Movie lines of eloquent truth.

“I ain’t never seen ’em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills and the Alps is for children to climb. Keep good care of your hair. These here is God’s finest sculpturins and there ain’t no laws for the brave ones. And there ain’t no asylums for the crazy ones. And there ain’t no churches excepting for this right here. And there ain’t no priests excepting the birds.
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"I think when statesmen forsake their own private (well-formed) conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country down a short route to chaos."

-- Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons

PS I inserted the parenthesis there as I think the one shortcoming of the play/film is that "conscience" would not have been understood by More as it is often used today -- as a sort of vague summary of possibly incoherent feelings.
 
OJW
Senator:
Fletcher, there's an old saying: To the victors belong the spoils.

Fletcher:
There's another old saying, Senator: Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.
 
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

First rule of leadership: everything's your fault. A Bug's Life


And a long one, from Hogfather (based on the book of the same by Terry Pratchett):

Susan: All right, I'm not stupid. You're saying that humans need fantasies to make life bearable.

Death: NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?

Death: YES. AS PRACTICE, YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIVE THE LITTLE LIES.

Susan: So we can believe the big ones?

Death: YES. JUSTICE, MERCY, DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

Susan: They're not the same at all!

Death: YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET...YOU TRY TO ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD. AS IF THERE IS SOME...RIGHTNESS IN THEUNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?

Death: YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

First rule of leadership: everything's your fault. A Bug's Life


And a long one, from Hogfather (based on the book of the same by Terry Pratchett):

Susan: All right, I'm not stupid. You're saying that humans need fantasies to make life bearable.

Death: NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?

Death: YES. AS PRACTICE, YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIVE THE LITTLE LIES.

Susan: So we can believe the big ones?

Death: YES. JUSTICE, MERCY, DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

Susan: They're not the same at all!

Death: YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET...YOU TRY TO ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD. AS IF THERE IS SOME...RIGHTNESS IN THEUNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?

Death: YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?
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Very few books seem to actually translate into movies well. However, the British seem to be exceptionally adept at this more so than we are.

There are three of Terry Pratchett's Discword books which have been made into movies: The Color of Magic, Hogfather, and Going Postal. The books are excellent. And the movies very much capture the essence and nuances of the books. I HIGHLY recommend them...and wish they'd continue making more such movies so long as they keep up that level of quality.

"What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." Going Postal

"An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on." Hogfather

“I kill in my own time,” he said. “In any case, killing unconscious people isn’t right.”
“I can’t think of a more opportune time,” said the Loremaster.” The Color of Magic
 
My b**** better have my money
Through rain, sleet, or snow
My w**** better have my money
Not half, not some, but all my cash
'Cause if she don't, I'm gonna put my foot in her ***.

Fly guy, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
Very few books seem to actually translate into movies well. However, the British seem to be exceptionally adept at this more so than we are.

There are three of Terry Pratchett's Discword books which have been made into movies: The Color of Magic, Hogfather, and Going Postal. The books are excellent. And the movies very much capture the essence and nuances of the books. I HIGHLY recommend them...and wish they'd continue making more such movies so long as they keep up that level of quality.

"What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." Going Postal

"An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on." Hogfather

“I kill in my own time,” he said. “In any case, killing unconscious people isn’t right.”
“I can’t think of a more opportune time,” said the Loremaster.” The Color of Magic
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Do NOT watch the TV series called “The Watch”. It will make you want to go all stabby on the people who would do that to his characters.
 
So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.
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Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It


Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
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Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inego Montoya, The Princess Bride.

Much truth in this! Especially today with people tossing around all kinds of "phobic" words.
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Or teens using literally. 🤓
 
Mae West had a lot of lines that expressed eloquent truths. She was exceptionally good at getting them past censors, too.


"A figure of curves offers a lot of intersting angles." Mae West, I'm No Angel

"Listen, when women go wrong, men go right after them." Mae West, She Done Him Wrong

"It's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men." Mae West, I'm No Angel
 
“There’s no crying in baseball!”
A league of their own

This turns into a reality last night at my daughters game. They won last night but some of them had a few moments on the field. Overhead the coach talking to them after the game and he was telling them how proud he was and how good they played and even when the fumbled or didn’t catch a ball that it’s a learning experience and not to beat yourself up or get upset. And then he said “when you make a bad play, it’s ok, you can learn from it BUT there is no crying in softball! 😂
 
“Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth!”
-Rush Hour

“Some people are worth melting for”
-Olaf in Frozen

“You’re killing me smalls!”
-The Sandlot

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
-The Help

“Nip it nip it nip it. Nip it in the bud!”
-Barney Fife
 
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Maybe a stretch to call it “movie” eloquence, but a hundred versions of this movie are out there.

“Neither a borrow nor a lender be”

“Lend every many your ear, but few your voice”

*Paraphrasing from memory
 
I guess music lines should probably be in another thread but thought it fit anyway. I just got done blowing leaves for around 2 hours. This eloquent line from a Cypress Hill song popped up in an Amazon Music station I was listening to.

"When the sh!t goes downnnn, you better be readyyyy"

I thought it very appropriate for our forum.
 
It’s good to have a friend like this in your life.

“I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later and we’re going to hurt some people.”

“Whose car we gonna take?”

-The Town
 
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