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About me

After cultivating an extreme movie-quote hobby, I stumbled upon this site after perusing one of its sister projects, Wikipedia. Since then, I have become quite hooked on the idea of ensuring that my favorite (or even not-so-favorite) films would have their best lines captured for posterity. I am now an administrator and bureaucrat here on Wikiquote.


I'm a transplanted New Jersey-ian (or is it New Jersey-ite?) who has a ravenous hunger for movies and books (I rarely go through a day without one or the other). My tastes are quite diverse and range from absolute classics to thrillers to horror to comedy (both obvious and more sarcastic and tongue-in-cheek). I also particularly like Films noir and Neo-noir films. If pressed, I would list my favorite films as Three Days of the Condor, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, La La Land, In Bruges, Blood Simple (and frankly I'd watch anything by the Coen brothers), The Godfather, Hoosiers, Donnie Darko, It's a Wonderful Life, Goodfellas, The Seven Samurai, The Man in the Moon, The Third Man, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Nobody's Fool, Absence of Malice, anything by Alfred Hitchcock (especially Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, North by Northwest and Rope), and maybe Halloween (There. How's that for diverse?). As for TV, as with many WQ people, I am a devout Buffy fan. I would also include among my favorites Midnight Mass, The Handmaid's Tale, The Leftovers, Stranger Things, Shameless, Homeland, Alias, Lost, Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Cheers, Homicide: Life on the Street, My So-Called Life, How I Met Your Mother, The West Wing, The Wire, The Shield, True Blood, Breaking Bad, Chuck, Mad Men, Damages, Fringe, Rescue Me, The Wonder Years, Justified, Sons of Anarchy, and The Twilight Zone. My favorite authors would include Stephen King, Charles Dickens, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ray Bradbury, T. S. Eliot, Neil Gaiman (love, love, love American Gods), George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, and Lee Child.


And: I am HUGE fan of Dinosaur Comics! It ROCKS!


While my interests in Wikiquote primarily focus on films and a few of my favorite TV shows, you never know where I'll pop up. I especially like to rescue pages marked for deletion (if rescue is warranted) and to expand pages that are languishing.

Useful stuff

Favorite quotes

  • I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
  • A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
  • There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
  • The changing wisdom of successive generations discards ideas, questions facts, demolishes theories. But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts: to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity — the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.
  • A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
  • All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
    • Albert Einstein, "Moral Decay" (1937); Later published in Out of My Later Years (1950)
  • Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
    • Albert Einstein, Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position (19 March 1940)
  • The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity.
    • Albert Einstein, Statement to William Miller, as quoted in LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)
  • The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
  • Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
  • This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
  • Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
    • Bertrand Russell, "The Science to Save Us from Science," The New York Times Magazine (March 19, 1950)
  • His tired gaze - from passing endless bars -
    has turned into a vacant stare which nothing holds.
    To him there seem to be a thousand bars,
    and out beyond these bars exists no world.

    His supple gait, the smoothness of strong strides
    that gently turn in ever smaller circles
    perform a dance of strength, centered deep within
    a will, stunned, but untamed, indomitable.

    But sometimes the curtains of his eyelids part,
    the pupils of his eyes dilate as images
    of past encounters enter while through his limbs
    a tension strains in silence
    only to cease to be, to die within his heart.

  • Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
    What I was walling in or walling out,
    And to whom I was like to give offence.
    Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
    That wants it down.
  • Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
  • I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
    • Patrick Henry, Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond (March 23, 1775)
  • Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
    • Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, from Different Seasons (1982)
  • I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
    And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
    "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
    Nothing beside remains: round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.
  • Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.
  • Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one’s achieve­ments. These alone count in life.
  • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
  • He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
  • A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
    • Desmond Tutu, Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)
  • Lo maggior don che Dio per sua larghezza
    fesse creando, e a la sua bontate
    più conformato, e quel ch'e' più apprezza,
    fu de la volontà la libertate;
    di che le creature intelligenti,
    e tutte e sole, fuore e son dotate.
    • The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation,
      and the most conformable to His goodness,
      and that which He prizes the most,
      was the freedom of will,
      with which the creatures with intelligence,
      they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
    • Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto V, lines 19-24
  • Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
  • There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

