"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."
– W. E. B. Du Bois
"If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job."
– Woody Allen
"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage."
– Peggy Noonan
Both movies and books are often remembered by the perfect line. It’s your job as a writer to create that perfect line. However, sometimes your character needs to throw down dialogue that’s so eloquent, so brilliant it has already been uttered. Brainy Quote is a free site that has gathered an impressive collection of quotes all dichotomized by either topic, author, or type (i.e. mathematician, model, coach etc.).
I wrote a script a while back in which one of the main characters was obsessed with the game of baseball. I remember combing through the Sports section at the local bookstore trying to find baseball-specific quotes he could relay. That’s so 1998. I love technology.
