Bossypants

"It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good."

-Tina Fey
Bossypants (2011)

You've Got Mail

"Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void."


-Kathleen Kelly
You've Got Mail (1998)
Written by: Nora Ephron

Tropic Thunder

"Man, I don't drop character 'till I done the DVD commentary." 

Kirk Lazarus

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Written by: Justin Theroux, Ben Stiller and Ethan Cohen

Look After You

Will you, won't you

Be the one I'll always know

When I'm losing my control

The city spins around 

You're the only one who knows

You slow it down

Fringe

You ever feel like every time we get close to getting the answers, somebody changes the question?
-Peter to Olivia
Season 3, Episode 10

The Hollywood Reporter 2011 Emmy Roundtable

"In a world where you hear no much more than yes, you gotta find some way to make friends with no. And I was like, that's great! All those nos are the little things standing in front of my yes. So that worked out well. That, and you can always sleep your way into the middle. "


-Julie Bowen
The Hollywood Reporter 2011 Emmy Roundtable
June 23, 2011

Psych Lab

August 14, 2011
9:17 a.m.
http://www.facebook.com/psychlab

Conan

"I assume that was the punchline."
 Jack McBrayer
Conan: September 8, 2011

What have I learned from 9/11?

"What I have learned about 9/11 is that nothing is absolute, the future is unknowable, evil has many faces, but so does goodness. But most of all, there are no labels that can stick to people."

 -Michael Mirasol
September 11, 2011
 http://www.michaelmirasol.com/flipcritic/2011/09/what-have-i-learned-from-911-n.html

Stuck in a moment you can't get out

I will not forsake, the colors that you bring
But the nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears, and through your eyes I can see

The Holiday

"And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space!"

-Iris Simpkins
[Written by: Nancy Meyers]

The Poet's Notebook

"Will the computer ever replace the fetishism of the notebook? It's possible, but I doubt it. To hear the poets tell it, the small, handsome notebook and a special pen or pencil are half the work. They are an invitation to write in a certain way. They demand from us absolute conciseness, an aesthetic of modesty. If you write poems on the back of old envelopes and garage sale announcements, as I often do, you don't write epics."

Preface of The Poet's Notebook (xi, 1995)
Charles Simic

Conan O'brien

"Homer Simpson wears tighty whities. There's something almost emasculating about them."

Conan O'Brien
July 18, 2011
"Death Gets a Paper Cut"

Love Actually

Sam: Worse than the total agony of being in love?

[Written by: Richard Curtis]

Up in the Air

"I type with purpose."
-Natalie Keener

(Written by: Walter Kim, Jason Reitman, and Sheldon Turner)

My Ex-Gay Friend

Ben went on. “To me, Michael is a victim of this insane society we live in, where we grow up with all these conflicting messages and pressures around sexuality and religion, and where we divide into these camps where we’re always right and the other side is always wrong. Some people are susceptible to buying into that, and I think Michael is one of them.”

-BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS
Published: June 16, 2011, NYTimes

The Romantics

“…scattered with nights so fun they explain the evolutionary purpose of talking.”

-Laura Rosen
Written by: Galt Niederhoffer

Meaning

Restless hearts you take a punch, just to land one.
Troubled minds, it's only fair after all.
Mountin' the trail, but you got it in sight.
Sometimes our only way is jumping.
I hope your not afraid of heights.

-Gavin deGraw

Harvard College Class Day Speech

"Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a Batman with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value."

Amy Poehler
Harvard College Class Day

Grey's Anatomy

Addison Montgomery: "There is a land called Passive Agressiva, and I am their queen."