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Films

12 Years a Slave ~ 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi ~ 20th Century Women ~ 39 Steps, The (1935 film) ~ 50/50 ~ 127 Hours ~ 400 Blows, The ~ 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The ~ ~ Star is Born, A (1954 film) ~ About Last Night... ~ Absence of Malice ~ Absolute Power ~ Accidental Tourist, The ~ Accused, The (1988 film) ~ Adam's Rib ~ Adjustment Bureau, The ~ Adventures of Robin Hood, The ~ Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The ~ African Queen, The ~ After Dark, My Sweet ~ After Hours ~ Aguirre, the Wrath of God ~ Alamo, The (1960 film) ~ Albatross ~ Albino Alligator ~ Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ~ All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film) ~ All the King's Men (1949 film) ~ All the Right Moves ~ Almost Famous ~ American Graffiti ~ American Me ~ American Pie ~ American Pie 2 ~ An American in Paris ~ American Sniper ~ Americanization of Emily, The ~ Amistad ~ Amour ~ An Education ~ ...And Justice For All ~ And the Band Played On ~ Angels Over Broadway ~ Angels with Dirty Faces ~ Animal Crackers ~ Apocalypto ~ Apt Pupil ~ Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film) ~ Arrival ~ Assassination of a High School President ~ Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The ~ Atlantic City ~Away from Her ~ Awful Truth, The ~ Bad and the Beautiful, The ~ Bad Day at Black Rock ~ Bad Moms ~ Bad Taste ~ Badlands ~ Bananas ~ Banshees of Inisherin, The ~ Barcelona ~ Barry Lyndon ~ Batman (1966 film) ~ Beasts of the Southern Wild ~ Beau Geste (1939 film) ~ Beautiful Girls ~ Beast of Yucca Flats, The ~ Before Midnight ~ Believer, The ~ Ben-Hur (1959 film) ~ Best in Show ~ Best Laid Plans ~ Best Years of Our Lives, The ~ Bicycle Thieves ~ The Big Chill ~ Big Easy, The ~ Big Red One, The ~ Big Short, The ~ Big Sleep, The ~ Birds, The ~ Birdman (film) ~ Black Cat, The ~ Black Swan ~ Blackboard Jungle ~ BlacKkKlansman ~ Blood on Satan's Claw. The ~ Blood Simple ~ Bloody Sunday ~ Blow Out ~ Blue Chips ~ Blue Collar ~ Blue Dahlia, The ~ Blue Jasmine ~ Blue Velvet ~ Bohemian Rhapsody ~ Bold Caballero, The ~ Booksmart ~ Borat Subsequent Moviefilm ~ Boyhood ~ Boys from Brazil, The ~ Boys Town ~ Boyz n the Hood ~ Breaking Away ~ Brian's Song ~ Bridge of Spies ~ Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ~ Broadcast News ~ Brooklyn ~ Brothers McMullen, The ~ Brubaker ~ Bull Durham ~ Bullitt ~ Cabin in the Woods, The ~ Caine Mutiny, The ~ Camille (1936 film) ~ Can't Buy Me Love ~ Candy ~ Cape Fear (1991 film) ~ Capricorn One ~ Captain Phillips ~ Carnal Knowledge ~ Carol ~ Casualties of War ~ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ~ Chasing Amy ~ Children of Paradise ~ Children of the Corn ~ China Seas ~ Chloe ~ Chocolat ~ Chorus Line, A ~ Christine ~ Cincinnati Kid, The City of Angels ~ Class of Nuke 'Em High ~ Close Encounters Of The Third Kind ~ Collateral ~ Color Purple, The (1985) ~ Coma ~ Coming Home ~ Commitments, The ~ Compulsion ~ Constant Gardener, The ~ Contagion ~ Contender, The ~ Conversation, The ~ Crazy Rich Asians ~ Crimewave ~ Crimson Tide ~ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ~ Croupier ~ Cry Freedom ~ Crying Game, The ~ Dallas Buyers Club ~ Dances with Wolves ~ Dark Passage ~ Dave ~ Day of the Jackal, The ~ D.E.B.S. ~ Dead Calm ~ Dead Man Walking ~ Dead Zone, The ~ Deer Hunter, The ~ Deliverance ~ Descendants, The ~ Destry Rides Again ~ Devil in a Blue Dress ~ Dial M for Murder ~ Dirty Dozen, The ~ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film) ~ Disturbing Behavior ~ Dodsworth ~ Don Jon ~ Don Q, Son of Zorro ~ Don't Look Up ~ Doors, The ~ Dracula (1958 film) ~ Dracula: Prince of Darkness ~ Dracula's Daughter ~ Dreamscape ~ Dressed to Kill ~ Drowning Mona ~ Drugstore Cowboy ~ Drumline ~ Duck Soup ~ Duel in the Sun ~ Easy Rider ~ Edge of Seventeen, The ~ Eight Men Out ~ Election ~ Elizabeth ~ Elmer Gantry ~ Elves ~ Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, The ~ Escape from New York ~ Everest (2015 film) ~ Everybody Wants Some!! ~ Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) ~ Evil Dead, The ~ Exorcist, The ~ The Fabelmans ~ Fabulous Baker Boys, The ~ Face in the Crowd, A ~ Farewell, My Lovely (1975) ~ Fatal Attraction ~ Father, The ~ Father of the Bride ~ Favourite, The ~ Fences ~ Fighter, The ~ First Knight ~ First