In this day and age of pirated DVDs and laptops, I have never been happier. Hahahaha! Here are some of the dialogues and quotes from my favourite TV series.
Let us start with DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. I love this series. I love the character of Marcia Cross as Bree (van de Kamp) Hodge. And, I love the voice over of Mary Alice Young at the end of every episode.
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Mrs. McCluskey (she said this to honor Aida Greenberg, who died).
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
that blow.
I'm the diamond glimpse of snow.
I'm the sunlight on the thriving green
I am the gentle autumns rain.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I didn't die.
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Lynette: "Hi. (to Bree) My babysitter cancelled."
Bree: "I've got millions of errands to run so...."
Lynette: "Please hear me out. This is important. Today I have a chance to join the human race for a few hours. They're actual adults waiting for me with margaritas. Look, I'm in a dress. I have make-up on."
Bree: "If it were any other day."
Lynette: "Oh, for Gods sake, Bree, I'm wearing pantyhose."
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Bree: "Rex, if you walk out of this restaurant, I will scream.
Rex: "Bree..."
Bree: "I will scream about your cruelty. Then I will scream about your infidelity. And just to make sure it really hurts, I will scream about your distasteful sexual habits. You want to know what true humiliation is, you just take one step."
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Bree: "Good friends offer to help in a crisis; great friends don't take no for an answer."
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Bree (whispering): "As of this moment, Rex, I am no longer your wife. I am going to go out, and find the most vindictive lawyer I can find, and together, we are going to eviscerate you. I'm going to take away your money, your family, and your dignity. Do you hear me?"
Rex: "Bree..."
Bree: "And I am so thrilled to know that you still love me. Because I want what's about to happen to you...to hurt as much as humanly possible. I'm so glad you didn't die before I got a chance to tell you that."
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Bree: "This is the most impoverished neighborhood in the city. Trust me, someone will steal the car."
Rex: "How can you be so sure?"
Bree: "Because I have faith in the poor."
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Bree: "Is that how you see me? As some sort of prude who just lays there like a cold fish? I love sex."
Dr. Goldfine: "All right."
Bree: "I love everything about it. The sensations, the smells. I especially love the feel of a man. All that muscle and sinew pressed against my body. And then, when you add friction. Mmm ... The tactile sensation of running my tongue over a man’s nipple ever so gently. And then there’s the act itself - two bodies becoming one in that final eruption of pleasure. To be honest, the only thing I don’t like about sex is the scrotum. I mean, obviously it has its practical applications, but I’m just not a fan."
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Martha: "I was just thinking of that expression, ‘I’ll make mincemeat out of you.’ Mincemeat used to be made up of little bits of meat chopped up, so the expression was like saying, ‘I’ll chop you up into little pieces!’"
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Susan: Okay, yes I am closer to your father than I have been in the past, the bitter hatred has now settled to a respectful disgust.
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John Rowland: This is great. Got tons of homework tonight. It's always easier to concentrate after sex.
Gabrielle: Well, I'm glad I could help. Education's very important.
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Carl: "The heart wants what it wants."
Susan: "Well, my heart wants to hurt you, but I can control myself!"
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Bree: The opposite of love isn't hate. It's indifference. And if you hate me, that means you still care and we're still connected and I still have a chance to set you right.
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Dr. Goldfine: I'm sure Freud would not approve of this.
Bree: Oh, who cares what he thinks. I took psychology in college. We learned all about Freud. A miserable human being.
Dr. Goldfine: What makes you say that?
Bree: Well, think about it. He grew up in the late 1800s. There were no appliances back then. His mother had to do everything by hand, just backbreaking work from sunup to sundown, not to mention the countless other sacrifices she probably had to make to take care of her family. And what does he do? He grows up and becomes famous, peddling a theory that the problems of most adults can be traced back to something awful their mother has done. She must have felt so betrayed. He saw how hard she worked. He saw what she did for him. Did he even ever think to say thank you? I doubt it.
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Zach: "You didn't put in an obituary?"
Paul: "I've been busy."
Zach: "Maybe when you die, I won't put in an obituary."
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And now the Mary Alice Young Quotes
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Mary Alice: Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.
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Mary Alice: An odd thing happens when we die, our senses vanish. Taste, touch, smell and sound become a distant memory, but our sight? Ah, our sight expands and we can suddenly see the world we left behind so clearly. Of course most of what's visible to the dead could also be seen by the living, if they would only take the time to look.
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Mary Alice: It's not enough to want to the truth. You must know where to look for it. And the truth is elusive, because it knows where to hide.
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Mary Alice: The search for power begins when we're quite young. As children, we're taught that the power of good triumphs over the power of evil. But as we get older, we realize that nothing is ever that simple. Traces of evil always remain.
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Mary Alice: Yes, each new day in suburbia brings with it a new set of lies. The worst are the ones we tell ourselves right before we fall asleep. We
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Next is from House MD. I really love the witty banter.
Dr. Wilson: Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
Dr. Gregory House: And triteness kicks us in the nads.
