tonight when you're wearing clothes.

 * Maxine: You can't democratize a personal conviction. That's what this is. I'm taking a stand. And I'm more than willing to stand alone.

 * [Donna opens shower curtain]
 * Vincent: Donna! I'm in the shower!
 * Donna: No kidding.
 * Vincent: Naked!
 * [Donna hands him a towel]

 * Maxine: Is this what they call a high-class problem?
 * Amy: I guess so.
 * Maxine: Funny. Feels just like a regular one.

 * Amy: Why does this feel like it's a marriage?
 * Bruce: Because it is.
 * Amy: Without the obvious perks. [Bruce looks confused] You don't fix things around the house.

Imbroglio

 * Amy: Life wants to be a mess. Don't ask me why.

 * Amy: So, it's not like flirting.
 * Bruce: No, it's not like flirting.
 * Amy: Because priests don't flirt.
 * Bruce: Not if they like their jobs.
 * Amy: So, we're talking nada? No heavy petting, light petting...?
 * Bruce: Do I look like I want to be having this conversation?

 * Amy: You think you're cute, don't you?
 * Bruce: I am cute. Here. We're on the set up committee. So, set up.

 * Prosecutor: If I had a 6-year-old sucking on some part of my anatomy and called it a bonding experience, I'd be arrested.

 * Prosecutor: I think Your Honor would agree that this is a little too happy of a meal.

 * Amy: Who's that?
 * Bruce: A friend. Where's your hair?
 * Amy: Where's yours?

 * Bruce: I have three rules. I don't lend money, I don't touch lettuce, I don't set people up.
 * Amy: You don't touch lettuce?
 * Bruce: It's cold, it's wet, it squeaks. I don't have to explain myself.

 * Amy: What's his deal?
 * Bruce: His 'deal' is his business. And I told you -
 * Amy: I know. You don't touch lettuce.

 * Amy: Tell me I never said the words 'sippy cup' while on the verge of tears.
 * Maxine: No, but you were an averagely nervous young mother, so try to understand what she's going through.
 * Amy: Why are you picking on me?
 * Maxine: Vincent's gone. I have to pick on somebody.

Rights of Passage

 * Maxine: Kyle!
 * Kyle: Thank God you aren't insane.
 * Maxine: Why?
 * Kyle: Because I spent most of my childhood trying to make you that way.

Surprised by Gravity

 * Kyle: I used to sleepwalk through life, ignorant of the importance beef tallow plays in the flavoring of french fries. Now, I have been enlightened, and the french fry holds no secrets from me.

 * Amy: Hey, Kyle. That's not a Jaguar.
 * Kyle: No, it's not. But it has aspirations.

 * Maxine: [to Amy about her garnishing the meatloaf] Amy, any more parsley and it'll look like a putting green.

 * Kyle: Well, Aunt Max lit the oven for me, but I sliced the sausage of the pre-mixed dough.

Beating the Bounds

 * Amy: [about the woman who wanted Amy to perform her divorce ceremony] She chose me because you have a great rear end.
 * Bruce: Yes. I do.

 * Lauren: What's an orgasm?
 * Amy: Oh, honey, I'm not sure if I remember anymore. I might have to look it up in a book.

 * Lauren: (to Amy as Kyle walks by) How do you cheat with sex?
 * Kyle: Alcohol, music, and Viagra.

 * Maxine: (to Kyle) You have accomplished the "self-distructive, I don't-give-a-damn" look.

Crime and Puzzlement

 * Amy: I've seen you rant. You can't unring that bell.
 * Bruce: Would you like a list of things I've seen you do?

 * Bruce: When they get to Andrew Lloyd Webber, I quit.

Who Shot Dick?

 * Richard (to Maxine): I made my own way in this world.
 * Maxine: The hell you did. Daddy sent you to medical school. By the time it was my turn, there was nothing left.
 * Richard: You went to college.
 * Maxine: I worked three jobs. I didn't pay off those loans till 1967. You were his hope, I was his after-thought. My God Richard. I don't want to go over this again.
 * Richard: None of this is justification for keeping me from my son.
 * Maxine: Edward was dead at 55.
 * Richard (about Kyle): He's my son, Maxine!
 * Maxine: He's an adult. No one forced his hand. You're making things worse.

 * Peter: I've been reading Robin Hood to Ned.
 * Kyle: Steal from the rich and give to the poor? You're the quasi-communist, Peter.

 * Maxine: I have a good memory.
 * Richard: Your blessing and your curse.
 * Maxine: It's always been a fine line.

 * Richard: (regarding Kyle) Teaching him the fine art of holding a grudge are we?
 * Maxine: No, the lost art of learning from the past, you know the whole doomed to repeat it thing?

 * Andrea: (to Bruce) I guess it is true that it takes a village or at least an English nanny to raise a child.

 * Kyle: Maxine, pack up your troubles. Donna's potatoes are here.

The Cook of the Money Pot

 * Maxine: Amy, you seem to be alright after walking in on your father and me.
 * Amy: That never happened.
 * Maxine: Then perhaps denial will work as well for Lauren as it has for you.

Can They Do That With Vegetables?

 * Maxine: She looks up to you, you know.
 * Eric: Big deal. She's 4 feet tall.

 * Lauren: Eric's going to teach me how to spam dunk!
 * Eric: Slam dunk. Basketball, not lunch.

 * Peter: And you're way hotter than Charlayne, too.
 * Amy: Way hotter.

 * Charlayne: Eric. Now would this be the junkie or the street hustler?

 * [When Amy tells Maxine to quit smoking]
 * Maxime: You want to open this door Amy?
 * Amy: Yeah.
 * Maxime: You exist on 9 cups of coffee a day. You eat powdered sugar for breakfast. You drink like a European. And you have sex with people you don't care about.

Woman in Cacti With a Curled Up Rat

 * Kyle: How do you intend to convince him?
 * Maxine: I'm going to flirt with him. Oh, come on. You can't tell me you've never tried it.
 * Kyle: How do you think I passed organic chemistry?

Men Aren't Monsters

 * Maxine: In the desperate hope that you two have some kind of secret language you can't speak in front of women, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get a cup of coffee.

The Bottle Show

 * Donna: How was the movie?
 * Kyle: It was good...Not bad...It sucked.
 * Donna: Your little friend enjoyed it?
 * Kyle: She fell asleep.
 * Donna: Probably malnutrition.

 * Maxine: Men look in the mirror as much as we do, but they always think they look great.

 * Lauren: I hate all of my clothes
 * Maxine: She spent yesterday with Chanelle.

 * Maxine: Great. We're just a couple of hookers short of Atlantic City.

 * Maxine: I know this bulletin board is everyone's idea of a good time, but some of us actually use it for work. So you can consider this the end of the largest dead cockroach of the week contest. Would you kindly flush the contestants?
 * Kimberly: Do you have like no sense of humor?
 * Maxine: That's correct. I'm a human fun-sucking vacuum.

 * Sean: Busy?
 * Maxine: Very.
 * Sean: Good, walk with me, talk with me, I've been thinking.
 * Maxine: Gee, I already don't like it.
 * Sean: I think it's about time we made a few headlines of our own. Flashy headlines.
 * Maxine: A regular diet of infanticide and sexual abuse is too low key for your taste?

 * Maxine: I am in the middle of being alone so you can help me by leaving.
 * Sean: Are you mad at me?
 * Maxine: Not yet.