Reformed ~ Five Easy Pieces ~ Five Minutes of Heaven ~ Force 10 from Navarone ~ Foreign Correspondent ~ Formula, The ~ Foxcatcher ~ Frailty ~ Frances Ha ~ French Connection, The ~ Frenzy ~ Friday Night Lights ~ Friends of Eddie Coyle, The ~ From Here to Eternity ~ Frost/Nixon ~ Funny Farm ~ Fury (1936 film) ~ Gallipoli ~ Gandhi ~ Gaslight (1944 film) ~ Get Out ~ Getaway, The (1972) ~ Giant (1956 film) ~ Giant Claw, The ~ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ~ Glen or Glenda ~ Glenn Miller Story, The ~ Glory ~ Go (1999 film) ~ Godfather, The: Part II ~ Grand Budapest Hotel, The ~ Grand Canyon ~ Grapes of Wrath, The ~ Gravity ~ Green Book ~ Green Room ~ Green Zone ~ Greenberg ~ Grifters, The ~ Guarding Tess ~ Gun Crazy ~ Gung Ho ~ Hacksaw Ridge ~ Halloween ~ Hannah and Her Sisters ~ Happening, The ~ Hard Candy ~ Hard Eight ~ Hateful Eight, The ~ Hellbound: Hellraiser II ~ Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth ~ Hellraiser: Bloodline ~ Hellraiser: Inferno ~ Hellraiser: Hellseeker ~ Hellraiser: Deader ~ Hellraiser: Hellworld ~ Her ~ Hereditary ~ Hidden Figures ~ Hidden Fortress, The ~ High Noon ~ Holiday Inn ~ Il Postino ~ His Girl Friday ~ Holdovers, The ~ Hollywood Shuffle ~ Homicide (1991 film) ~ Hoosiers ~ Horse Feathers ~ Hot Spot, The ~Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1939 film) ~ House of Usher ~ How Green Was My Valley ~ How the West Was Won ~ Hud ~ Hustler, The ~ I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ~ Ides of March ~ If.... ~ If Beale Street Could Talk ~ Imagine Me & You ~ Imitation Game, The ~ Impossible, The ~ In & Out ~ In a Lonely Place ~ In Cold Blood ~ In the Line of Fire ~ In the Name of the Father ~ Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) ~ Invisible Man, The (2020 film) ~ Invitation, The ~ It (2017 film) ~ It Conquered the World ~ It Follows ~ It Happened One Night ~ JFK ~ Jacob's Ladder ~ Jailhouse Rock ~ Jigsaw ~ Joe Versus the Volcano ~ John Adams ~ John Wick: Chapter 2 ~ John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum ~ Judas and the Black Messiah ~ Just Before Dawn ~ Just One of the Guys ~ K2 ~ Kagemusha ~ Kentucky Fried Movie, The ~ Kicking and Screaming ~ Kids Are All Right, The ~ Killer Inside Me, The ~ Killer Klowns From Outer Space ~ Killing, The ~ The King of Comedy ~ King of New York ~ King's Speech, The ~ Kings Row ~ Kiss Me Deadly ~ Klute ~ Knives Out ~ La La Land ~ La Strada ~ Lady Bird ~ Lady Eve, The ~ Lady from Shanghai, The ~ Lady Vanishes, The (1938 film) ~ Last Days of Disco, The ~ Last Detail, The ~ Last of the Mohicans, The (1992 film) ~ Last Picture Show, The ~ Last Seduction, The ~ Laura ~ Lavender Hill Mob, The ~ Leave Her to Heaven ~ Leaving Las Vegas ~ Letter, The (1940 film) ~ Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film) ~ Life of David Gale, The ~ Lifeboat ~ Lincoln (2012 film) ~ Lion (2016 film) ~ Little Caesar ~ Living (2022 film) ~ Lobster, The ~ Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ~ Lolita (1962 film) ~ Lone Star ~ Long Goodbye, The ~ Looper ~ Lorenzo's Oil ~ Lost Horizon ~ Lost Weekend, The ~ Lucas ~ MacArthur ~ Magnificent Ambersons, The ~ Man of the West ~ Man in the Moon, The ~ Man Who Wasn't There, The ~ Margin Call ~ Margot at the Wedding ~ Mark of Zorro, The (1920 film) ~ Mark of Zorro, The (1940 film) ~ Mark of Zorro, The (1974 film) ~ Marnie ~ Marriage Story ~ Martian, The ~ Marty ~ Masque of the Red Death ~ The Master (2012 film) ~ Master of the World (1961 film) ~ May December ~ Mean Streets ~ Meatballs ~ Meet John Doe ~ Meet Me in St. Louis ~ Meet the Parents ~ Messenger, The ~ Metropolis (1927 film) ~ Metropolitan ~ Midnight Cowboy ~ Midnight Express ~ Midsommar ~ Mildred Pierce ~ Miracle on 34th Street ~ Mississippi Burning ~ Missouri Breaks, The ~ Mr. Holland's Opus ~ Mr. Mom ~ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ~ Mrs. Miniver ~ Molly's Game ~ Money Train ~ Moneyball ~ Moonlight ~ Moonrise Kingdom ~ Mother! ~ Mud ~ Mudbound ~ Murder, My Sweet ~ Murder on the Orient Express ~ Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) ~ Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) ~ My Darling Clementine ~ My Man Godfrey ~ Mystic Pizza ~ Naked City, The ~ Natural, The ~ Near Dark ~ Nebraska ~ Needful Things ~ Never Give a Sucker an Even Break ~ Never Let Me Go ~ New York, New York ~ Night Moves ~ Night Shift ~ Nightmare on Elm