October 12, 2004
Baby Withdrawal
We all miss Little T and it brings us to realize how much we miss all the kids, Brandon, Taylor, Ryan, Nikolas too. The house is so quiet. In one way, Linda's situation has been a sort of blessing for us because we got to see Tomas and play with him every day. We won't have that with the other kids because we're just so far apart. I feel bad for my own kids, that their grandparents are virtual strangers. They haven't seen my parents in years and it's been several months since they saw Fred and Alberta. I feel sad we have that distance with Michele, David & their kids. 
Time for a meme to distract me.
Ten Favorite Quotes from the Movies
Some of my quotes are parts of a conversation from a movie. So I went to the Movie Database to get them right. These are in no particular order:
Network, 1976
Howard Beale : [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: [screaming at the top of his lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
Arthur Jensen : You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it. Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars.
Casablanca, 1942
Rick : Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa : But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick : Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain Renault : I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa : You're saying this only to make me go.
Rick : I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa : But what about us?
Rick : We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa : When I said I would never leave you.
Rick : And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.
Field of Dreams, 1989
John Kinsella : Is this heaven?
Ray Kinsella : It's Iowa.
John Kinsella : Iowa? I could have sworn this was heaven.
[John starts to walk away]
Ray Kinsella : Is there a heaven?
John Kinsella : Oh yeah. It's the place where dreams come true.
[Ray looks around, seeing his wife playing with their daughter on the porch]
Ray Kinsella : Maybe this is heaven.
Voice: If you build it, he will come
Forrest Gump, 1994
Forrest Gump : Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.
Jenny Curran : Were you scared in Vietnam?
Forrest Gump : Yes. Well, I-I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out... and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water... like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It's so beautiful.
Jenny Curran : I wish I could've been there with you.
Forrest Gump : You were.
Harvey, 1950
Elwood P. Dowd : Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
Parenthood, 1989
Tod : You know, Mrs. Buchman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.
[Gil has been complaining about his complicated life; Grandma wanders into the room]
Grandma : You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster.
Gil : Oh?
Grandma : Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride!
Gil : What a great story.
Grandma : I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.