“When I was lying in the V.A. hospital with a big hole blown through the middle of my life, I started having these dreams of flying. I was free. But sooner or later, you always have to wake up.”

                     ~ Avatar (2009)

The hills are alive with the sound of music with songs they have sung for a thousand years.  The hills fill my heart with the sound of music.  My heart wants to sing every song it hears.

~ The Sound of Music (1965)

On Christmas Eve, many years ago I lay quietly in my bed. I did not rustle the sheets. I breathed slowly and silently. I was listening for a sound I was afraid I’d never hear. The ringing bells of Santa’s sleigh.

~ The Polar Express (2004)

I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, dear Father.

~ It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.

~ A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

Oh, hello. You’re, uh, you’re probably here about the story. Elves love to tell stories. I-I’ll bet you didn’t know that about elves. There’s, uh, probably a lot of things you didn’t know about elves. Another, another interesting, uh, elfism, uh, there are only three jobs available to an elf.

~ Elf (2003)

Steve: [reading dice] Five.
Michael: Oh, great.
Steve: So you got an arrow right in your chest.

~ E.T. (1982)

“Once upon this same earth, beneath this same sun, before you, before the ape and the elephant, before the wolf, the bison and the whale, before the mammoth and the mastodon, in the time of the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs were of two kinds.”

~ The Land Before Time (1988)

“Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great…”

~ Labyrinth (1986)

“So where are you? You’re in some motel room. You just - you just wake up and you’re in - in a motel room. There’s the key. It feels like maybe it’s just the first time you’ve been there, but perhaps you’ve been there for a week, three months. It’s - it’s kind of hard to say. I don’t - I don’t know. It’s just an anonymous room.”

~ Memento (2000)

“A long time ago, in the underground realm, where there are no lies or pain, there lived a Princess who dreamed of the human world. She dreamed of blue skies, soft breeze, and sunshine. One day, eluding her keepers, the Princess escaped.”

~ Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

“I can’t believe you wanna be Atticus Finch. Oh, that makes me feel so good.”

~ Almost Famous (2000)

“Good morning, Bastian.”

~ The NeverEnding Story (1984)

“There are two kinds of people in this world, winners and losers.”

~ Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

“Random thoughts for Valentine’s day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.”

~ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)