Street, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, A ~ Ninotchka ~ No Way Out ~ Nomadland ~ North by Northwest ~ Notes on a Scandal ~ Notorious ~ Now, Voyager ~ Ocean's Thirteen ~ Office Christmas Party ~ Oklahoma (1955 film) ~ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ~ One Night in Miami... ~ Opposite of Sex, The ~ Out of the Past ~ Out of Sight ~ Outside Providence ~ Package, The ~ Paper Chase, The ~ Paradine Case, The ~ Parallax View ~ Parasite ~ Paths of Glory ~ The Pawnbroker ~ Pay It Forward ~ Peggy Sue Got Married ~ Pelican Brief, The ~ Perks of Being a Wallflower, The ~ Pet Sematary ~ Piano, The ~ Pickup on South Street ~ Pillow Talk ~ Pink Panther, The (1963) ~ Pitch Perfect 2 ~ Pitch Perfect 3 ~ Play Misty for Me ~ Player, The ~ Point Blank ~ Poltergeist ~ Ponette ~ Poor Things ~ Post, The ~ Power of the Dog, The ~ Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire ~ Presumed Innocent ~ Primal Fear ~ Private Parts ~ Producers (1968 film), The ~ Producers (2005 film), The ~ Project X (2012 film) ~Prometheus ~ Promising Young Woman ~ Pump Up the Volume ~ Purple Rose of Cairo, The ~ Q&A ~ Queen Christina ~ Raiders of the Lost Ark ~ Rainmaker, The ~ Ransom ~ Raven, The ~ Raw Deal (1948) ~ Rebecca ~ Rebel Without a Cause ~ Red River ~ Red Rock West ~ Red Shoes, The ~ Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins ~ Revenant, The ~ Reversal of Fortune ~ Risky Business ~ A River Runs Through It ~ Road, The ~ Road to Perdition ~ Roaring Twenties, The ~ Rob Roy ~ Robot Monster ~ RockNRolla ~ Rocky II ~ Rolling Thunder ~ Romancing the Stone ~ Room (2015 film) ~ Rope ~ Rosemary's Baby ~ Rules of the Game, The ~ Ruling Class, The ~ Rush (1991 film) ~ Saboteur ~ St. Elmo's Fire ~ Salvador ~ Sands of Iwo Jima ~ Sanjuro ~ Santa Claus Conquers the Martians ~ Savages, The ~ School Ties ~ Science of Sleep, The ~ Scorpio ~ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ~ Set-Up, The (1949) ~ Seven Days in May ~ Sexy Beast ~ Shadow of a Doubt ~ Shakespeare in Love ~ She's the One ~ Shot in the Dark, A (1964) ~ Shutter Island ~ Sicario ~ Silver Bullet ~ Silver Linings Playbook ~ Silver Streak ~ Singin' In The Rain ~ Singles ~ slacker ~ Sleeping with the Enemy ~ Sneakers ~ Snowpiercer ~ Something Wicked This Way Comes ~ Sometimes in April ~ Sorcerer ~ Sound of Music, The ~ Southland Tales ~ Spanish Prisoner, The ~ Spartan ~ Speak ~ Spectacular Now, The ~ Spotlight ~ Squid and the Whale, The ~ Stage Door ~ Stagecoach ~ Stanford Prison Experiment, The ~ Star Chamber, The ~ State of Grace ~ Stepfather, The (1987) ~ Straight Outta Compton ~ Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The ~ Stranger, The (1946) ~ Strangers on a Train ~ Stranger on the Third Floor ~ Stripes ~ Sundowners, The ~ Super Size Me ~ Superman: The Movie ~ Superman II ~ Suspicion ~ Sweet Home Alabama ~ Swimming to Cambodia ~ Taps ~ Tár ~ Target (1985) ~ Targets ~ Terms of Endearment ~ Thank You for Smoking ~ Thelma & Louise ~ They Live by Night ~ This Is the End ~ Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ~ Three Musketeers, The (1948) ~ Tin Cup ~ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ~ Titanic (1953 film) ~ To Catch a Thief ~ To Kill a Mockingbird ~ To Live and Die in L.A. ~ Tomorrow Never Dies ~ Tootsie ~ Top Gun ~ Topaz ~ Torn Curtain ~ Town, The (2010) ~ Toxic Avenger, The ~ Trading Places ~ Trial, The (1962) ~ Trial of the Chicago 7, The ~ Trouble in Paradise (1932 film) ~ True Grit (2010 film) ~ Twilight Zone: The Movie ~ Twins ~ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ~ Two Jakes, The ~ Uncle Buck ~ Up in the Air ~ Up the Down Staircase ~ Us (2019) ~ Vanishing Point ~ Varsity Blues ~ Verdict, The ~ Vertigo ~ Very Bad Things ~ Vice ~ Visit, The ~ Waking the Dead ~ Way Way Back, The ~ Wedding Date, The ~ Wes Craven's New Nightmare ~ When a Stranger Calls (1979) ~ While We're Young ~ Whiplash ~ White Men Can't Jump ~ Whole Nine Yards, The ~ Wicker Man, The ~ Wild at Heart ~ Wild Bunch, The ~ Wild Things ~ Winter's Bone ~ Witch, the ~ Witches of Eastwick, The ~ Witchfinder General ~ Witness ~ Wolf of Wall Street, The ~ Woman in the Window, The ~ Woman of the Year ~ [[Women Talking ~ Wonder Boys ~ Working Girl ~ World According to Garp ~ World Is Not Enough, The ~ Wrestler, The ~ Written on the Wind ~ Wrong Man, The ~ Wuthering Heights (1939 film) ~ X the Unknown ~ Y Tu Mamá También ~ Yakuza, The ~ Young Mr. Lincoln ~ Youngblood