 * Lauren: Grandma, look. Your boyfriend's in the paper.
 * Maxine: Lauren, women my age don't have boyfriends. We have suitors and my ex-suitor is in China doing whatever the Mandarin term is for gallavanting.
 * Amy: She's right. Here he is.
 * Maxine (reads): "International business man Jared Duff spends a light moment with hostess and chairwoman Abigail von Facelift Nosejob." Recycle that. (thrusts newspaper back to Amy)
 * Amy: I'll shred it first.
 * Maxine: You'd better.

 * Maxine: I want to thank you, Sean. Your heart was in the right place.
 * Sean: The same thing can be said about my ass.

Tidal Wave

 * Donna: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, Mahatmas Gandhi or Dr. Phil?

 * Amy (to Maxine): You were out late last night. Where'd you go?
 * Maxine: An opium den.

 * Maxine: Because I have a hate-hate relationship with my computer. Robert, I am not asking, I am telling. Surely you know the difference by now.

Boston Terriers From France

 * Amy: [to Maxine] How can I sleep when you're having the loudest nervous breakdown in history?

 * Maxine: (to Amy) You want to know what your trouble is? It's always the same thing. It's why you got married when you knew it was a mistake, and it's why you slept with Lauren's karate teacher and God knows who else. You are afraid to be alone. You are. You get married 5 minutes after you graduated law school, and when you divorced Michael, you moved in here 5 minutes after that. And all of this hovering and scolding and policing and signing me up to walk with the New Age Hypochondriacs from Hell, is just another version of you being afraid to be alone. You're stuck to me like pine sap because you're afraid your Mommy's gonna die. You worry about my stress levels when the truth is half the stress in my life comes from you!
 * Amy: I think I should move out.
 * Maxine: I do too.

 * Amy (to Maxine about the Wise Women Walkers): Just try it!
 * Maxine: I'd rather snort prune juice up my nose.
 * Amy: Well, you can do both.
 * Lauren: Are you and Grandma fighting?
 * Amy: No.
 * Maxine: Yes!
 * Lauren: She didn't like The Wise Women Walkers, did she?

 * Kyle (after a girl collapses): She's burning up! Call 911!
 * Giselle: Are you officially giving me permission to use the phone?
 * Kyle: Call 911 NOW!

 * Maxine (to Kyle): Are you aware that your library book is 4 months overdue?
 * Kyle: That girl stole it. The one who died.
 * Maxine: I am sorry.
 * Kyle: How do you do it? How do you keep banging your head against the wall every single day without your skull caving in?
 * Maxine: Well I certainly have my share of headaches, but the wall has a few lumps as well.
 * Kyle: I work my ass off to get to these kids, to bring them in, let them know that it's going to be ok and then they're gone. They run away or they're dead. Well guess what? I'm done. I wil work at Teen Harbor but I am through with the chasing. If they want help they will come in, fill out the forms and they will ask. I'm through going after them, it's not worth it. No wonder I'm smoking so much.
 * Maxine: Well, I'm sure you know best. However at this moment you do not know best because if you did, you would shut up! And you would quit using feeling sorry for yourself as an excuse to smoke, and you would know that if you want absolute victories, then you should go back into medicine. We do what we can. We patch them up, send them out there and hope for the best. And we very seldom get it, but we keep going because what the hell else are we going to do?!?

 * Maxine (to Sean): When my daughter called you, did you tell her that nobody likes a snitch?
 * Sean: Look, I've never pulled rank on you. Mostly because you'd ignore me and I'd back down, but that's just what I'm doing: pulling rank and not backing down. Either you go home right now, or I will fire you. (Maxine laughs) I will.

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

 * Barry: Why are you cutting so many tethers in your life?
 * Amy: Because I feel tethered.

 * Maxine: Evidently melodrama has not skipped a generation as I had hoped.
 * Amy: You were taking apart her room? Couldn't you have waited until the corpse had cooled?
 * Maxine: See? Genetic melodrama.

 * Maxine: I need to move this mattress.
 * Peter: You said it was an emergency!
 * Maxine: Okay, I really need to move this mattress?

 * Bruce: [trying to get Amy moving to the courtroom] Momentum requires velocity. Basic physics.

 * Amy: If I told you I had two tickets to Spain, what would you say?
 * Bruce: When do we leave?

 * Peter: I swear to God, if you do this to yourself, I'll have you committed.
 * Maxine: They don't do that anymore.
 * Peter: Mother, I'm in insurance. I have powers you can't even begin to comprehend. Try me.

 * Vincent: It's a little weird. I move away, you just come in and occupy my space?
 * Kyle: I know.
 * Vincent: A man likes to feel like he's irreplaceable, and bang, he's replaced.
 * Kyle: I know.
 * Vincent: My old room, my old roommate, my seat at Thursday night dinners. My place in the family.
 * Kyle: I know.
 * Vincent: You haven't replaced me.
 * Kyle: I know!

Lost in the System

 * Amy: Is this a bad idea?
 * Bruce: Very bad.

 * Jared (to Maxine): Tell your family I was someone selling vacuum cleaners or God.

The Frozen Zone

 * Amy: Your mom died because bad men stole airplanes and flew them into buildings. It's not your mom's fault, it's not your dad's fault, and it's certainly not your fault. If we blame the wrong people, then we help the bad guys, and they've done enough already.

Roses and Truth

 * Kyle: You're pregnant.
 * Gillian: But... but I don't... get pregnant.
 * Kyle: Well, apparently, you do.

Damage Control

 * Charles: Can't handle the pressure, Gray?
 * Peter: I invented pressure, Duff.
 * Charles: That doesn't make any sense.

 * Maxine (to Amy): You serve two masters, I don't.
 * Amy: You think I should pick one master?
 * Maxine: Well of course you're going to have to pick one. My suggestion is you choose the one that puts the sexual predator behind bars.

A Pretty Good Day

 * Amy: Any conviction of a misdemeanor and a sentence of less than a year and the INS cannot touch your son.
 * Lawyer: So, your honor is admitting that collateral consequences had an effect on your ruling.
 * Amy: Yes, my honor is admitting to that.

Boys to Men

 * Charles: Am I being threatened by a superior court judge?
 * Amy: No, by a daughter who loves her mother, which is way worse. Ask anybody.

 * Maxine: They say the first fight you have is the one you'll have for the rest of your lives.

 * Jared: That's why I'm marrying Maxine. . .because she's so easy.

 * Jared: [holding up a bottle of wine to Maxine and Amy] Shall I decant this or is that just snooty?
 * Maxine: Well, a little bit of snoot never hurt anybody.

 * Maxine: My father used to say everything will be fine in the end, if it's not fine, then it's not the end.

 * [Maxine and Amy have just been arguing about Maxine's decision to move up her wedding date]
 * Maxine: I don't think you're facing the real issue here, which is how are we going to survive Gillian's pregnancy?

Ye Olde Freedom Inn

 * Gillian: Chaos must be tamed, that's my theory.

 * Donna: [While discussing Zola's comment about already seeing someone in response to Bruce's offer of a date] Please, her? What kind of guy would throw himself on that buzzsaw?

The Best Interests of the Child

 * Lauren: No one asked me what I thought was best.
 * Amy: Well no, I guess we didn't.
 * Lauren: I like things the way they are, that's what I think is best.

Maxine, Interrupted

 * Maxine: For a job that doesn't pay anything, it certainly has cost me a lot.

 * Maxine: [about Sally's current boyfriend] Isn't he gay?
 * Sally: Not any more!

 * Sean: So... you two know each other?
 * Maxine: That's very..observant of you, Sean.

 * State's Attorney: Does the "no sarcasm" rule apply only to me?
 * Amy: No, and the "no preening and posturing rule" applies to everyone.

