No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.
— Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, T.E. Lawrence, Prince Feisal, Alec Guinness, Lawrence of Arabia
No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.
— Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, T.E. Lawrence, Prince Feisal, Alec Guinness, Lawrence of Arabia
I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir.' Do you maggots understand that?
— Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick, Gustav Hasford, Gny. Sgt. Hartman, R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket
Private Ryan: Hell, these guys deserve to go home as much as I do. They've fought just as hard. Captain Miller: Is that what I'm supposed to tell your mother when she gets another folded American flag?
You make me sick with your heroics! There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills—they go well together, don't they? And with you it's just one thing or the other: destroy a bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war! You and Co…
— Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, Cmdr. Shears, William Holden, The Bridge on the River Kwai
But now he thought we were on a date. Because, technically, we were.
Even with social media, it’s really become so much about who’s got what, and whose kid is doing this, and whose partner has a better career, and a nicer house—all of that! That’s what I found in almost every place.
— Lisa Taddeo, 'We Can't Change History, But We Are Complicit in Perpetuating It'
True, it makes you feel and look like a dragon, and that is boss. But it may also cause serious lung damage, at least if a spate of hospitalizations in Wisconsin offer any indication.
— Claire Lampen, Hello Fellow Kids, Please Put Down Your Vapes
We might turn to self-care to sooth our stresses and also to boost our productivity, but, as the rise of burnout might suggest, self-care does not actually seem to be fixing burnout.
— Laura Havlin, Is your self-care practice fuelling your burnout?
The pop star has intentionally included boy band-esque choreography in her videos, thanks to a repressed childhood fantasy — which is super relatable to other former queer kids.
— Jill Gutowitz, Hayley Kiyoko's New Single Has Us Wishing We Were In Her Girl Band
Pets remind us of how it feels to be on the receiving end of someone’s loyalty, encouraging us to treat our family and friends in the same way.
The more you freak out about being limp, the bigger of a deal it’ll be.
— Tasha Reign, Why Can’t I Get It Up for the Girl I’m Crazy About?
YouTube has warped into a monster in so many ways in my opinion.
— Kat Blaque, YouTube Made Them Famous. Now, They're Done With It. What Happened?
The 20s can be very hard, they’re not a mental illness. Divorce can be very difficult, losing a loved one, someone that you know died, someone left in a relationship and you’re heartbroken, that’s very painful but it’s not a mental illness.
— Marianne Williamson, Marianne Williamson Said Antidepressants Are Overprescribed For “Normal Human Despair”
There are worse things than not receiving love. There are sadder stories than this. There are species going extinct, and a planet warming. I told myself: who are you to complain, you with these frivolous extracurricular needs?
I need you to know: I hated that I needed more than this from him. There is nothing more humiliating to me than my own desires. Nothing that makes me hate myself more than being burdensome and less than self-sufficient. I did not want to feel like the kind of nagging woman who might exist in a sit-c…
You know Hartman, goodie-two-shoes is fidgeting around like a one-legged cat trying to bury shit on a frozen pond, until old Seth fixes him a couple of pink poontang specials. You know, that crazy drink that I fix for stewardesses? Two shots out of that and Hartman is shot to shit, freaked out. I me…
— Frank Yablans, Ted Kotcheff, Peter Gent, Nancy Dowd, Rich Eustis, Seth Maxwell, Mac Davis, North Dallas Forty
I'm not a bum; just homeless.
— Michael Bortman, Allison Burnett, Champ, Samuel L Jackson, Resurrecting the Champ
Shooter McGavin: [after buying grandma's house in an auction] You're in big trouble though, pal. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast! Happy Gilmore: [laughing] You eat pieces of shit for breakfast? Shooter McGavin: [long pause] No!
— Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler, Happy Gilmore, Adam Sandler, Happy Gilmore
Texas Longhorn Player: I'm gonna kick your black ass back to Africa, boy! Jack Buckley: Oh yeah? Too bad I'm from Philly.
— Charles Leavitt, Jack Buckley, Omar Benson Miller, The Express
Win one for the Gipper!
— Robert Buckner, George Gipp, Ronald Reagan, Knute Rockne All American