TV Shows

American Dreams ~ American Gods ~ American Gothic ~ American Horror Story ~ Barney Miller ~ Beauty and the Geek ~ Big Love ~ Big Shots ~ Billions ~ Boomtown ~ Boston Public ~ Bridge, The ~ Bridgerton ~ Brotherhood ~ Camelot ~ Charlie Brown Christmas, A ~ China Beach ~ Chuck ~ Closer, The ~ Columbo ~ Crime Story ~ Criminal Minds ~ Damages ~ Danger Man ~ Dark ~ Diplomat, The ~ Dirty Sexy Money ~Ed ~ Event, The ~ Felicity ~ Ghost Whisperer ~ Good Wife, The ~ Handmaid's Tale, The ~ Happy Endings ~ Haunting of Bly Manor, The ~ Haunting of Hill House, The ~ Hill Street Blues ~ Homicide: Life on the Street ~ House of Lies ~ How I Met Your Mother ~ In Treatment ~ Jericho ~ Jersey Shore ~ Justified ~ Luther ~ Midnight Mass ~ Murder One ~ My So-Called Life ~ Narcos ~ NYPD Blue ~ October Road ~ Ozark ~ Party of Five ~ Prison Break ~ Quincy, M.E. ~ Raising Hope ~ Ringer ~ Rubicon ~ Runaway ~ Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) ~ Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town ~ Schoolhouse Rock! ~ Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ~ St. Elsewhere ~ Shield, The ~ Soap ~ Sons of Anarchy ~ Spartacus: Blood and Sand ~ Starsky & Hutch ~ Top Chef ~ Twas the Night Before Christmas ~ The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) ~ Utopia ~ Vikings ~ Wildfire ~ Without a Trace ~ Year Without a Santa Claus, The ~ Zorro Rides Again ~ Zorro's Fighting Legion