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Dr. Wilson: That smugness of yours really is an attractive quality.
Dr. Gregory House: Thank you. It was either that or get my hair highlighted. Smugness is easier to maintain.
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Dr. Gregory House: Ah, the Socratic Method. The best way we have of teaching everything-apart from juggling chainsaws.
Dr. Eric Foreman: No neurologist in his right mind would recommend that.
Dr. Gregory House: Show of hands: who thinks I'm not in my right mind? And who thinks I forget this very basic neurological fact? Who thinks there's a third option?
[Dr. Chase raises his hand]
Dr. Gregory House: Very good. What's the third choice?
Dr. Robert Chase: No idea. You just asked if I thought there was one.
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Dr. Robert Chase: Well, we don't have to talk about this...
Dr. Cameron: Sex COULD kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent. It's ugly. And it's messy. And if God hadn't made it UNBELIEVABLY fun, the human race would have died out eons ago.
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Dr. Cameron: I'm the only one who's always stood behind you when you've screwed up.
Dr. Gregory House: Why? Why would you support someone who screws up?
Dr. Cameron: Because I'm not insanely insecure, and because I can actually trust in another human being, and I am not an angry, misanthropic son of a bitch.
Dr. Gregory House: I'm sorry. You said you *weren't* angry.
House: Everybody lies.
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House: I don't ask why patients lie; I just assume they all do.
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House: It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
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House: ...like the philosopher Jagger once said, 'You can't always get what you want.'"
· "Humanity is overrated."
· "Reality is almost always wrong."
with anyone, fat, skinny, married, single, complete strangers, relatives.
· "I choose to believe that the white light people sometimes see... they're all just chemical reactions that take place when the brain shuts down.... There's no conclusive science. My choice has no practical relevance to my life, I choose the outcome I find more comforting.... I find it more comforting to believe that this isn't simply a test."
· "It's been established that time is not a rigid construct."
· "I was never that great a math, but next to nothing is higher than nothing, right?"
Then, there is Criminal Minds. This series is just wow.
The quotes used on the show might not be the "entire" actual quote written and may be edited for the shows purposes.
Joseph Conrad: The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Winston Churchill: The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.
Albert Einstein: imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
William Faulkner: Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Samuel Johnson: Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Euripides: When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, nor worthiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche: The irrationality of a thing is not an argument of its existence, rather, a condition of it.
Sir Peter Ustinov: Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
Albert Pine: What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.
Diane Arbus: A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld: The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.
Rose Kennedy: It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Erich Fromm: The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.
Cory Doctorow: All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
Socrates: From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Herman Melville: Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
Oscar Wilde: I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Lucy Maud Montgomery: For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.
And the dialogues:
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JJ: [about the incredible Sir Kneighf] Please don’t tell me you have a crush on a fictional character.
Garcia: He’s not fictional. He’s the online alter-ego of a real person.
JJ: Hmmm, you don’t even know anything about him, even if it is…him.
Garcia: Look, we meet online at specified times that he is never late to. We spend hours adventuring and chatting during which time I have his undivided attention and he lavishes me with flattery. When was the last time you had a date go that well?
JJ: See if he’s got a fictional brother.
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Garcia: What was the thing that Jack the Ripper took from one of his victims, besides, well, you know, her life?
Emily: Oh, uh...
Garcia: Mmm. Tick, tock, tick, tock.
Emily: I don't know.
Garcia: A kidney. How horrifingly fantastic is that?
Garcia: Just that I found an unsolved murder that happened four months ago in
Emily: Yeah, me too. Great work.
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And, of course, the forever Grey’s Anatomy. Go Meredith!!
Dr. Meredith Grey: Did you let me scrub in for this operation because I slept with you?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yes.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Just kidding.
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Katie Bryce: My head is full.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's called thinking. Go with it.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines... that are way too dangerous to cross.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope...
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Dr. Meredith Grey: I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope...
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Dr. Meredith Grey: Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No-one likes to lose control, but as a surgeon there's nothing worse. It's a sign of weakness, of not being up to the task. And still there are times when it just gets away from you. When the world stops spinning and you realize that your shiny little scalpel isn't gonna save you. No matter how hard you fight it, you fall. And it's scary as hell. Except there's an upside to
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Dr. Meredith Grey: The key to surviving a surgical internship is denial. We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: At the end of the day, there are some things you just can't help but talk about. Some things we just don't want to hear, and some things we say because we can't be silent any longer. Some things are more than what you say, they're what you do. Some things you say cause there's no other choice. Some things you keep to yourself. And not too often, but every now and then, some things simply speak for themselves.
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Meredith Grey: Intimacy is a four syllable word for, "Here's my heart and soul, please grind them into hamburger, and enjoy." It's both desired, and feared. Difficult to live with, and impossible to live without. Intimacy also comes attached to the three R's... relatives, romance, and roommates. There are some things you can't escape. And other things you just don't want to know.
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Meredith Grey: Okay, here it is, your choice... it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she is really great. But Derek, I love you, in a really, really big pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me.
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