James Scheibli - Movie Quotes for Special Occasions

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Movie Quotes for Special Occasions: Toasts and Tributes for Weddings, Graduations, Birthdays and All of Life's Special Moments

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2019944215
ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-076-9, (ebook) 978-1-64250-077-6
BISAC category code BIASC: PER004040PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference

Printed in the United States of America

For Audrey and Luke:

Youre already smarter than I am and thats just not fair.

(And just in case he s reading)

For Tom Hanks:

Lets do lunch, maybe an As game. East Bay repping East Bay.

Theres nothing more exciting and daunting than the blank page. Oh, thats good. Maybe Ill do a book o f quotes.

Principal Brown (Jason Sudeikis), Booksm art (2019)

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The last time I sat down to put something like this together, I thought Id really make an event of it. In a bit of arrogance that truly escaped me at the time, I decided to propose to my wife in the dedication for my first published work. How perfect, right? A book of quotes to be used for weddings (and other events), and here I was starting down the road to my own wedding ceremony. Luckily, she said yes. Im keenly aware of how different the tone of this introduction would have been ha d she not

As we told people of our engagement, most noted that I had a leg up on my speech because Id literally written the book on it. How wrong they were. Seeing my wife in her wedding dress for the first time taught me that. My witty, beautiful vows were erased in a single instant. Gone was the proud, cocksure, partially-balding man in a snazzy suit. In his place was a humble, grateful, partially-balding man in a snazzy suit. I wrote down my vows, but to this day I havent looked back at what I wrote. Instead, I live in that moment as it was.

You see, nothing ever truly prepares us for the defining moments of our lives. Every single moment presents an infinite amount of possibilities for things to go wrong. Or right. One decision could lead to a myriad of alternative actions and reactions. One false step could lead to laughter, while another could give rise to tears. No matter how much we prepare and rehearse and memorize, we never really know what will happen when its time to speak up. For me, it was the realization that nothing I had written or planned to say could ever match what I felt at that moment. Id like to think that every now and then we truly nail what we mean to say. My wife nailed her vows. And she did so because for all the quotes Id thrown at her over the years, for all the movies I made her watch for the outstanding dialogue, for all the emphasis I put on other peoples words, it was her truth that spoke m ost to me.

So when it came time to write the sequel, I took a different approach. In this book, youll certainly find a large variety of funny, moving, and inspiring lines from movies youve seen a million times as well as some youve never even heard of. The quotes selected for this volume will guide you to what you truly wish to say for moments in your life that require you to speak up. You might not use them word-for-word. Hell, you might forget them altogether the moment you open your mouth. But hopefully theyll lead you to a truth much more interesting than a Harold Ramis one-liner. Movies offer us not a series of images and words to steal or use as references, but rather the opportunity to engage in a shared human connection through art. Each time we sit down in a dimmed theater, we are secretly connecting with the people around us. Not only that, but each of us is secretly forming a massive community of other humans that have shared that same experience, sometimes millions of miles away. As you read over the quotes in this book, allow your emotions, reactions, and, most importantly, memories to gather together in the net of your soul for you to pick over at your leisure. Toss the small fish back, but keep the big onesthe ones you were looking for (if you find them, o f course).

To kick us off, a gem about life, the movies, and why we love both

Pangzi: Life is a mixture of happy and sad things. Movies are so lifelike thats why we love them.

Ting-Ting: Then who needs movies? Just stay home and live life.

Pangzi: My uncle says we live three times as long since man invent ed movies.

Ting-Ting: How ca n that be?

Pangzi: It means movies give us twice what we get from d aily life.

Pangzi (Pang Chang Yu) & Ting-Ting
(Kelly Lee), Yi Yi (2000)

Birthdays really are the most perplexing celebration for both young and old. We spend our youth eagerly looking forward to each milestone that moves us closer to adulthood (i.e., independence). When we turn ten, its the double-digit milestone. Then a few years later, we celebrate the ascension into society proper, whether that be in the form of a Bar or Bat mitzvah, Quinceaera, or Sweet Sixteen party. At eighteen, you are legally allowed to vote, smoke, and buy a gun on your own (how is this not the traditional party milestone?). Twenty-one brings about your access to booze. And then following what seems like an eternity of waiting, at twenty-five you can finally rent a car. Its at this very moment, at the twenty-fifth birthday party held in the lobby waiting area of a Hertz Rent-A-Car, that you realize its all downhill.

The Avett Brothers have a delightfully upbeat little ditty about the follies of adulthood in which they proclaim, For every year of knowledge gained is a negative year Ive earned. We spend two decades growing and growing and growing only to discover that well spend the next sixty shrinkingif we re lucky.

Films about birthdays usually are about how they go terribly wrong. Birthday wishes go astray, family members forget our birthday, or sometimes we just hate the fact that were growing older. It seems that the universal narrative about celebrating a birthday is that its just a reminder that youre one year closer to death.