 * Maxine: Kimberly, keep your bony fingers out of my files or I'll kick your sneaky, conniving ass from here till next September and back again.

 * Maxine: You must have a good plastic surgeon, because that nose looks almost real.
 * Sally: I should give you the number. [both laugh]

Sixteen Going on Seventeen

 * Kyle: I'm a scientist and you're an actuary so this is going to sound very weird for me to say, but sometimes there are more important things than numbers.

 * Amy: Isn't suffering part of the pilgrimage experience?
 * Stu: Here's something I learned. 'Pilgrimage' is actually just a fancy name for 'crappy vacation'.

 * Stu: What? You're gonna to tell me you never went swimming with a judge?

Judging Eric

 * Sean: [About Eric's birthday] Come on, last year when we took you bowling for your birthday that was awesome. This sucks monkey butt.

 * Stu: I'm always amazed at how much you forensic guys can tell by a couple of scratches. You're like those Indian trackers in old westerns that could tell the color of a guy's hair by the way his horse walked through water.

 * Judge Nancy Paul: Do you buy suits for all of your charges or just the ones accused of murder?
 * Maxine: Are those my only options?
 * Judge Nancy Paul: Pretty much.

Looking For Quarters

 * Lauren: Mom, you're being ridiculous. This is Peewee hockey. And besides, Grandma played field hockey in school. What's the difference?
 * Amy: The difference is that you fall on the field and get a grass stain, you fall on the ice and your head splits open...like a melon!
 * Maxine: They do wear helmets.
 * Amy: Hey Mom, this is between me and Lauren.

Just Say Oops

 * Maxine: AMY!
 * Amy: WHAT?
 * Maxine: Come out here and let me see it. My wedding, I get to see the bridesmaid's dresses.
 * [Amy steps into room, with a scowl on her face]
 * Maxine: [laughing] Did you leave your curds and whey in the dressing room?
 * Amy: I don't care what Gillian says, I'm not wearing this dress.

 * Heather: It's not my fault you decided to throw a juvenile Animal Farm party.
 * Kyle: Animal House. You're trying to say Animal House, Animal Farm is a book about socialist barn animals, that would be a very different kind of party.

 * Jack: I was hoping you could tell me what the hell is going on?
 * Maxine: Well the stock market is shot, but I hear the new Harry Potter book will have fourteen thousand pages.

Requiem

 * Maxine: I've ordered grilled cheese sandwhiches and milkshakes for everyone. The lactose-intolerant can just skip it.

 * Lauren (reading her haiku): Jared Duff was tall. He smelled like rain in the yard. He laughed at my jokes.

CSO: Hartford

 * Joanne: Now that we're talking about it, what's your position on it?
 * Amy: What's my position on the world? I - I'm for it. Go world!

 * Donna: Psst! Wanna have lunch?
 * Amy: I can't. I have a lunch date.
 * Donna: It's not in your calendar. Who're you having lunch with?
 * Amy: Stu's mother.
 * Donna: Huh?
 * Amy: Stu's mother. I'm having lunch with Stu's mother! Are you getting this in the back row? I'm having lunch with Stu's mother! Next case!

 * Nurse: Chainsaw accident in room 4. Wife's in the waiting room. She told me to give you these.
 * Kyle: Are those fingers?
 * Nurse: She thinks she got them all.

 * Lily: You miss your little buddy, don't you? Sorry, that came out snottier than I intended it.

Ex Parte of Five

 * Maxine: [Crying] Sean, if I have a "feeling," it won't be a little one.
 * Sean: That's okay, too.

Kilt Trip

 * Stu: There's a rich history behind this kilt.
 * Bruce: Easy there, tiger, don't go showing what's behind the kilt there.

The Long Goodbye

 * Maxine: Here's how the world works, Amy. You can leave a man at the altar, or you can have him like you. You can't have both.

Rumspringa

 * Amy: My life is kind of weird right now.
 * Maxine: Yes Amy I've noticed.
 * Amy: I'm not just talking about the non-wedding.

Sex and the Single Mother

 * Sean: Maxine, there's a reason why they call it 'moonlighting' instead of 'middle-of-the-day lighting.'

 * Alan Foster: So, how long have you been with DCF?
 * Maxine:157 years... give or take.

 * Heather: I want to apologize for being such a passive aggressive bitch the other day.
 * Kyle: Actually, you were pretty active aggressive.

Christenings

 * Peter: You brought a date to Walt's christening?
 * Gillian: No, ah...
 * Peter: What's the matter with you?

 * Maggie: [To Nicole] You helped me so much.
 * Amy: How has Nicole helped you?
 * Maggie: She understands. I've got control now.

 * Maxine: I always thought the Methodists were more...uh...understated.
 * Minister: We have our moments.

 * Maxine: He's my therapist Sean, you wanted me to go to therapy, I'm going. Are you happy now? Would you like to shout it to the world? [shouting] MAXINE GRAY... IS IN... THERAPY!
 * Sean: And not a moment too soon.

 * Lauren: How come every time our family goes to church something embarrassing happens?

Sins of the Father

 * Flower Guy: Are you Maxine Gray? These are for Maxine Gray.
 * Maxine: I'm Maxine Gray, but there must be some mistake. You see my fiancée used to send me flowers all the time, but he died and I haven't been nice to anyone since then.
 * Flower Guy: Well, there must be a card somewhere.
 * Maxine:[reads card] I can't accept these, take them back.
 * Flower Guy: What's your probelem lady? This is the nicest arrangement in the truck.
 * Maxine: These flowers come from a man that I barely know. We spent one night together.
 * Flower Guy: You must have made some impression [sees look on Maxine's face] Um. I'll say you weren't home.

Roadhouse Blues

 * Lauren: Victor and I don’t like the fact that you and his dad are dating.
 * Amy: We aren't dating. Going to dinner is not a date. It’s just not.
 * Maxine: Amy, I'll be back later.
 * Amy: Where are you going mom?
 * Maxine: Out to dinner with a friend.
 * Amy: Are you going on a date?
 * Maxine: No not a date, just dinner with a male companion
 * Amy: Dinner with a male companion is a date.
 * Maxine: It's not if I say it's not.
 * Amy: [to Lauren] It's not the same thing.

 * Lauren: [to David] Why did you pick my mom? She dumps people. You know; you were at the wedding.

Werewolves of Hartford

 * Ignacio: You know the pimp?
 * Maxine: Yes, he's one of my foster pimps...uh, parents.

The Song That Never Ends

 * [After Maxine shouts]
 * Amy: Mom, are you okay?
 * Maxine: [trying not to laugh] Of course, but I am 65 years old, and my boyfriend's mother hates me.

Disposable

 * Prosecutor Harcourt: The only thing that could heal the wound was to steal underwear.

 * Maxine: [To Lauren, as the cupcakes burn and the smoke alarm sounds] Cupcakes cause cancer!

The Quick and the Dead

 * Gillian: [After their night of speed dating] Peter's looking pretty good right now.
 * Donna: Oscar's looking pretty good right now.
 * [Both turn and look at Amy]
 * Amy: David McClaren's still an ass.

 * Kyle: When I die of boredom, you're going to be short a doctor.

 * Lauren: God, Mom! You ditched him already? You must have set a new record!

 * Kyle: What?
 * Todd: I didn't say anything.
 * Kyle: And yet, I heard you.

Slade's Chophouse

 * Amy: [After seeing Father Ted, now known as Teresa, in a skirt and makeup] Thought you'd be shorter...and a guy.

Predictive Neglect

 * Maxine: [about Sean's new tie] I think it would very, very good on Jimmy Smits.
 * Sean: A bowl of soup would look good on Jimmy Smits.

