life:

Or: the life :

1. In American, the life and business of prostitution . To be-in-the-life , to be involved in prostitution . See prostitution for synonyms.

2. The homosexual subculture. See also: in-the-life .

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Quotes Containing life:
Marlo (Mae West) in Sextette (1978): ''It''s not the men in my life that counts, it''s the life in my men.''
Mavis Arden (Mae West) in Go West, Young Man (1936): ''Men are my life .''
Tira (Mae West) in I''m No Angel (1933): - Prosecutor: ''Why did you admit knowing so many men in your life?'' - Tira: ''It''s not the men in your life that count, it''s the life in your men.''
Marlo (Mae West) in Sextette (1978): ''It''s not the men in my life that counts, it''s the life in my men.''
Mavis Arden (Mae West) in Go West, Young Man (1936): ''Men are my life .''
Tira (Mae West) in I''m No Angel (1933): - Prosecutor: ''Why did you admit knowing so many men in your life?'' - Tira: ''It''s not the men in your life that count, it''s the life in your men.''
Gandhi: 'Where there is love there is life .'
Victor Hugo: 'The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.'
Alexis Zorba (Anthony Quinn) in Zorba the Greek (1964): ''Life is trouble; only death is not.''
Cpl. Rabinoff (Peter Falk) in Anzio (1968): ''There''s more to life than fast-breathing .''
David Schrader (Mackenzie Astin) in Dream for an Insomniac (1998): ''Life can only be understood backwards.''
Rodney Dangerfield: 'If it weren't for pickpockets I'd have no sex-life at all.'
C3PO (voice of Anthony Daniels) to R2D2 on the life of droids in Star Wars (1977): ''We seem to be made to suffer. It''s our lot in life .''
Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers) to George Bailey (James Stewart) It''s a Wonderful Life (1946): ''Strange, isn''t it? Each man''s life touches so many other lives. And when he''s not around, it leaves an awful hole , doesn''t it?''
Richard (Don Galloway) to Sam (Tom Berenger) and Nick (William Hurt) in The Big Chill (1983): ''The thing about kids is their instant priorities. You know you have to protect them and provide for them and sometimes it means your life isn''t exactly the way you want it to be. But you set your priorities and that''s the way life is.''
Richard (Don Galloway) to Sam (Tom Berenger) and Nick (William Hurt) in The Big Chill (1983): ''The thing about kids is their instant priorities. You know you have to protect them and provide for them and sometimes it means your life isn''t exactly the way you want it to be. But you set your priorities and that''s the way life is.''
''Al. Al Reardon. My father! My moral, uptight, coffee-slurping, status-seeking, putting-in-overtime, hard-day-at-the-office, early-rising early-bedding, make-your-own-way-in-life father had been screwing Joyce Fickett. (...) No wonder I was having so much trouble. It was hereditary.'' Jimmy Reardon (River Phoenix) after discovering that his father Al (Paul Koslo) has been having an affair with Joyce (Ann Magnuson) for years in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
''Al. Al Reardon. My father! My moral, uptight, coffee-slurping, status-seeking, putting-in-overtime, hard-day-at-the-office, early-rising early-bedding, make-your-own-way-in-life father had been screwing Joyce Fickett. (...) No wonder I was having so much trouble. It was hereditary.'' Jimmy Reardon (River Phoenix) after discovering that his father Al (Paul Koslo) has been having an affair with Joyce (Ann Magnuson) for years in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Oscar Ungar (Walter Matthau) in The Odd Couple (1968): ''Life goes on even for those of us who are divorced, broke and sloppy.''
Suzanne (Emily Longstreth) to Nick (Kevin Bacon) in The Big Picture (1989): ''Don''t come any closer, Nick, unless you want to walk funny for the rest of your life .''
Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) to Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) in When Harry Met Sally (1989): ''I love that you get cold when it''s 71 out . I love that you take an hour and a half to order a sandwich . I love that you get-a-little crinkle above your nose when you look on me like I''m nuts . I love that after I spend a day with you I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it''s not because I''m lonely. And it''s not because it''s New Year''s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with someboby, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.''