People

Adiga, Aravind ~ Arnold, Matthew ~ Arthur, Chester A. ~ Barnfield, Richard ~ Behn, Aphra ~ Bellamy, Edward ~ Bernard, Claude ~ Biel, Gabriel ~ Bion ~ Blackstone, William ~ Bledel, Alexis ~ Blount, Roy ~ Boas, Franz ~ Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne ~ Bernstein, Carl ~ Bradford, William ~ Bradley, F. H. ~ Bridges, Robert ~ Bright, Rick ~ Brougham, Henry ~ Brown, Pierce ~ Buchanan, James ~ Büchner, Georg ~ Calhoun, John C. ~ Campbell, Thomas ~ Carlyle, Jane Welsh ~ Cleveland, Grover ~ Carter, Stephen L. ~ Cavafy, Constantine P. ~ Chartier, Émile ~ Child, Lee ~ Clough, Arthur Hugh ~ Cibber, Colley ~ Cooper, James Fenimore ~ Corneille, Pierre ~ Darío, Rubén ~ Day-Lewis, Daniel ~ de la Barca, Pedro Calderón ~ de la Mare, Walter ~ de Lamartine, Alphonse ~ De Quincey, Thomas ~ Duffy, Carol Ann ~Dole, Charles Fletcher ~ de Rojas, Fernando ~ de Staël, Anne Louise Germaine ~ Doctorow, E.L. ~ Durbin, Richard ~ Eastman, Max ~ Edwards, Jonathan ~ Ellison, Ralph ~ Ennius ~ Faber, Frederick William ~ Field, Eugene ~ Fillmore, Millard ~ Fincher, David ~ Fisher, Herbert ~ Fitzgerald, Patrick ~ Flake, Jeff ~ Fletcher, John ~ Fox, Charles James ~ Frazer, James ~ Freund, Peter ~ Frist, Bill ~ Galsworthy, John ~ Garfield, James A. ~ Grahame, Kenneth ~ Grimké, Sarah ~ Hall, Joseph ~ Hamilton, Edith ~ Heckscher II, August ~ Herbert, Auberon ~ Holland-Dozier-Holland ~ Hand, Learned ~ Harding, Warren G. ~ Harper, Ben ~ Harris, Robert ~ Harrison, William Henry ~ Hart, John ~ Harvey, William ~ Hayes, Rutherford B. ~ Hearst, William Randolph ~ Heber, Reginald ~ Hemans, Felicia ~ Herrick, Robert ~ Hill, Aaron ~ Hood, Thomas ~ Howells, William Dean ~ Ignatius of Loyola ~ Jackson, Shirley ~ Jerome, Jerome K. ~ Jewett, Sarah Orne ~ Johnson, Andrew ~ Johnson, James Weldon ~ Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller ~ Junius ~ Kenkō, Yoshida ~ Kent, Rockwell ~ Krakauer, Jon ~ Kronenberger, Louis ~ Lavater, Johann Kaspar ~ La Follette Sr., Robert M. ~ Latham, Peter Mere ~ Lehane, Dennis ~ Lesage, Alain-René ~ Lodge, Henry Cabot ~ Lombroso, Cesare ~ Lovelace, Richard ~ Lowell, James Russell ~ Lucretius ~ Karl Marlantes ~ Marshall, John ~ Mason, George ~ McCammon, Robert ~ McCann, Colum ~ McCarthy, Tom ~ McKinley, William ~ Menander ~ Meredith, George ~ Monroe, James ~ Moore, Thomas ~ Morley, John ~ Nicholas, George ~ Oates, Joyce Carol ~ Osler, William ~ Otis, James ~ Parker, Theodore ~ Parkman, Francis ~ Pavlou, Stel ~ Pavlov, Ivan ~ Petrarch ~ Phaedrus ~ Phillips, Wendell ~ Pierce, Franklin ~ Pitt, William ~ Pliny the Elder ~ Pliny the Younger ~ Polk, James K. ~ Prior, Matthew ~ Ptahhotep ~ Ptolemy ~ Racine, Jean ~ Randall, Lisa ~ Renan, Ernest ~ Rolland, Romain ~ Rossetti, Christina ~ Rossetti, Dante Gabriel ~ Russo, Richard ~ Saadi ~ Sakharov, Andrei ~ Savile, George ~ Searle, John ~ Selden, John ~ Sextus Propertius ~ Shoin, Yoshida ~ Simmons, Gene ~ Smith, Michael Marshall ~ Southey, Robert ~ Specter, Arlen ~ Spillane, Mickey ~ St. Jerome ~ St. John, Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ~ Stanhope, Philip ~ Steele, Richard ~ Stephen, James Kenneth ~ Sterne, Laurence ~ Symons, Arthur ~ John Millington Synge ~ Taylor, Zachary ~ Theognis of Megara ~ Theroux, Paul ~ Thomson, James ~ Thompson, Francis ~ Toltz, Steve ~ Tucker, Benjamin ~ Tupper, Martin Farquhar ~ Tutu, Desmond ~ Tyler, John ~ Tyndall, John ~ Van Buren, Martin ~ Vaughan, Henry ~ Vinson, Fred M. ~ Waite, Morrison ~ Waller, Edmund ~ Warner, Charles Dudley ~ Webster, John ~ Wharton, Edith ~ Whewell, William ~ Wilson, William Julius ~ Wotton, Henry ~ Wouk, Herman ~ Zagajewski, Adam