My Little Runaway

 * Amy: [To Lauren, about a trip to the skate park] If you break your arm, I swear to God I'm going to break the other one...[looks at Victor]...then I'm going to come looking for you.
 * Victor: Fair enough.

 * Amy: [shouting] Lauren? Lauren Cassidy, where are you? If you are some place with your pajamas on talking to Victor, I will not be happy!

 * Kyle: [Discussing Victor's condition with David and Amy] My best educated guess? I'd say 70/30.
 * Amy: That he'll make it.
 * Kyle: No.

 * Maxine: [about attending Ignacio's mother's birthday party] Let's be honest, the last time she saw me, she called me a prostitute.
 * Ignacio: Oh, you understood that?
 * Maxine: Si, senor.

 * Ignacio: He's telling an 89-year-old woman to go with God?

Sex, Lies and Expedia.com'

 * Kyle: [As Maxine cries and Peter, Amy, and Lauren hug her, ignoring Kyle] Okay, next time I have a life-altering epiphany, I'm sharing it with another family.

 * Gillian: Are you saying it's over?
 * Peter: If I am, Gillian, you have no one to blame but yourself.

 * Vincent: Before I ask what's going on out front, I have a more important question. Are Peter and I too old for bunk beds?

 * Maxine: [To Ignacio, after finding out he is still married] I've come to a decision. I will be going to China, and you can go to Hell!

Accountability

 * Donna: [Opens envelope, reads letter, and cries] I passed.
 * [Amy screams, jumps up from her chair, grabs Donna and hugs her]
 * Donna: I'm a lawyer.

 * Amy: [To Hector, who just found out his parents are divorcing] Hector, I want you to know something. I want you to hear something. I'm not going to put you away, I'm not going to throw you away. You're not a ghost. I see you...I see you...I see you.

 * [Donna is practicing a closing statement in Amy's old, under-construction courtroom, when Amy walks in]
 * Amy: You'd rather come in here and pretend to be a lawyer than actually be one?
 * Donna: I...I was just fooling around.

Lullaby

 * Lauren: [Toasting Kyle at his final dinner with the family] To Cousin Kyle, who taught me to burn CDs and download stuff off the Internet!

 * Graciela Reyes: [to Amy] How 'bout I plead hungry and go to lunch?

 * Amy: What do you see when you see yourself getting old?
 * David: How old?
 * Amy: My mom old...
 * David: Well there's basketball, mysteries, classics...and you, I see you.

 * Amy: Thursday night. Pick a movie. Popcorn and parking on me.
 * Maxine: I don't want to go to the movies Thursday.
 * Amy: Rent is in town.
 * Maxine: I've seen Rent. I pay rent. I'm sick of rent.
 * Amy: Bookstore?
 * Maxine: Amy?
 * Amy: All right! I have a date on Thursday. David's coming over and I'm cooking.
 * Maxine: You don't cook.
 * Amy: Just because I don't, doesn't mean I can't.
 * Maxine: Means you shouldn't.

 * Vincent: I'll take 'Amy's Greatest Fear' for 100. What is....You're nothing without the drama?
 * Amy: You can't possibly know that!
 * Vincent: I'm a closet excitement junkie myself.
 * Amy: You think it runs in the family?
 * Vincent: Like liberalism and a fear of clowns.

Consent

 * Amy: [to Lauren] I'm a girl too!

Order and Chaos

 * Peter: [about Ned] We're raising a genius!
 * Jillian: An adopted genius, nature is a big part of it.
 * Peter: So is nurture.

 * Bruce: Excuse me, I didn't mean to interrupt, but Ted, the Marshall, just said that your mother was arrested.
 * Amy: What!?
 * Bruce: Yeah! He thought we knew. I guess it happened this morning.

 * Amy: [to Vincent] Jimi Hendrix called and he wants his shirt back.
 * [Vincent leaves the room]
 * Vincent: [Coming back into the room] Well at least my shirt...
 * Amy: It's not a comeback if you have to come back and say it!

Catching It Early

 * Maxine: If I told you I was Cheryl Tiegs, would you put me through?...Cheryl Tiegs was a sex icon back in...how old are you?

 * Dr. Jacobs: Let's see what we have here [begins breast exam]
 * Amy: [giggles nervously] Sorry.
 * Dr Jacobs: Do you know that you have a rather large mass in your breast?
 * Amy: Yup.

Early Winter

 * Maxine: [while hallucinating about her mother, sings] Did you ever go a fishing on a sun-shiny day? Sit on the bank, till the bank gives way. With your hands in your pockets, And your pockets in your pants. Sit on the bank and do a hoochie-coochie dance.

 * Maxine: [When Vincent comes in to see how she's doing] Vincent, I already have a pain in my chest, I don't need a larger one in my ass, too.

 * Maxine: [When Amy brings her an envelope with her mother's jewelry] This is what a hospital does. It takes a person from you and gives you an envelope in return.

10,000 Steps

 * Peter: Gillian...I want to look at you, I want to hold your hand, I want to talk, and then I want to christen the kitchen.

 * Gillian: Laundry room.
 * Peter: What?
 * Gillian: Two words...spin cycle.

You Don't Know Me

 * Amy: You know when I turn my chair, you know when I wear pants. It's starting to make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. It's creepy.
 * Bruce: What's creepy is that you have hair on the back of your neck.

 * Lauren: By the time it's in school I'll be away in college!

Happy Borthday

 * Amy: [to Jerry] You are a moron of epic proportions!

 * Lorna Thompson (to Shelly Cecil): SHUT! UP! Marsha is dead. Do you understand that?
 * Shelly Cecil: Oh, so that's why she's not answering my emails.
 * Oliver Cecil: Shelly!
 * Shelly Cecil: Of course I understand! I killed my best friend! I saw her lying there. My life is over! I can't go back to school, I can't even walk down the street. I'm a murderer! So do whatever you want with me, okay? Put me in jail for the rest of my life. Make her happy because it's all over! I'm already dead!
 * Amy: Miss Cecil. Shelly. Look at me. Okay, okay, then just listen to me. We're going to get through this, all of us.
 * Oliver Cecil: [Whispered] We'll get through this, okay?
 * Amy: It's not over.

Hard To Get

 * Amy: [to herself in the mirror, wearing Graciela's jacket and cap] You betta step off before I hafta open up a can o' whoop ass.

The Paper War

 * Sean: If this social worker thing doesn't work out, maybe I can work as a carpenter like, uh, what's-his-name.
 * Maxine: Jesus?
 * Sean: I was thinking Harrison Ford, but...

 * Rob: [discussing Amy's solution to the "paper war"] How rad, sticking it to the man!
 * Bruce: She IS the man.
 * Rob: Well, then who are we sticking it to?
 * Bruce: My point exactly.

 * Amy: [to the State Attorney] You can have your transfer, but you can shove your apology!

Sorry I Missed You

 * Diesel: I call this piece "Bars."
 * Another Prisoner: [laughs] Where'd you come up with that one, Dawg?

 * Vincent: I was actually going to skip that exercise and slap a bunch of name tags on you, but I thought slapping you might be bad for me.

 * Amy: [telling Lauren what she can't do] ...no pink hair or any other color that is not a spawn of this gene pool!... and the only piece of metal that's getting pierced through your body is a tracking device I may get surgically inserted into your  neck!

Getting Out

 * Maxine: I've bought cheesecake!
 * Lauren: Did you buy non-dairy?
 * Maxine: Oh, honey, Grandma doesn't do non-dairy.

My Name is Amy Gray...