Young Vada (Anna Chlumsky) after a woman-to-woman talk about the facts of life with Shelley (Jamie Lee Curtis) in My Girl (1991): 'I think it should be outlawed. '
Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) to Batman (Val Kilmer) in Batman Forever (1995): ''My life is an open book. You read?''
Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers), an angel who has just won his wings by rescuing George Bailey (James Stewart) in It''s a Wonderful Life (1946): ''Thanks for the wings .''
Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers), an AS II (Angel Second Class) in It''s a Wonderful Life (1946): ''Everytime you hear a bell ring , it means some angel just got his wings .''
Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn) in Clue (1986): 'Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage .'
William Parish (Anthony Hopkins) to Joe Black (Brad Pitt) in Meet Joe Black (1999): 'Love is passion . Obsession. Someone you can't live without. Someone you fall head over heels for. Find someone you can love like crazy, and will love you the same way back . Listen to your heart . No sense in life without this. To make the journey without falling deeply in-love , you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried , then you haven't lived.'
Don Juan (Douglas Fairbanks) in The Private Life of Don-Juan (1934): 'All girls are different, all wives are alike.'
Henry (Charles Laughton) in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933): 'How many blunders, stupidities and cruelties has a man to pass before he finds his happiness in a wife .'
Lucy Warrimer (Irene Dunne) in The Awful Truth (1937): ''Can''t have a happy married life if you''re always going to be suspicious of each other.''
Nick Townsend (Cary Grant) to Helen Farady (Marlene Dietrich) in Blonde Venus (1932): ''My life isn''t complete without you.''
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) to Pam (Shelley Duvall) in Annie Hall (1977): 'I think there's too much burden placed on the orgasm to make-up for the empty areas in life .'
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) to Pam (Shelley Duvall) in Annie Hall (1977): ''I think there''s too much burden placed on the orgasm to make-up for the empty areas in life .''
Aldonza (Sophia Loren) in Man of La Mancha (1972): ''The worst crime of all - being born. For that you get punished your whole life .''
Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell) to Jack Billings (Frank Morgan) in The Great Ziegfeld (1936): ''Why is it , Jack, that in a world so old life must be so short?''
Oscar Ungar (Walter Matthau) in The Odd Couple (1968): ''Life goes on even for those of us who are divorced, broke and sloppy.''
Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) in Sirocco (1951): ''It''s a great life . You go around in a circle and come back to the beginning.''
Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell) in Auntie Mame (1958): ''Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.''
Vada Saltenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) in My Girl 2 (1994): ''Life''s full of babaric customs, but I hope they all end with a kiss like that.''
Hannah Warren (Jane Fonda) to her ex-husband Bill (Alan Alda) in California Suite (1978): ''I don''t have a lifestyle, I have a life .''
Westley (Cary Elwes) in The Princess Bride (1987): ''Life is pain, anyone who says differently is trying to sell you something.''
Michael Valentine (Bob Hope) kissing the Kitrina Grimovitch (Signe Hasso) in Where There''s Life (1947): ''Say, this could be habit-forming.''
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady (1964): 'I'd prefer a new version of the Spanish Inquisition than to ever let a woman into my life .'
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady (1964): ''I''d prefer a new version of the Spanish Inquisition than to ever let a woman into my life .''
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady (1964): 'I'd prefer a new version of the Spanish Inquisition than to ever let a woman into my life .'
Taylor (Mark Harmon) and Veronica (Madeleine Stowe) in Worth Winning (1989): - Taylor: ''Veronica, it is not real life , it is a fairy tale. Come on! Did you ever read The Frog Prince? In that one he''s staying a frog until she kisses him and brings him back to life .'' - Veronica : ''Yeah, well I kissed a lot of frogs and I haven''t met a prince yet.'' - Taylor: ''You''re kissing the wrong frogs. It''s hard to find the right person. It''s a search, a process. I don''t think it''s supposed to be easy.'' -Veronica: ''You know , some say you have to kiss a frog twice.''
Don Juan (Douglas Fairbanks) in The Private Life of Don-Juan (1934): ''All girls are different, all wives are alike.''
Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) in Heathers (1989): ''If you were happy every day of your life , you wouldn''t be a human being, you''d be a game show host.''
Caroline (Marisa Tomei) in Untamed Heart (1993): ''My life is like watching The Three Stooges in Spanish!''
Young Vada (Anna Chlumsky) after a woman-to-woman talk about the facts of life with Shelley (Jamie Lee Curtis) in My Girl (1991): 'I think it should be outlawed. '
Andrew (Tony Britton) to Robert (Peter Sellers) in There's a Girl in my Soup (1970): 'You treat your sex-life like a continuous wine tasting: rool them around and spit them out .'
Lance (Anthony Edwards) to Walter 'Gib' Gibson (John Cusack) before introducing him to The Sure Thing (1985): 'Tonight is the first night of the rest of your sex-life .'
Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti) to Dante (Brian O'Halloran) in Clerks (1994): 'I'm astonished to hear you trivialize my role in our sex-life .'
Sung by the chorus in Monty Python''s The Meaning of Life (1983): ''Every sperm is sacred / Every sperm is great / If a sperm is wasted / God is quite irate.''
John D . MacDonald in The Dreadful Lemon Sky about young people: ''They are on the edge of life and think they''re in the midst of it .''
D'Artagnan (Gabriel Byrne) in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998): 'I believe that one man can love one woman all his life and be the better for it .'
Arnold (Harvey Fierstein) in Torch Song Trilogy (1988): 'You want to be a part of my life , I'm not editing out the parts you don't like.'
Gene Garrison (Gene Hackman) about his father in I Never Sang for my Father (1971): 'Death ends a life but it does not end a relationship .'
Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) adressing his son''s class in City Slickers (1991):''Value this time in your life , kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices. It goes by so fast. When you''re a teenager , you think you can do anything and you do . Your twenties are a blur. Thirty, you raise your family , you make a little money and you think to yourself: What happened to my twenties? Forties, you grow a little pot belly , you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud. One of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Fifties, you have a minor surgery. You''ll call-it ''a procedure'' but it''s a surgery. Sixties, you''ll have a major surgery. The music is still loud but it doesn''t matter because you can''t hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, start eating dinner at two o''clock in the afternoon . You have lunch around ten , breakfast the night before. Spend most of your time wandering around malls, looking for the ultimate soft yogourt and muttering: How come the kids don''t call? The eighties, you have a major stroke . You end up blabbering to some Jamaican nurse that your wife can''t stand and that you call mama. Any questions?''
Anna (Greta Garbo) to Kitty (Maureen O''Sullivan) in Anna Karenina (1935):''It''s such a happy time of your life , the blissful time when childhood is just ending and the future is all warm and inviting.''
Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) to Isabel Amberson (Dolores Costello) whose son George (Tim Holt) opposes their relationship in The Magnificient Ambersons (1942): ''I don''t think he''ll change. At 21 or 22, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable which 40 sees as nothing but disappearing miasma. 40 can''t tell 20 about this. 20 can find out only by getting to be 40. So we come to this dear. Will you live your life your way or George''s way?''
Laney Boggs (Rachael Cook) and Jesse Jackson (Elden Ratliff) in She''s All That (1999): - Laney Boggs: ''Screw the dolphins!'' - Jesse Jackson: ''A guy tried that last year, banned from Sea World for life .''
Amber (Elisa Donovan), about tennis lessons, and Dionne (Stacey Nash) in Clueless (1995): - Amber: ''Miss Stoguer, my plastic surgeon doesn''t want me doing any activity where balls fly at my face .'' - Dionne: ''Well, there goes your social life .''
''It''s a problem being beautiful. It''s only the handsome men that ask us out because they''re the only ones who think they have a chance. And handsome men are dolts. Life is unfair to us. At some point we have to face the certain reality. Despite all the good the world seems to offer, true happiness can only be found in one thing ... shopping.'' Ling Woo (Lucy Liu) in Ally McBeal (1997)
Laney Boggs (Rachael Cook) and Jesse Jackson (Elden Ratliff) in She?s All That (1999): - Laney Boggs: ''Screw the dolphins!'' - Jesse Jackson: ''A guy tried that last year, banned from Sea World for life .''
Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) to Batman (Michael Keaton) in Batman Returns (1992): ''I''m a woman and can''t be taken for granted. Life''s a bitch , now so am I.''
Ralph (Danny DeVito) blaming Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) for his incarceration in The Jewel of the Nile (1985): ''They threw me in a jail filled with rejects from the communicable-diseases ward. Every wacko, drippy, open-soared low-life was in that joint , all of ''em wanting to hire on as my proctologist.''
''Me and my wife use to fight like a couple of wild cats with only a tree between us, but sooner or later, missy, you''ll find out that it doesn''t make a tinker''s damn who''s got the upper hand. A few years roll by and you kinda settle-down to being at ease with each other. Then life gets worth living.'' Capt. Jake Cutter (John Wayne) to Pilar Grayle (Ina Balin) in The Comancheros (1961)
Karla Jackson (Annie Potts) and hubby Duane (Jeff Bridges) in a hot tub in Texasville (1990): - Karla: ''Duane, why are poking that gun in the water?'' - Duane: ''I was thinking of shooting my dick off . It''s caused nothing but trouble my whole life .''
Amber (Elisa Donovan) refusing tennis lessons, and Dionne (Stacey Nash) in Clueless (1995): - Amber: ''Miss Stoguer, my plastic surgeon doesn''t want me doing any activity where balls fly at my face .'' - Dionne: ''Well, there goes your social life .''
Anonymous: ''The sexual life of the camel is stranger than anyone thinks: One night a horny old camel attempted to bugger the sphinx. Alas, the ass of the statue was filled with the sand of the Nile, which explains the hump on the camel and the sphinx''s inscrutable smile.''
Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) and Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty (1999): - Carolyn: ''Your father seems to think this type of behavior is something to be proud of.'' - Lester: ''And your mother seems to prefer I go-through life like a fucking prisoner while she keeps my dick in a mason jar under the sink.''
Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) to her ex-husband C .K. Dexter-Haven (Cary Grant) in The Philadelphia Story (1940): ''I thought it was for life but the nice judge gave me a full pardon.''
Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) to his childhood sweetheart Jerri Bondi (Gena Rowlands) in Lonely are the Brave (1962): ''I''m a loner, clear down deep to my guts. Know what a loner is? He''s a born cripple. He''s cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It''s his life the way he wants to live. It''s all-for him.''
Burt Simpson (Dabney Coleman) in Short Time (1990): ''You can''t spend your whole life planning what will make you happy tomorrow, or you''ll never be happy today. You''ve got to do-it now.''
My life is an open book. You read?' Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) flirting with Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer) in Batman Forever (1995)
Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk) finding Betty De Boop (Eileen Brennan) in his apartment in The Cheap Detective (1978) - Lou: 'You can't stay here. I'm busy picking up the pieces of my life .' - Betty: 'If it's just a piece you want, Fred , you can pick it up right here.'
''The whole story of my life : frustration. It''s a chronic disease and it''s incurable.'' Old professor Wutheridge (Monty Woolley) to Dudley (Cary Grant) and Julia (Loretta Young) in The Bishop''s Wife (1947):
The Protestant in Monty Python''s The Meaning of Life (1983): ''I can wear anything I want on my John-Thomas ... I can wear French-ticklers if I want.''
Alan Richter. The Language of Sexuality (1987): ''Giving a name to the genitals may simply be an attempt to personify them but can also impute to them a life of their own, especially if their owner wishes to avoid responsibility for their actions.''
Retired actress Carlotta Vance (Marie Dressler) in Dinner at Eight (1933): ''If there''s one thing I know it''s men. I ought to. It''s been my life work .''
Rajah (Nigel de Brulier) and Tira (Mae West) in I''m no Angel (1933): - Rajah: ''I see a wonderful future. I see a man in your life .'' - Tira: ''What, only one?''
Retired actress Carlotta Vance (Marie Dressler) in Dinner at Eight (1933): ''If there''s one thing I know it''s men. I ought to. It''s been my life work .''
