You guys remember that movie? It’s Cameron Crowe, and he’s awesomeness on awesometoast with awesomesauce… we adore him here at Chez Lane, and that iconic moment with John Cusack standing with the stereo in front of Ione Skye’s house while Peter Gabriel blares from the speakers can move me to tears on any day–and not just because the movie came out while Mate and I were on our honeymoon at the tender age of twenty-one, either.
And there are SO many good quotes from that one–you know, those quotes that can be used as shorthand in any given situation when you’re with someone who loves the same movies for the same reasons you do? Sometimes, when our words come short and our hearts need to speak, a quote from a beloved movie can save us from that horrible muteness, where our mouths are open and our hearts are screaming and nothing is coming out, right? Even for good moments, that’s a bad thing–and one crack from a movie, and suddenly we can talk again. It’s magic.
I’m going to yaoi-con tomorrow– my ability to blog may be impaired by extreme business and attempt to lose myself from an industrial sized crapfest the likes of which I shan’t bore you with, and I figured, hey, if I’m going to leave you with the same post to look at for five days (because Monday and Tuesday are BOOKED SOLID after I get back) I should at least leave you with something you can interact with differently everyday. So I’m going to list my favorite movie quotes and invite you to do the same. Which quotes do you love because, no matter what the day, they manage to be the perfect words with the perfect sentiment no matter what the day or time? Feel free to share! (btw–I’m pulling these out of my head–I’m sure I’ll mangle a few of them, but then, our favorite quotes are often mangled. The fact that they can bend to our wishes is what makes them ours!)
“Well I said what I thought I meant but I didn’t mean what I said.” Say Anything
“Got nothin’ better to do on the lake today Major?” The Last of the Mohicans
“Merciful Heaven, I have spent my life dreaming of many things. Dying like this was not among them.” The Thirteenth Warrior
“I may drink neither the fermentation of wheat, nor of grape.” “HONEY! Mead is fermented HONEY!” The Thirteenth Warrior
“Little brother, it is beginning!” The Thirteenth Warrior
“For all that we have not said that we ought to have said, for all that we have not done that we ought to have done, we beg thee Allah for forgiveness.” The Thirteenth Warrior
“I think I’ve had about enough of running today, boy.” The Thirteenth Warrior
“I was naked for a day. You will be naked for eternity!” A Knight’s Tale
“Someday you and I are going to have a serious disagreement!” The Last of the Mohicans
“Shiny. Let’s be bad guys!” Serenity
“I am a leaf in the wind!” Serenity
“Well yeah that noise is bad, but as you get better you hear less of it.” Say Anything
“Why didn’t you leave when you had the chance?” “Because what I’m interested in is right here.” Last of the Mohicans
“Valhalla, where the brave shall live forever!” The Thirteenth Warrior
“I love you, man!” The Italian Job
“I HAD a BAD exPERIENCE!” The Italian Job
“There’s slow traffic, stalled traffic, and slityerwrist traffic.” The Italian Job
“It’s a dreadful cockup and bad chance, but you’re the love of my goddamned life!” Love Actually
“There was more than one lobster at the birth of Christ?” Love Actually
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner!” Dirty Dancing
“Madness is like gravity– all it needs is a little push!” The Dark Knight
“You lose focus in this job and someone gets hurt.” Ocean’s Eleven
“Ted Nugent called: he wants his shirt back.” Ocean’s Eleven
“How’s your wife?” “Pregnant again.” “Yeah, well, it happens.” Ocean’s Eleven
“I think that’s it, unless you think we need another guy. You think we need another guy? We need another guy.” Ocean’s Eleven
“I ain’t had anything twixt my nethers that ain’t run on batteries in more than a year!” Serenity
“Eatin’ a man’s face? When’d that get fun?” Serenity
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” (I don’t need to tell you guys this one… it’s almost unfair putting it in!)
And I just did this for over twenty minutes and discovered I could probably go on forever… but then, where would be the fun for you? Make ’em good, and lurkers? Come out of lurkdom and help me out! What are YOUR favorite lines!