Musicians/Bands

AC/DC ~ Allman Brothers Band, The ~ America ~ Arrested Development ~ Bad Company ~ Beach Boys, The ~ Black Crowes, The ~ Black Keys, The ~ Blink-182 ~ Boston ~ Cars, The ~ Chicago (band) ~ Counting Crows ~ Cranberries, The ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Crosby, Stills & Nash ~ Cure, The ~ DeMent, Iris ~ Duran Duran ~ Eve 6 ~ Franklin, Aretha ~ Eagles, The ~ Echo & the Bunnymen ~ Erasure ~ Florence and the Machine ~ Fogelberg, Dan ~ Foo Fighters ~ Foreigner ~ Frankie Goes to Hollywood ~ Greta Van Fleet ~ Hall & Oates ~ Hoobastank ~ Imagine Dragons ~ Johnson, Jack ~ Journey ~ Kansas ~ Kinks, The ~ Led Zeppelin ~ Loggins, Kenny ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Maroon 5 ~ Midnight Oil ~ New Order ~ Nirvana (band) ~ Orbison, Roy ~ Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ~ Paisley, Brad ~ Pink Floyd ~ Pretenders, The ~ Public Enemy ~ Queen ~ Rafferty, Gerry ~ Replacements, The ~ Rolling Stones, The ~ Seger, Bob ~ Shinedown ~ Sly and the Family Stone ~ Smiths, The ~ Squeeze ~ Styx ~ Survivor ~ Taylor, James ~ Tears for Fears ~ Traffic ~ Yazoo ~ Yes ~ Zombies, The

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Films

28 Weeks Later ~ 42nd Street ~ 50 First Dates ~ 1941 ~ Abominable Dr. Phibes, The ~ After the Thin Man ~ Air Force One ~ Alien ~ Along Came a Spider (film) ~ An American Werewolf in London ~ Animal Farm (1999 film) ~ Apocalypse Now ~ The Asphalt Jungle ~ Bad News Bears, The ~ Behind Enemy Lines ~ Beverly Hills Cop II ~ Big Heat, The ~ Big Sleep, The ~ Big Store, The ~ Black Snake Moan ~ Born on the Fourth of July ~ Braveheart ~ Brazil ~ Breakfast Club, The ~ Bride of Frankenstein ~ Bridge on the River Kwai, The ~ Bridesmaids ~ Bridge Too Far, A ~ Bronx Tale, A ~ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ~ Carnival of Souls ~ Casablanca ~ Catch-22 ~ Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The ~ A Clockwork Orange ~ Coma (1978 film) ~ Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ~ Core, The ~ Crash ~ Dead of Night ~ D.O.A. (1950 film) ~ Day After Tomorrow, The ~ Dead Reckoning ~ Deadly Friend ~ Devil and Daniel Webster, The ~ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) ~ Dr. No ~ Double Indemnity ~ Dracula: Dead and Loving It ~ Earth Girls Are Easy ~ Empire Records ~ Erin Brockovich ~ Exorcism of Emily Rose, The ~ Eyes Wide Shut ~ Family Man, The ~ Fletch ~ For a Few Dollars More ~ Forbidden Planet ~ The Forgotten ~ Fracture ~ Frankenstein ~ Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ~ Fright Night ~ The Full Monty ~ Gay Divorcee, The ~ Get Carter ~ Gilda ~ Glengarry Glen Ross ~ Go West (1940 film) ~ Godfather, The: Part III ~ Going My Way ~ Goldfinger ~ Gone with the Wind ~ Good Will Hunting ~ Goodfellas ~ Gosford Park ~ Great Debaters, The ~ Great Escape, The ~ Guns of Navarone, The ~ Hail, Caesar! ~ Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers ~ Harvey ~ He's Just Not That Into You ~ Heathers ~ Hell or High Water ~ Her Highness and the Bellboy ~ Hollow Man ~ Honeymoon in Vegas ~ House of Sand and Fog ~ How to Marry a Millionaire ~ Hunt for Red October, The ~ Hurt Locker, The ~ I'm No Angel ~ Ice Station Zebra ~ Ice Storm, The ~ In Her Shoes ~ In the Heat of the Night ~ In Time ~ It's a Gift ~ It's a Wonderful Life ~ Jackie Brown ~ Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday ~ Jaws ~ Jaws 2 ~ Jerry Maguire ~ Joan of Arc (1948 film) ~ John Q ~ John Tucker Must Die ~ Johnny English ~ Kansas City Confidential ~ Killers, The (1946 film) ~ Killing Fields, The ~ Kingdom of Heaven ~ Kingpin ~ La Bamba ~ Lake Placid ~ Laura ~ Les Misérables (1998 film) ~ Les Misérables (2012 film)‎ ~ Longest Yard, The (1974 film) ~ Love Actually ~ Love Happy ~ Marathon Man ~ Matinee ~ Meet Joe Black ~ Mission: Impossible ~ Mr. Deeds Goes to Town‎ ~ Mortal Kombat ~ My Night at Maud's ~ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ~ National Lampoon's Vacation ~ Network ~ Niagara ~ Night at the Opera, A ~ Night at the Roxbury, A ~ Night in Casablanca, A ~ The Night of the Hunter ~ Nobody's Fool ~ Old School ~ On Her Majesty's Secret Service ~ People vs. Larry Flynt, The ~ Philadelphia ~ Philadelphia Story, The ~ Pi ~ Plan 9 from Outer Space ~ Pleasantville ~ Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946 film) ~ Psycho ~ Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown ~ Radio Flyer ~ Rain Man ~ Raising Helen ~ Real Genius ~ Rear Window ~ Remember the Titans ~ Revenge of the Pink Panther ~ RoboCop 2 ~ Rocky ~ Room Service (1938 film) ~ Rushmore ~ Saving Private Ryan ~ Saw ~ Secret of My Success, The ~ A Serious Man ~ She Done Him Wrong ~ Sixteen Candles ~ Sling Blade ~ Soapdish ~ Social Network, The ~ Son of Dracula ~ Soylent Green ~ Spiderwick Chronicles, The ~ Stand by Me ~ State Fair ~ Stranger Than Paradise ~ Sudden Impact ~ Svengali ~ Swingers ~ Taxi Driver ~ Ten Commandments, The ~ Terminator 2: Judgment Day ~ There's Something About Mary‎ ~ They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ~ Third Man, The ~ Thunderball ~ To Have and Have Not ~ Top Secret! ~ Touch of Evil ~ Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The ~ Twelve Monkeys ~ Vicky Cristina Barcelona ~ Village, The ~ Vision Quest ~ West Side Story ~ White Heat ~ Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ~ Wings of Desire ~ Witness for the Prosecution ~ Wizard of Oz, The ~ Wolf Man, The ~ World's Fastest Indian, The ~ You Can't Take It with You ~ You Only Live Twice ~ Young Sherlock Holmes ~ Zoolander

