"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."

"It's not a woman, it's a fish. No one ever catches her. Fish looks diff'rent to diff'rent people. My daddy said it looked like the coon dog he had when he was kid...back from the dead."

"[last lines] 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."

"Okay, okay— The thing about icebergs is you only see 10 percent. The other 90 percent is below the water where you can't see it. That's what it is with you Dad. I'm only seeing this little bit that sticks above the water."

"Everyone loves my father. He's a very likable guy."

"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."

"Truth is, I've been thirsty my whole life. Never really known why."

"While I took the beating of a lifetime, it was Don Price who was ultimately defeated."

"Sandra Templeton, I love you! And I will marry you!"

"Fate has a cruel way of circling around on you. After all this work to leave Ashton, the girl I loved was now engaged to one of its biggest jerks. There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool will continue. The truth is, I've always been a fool."

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

"You will never know its Girth!"

"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops. And that's true. What they don't tell you, is that once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."

"It was on that night Karl met his destiny. And I met mine. Almost."

"We didn't have a proper wedding. Your mother-in-law was never supposed to marry me. She was engaged to somebody else."

"This isn't how I die."

"As difficult as it was to reach Spectre, I was fated to get there eventually. After all, no man can avoid reaching the end of his life."

"This town is more than any man could ask for. And if I were to end up here, I'd consider myself lucky. But the truth is, I'm not ready to end up anywhere."

"I agreed to spend the afternoon, if only to understand the mystery of how a place could feel so strange, and yet so familiar."

"What I recalled of Sunday School was that the more difficult something became, the more rewarding it was in the end."

"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."

"There were two roads out of Ashton, a new one which was paved, and an older one that wasn't. People didn't use the old road anymore, and it had developed the reputation of being haunted. Well, Since I had no intention of ever returning to Ashton, this seemed as good a time as any to find out what lay down that old road."

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

"Oh, come on. I can't go back, I'm a human sacrifice. If I go back they'll think I'm a coward. I'd rather be dinner than a coward."

"Armed with the foreknowledge of my own death, I knew the giant couldn't kill me. All the same, I preferred to keep my bones unbroken."

"I was never much for being at home, Will. It's too confining. And this, here... being stuck in bed. Dying is the worst thing that ever happened to me."

"I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you're going to die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn't it? Because you'd know that everything else you can survive."

"Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard. Witches use those bones to cast spells and curses that make the land infertile... yet of all the witches in Alabama, there was one who was the most feared. For she had one glass eye, which was said to contain mystical powers."

"I was trying to find a cure to my gigantificationism..."

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

"There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they're faster or stronger than other fish. They're just touched by something extra. Call it luck. Call it grace. One such fish was "The Beast"."

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

"Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't."

"Haley Joel Osment - Forrest Gump Jr."

"Sonny Shroyer - Paul "Bear" Bryant"

"Siobhan Fallon Hogan - Dorothy Harris"

"Sally Field - Mrs. Gump"

"Mykelti Williamson - Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue"

"Gary Sinise - Lieutenant Dan Taylor"

"Robin Wright Penn - Jenny Curran-Gump"