All Quotes

"Allen Garfield - Cal van Damp"

"Mare Winningham - Modeena Dandridge"

"Michael Pearlman - Matty Levin"

"Steve Gadd - Danny Duggin"

"Eric Gale - Lee-Andrew Parker"

"Tony Levin - John Dibatista"

"Rip Torn - Walter Fox"

"Well, what do you expect? "A grown man living in a kid's world." What do you think I'm doing out there? Cashing in my E tickets for a ride through the Magic Kingdom? You think I'm playing my gigs in The Haunted House?"

"See, it's not that we don't want to have our heart torn out, it's just that we're trying to make a ballsy record here."

"[Reading Matty's song lyrics to Marion] "Hey, baby, don't be cruel. I'm gonna pick you up and we'll have a date at the pizza parlor. You can have a pizza, and I can have one, too. But you didn't want a pizza, so I said 'So long, babe.'" See that? And you were worried that he was going to be a songwriter."

"Paul Simon - Jonah Levin"

"Blair Brown - Marion Levin"

"Richard Tee - Clarence Franklin"

"Harry Shearer - Bernie Wepner"

"Daniel Stern - Hare Krishna"

"Brian Andrews - Matthew Meechum"

"Paul Gleason - First Lieutenant Sammy"

"Julie Anne Haddock - Karen Meechum"

"David Keith - "Red" Pettus"

"Paul Mantee - Colonel Virgil "Virg" Hedgepath"

"Theresa Merritt - Arrabelle Smalls"

"Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum"

"Michael Strong - Colonel Varney"

"Lou Reed - Steve Kunelian"

"What's going on in politics, sir? Are the Chinese holding on?"

"Women, by their extraordinary talent, their subjugating beauty, their decided courage, and their virile spirit, have often caused changes in the social scene."

"Long before 1905, I had started preaching the gospel of the feminists: ‘What a man can do a woman can do just as well."

"I had no brother. My father was anxious to have a son… Thus my training convinced me that woman suffrage was a great need."

"I shall try to perform my duties in a way that shall please everyone."

"Παρακαλούμενος δὲ πάλιν ἀκοῦσαι τοῦ τὴν ἀηδόνα μιμουμένου, παρῃτήσατο φήσας, “Αὐτᾶς ἄκουκα.”"

"Καίτοι τῷ λόγῳ πανταχοῦ τὴν δικαιοσύνην ἀπέφαινε πρωτεύειν τῶν ἀρετῶν· ἀνδρείας μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲν ὄφελος εἶναι, μὴ παρούσης δικαιοσύνης, εἰ δὲ δίκαιοι πάντες γένοιντο, μηδὲν ἀνδρείας δεήσεσθαι."

"Τοῦ δὲ ἰατροῦ Μενεκράτους, ἐπεὶ κατατυχὼν ἔν τισιν ἀπεγνωσμέναις θεραπείαις Ζεὺς ἐπεκλήθη, φορτικῶς ταύτῃ χρωμένου τῇ προσωνυμίᾳ καὶ δὴ καὶ πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἐπιστεῖλαι τολμήσαντος οὕτως· “Μενεκράτης Ζεὺς βασιλεῖ Ἀγησιλάῳ χαίρειν,” ἀντέγραψε· “Βασιλεὺς Ἀγησίλαος Μενεκράτει ὑγιαίνειν.”"

"Observing that a certain malefactor bore torture with remarkable firmness, he said, “What a great rogue he must be, whose courage and constancy are bestowed on crime alone!”"

"When asked what boys should learn, he replied, “That which they will use when men.”"

"From this course of life, we reap liberty."

"When asked why they wore their hair long, he replied, “Because of all personal ornaments it costs the least.”"

"Having kept at a distance the enemies of Sparta, he could say, “No Spartan woman has ever seen the smoke of the enemy’s camp.”"

"He showed the citizens in arms to one who asked why Sparta had no walls, with the words, “These are the walls of Sparta.” He used to say that “cities should be walled with the courage of the inhabitants.”"

"When asked where the boundaries of Sparta were, he replied, “On the points of our spears.”"

"Being shown a well-walled city, and asked if it were not a fine thing; “For women,” he answered, “not men, to live in.” Thus Agis II, observing the high and strong walls of Corinth, asked, “What women live there?”"

"When asked what good the laws of Lycurgus had brought to Sparta, he replied, “Contempt of pleasure;” and in answer to the question how he acquired his great reputation for bravery, “By contemning death.” Agis II made the same answer when asked how a man could be always free."

"Youth, thy words need an army."

"When a well-contrived but difficult plan to free Greece was proposed to Agis II, he replied, “Friend, thy words need an army and a treasure.”"

"Accepting an inferior seat at a public dancing, Agesilaus said, “It is not the places which grace men, but men the places.”"

"To one commending the skill of a certain orator in magnifying petty matters, the king replied, “I do not think that shoemaker a good workman who makes a great shoe for a little foot.”"

"On his death-bed, charging his friends that no fiction or counterfeit (so he called statues) should be made of him, Agesilaus said, “If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.”"

"I am Raphael, one of the seven angels who stand ready to enter before the Glory of the Lord."

"You had, boor, a golden horn; you had, boor, a feathered cap... Now you're left with just a string."

"Ἐπεὶ δὲ κατέπλευσεν εἰς τὴν Αἴγυπτον, εὐθὺς οἱ πρῶτοι τῶν βασιλικῶν ἡγεμόνων καὶ διοικητῶν ἐβάδιζον ἐπὶ ναῦν θεραπεύοντες αὐτόν. ἦν δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Αἰγυπτίων σπουδή τε μεγάλη καὶ προσδοκία διὰ τοὔνομα καὶ τὴν δόξαν τοῦ Ἀγησιλάου, καὶ συνετρόχαζον ἅπαντες ἐπὶ τὴν θέαν. ὡς δὲ ἑώρων λαμπρότητα μὲν καὶ κατασκευὴν οὐδεμίαν, ἄνθρωπον δὲ πρεσβύτην κατακείμενον ἔν τινι πόᾳ παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν, εὐτελῆ καὶ μικρὸν τὸ σῶμα, τραχὺ καὶ φαῦλον ἱμάτιον ἀμπεχόμενον, σκώπτειν αὐτοῖς καὶ γελωτοποιεῖν ἐπῄει, καὶ λέγειν ὅτι τοῦτο ἦν τὸ μυθολογούμενον "ὠδίνειν ὄρος, εἶτα μῦν ἀποτεκεῖν"."

"Let Reuben live, and not die,"