are you a voice or an echo?

“Life is like a box of Lucky Charms. Sure, there’s the green clovers and the yellow moons, but it is also eighty percent; dry, oaty stuff.”

—Elka Ostrovsky - Hot in Cleveland

“Your momma’s like a vacuum cleaner. She sucks, she blows & gets laid in the closet.”

—Cam Brady - The Campaign

“Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice.”

—Alfred to Bruce - The Dark Knight

“You just have to get crazier!”

—Ruth Amarante on Pina Bausch - Pina

“People don’t realize this, but loneliness is underrated.”

—Tom - (500) Days of Summer

“The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many and, before this battle is over, that even a god-king can bleed.”

—Leonidas to the Xerxes - 300

“You’re a New Yorker, that won’t ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you’re still a New Yorker.”

—James Brogan to his son Montgomery - 25th Hour

“YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!”

—Don Vito Corleone to Fontane - The Godfather

“I want what all men want. I just want it more. (Pauses.) I’ll tell you a secret— something they didn’t teach you in your temple. The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because every moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful for the doomed. (He stares at her with such intensity, she must look away.) You will never be lovelier than you are right now. And we will never be here again.”

—Achilles to Briseis - Troy

“It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.”

—Batman

“Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we’ll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight.”

—Gordon to his son, on Batman - The Dark Knight

“An artist should not lie to himself or others.”

—Marina Abramovic - An Artist’s Life Manifesto

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”

—William James