 * Gillian: You are the best mother of the world and Amy knows this. She has learned everything from you. And I'm proud to be in your family.
 * Maxine: Everyone else's mother's always look good.

 * Amy: You came!
 * Bruce: You called.

Unknown episode

 * Interior Decorator: Usually I'm so perceptive of people. Come on… what's changed?
 * Maxine: Two weeks ago my fiancée died of a heart attack 48 hours before we were to be wed. Also, I've cut my hair.

 * Board Member: We're a little concerned that your director is a drug addict.
 * Maxine: No, my director is a former drug addict. I myself am a former high school student, and everyone here used to poop in their pants. What's your point?

 * Maxine: "Never wear fire for a hat"… I haven't any idea what it means. I read it in a bathroom stall once and it stuck with me.

 * Maxine: By the way, I'm getting married a week from Saturday. I expect you to be there.
 * Sean Potter: A week from Saturday? Maxine, why are you getting married a week from Saturday?
 * Maxine: So I can have sex, Sean. Why else would anyone get married?

 * Amy: The only way we do better is by figuring out what we did wrong.

 * [Amy has been in bed with the flu for several days.]
 * Maxine: Amy? I brought you some chicken soup. How do you feel?
 * Amy: Horrible. I've been seeing things. It's like being on acid.
 * [Amy notices the look on Maxine's face.]
 * Amy: Not that I ever did acid. Uh, you know, I heard about it. Some of my friends told me. Listen, I think I need to go back to bed.

Cast

 * Amy Brenneman — Amy Gray
 * Dan Futterman — Vincent Gray
 * Tyne Daly — Maxine Gray
 * Kevin Rahm — Kyle McCarty
 * Richard T. Jones — Bruce Van Exel
 * Marcus Giamatti — Peter Gray
 * Jessica Tuck — Gillian Gray
 * Karle Warren — Lauren Cassidy
 * Jillian Armenante — Donna Kozlowski
 * Timothy Omundson — Sean Potter

title: Judging Amy


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PEZ

PEZ is the shortened name of PEZ Candy Inc. It is also the name of two of its product categories, namely: The name "PEZ" was derived from the German word for peppermint, Pfefferminz, the first PEZ flavor.
 * pressed, dry candies, straight-edged and shaped like 3/8-inch- (1-cm-) long bricks, and
 * pocket mechanical dispensers for such candy.

Sourced

 * If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy. PEZ. Cherry flavor PEZ. There's no doubt about it.
 * Vern Tessio, Stand by Me (1986)

 * Gage, we've found it! The actual birthplace of "PEZ"!
 * Arthur, The Journeyman Project (1992)

 * She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a PEZ dispenser out of him.
 * Dwight, Sin City (2005)

Dialogue

 * Jerry: So he starts to get up. He spots the PEZ dispenser on the coffee table.
 * George: Ah, ah, PEZ dispenser.
 * Jerry: He picks it up… he stares at it… It's like he's hypnotized by it. Then he's telling us this story about how when he was a kid he was in the car with his father, and his father was trying to load one of them.
 * George: Well, they're hard to load.
 * Jerry: Tell me something I don't know. So as the father's trying to load it, he loses control of the car and it crashes into a high school cafeteria. Nobody's hurt, but PEZ is all over the car. And the dispenser was destroyed virtually beyond recognition.
 * George: Poor kid.
 * Jerry: So as he's telling the story, he starts crying.
 * George: What did you do?
 * Jerry: What do you think? I gave him my PEZ dispenser.
 * George: Wow.
 * Jerry: Two hours later he checks into Smither's clinic. I talked to the doctor yesterday. He's doing great on the rehab. He's hooked on PEZ. He's eating them like there's no tomorrow.
 * Seinfeld, "The PEZ Dispenser" [3.14], January 15, 1992

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User talk:12.75.53.182

I see you removed some text from a Steve Martin quote. Are you sure the text was erroneous? Because he does actually say something very much like that, if not those exact words (I'm 99% sure it is correct). I've reverted your changes since I suspect it just "seemed" wrong to you. If you know for a fact that it's not correct, let me know at my talk page. - dcljr 02:18, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

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The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man is a 1952 American film about an expatriate Irishman and boxing champion who returns from the United States to Ireland to reclaim his family's farm and winds up falling in love with and marrying a local woman.
 * ''Directed by John Ford. Written by Maurice Walsh, Frank S. Nugent, and Richard Llewellyn.

Father Peter Lonergan

 * Now, I'll begin at the beginnin'. A fine soft day in the spring it was when the train pulled into Castletown three hours late as usual, and himself got off. He didn't have the look of an American tourist at all about him. Not a camera on him. And what was worse, not even a fishing rod.

 * Ah, yes. I knew your people, Sean. Your grandfather, he died in Australia, in a penal colony. And your father, he was a good man too.

Michaleen Oge Flynn

 * Is this a courting or a donnybrook? Have the good manners not to hit the man until he's your husband and entitled to hit you back.

Dialogue

 * Sean: [about a cottage] Do you think she'd sell it?
 * Michaeleen: I doubt it.
 * Sean: Don't bet on it, 'cause I'm buyin' it.
 * Michaeleen: Now why would a, why would a Yankee from Pittsburgh want to buy it?
 * Sean: I'll tell you why Michaeleen Oge Flynn, young small Michael Flynn who used to wipe my runny nose when I was a kid. Because I'm Sean Thornton and I was born in that little cottage over there. And I've come home, and home I'm gonna stay. Now does that answer your questions once and for all, you nosy little man?
 * Michaeleen: Seanin Thornton! And look at you now...What do they feed you, all you men who are in Pittsburgh?
 * Sean: Steel, Michaleen. Steel and pig iron furnaces so hot a man forgets his fear of hell. When you're hard enough, tough enough, other things, other things Michaeleen.

 * Sean: [after first seeing Mary Kate, tending sheep in a meadow] Hey, is that real? She couldn't be.
 * Michaeleen: Oh nonsense, man. It's only a mirage brought on by your terrible thirst.

 * Mary Kate: '[after the widow sells her cottage to Sean instead of Will]'' Good for Widow Tillane...After all, he's [Sean Thornton] got more right to that land than you have.
 * Will: He'll regret it till his dying day, if he lives that long.

 * Sean: The point is, it's already done. I own the property now, and as long as we're gonna be neighbors...
 * Will: Neighbors? Oh, neighbors. NEVER! And if I so much as catch you putting your wet foot on my property...and oh, another thing, you keep away from my sister Mary Kate. She's not for the likes of you.
 * Sean: Where I come from, we don't talk about our women folk in saloons. You sort of make a habit of it.