Rajah (Nigel de Brulier) and Tira (Mae West) in I''m no Angel (1933): - Rajah: ''I see a wonderful future. I see a man in your life .'' - Tira: ''What, only one?''
Effingham Bellweather (W.C. Fields) in The Golf Specialist (1930): - Effingham: ''You know , I''ve never struck a woman in my life .'' - Golf buddy : ''You haven''t?'' - Effingham: ''Not even my own mother .''
Effingham Bellweather (W.C. Fields) in The Golf Specialist (1930): - Effingham: ''You know , I''ve never struck a woman in my life .'' - Golf buddy : ''You haven''t?'' - Effingham: ''Not even my own mother .''
Effingham Bellweather (W.C. Fields) in The Golf Specialist (1930): - Effingham: ''You know , I''ve never struck a woman in my life .'' - Golf buddy : ''You haven''t?'' - Effingham: ''Not even my own mother .''
Carlos (Raul Julia) to Dale MacKussic/Mac (Mel Gibson) in Tequila Sunrise (1988): ''Friendship is the only choice in life you can make that''s yours. You can''t choose your family . (...) And no man should be blamed for whatever direction his dick goes. That''s like blaming a compass for pointing north for chrissake. Friendship is all we have.''
Selina Kyle/Cat Woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) to Bruce Wayne/Batman (Michael Keaton) in Batman Returns (1992): ''I''m a woman and can''t be taken for granted. Life''s a bitch now so am I.''
Frank Slade (Al Pacino) to Donna (Gabrielle Anwar) in Scent of a Woman (1993): ''No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life . Simple. That''s what makes tango so great. If you make a mistake, get all tangled up , you just tango along.''
Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''I went to a brothel once in my life . I got hiccups. It was over like... (snaps his fingers) that.''
Murderer Peter Cable (Charles Cioffi) to prostitute Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) in Klute (1971): ''You''re all obviously too lazy and too warped to do anything meaningful with your life so you pray on the sexual fantasies of others. That''s your stock and trade , isn''t it , a man''s weakness and I was never fully aware of mine until you brought them out .''
Murderer Peter Cable (Charles Cioffi) to prostitute Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) in Klute (1971): ''You''re all obviously too lazy and too warped to do anything meaningful with your life so you pray on the sexual fantasies of others. That''s your stock and trade , isn''t it , a man''s weakness and I was never fully aware of mine until you brought them out .''
John Keating (Robin Williams) to his students in Dead Poets Society (1989): 'Medecine, law, business , engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life . But poetry, beauty , romance , love , these are what we stay alive for.'
Vinny Day (Irene Dunne) about her husband Clare (William Powell) in Life with Father (1947): 'You know , I don't believe Clare has come-out and told me he loves me since we been married . Of course I know he does because I keep reminding him of it . You have to keep reminding them, Cora.'
Michael James (Peter O'Toole) to his fiance (Romy Schneider) about marriage in What's New Pussycat? (1965): 'Now is the time to live and experiment. Marriage is for life . It's like cement.'
Axel (Johnny Depp) in Arizona Dream (1994): ''It was wrong to say I was falling in-love because I never felt any weight; I was really flying in-love for the first time in my life .''
Breck Coleman (John Wayne) to the pilgrims of the wagon train in The Big Trail (1931): ''And you gotta fight, that''s life . And when you stop fighting, that''s death.''
Sophocles, the Greek playwright when asked: ''How is your sex life? Are you still able to satisfy a woman?'' He replied: ''Gladly I am rid of it , as though I had escaped from the clutches of a mad and savage master .'' From Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998)
Sheridan ''Sheri'' Whiteside (Monty Woolley) to his nurse in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942): ''My great-aunt Elizabeth ate a box of chocolates every day of her life . She lived to be 102, and when she had been dead three days, she looked healthier than you.''
Liz (Paula Prentiss), an American striptease-artist working in Paris, meets Michael James (Peter O''Toole) in What''s New Pussycat? (1965): - Liz: ''I can''t spend the rest of my life being a semi-virgin.'' - Michael: ''What in the name of all that''s gracious is a semi-virgin?'' - Liz: ''Here I''m a virgin , in America I''m not. - Michael: ''What do they do? Stamp it on your pasport?''
