Finding Nemo

“I shall call him Squishy. And he shall be mine. And he shall be MY Squishy.”

-Dory

Written by: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds
2003

Telephone

I left my head and my heart on the dance floor.
-Lady Gaga

When I Look To The Sky

And while I float upon this ocean
I can feel you like a notion that I hope will never leave

-Train

The Film Experience Blog

Society can only stay peaceful and democratic and civilized if its citizens understand that their feelings and beliefs end with themselves. Those beliefs cannot take precedence over everything else. Government institutions, neighbors and, yes, even your children's teachers have absolutely no obligation to share your personal prejudices and faith.
-Nathaniel R.

Alodus Huxley

Pragmatically [scientists] are justified in acting in this odd and extremely arbitrary way; for by concentrating exclusively on the measurable aspects of such elements of experience as can be explained in terms of a causal system they have been able to achieve a great and increasing control over the energies of nature. But power is not the same thing as insight and, as a representation of reality, the scientific picture of the world is inadequate for the simple reason that science does not even profess to deal with experiences as a whole but only with certain aspects of it in certain contexts. All this is quite clearly understood by the more philosophically minded men of science. But some scientists...tend to accept the world picture implicit in the theories of science as a complete and exhaustive account of reality; then tend to regard those aspects of experince which scientists leave out of account, because they are incompetent to deal with them, as being somehow less real than the aspects which science has arbitrarily chose to abstract from out of the infinitely rich totally of given acts.

-Adolous Huxley (1946, page 35-36 of Science Liberty and Peace)

Arrested Development

Michael: What are you doing locked in my office, exactly?
Gob: Hiding from a child. Big difference.
Michael: Gob, Steve Holt is your son. He probably just feels a connection.
Gob: He doesn't know what he feels. I'm tired of being told - my God. What is this feeling?
[Schmaltzy music begins to play]
Michael: You know, the feeling that you're feeling is just what many of us call... a "feeling".
Gob: It's not like envy, or even hungry.
Michael: Could it be love?
Gob: I know what an erection feels like, Michael. No, it's the opposite - it's like my heart is getting hard.
[the music reaches its crescendo]

Season 3, Episode 2: "For British Eyes Only"
Written By: Richard Day and Mitchell Hurwitz
Created By: Mitchell Hurwitz

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

"And Jacob is a friend, you know? Something maybe that you're not too familiar with. It's a person that you don't want to kiss or kill, but enjoy their company nonetheless."

-Bella Swan
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, extended scenes
[Written By: Melissa Rosenberg, adapted from New Moon by: Stephenie Meyer]