 * Father Paul: Father Lonergan!
 * Father Lonergan: Shhh...
 * Father Paul: It's, it's a big fight in the town!
 * Father Lonergan: And there's a big fight in this fish right here.
 * Father Paul: I'd have put a stop to it, but you see...
 * Father Lonergan: You do that, lad. It's your duty.
 * Father Paul: But see now, it's Danahar and Sean Thornton!
 * Father Lonergan: Who?
 * Father Paul: Danahar and Sean Thornton!
 * Father Lonergan: Well why the devil didn't you tell me? [Quickly drops fishing rod and runs]
 * [The two priests arrive at the scene of the fight]
 * Father Paul: Father, shouldn't we put a stop to it now?
 * Father Lonergan: [Smiling, making fighting movements] Ah, we should lad, yes we should, it's our duty. Yes, it's our duty... [Smiles as a punch is heard]
 * Father Lonergan: [Smiling, making fighting movements] Ah, we should lad, yes we should, it's our duty. Yes, it's our duty... [Smiles as a punch is heard]

 * [After surprising her in his cottage, Sean grabs her and kisses her]
 * Mary Kate: It's a bold one you are. And who gave you leave to be kissin' me?
 * Sean: So you can talk!
 * Mary Kate: Yes I can. I will, and I do. And it's more than talk you'll be gettin' if you step a step closer to me.
 * Sean: Don't worry. You've got a wallop!
 * Mary Kate: You'll get over it, I'm thinkin'.
 * Sean: Well, some things a man doesn't get over so easy.
 * Mary Kate: Like what supposin'?
 * Sean: Like the sight of a girl comin' through the fields with the sun on her hair. Kneeling in church with a face like a saint.
 * Mary Kate: Saint indeed!
 * Sean: And now comin' to a man's house to clean it for him.
 * Mary Kate: But that was just my way of bein' a good Christian act.
 * Sean: I know it was, Mary Kate Danaher. And it was nice of you.
 * Mary Kate: Not at all. [she moves to leave, but then turns back and kisses him]

 * Will: [in response to Sean's request for Mary Kate's hand in marriage] Get out! Why if he was the last man on the face of this earth, and my sister the last woman, I'd still say no. Hey Yank! I'll count three. And if you're not out of the house by then, I'll loose the dogs on ya.
 * Sean: If you say three, mister, you'll never hear the man count ten.

 * Mary Kate: I thank you anyway, Sean Thornton, for the asking.
 * Sean: You don't think this changes anything? It's what you say that counts, not him.
 * Michaeleen: Now Sean, you've gone too far. That's enough.
 * Sean: Say, what is this? We're gonna get married. Aren't we? [She turns away, dejected, and runs upstairs to her room] I don't get it.
 * Michaeleen: This is Ireland, Sean, not America. Without a brother's consent, she couldn't and wouldn't. I'm sorry for both of ya.

 * Will: What sort of a scoundrel is this Yank? One minute, he's at me sister, and the next it's herself.
 * Michaeleen: Well, blame no one but yourself. If you had saved me as your matchmaker, you and the widow would have been married long since.
 * Father Lonergan: True, Will, true.
 * Michaeleen: Mind you, I'm not saying it's too late yet.
 * Will: What do you mean?
 * Michaeleen: Why do you suppose the Widow Tillane has stood you off so long, huh? You're a fine looking man.
 * Will: I am.
 * Michaeleen: A rich propertied man!
 * Will: And well she knows it.
 * Michaeleen: What woman would come into the house with another woman in it? If you got rid of Mary Kate, the widow would have been in like a shot.
 * Will: No!
 * Michaeleen: Yes. You had your chance and you flubbed it. You refused Seanin Thornton and he reneged on ya. Now I doubt if he'd take your sister if you put a thousand pounds on her.
 * Will: Father Lonergan?
 * Father Lonergan: I can´t say it´s true, and I won´t say it´s not. But there's been talk.
 * Michaeleen: Oh, a lot of talk.
 * Will: A lot of talk, eh?
 * Michaeleen: Two women in the house and one of them a redhead.

 * Mary Kate: I have a fearful temper. You might as well know about it now instead of finding out about it later. We Danahers are a fighting people.
 * Sean: I can think of a lot of things I'd rather do to one of the Danahers - Miss Danaher.
 * Mary Kate: Shhh, Mr. Thornton. What will Mr. Flynn be thinking?

 * Sean: If anybody had told me six months ago that today I'd be in a graveyard in Innisfree with a girl like you that I'm just about to kiss, I'd have told 'em...
 * Mary Kate: Oh, but the kisses are a long way off yet.
 * Sean: Huh?
 * Mary Kate: Well, we just started a-courtin', and next month, we, we start the walkin'-out, and the month after that there'll be the threshin' parties, and the month after that...
 * Sean: Nope.
 * Mary Kate: Well, maybe we won't have to wait that month.
 * Sean: Yep.
 * Mary Kate: Or for the threshin' parties.
 * Sean: Nope.
 * Mary Kate: Or for the walkin'-out together.
 * Sean: No.
 * Mary Kate: And so much the worse for you, Sean Thornton. For I feel the same way about it myself.

 * Mary Kate: Ever since I was a little girl, I dreamed of having my own things about me. My spinnet over there, and a table here, and my own chairs to rest upon. And a dresser over there in that corner, and my own china and pewter shinin' about me. And now...
 * Sean: I didn't know you felt that way about it. Seems like a lot of fuss and grief over a little furniture and stuff. [They go outside]
 * Mary Kate: It is a pretty cottage, isn't it?
 * Sean: Yeah, I think so. [He moves to embrace her]
 * Mary Kate: [She pulls away] Don't touch me! You have no right!
 * Sean: Whaddya mean, no right?
 * Mary Kate: I'll wear your ring, I'll cook, and I'll wash, and I'll keep the land. But that is all. Until I've got my dowry safe about me, I'm no married woman. I'm the servant I've always been, without anything of my own!
 * Sean: That's ridiculous. You're my wife and...[She shuts the bottom half of the cottage's front door on him] What is this?
 * Mary Kate: Haven't I been tryin' to tell ya? - ...that until you have my dowry, you haven't got any bit of me - me, myself. I'll still be dreamin' amongst the things that are my own as if I had never met you. There's three hundred years of happy dreamin' in those things of mine and I want them. I want my dream. I'll have it and I know it. I'll say no other word to you.
 * Sean: All right. You'll have your dowry or dot or fortune or whatever you call it.
 * Mary Kate: Well, get it then.
 * She bolts the bedroom door behind her. He kicks the door open]
 * Sean: There'll be no locks or bolts between us Mary Kate except those in your own mercenary little heart.

 * Sean: Well, let him keep it.
 * Mary Kate: Keep my fortune?
 * Sean: Sure, you've got your tables and chairs about ya. What do we care about his money?
 * Mary Kate: My money!
 * Sean: Well, let him have it if it means that much to him....
 * Mary Kate: What manner of man is it that I have married?

 * Mary Kate: [abut Will] Hurry. Now is a good time to ask him. What! Go on, go on.
 * Sean: Ask him what?
 * Mary Kate: About my money. He can't say that he hasn't got it with him now.
 * Sean: Can't you get it through your head that I didn't marry you for your fortune? I don't give a hang about the money.
 * Mary Kate: But he does. And that's the whole point of it. Now will you go and ask him?!
 * Sean: No, why shame ourselves?
 * Mary Kate: Shame? The shame's on you, not on me. Oh, on me too if I've married a coward.
 * Sean: Is that what you think of me?
 * Mary Kate: Well, what else if you let him rob you out of my money?
 * Sean: 'Money!' I'm sick of the talk of it. Is that all you Danahers think about - money?

 * Sean: Maybe it's just one of those things in the scrapbook, but now when you carry it around in here...I didn't go in there to outbox him. I went in there to beat his brains out. To drive him into the canvas, to murder him. That's what I did. For what? The purse, a piece of the gate. Lousy money.
 * Reverend Playfair: And now money is behind your trouble with Danaher.
 * Sean: They think I'm afraid to fight him, all the friends I've made here, even my wife.
 * Reverend Playfair: But aren't you in a way?
 * Sean: Did you ever kill a man? Well I have, and all this talk about her big fortune. It's not that important.
 * Reverend Playfair: Perhaps it is to her. It must be strange to you from America, but it's an old, old custom here, and believe me, it's a good custom. The fortune means more to her than just the money.
 * Sean: To me it isn't, and worth fightin' for.
 * Reverend Playfair: Is your wife's love worth fightin' for?
 * Sean: I don't know. About all I know is I can't fight or won't fight unless I'm mad enough to kill, and if that means losin' her, I don't know. Maybe she doesn't love me enough.
 * Reverend Playfair: It's a difficult situation. But I think you'll find the answer in God's good time.

