Quotes tagged ‘Neighbors’

“When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsi, I say, ‘Read our history.’ The Tutsi were collaborators for the Belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come back, these Tutsi rebels. They are cockroaches. They are murderers. Rwanda is our Hutu lan…”

— Terry George, Keir Pearson, George Rutaganda, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, imdb.com

“Scrunchie on every second fence pale just to piss the neighbors off.”

— Joyce Jefferies, imdb.com

“One thing I know for sure. A person can't sneeze in this town without somebody offering them a handkerchief.”

— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Genevieve, Eileen Brennan, imdb.com

“[Todd and Margo Chester, the Griswolds' yuppie neighbors, appear] Todd: Hey Griswold. Where do you think you're gonna put a tree that big? Clark: Bend over and I'll show you. Todd: You've got a lot of nerve talking to me like that, Griswold. Clark: I wasn't talking to you.”

— John Hughes, Clark Griswold, Chevy Chase, imdb.com

“Fred Flintstone: Don't you see? Our neighbor Alvin Brickrock, he borrowed my shovel! He could be a vicious monster! A diabolical fiend! Barney Rubble: Well Fred, you haven't returned my lawn mower and I don't feel that way about you.”

— Larry Markes, Fred Flintstone, Alan Reed, imdb.com

“I'd rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.”

— Larry David, Larry David, Larry David, imdb.com

“It isn't easy giving up power admitting that we might need help from friends and neighbors, deciding that a loved one might know what's best for us, giving up our better judgment for a slightly darker agenda, but for some the hardest kind of power to give up is the power to control their own desires…”

— Wendy Mericle, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com

“The most pious man can't stay in peace If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.”

— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com

“If there's a serial killer loose in your neighborhood, it seems like the safest thing is to be the neighbor. They never kill the neighbor. The neighbor always survives to do the interview afterwards. Right? ‘Oh, he was kind of quiet.’ I love these neighbors. They're never disturbed by the sounds of…”

— Larry Charles, Peter Mehlman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com