Liz (Paula Prentiss), an American striptease-artist working in Paris, meets Michael James (Peter O''Toole) in What''s New Pussycat? (1965): - Liz: ''I can''t spend the rest of my life being a semi-virgin.'' - Michael: ''What in the name of all that''s gracious is a semi-virgin?'' - Liz: ''Here I''m a virgin , in America I''m not. - Michael: ''What do they do? Stamp it on your pasport?''
Clarence (William Powell) having a man-to-man talk about women with his son Clarence, Jr. (Jimmy Lydon) in Life with Father (1947): - Clarence Day: ''All you have to do is be firm. (...)'' - Clarence. Jr.: ''Yes, but Father, what can you do when they cry?''
Clarence (William Powell) having a man-to-man talk about women with his son Clarence, Jr. (Jimmy Lydon) in Life with Father (1947): - Clarence Day: ''All you have to do is be firm. (...)'' - Clarence. Jr.: ''Yes, but Father, what can you do when they cry?''
Clarence (William Powell) having a man-to-man talk about women with his son Clarence, Jr. (Jimmy Lydon) in Life with Father (1947): - Clarence Day: ''All you have to do is be firm. (...)'' - Clarence. Jr.: ''Yes, but Father, what can you do when they cry?''
Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) to Miles Monroe (Woody Allen), a man frozen in the year 1973 and brought back to life in the year 2173; now he wants to have a relationship with her in Sleeper (1973): 'But Miles, relationships between men and women don't last. That was proven by science. You see , there's a chemical in our bodies that makes it so. We all get-on each others nerves sooner or later.'
Harris K . Telemacher''s (Steve Martin) closing monologue in L.A. Story (1991): ''There are only two things in my life I will never forget: one is that-there is someone for everyone, even if you need a pick-axe, a compass, a night goggle to find them, and the other is tonight, when I learned that romance does exist in the heart of L.A.''
John Keating (Robin Williams) to his students in Dead Poets Society (1989): ''Medecine, law, business , engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life . But poetry, beauty , romance , love , these are what we stay alive for.''
Bernadine/Bernie (Angela Bassett) being divorced after 11 years with John in Waiting to Exhale (1995): 'You know what's funny. I always thought if I gave him what he needed he'd give me what I need. It's amazing what can happen when you give a man control over your life .'
Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) before shooting her ex-boyfriend Jason Dean/J.D. (Christian Slater) in Heathers (1989): - Veronica :'Do you know what I want, babe?' - Jason:'What?' - Veronica : 'Cool guys like you out of my life .'
Sheridan ''Sheri'' Whiteside (Monty Woolley) to his nurse in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942): ''My great-aunt Elizabeth ate a box of chocolates every day of her life . She lived to be 102, and when she had been dead three days, she looked healthier than you.''
Uncle Benny (Ned Beatty) peeping on his sunbathing neighbor Storm Reynolds (Sam Jenkins) with a looking glass in Ed and His Dead Mother (1994): 'Sex! That's what it's all about. From the onset of puberty it's what occupies ninety percent of our time, the pursuit of sex , right? Ed, sex is life and if it was a pronoun she'd be IT.'
J.C. Wyatt (Diane Keaton) who, after fainting, wakes up in Dr. Jeff Cooper's (Sam Shepard) office in Baby Boom (1987): 'I'm spilling my guts out to a vet? I'm lying on a vet's table, telling you about my sex life?'
Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte) to his daughters in The Prince of Tides (1991): - Tom: 'Now girls, have I ever told you the facts of life?' - Jennifer: 'Oh, not this again.' - Tom: 'Stay away from boys 'cause they are all disgusting, self-indulgent beasts that pee on bushes and pick their noses.'
Toby (Joan Hacket) and Georgia (Marsha Mason) in Only When I Laugh (1981): ''Nothing in life happens without warning. It falls apart, day by day, bit by bit . Like your face in the mirror.''