 * Will: You know, Yank, I've taken quite a likins to yas.
 * Sean: I'm getting real fond of you too.
 * Will: Yer widow, me sister, she coulda done a lot worse.

Cast

 * John Wayne - Sean Thornton
 * Maureen O'Hara - Mary Kate Danaher
 * Barry Fitzgerald - Michaleen Oge Flynn
 * Victor McLaglen - Squire "Red" Will Danaher
 * Ward Bond - Father Peter Lonergan
 * Mildred Natwick - The Widow Sarah Tillane
 * Francis Ford - Dan Tobin
 * Arthur Shields - Rev. Cyril Playfair
 * Charles FitzSimons - Hugh Forbes

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Pervigilium Veneris

Pervigilium Veneris, the Vigil of Venus, is a short Latin poem. The author, date, and place of composition are unknown.

Blackwood's translation (1843)

 * Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (June 1843)

 * He that never loved before, Let him love to-morrow! He that hath loved o'er and o'er, Let him love to-morrow!
 * Opening refrain.

 * Spring, young Spring, with song and mirth, Spring is on the newborn earth. Spring is here, the time of love — The merry birds pair in the grove, And the green trees hang their tresses, Loosen'd by the rain's caresses. Tomorrow sees the dawn of May, When Venus will her sceptre sway, Glorious, in her justice-hall: There where woodland shadows fall, On bowers of myrtle intertwined, Many a band of love she'll bind.

 * Tomorrow is the day when first From the foam-world of Ocean burst, Like one of his own waves, the bright Dione, queen of love and light, Amid the sea-gods' azure train, 'Mid the strange horses of the main.

 * She it is that lends the hours Their crimson glow, their jewel-flowers: At her command the buds are seen, Where the west-wind's breath hath been, To swell within their dwellings green. She abroad those dewdrops flings, Dew that night's cool softness brings; How the bright tears hang declining, And glisten with a tremulous shining, Almost of weight to drop away, And yet too light to leave the spray.

 * Hence the tender plants are bold Their blushing petals to unfold: 'Tis that dew, which through the air Falls from heaven when night is fair, That unbinds the moist green vest From the floweret's maiden breast. 'Tis Venus' will, when morning glows, 'Twill be the bridal of each rose. Then the bride-flower shall reveal, What her veil cloth now conceal, The blush divinest, which of yore She caught from Venus' trickling gore, With Love's kisses mix'd, I trow, With blaze of fire, and rubies' glow, And with many a crimson ray Stolen from the birth of day.

 * All the nymphs the Queen of Love Summons to the myrtle-grove; And see ye, how her wanton boy Comes with them to share our joy? Yet, if Love be arm'd, they say, Love can scarce keep holiday: Love without his bow is straying! Come, ye nymphs, Love goes a Maying. His torch, his shafts, are laid aside — From them no harm shall you betide. Yet, I rede ye, nymphs, beware, For your foe is passing fair; Love is mighty, ye'll confess, Mighty e'en in nakedness; And most panoplied for fight When his charms are bared to sight.

 * Dian, a petition we, By Venus sent, prefer to thee: Virgin envoys, it is meet, Should the Virgin huntress greet: Quit the grove, nor it profane With the blood of quarry slain. She would ask thee, might she dare Hope a maiden’s thought to share — She would bid thee join us now, Might cold maids our sport allow. Now three nights thou may’st have seen, Wandering through thine alleys green, Troops of joyous friends, with flowers Crown'd, amidst their myrtle bowers. Ceres and Bacchus us attend, And great Apollo is our friend; All night we must our Vigil keep — Night by song redeem'd from sleep. Let Venus in the woods bear sway, Dian, quit the grove, we pray.

 * Of Hybla's flowers, so Venus will'd, Venus' judgment-seat we build. She is judge supreme; the Graces, As assessors, take their places. Hybla, render all thy store All the season sheds thee o'er, Till a hill of bloom be found Wide as Enna's flowery ground. Attendant nymphs shall here be seen, Those who delight in forest green, Those who on mountain-top abide, And those whom sparkling fountains hide. All these the Queen of joy and sport Summons to attend her court, And bids them all of Love beware, Although the guise of peace he wear.

 * Fresh be your coronals of flowers, And green your overarching bowers, To-morrow brings us the return Of Ether's primal marriage-morn. In amorous showers of rain he came T' embrace his bride's mysterious frame, To generate the blooming year, And all the produce Earth does bear. Venus still through vein and soul Bids the genial current roll; Still she guides its secret course With interpenetrating force, And breathes through heaven, and earth, and sea, A reproductive energy.

 * She old Troy's extinguish'd glory Revived in Latium's later story, When, by her auspices, her son Laurentia's royal damsel won. She vestal Rhea's spotless charms Surrender'd to the War-god’s arms; She for Romulus that day The Sabine daughters bore away; Thence sprung the Rhamnes' lofty name, Thence the old Quirites came; And thence the stock of high renown, The blood of Romulus, handed down Through many an age of glory pass'd, To blaze in Caesar's at last.

 * All rural nature feels the glow Of quickening passion through it flow. Love, in rural scenes of yore, They say, his goddess-mother bore; Received on Earth's sustaining breast, Th' ambrosial infant sunk to rest; And him the wild-flowers, o'er his head Bending, with sweetest kisses fed.

 * On yellow broom out yonder, see, The mighty bulls lie peacefully. Each animal of field or grove Owns faithfully the bond of love. The flocks of ewes, beneath the shade, Around their gallant rams are laid; And Venus bids the birds awake To pour their song through plain and brake. Hark! the noisy pools reply To the swan's hoarse harmony; And Philomel is vocal now, Perch'd upon a poplar-bough. Thou scarce would'st think that dying fall Could ought but love's sweet griefs recall; Thou scarce would'st gather from her song The tale of brother's barbarous wrong. She sings, but I must silent be:— When will the spring-tide come for me? When, like the swallow, spring's own bird, Shall my faint twittering notes be heard? Alas! the muse, while silent I Remain'd, hath gone and pass'd me by, Nor Phoebus listens to my cry. And thus forgotten, I await, By silence lost, Amyclae’s fate.

The Night Watch of Venus

 * "The Night Watch of Venus" — a translation by David Camden at Forum Romanum

 * Let him love tomorrow who has never loved and let he who has loved love tomorrow.

 * New spring, singing spring! The world is born in spring! Loves harmonize in spring, birds marry in spring, And the forest releases a marriage shower of leaves. Tomorrow the union of loves among arboreal shades interweaves lively youths in a cottage with her myrtle vine: Tomorrow Dione, propped upon her lofty throne, declares the laws.

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Kelsey Grammer

Allen Kelsey Grammer (born 21 February 1955) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, producer, director, writer and singer.

2004

 * I'm not sure sophisticated comedy has a place on television any more … I'd like to think it still does … But I'm not sure the networks are interested, I'm not sure anybody else is interested in sophisticated comedy any more.
 * As quoted in "'Frasier' leaving the building" by Andy Walton at CNN (3 May 2004)

2014

 * I accept that you live with remorse every day of your life but I live with tragedy every day of my life. She was a terrific kid. She was a wonderful person and I miss her all the time. I accept your apology. I forgive you. However, I cannot give your release my endorsement. To give that a blessing would be a betrayal of my sister's life.
 * 30 July 2014

Quotes about Grammer

 * Big hands, big feet, big disappointment.
 * ex-wife Camille Grammer, in a 2011 promo for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills . Camille later issued a statement apologizing for the comment, saying she did not anticipate the media interest.

