The best Quotes from 2001: A Space Odyssey (2025)

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2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke's 1951 short story "The Sentinel". The film stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain.

I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.

HAL 9000

The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.

HAL 9000

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Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

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I will escape for every innocent woman whose life was stolen.

Damsel

Elodie, you join a long line of women who have helped to build this kingdom. It is this sacrifice we commemorate every generation. A tradition going back centuries. A legacy of honor and duty you now inherit.

Damsel

I need you to listen to me now. I don't trust them. They may be royalty, but that doesn't make them good people.

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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

Starship Troopers

Wise Sayings

Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers

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I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better.

Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers

Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.

Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers

This is for all you new people. I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself! Welcome to the Roughnecks!

Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers

Funny how they always want to be friends after they rip your guts out.

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They sucked his brains out.

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Your little cinematic universe is about to change forever. I'm the Messiah. I am Marvel Jesus!

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Wade Wilson: "I wasn't unconscious. Who are you?"

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Is that supposed to be scary? Pegging isn't new for me, friendo, but it is for Disney.

Deadpool in

It's funny, isn't it, though. I mean, we evolved out of the water, and some part of our reptilian brain knows we're not supposed to be there anymore. But... I guess that's why we try to tame it so hard. It's like trying to conquer death.

Night Swim

I used to be scared of pools.

Eve Waller in Night Swim

The pool is fine. The pool is the greatest thing that has happened to me.

Ray Waller in Night Swim

Everything you fear is under the surface.

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Student: "Nice wig, Janis. What's it made of?"
Janis: "Your mom's chest hair!"

Mean Girls

Funny Insults

Gretchen, I'm sorry I laughed at you that time you got diarrhea at Barnes & Nobles. And I'm sorry for telling everyone about it. And I'm sorry for repeating it now.

Karen Smith in Mean Girls

At your age, you're going to have a lot of urges. You're going to want to take off your clothes, and touch each other. But if you do touch each other, you will get chlamydia... and die.

Coach Carr in Mean Girls

Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George's life definitely didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you.

Cady Heron in Mean Girls

I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.

Mr. Duvall in Mean Girls

Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total sl*t and no other girls can say anything about it.

Cady Heron in Mean Girls

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I love her. She's like a Martian!

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Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up, just don't do it, okay, promise? Okay... now everybody take some rubbers.

Coach Carr in Mean Girls

Get in loser, we're going shopping.

Regina George in Mean Girls

And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that Man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals.

Mean Girls

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Cady: "Yeah, I like math."
Damian: "Eww. Why?"
Cady: "Because it's the same in every country."

Cady Heron in Mean Girls

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Gretchen: "That is so fetch!"
Regina: "Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!"

Regina George in Mean Girls

Karen: "If you're from Africa, why are you white?"
Gretchen: "Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white."

Mean Girls

Rafe: "You are so beautiful it hurts."
Evelyn: "It's your nose that hurts."
Rafe: "I think it's my heart."

Rafe McCawley in Pearl Harbor

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That's what I want to come home to, that's what I want to have to think about and dream about. I wanna know that the best part of my life is still ahead of me.

Rafe McCawley in Pearl Harbor

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A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

Admiral Yamamoto in Pearl Harbor

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War

There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

Jimmy Doolittle in Pearl Harbor

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When the action is over and we look back, we understand both more and less. This much is certain. Before the Doolittle raid, America knew nothing but defeat. After it, there was hope of victory. Japan realized, for the first time, they could lose and began to pull back. America realized, that she would win and surged forward. It was a war, that changed America and the world. Dorie Miller was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross. But he would not be the last. He joined a brotherhood of heroes. World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor, and 1.177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona. America suffered, but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried our souls, and through the trial, we overcame.

Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor

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World War II

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.

Admiral Yamamoto in Pearl Harbor

Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

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Kept in a small bowl, they will remain small. With more space, the fish can double, triple or quadruple its size.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate the fact from the fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn't always make sense, and most of it never happened. But that's what kind of story this is.

Will Bloom in Big Fish

You see, most men, they'll tell a story straight through— it won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

Stories

It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in social niceties.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

Fate has a way of circling back on a man, and taking him by surprise. A man sees things differently at different times in his life. This town didn't seem the same now that he was older.

Jenny in Big Fish

Now, there comes a point where a reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit that he's made a terrible mistake. The truth is, I was never a reasonable man.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

The biggest fish in the river gets that way by never being caught.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

Fish

That was my father's final joke, I guess. The man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way, he becomes immortal.

Will Bloom in Big Fish

Here we go, the world is spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning. Sun comes up, we all laugh. Sun goes down, we all die...

Samara Morgan in The Ring

What is it with reporters? You take one person's tragedy and force the world to experience it... spread it like sickness.

Richard Morgan in The Ring

Journalism

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