''By the age of forty, someone clever had written ominously, a man gets the face he deserves. Smiley doubted it . He had known poetic souls condemned to life imprisonment behind harsh faces, and deliquents with the appearance of angels. '' John Le Carr. Smiley''s People (1979)
Jasmsine (Libby Taylor) and Ruby (Mae West) in Belle of the Nineties (1934): - Jasmine: ''All my life I''ve been looking for a man that''s big, handsome , and got plenty of money .'' - Ruby Carter: ''Hmmm, what you''ve been looking for is three men.''
Connie (Audrey Meadows) about Cathy (Doris Day) in That Touch of Mink (1962): ''She''s going to spend the rest of her life saing: ''I''m not that kind of a girl''. I''m only afraid that some day, before she''s finished saying it , she will be.''
Clifford Stern (Woody Allen), a married man , tells his niece Jenny (Jenny Nichols) about his infatuation with Holly Reed (Mia Farrow) in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ''My heart says one thing my head says another. It''s very hard to get your head and heart together in life . (...) In my case they''re not even friendly .''
Josesh Conrad: ''Only in men''s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life .''
Uncle Benny (Ned Beatty) peeping on his sunbathing neighbor Storm Reynolds (Sam Jenkins) with a looking glass in Ed and His Dead Mother (1994): ''Sex! That''s what it''s all about. From the onset of puberty it''s what occupies ninety percent of our time, the pursuit of sex , right? Ed, sex is life and if it was a pronoun she''d be IT.''
Ivan (Ivan Lebedeff) and Cleo (Mae West) in Goin''to Town (1935): - Ivan Valadov: ''For one kiss of your lips I''d give half my life .'' - Cleo Borden: ''See me tomorrow and I''ll kiss you twice.''
Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) to Joe-Buck (Jon Voight) in Midnight Cowboy (1969): ''The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and cocoanut milk . Did you know that? That''s a fact .''
Moustache (Lou Jacobi), the caf;-owner, to Nestor (Jack Lemmon) in Irma La Douce (1963): ''Life is total war, my friend. Nobody has a right to be a conscientious objector.''
Warden Miller and Rico (Armand Assante) in Judge Dredd (1995): - Wardenr: ''So, tell me Rico, what is the meaning of life?'' - Rico: ''It ends. '' (And he shoots the warden.)
Adam Trask (Raymond Massey) to his son Cal (James Dean) after in East of Eden (1955): ''If you want to give me a present, give me a good life . That''s something I can value.''
Otto Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore), a terminally ill man in Grand Hotel (1932): ''Life is wonderful but it is dangerous. If you have the courage to live it , it is marvelous.''
Sugar Kane Kowa (Marilyn Monroe) to Joe/Josephine (Tony Curtis) in Some Like It Hot (1959): ''Story of my life . I always get the fuzzy end of the lollypop .''
Sung by Eric Idle in Monty Python. The Meaning of Life (1983): ''Isn''t it awfully nice to have a penis / Isn''t it frightfully good to have-it-on / It''s swell to have a stiffy / It''s divine to own a dick / From the tiniest little tadger to the world''s biggest prick / So, three cheers for your Willy or John-Thomas / Hooray for your one-eyed-trouser-snake / Your piece of pork , your wife''s best-friend , your passing or your cock / You can wrap it up in ribbons, you can stuff it in your sock / But don''t take-it out in public or they''ll stick you in the dock and you won''t come back .''
Clarence Day (William Powell) having a father-to-son talk about women with Clarence, Jr. (Jimmy Lydon) in Life with Father (1947): - Clarence Sr.: 'All you have to do is be firm.' - Clarence Jr.: 'Yes, but Father, what can you do when they cry?' And later: 'You see Clarence, we men have to run this world and it's not an easy job . It takes work and it takes thinking. A man has to reason things out . Now, you take a woman . A woman thinks... No, I'm wrong right there. A woman doesn't think at all. She get's stirred up .'
Clarence Day (William Powell) having a father-to-son talk about women with Clarence, Jr. (Jimmy Lydon) in Life with Father (1947): - Clarence Sr.: 'All you have to do is be firm.' - Clarence Jr.: 'Yes, but Father, what can you do when they cry?' And later: 'You see Clarence, we men have to run this world and it's not an easy job . It takes work and it takes thinking. A man has to reason things out . Now, you take a woman . A woman thinks... No, I'm wrong right there. A woman doesn't think at all. She get's stirred up .'