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Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Quotes

 * Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
 * Up-Hill, st. 1 (1861).

 * My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.
 * A Birthday, st. 1 (1861).

 * The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
 * A Birthday, st. 2.

 * When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.
 * Song, st. 1 (1862).

 * Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.
 * Remember, l. 1-2 (1862).

 * Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
 * Remember, l. 13-14.

 * For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.
 * Goblin Market, st. 28 (1862).

 * Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
 * Song, st. 1 (1862).

 * In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.
 * Mid-Winter, st. 1 (1872).

 * Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by.
 * Who Has Seen the Wind?, st. 2 (1872).

 * Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over, Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past, Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover, Sleeping at last.
 * Sleeping at Last, st. 1 (1893).

 * Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth, Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth, Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white, Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight. Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth, But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.
 * Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * All earth’s full rivers can not fill The sea that drinking thirsteth still.
 * By the Sea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); Old and New, Volume 5 (1872), p. 169.

 * One day in the country Is worth a month in town.
 * Summer; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Silence more musical than any song.
 * Sonnet. Rest; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Oh Lord, make thy law, I entreat thee, our delight.

Quotes about Christina Rossetti

 * (Another story inspired by a previous story was "Pico Rico Mandorico," the story of two sisters who escape the power of a devil figure. Wasn't that influenced by Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"?) Yes, in fact my story is a prose rendition of the poem. I said so in the introduction to Sonatinas, the book in Spanish…I liked it so much I said, "I want to do my own version of this"... Writing is a lot like sewing: You bring pieces together and make a quilt. What brought me to Rossetti's story was a dirge, a little ditty called "Pico Rico Mandorico/Quién te dio tamaño pico?" ["Pico Rico, far and wide/leaves a mark where others hide"]. In this nursery rhyme there is a man dressed in black who comes to the house of a little girl. It's always on Sundays-that's very important. He has a very long nose and he spills everything on the table, so they have to cut off his nose. The man is really a devil, and he wants to steal the little girl and take her away with him. The Christina Rossetti story reminded me of the nursery rhyme, and I made a quilt of both.
 * Rosario Ferré interview in Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out by Donna Marie Perry (1993)

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Yoshida Shoin

Yoshida Shoin (吉田 松陰 Yoshida Shōin, September 20, 1830 – November 21, 1859) was a Japanese scholar, military and political philosopher and teacher.

While the school he ran was very tiny, most of his students, including Takasugi Shinsaku and Itō Hirobumi played prominent roles in the mid 19th Century Japanese politics and military scenes.

Yoshida Shoin Zenshu

 * If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.
 * Vol. I.

 * To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
 * Vol. II.

 * One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.
 * Vol. II.

 * Those who take up the science of war must not fail to master the [Confucian] Classics. The reason is that arms are dangerous instruments and not necessarily forced for good. How can we safely entrust them to any but those who have schooled themselves in the precepts of the Classics and can use these weapons for the realization of Humanity and Righteousness? To quell violence and disorder, to repulse barbarians and brigands, to rescue living souls from agony and torture, to save the nation from imminent downfall-these are the true ends of Humanity and Righteousness. If, on the contrary, arms are taken up in a selfish struggle to win land, goods, people, and the implements of war, is it not the worst of all evils, the most heinous of all offenses? If, further, the study of offensive and defensive warfare, of the way to certain victory in all encounters, is not based on those principles which should govern their employment, who can say that such venture will not result in just such a misfortune? Therefore, I say that those who take up the science of war must not fail to master the Classics.
 * Vol. II.

 * Once a man’s will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed.
 * Vol. III.

 * In relations with others, one should express resentment and anger openly and straightforwardly. If one cannot express them openly and straightforwardly, the only thing to do is forget about them. To harbor grievances in one's heart, awaiting some later opportunity to give vent to them, is to act like a weak and petty man-in truth, it can only be called cowardice. The mind of the superior man is like Heaven. When it is resentful or angry, it thunders forth its indignation. But once having loosed its feelings, it is like a sunny day with a clear sky: within the heart there remains not the trace of a cloud. Such is the beauty of true manliness.
 * Vol. III.

 * What I mean by the "pursuit of learning" is not the ability to read classical texts and study ancient history, but to be fully acquainted with conditions all over the world and to have a keen awareness of what is going on abroad and around us. Now from what I can see world trends and conditions are still unsettled, and as long as they remain unsettled there is still a chance that something can be done. First, therefore, we must rectify conditions in our own domain, after which conditions in other domains can be rectified. This having been done, conditions at court can be rectified and finally conditions throughout the whole world can be rectified. First one must set an example oneself and then it can be extended progressively to others. This is what I mean by the "pursuit of learning."
 * Vol. IV.

 * From the beginning of the year to the end, day and night, morning and evening, in action and repose, in speech and in silence, the warrior must keep death constantly before him and have ever in mind that the one death [which he has to give] should not be suffered in vain. In other words [he must have perfect control over his own death] just as if he were holding an intemperate steed in rein. Only he who truly keeps death in mind this way can understand what is meant by [Yamaga Soko's maxim of] "preparedness."
 * Vol. IV.

 * Nowadays everyone lives selfishly and seeks only the leisure in which to indulge his own desires. They look on all the beauties of nature-the rivers and mountains, the breeze and the moon-as their own to enjoy, forgetting what the shrine of the Sun Goddess stands for. The common man thinks of his life as his own and refuses to perform his duty to his lord. The samurai regards his household as his own private possession and refuses to sacrifice his life for his state. The feudal lords regard their domains as their own and refuse to serve King and Country. Unwilling to serve King and Country, at home they cherish only the objects of desire and abroad they willingly yield to the foreign barbarian, inviting defeat and destruction. Thus the scenic beauties they enjoy will not long remain in their possession.
 * Vol. IV.

 * As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.
 * Vol. V.

 * Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achievements. These alone count in life.
 * Vol. V.

 * Once the will is resolved, one’s spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thousand men.
 * Vol. V.

 * It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.
 * Vol. VI.

 * What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?
 * Vol. VIII.

 * If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.
 * Vol. VIII.

 * When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.
 * Vol. IX.

 * If Heaven does not completely abandon this land of the Gods, there must be an uprising of grass-roots heroes.
 * Vol. IX.

 * If the plan [to intercept the shogunate emissary to the Kyoto court] is to be carried out, it can only be done with men from the grass roots. To wear silk brocades, eat dainty food, hug beautiful women, and fondle darling children are the only things hereditary officials care about. To revere the emperor and expel the barbarian is no concern of theirs. If this time it should be my misfortune to die, may my death inspire at least one or two men of steadfast will to rise up and uphold this principle after my death.
 * Vol. IX.

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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 Sundarvee. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Sundarvee~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.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:59, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Sundarvee~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Chris4you05

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title: User talk:Chris4you05


text:
User talk:Sysys~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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 Sysys. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Sysys~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.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:59, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Sysys~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Storm Cat~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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 Storm Cat. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Storm Cat~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.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:58, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Storm Cat~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Roguettes

Welcome
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title: User talk:Roguettes


text:
User talk:Scchien

Welcome
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title: User talk:Scchien


text:
User talk:Jonathan F~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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 Jonathan F. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Jonathan F~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.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:50, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Jonathan F~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Urvashi~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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 Urvashi. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Urvashi~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.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:00, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Urvashi~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Tyson~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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 Tyson. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Tyson~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.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:00, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Tyson~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Sadraya

Welcome
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title: User talk:Sadraya