TV Shows

Addams Family, The ~ Alias ~ Army Wives ~ Arrested Development ~ Black Donnellys, The ~ Black Mirror ~ Cheers ~ Chicago Med ~ Cougar Town ~ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ~ Da Vinci's Demons‎ ~ Damages ~ Dawson's Creek ~ Doogie Howser, M.D. ~ Drawn Together ~ Drew Carey Show, The ~ Everwood ~ Freaks and Geeks ~ Friday Night Lights (TV series)‎ ~ Gilligan's Island ~ Greg the Bunny ~ Grey's Anatomy ~ Hawaii Five-O ~ Heroes ~ Ice Road Truckers ~ Judging Amy ~ L Word, The ~ Law & Order ~ Mad Men ~ Magnum, P.I. ~ Mary Tyler Moore Show, The ~ Middle, The ~ New Adventures of Old Christine, The ~ Nip/Tuck ~ Oblongs, The ~ Outer Limits, The (1963) ~ Point Pleasant ~ Popular ~ The Practice ~ Queer Eye ~ Rectify ~ The Rockford Files ~ Sarah Silverman Program, The ~ Succession ~ Tru Calling ~ Tudors, The ~ The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) ~ Twin Peaks ~ Welcome Back, Kotter ~ WKRP in Cincinnati ~ Wonder Years, The

People

Ariely, Dan ~ Blake, William ~ Cheever, John ~ Bryant, William Cullen ~ Butler, Samuel ~ Byron, Lord ~ Chapman, Arthur ~ Chekhov, Anton ~ Cobbett, William ~ Choate, Rufus ~ Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ~ Cousins, Norman ~ de Balzac, Honoré ~ Debord, Guy ~ Dickens, Charles ~ Dickey, James ~ Emerson, Ralph Waldo ~ Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas ~ Guest, Edgar ~ Jackson, Stonewall ~ Kahneman, Daniel ~ Keats, John ~ Kipling, Rudyard ~ Landor, Walter Savage ~ Lansky, Paul ~ Lear, Edward ~ Livy ~ Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth ~ Obama, Barack ~ Prince ~ Protagoras ~ Robb, AnnaSophia ~ Roth, Philip ~ Russell, Bertrand ~ Walter Scott ~ Shelley, Percy Bysshe ~ Sheridan, Richard Brinsley ~ Stendhal ~ Sterling, Bruce ~ Stiglitz, Joseph E. ~ Tennyson, Alfred ~ Twain, Mark ~ Tyson, Neil deGrasse ~ Welch, Jack ~ Wordsworth, William

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