Clarence Day (William Powell) having a father-to-son talk about women with Clarence, Jr. (Jimmy Lydon) in Life with Father (1947): - Clarence Sr.: ''All you have to do is be firm.'' - Clarence Jr.: ''Yes, but Father, what can you do when they cry?'' And later: ''You see Clarence, we men have to run this world and it''s not an easy job . It takes work and it takes thinking. A man has to reason things out . Now, you take a woman . A woman thinks... No, I''m wrong right there. A woman doesn''t think at all. She get''s stirred up .''
Alex(andra) Medford (Cher) to Daryl Van Horne (Jack Nicholson) in The Witches of Eastwick (1987): 'I will try to be as direct and honest with you as I possibly can . I think, no , I am positive, that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life . You know , in the short time that we have been together you have demonstrated every loathsome characteristics of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar , insensitive, selfish, stupid. You have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.'
Sung by Eric Idle in Monty Python. The Meaning of Life (1983): ''Isn''t it awfully nice to have a penis / Isn''t it frightfully good to have-it-on / It''s swell to have a stiffy / It''s divine to own a dick / From the tiniest little tadger to the world''s biggest prick / So, three cheers for your Willy or John-Thomas / Hooray for your one-eyed-trouser-snake / Your piece of pork , your wife''s best-friend , your passing or your cock / You can wrap it up in ribbons, you can stuff it in your sock / But don''t take-it out in public or they''ll stick you in the dock and you won''t come back .''
Ira Skitch (Will Rogers) to his son-in-law in Mr. Skitch (1933): 'A wife is a wonderful thing and no husband should be without one. Now, Harvey, I'm gonna give you a bit of advice from an old veteran husband to an amateur . The most dangerous year in married life is the first , then comes the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on down . Marriage is an institution. I've been an inmate of that institution long enough to know that the most successful marriage in one where the wife is the boss and don't know it .'
Ira Skitch (Will Rogers) to his son-in-law in Mr. Skitch (1933): 'A wife is a wonderful thing and no husband should be without one. Now, Harvey, I'm gonna give you a bit of advice from an old veteran husband to an amateur . The most dangerous year in married life is the first , then comes the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on down . Marriage is an institution. I've been an inmate of that institution long enough to know that the most successful marriage in one where the wife is the boss and don't know it .'
''Now let me get this straight . You got a wife and you got a girlfriend in the office? Did you say your name was Bud or Stud? I''m sorry, but it sounds to me like you''re living your life so crooked you have to screw your socks on . Having an affair is like shooting pool on two tables. You may have the balls , Bud, but you''re gonna wear out your stick .'' Shirlee Kenyan (Dolly Parton) hosting a radio call-in show in Straight Talk (1992)
Sung by Eric Idle in Monty Python. The Meaning of Life (1983): ''Isn''t it awfully nice to have a penis / Isn''t it frightfully good to have-it-on / It''s swell to have a stiffy / It''s divine to own a dick / From the tiniest little tadger to the world''s biggest prick / So, three cheers for your Willy or John-Thomas / Hooray for your one-eyed-trouser-snake / Your piece of pork , your wife''s best-friend , your passing or your cock / You can wrap it up in ribbons, you can stuff it in your sock / But don''t take-it out in public or they''ll stick you in the dock and you won''t come back .''
Sung by Eric Idle in Monty Python. The Meaning of Life (1983): ''Isn''t it awfully nice to have a penis / Isn''t it frightfully good to have-it-on / It''s swell to have a stiffy / It''s divine to own a dick / From the tiniest little tadger to the world''s biggest prick / So, three cheers for your Willy or John-Thomas / Hooray for your one-eyed-trouser-snake / Your piece of pork , your wife''s best-friend , your passing or your cock / You can wrap it up in ribbons, you can stuff it in your sock / But don''t take-it out in public or they''ll stick you in the dock and you won''t come back .''

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