Quotes from The Beginning, the End and the Murky Middle


Vincent: I think I'm gonna pass.
Maxine: Oh, Vincent, this is very important to your brother and to Gillian.
Vincent: Mom, I am not religious. I don't want put on clothes I'd only wear on a dare and go to church, stand up in front of everybody and feel like a hypocrite.
Peter: It's okay, mom, we respect Vincent's feelings.
Gillian: We were just going to ask him to be the godfather.
Vincent: Godfather? Me? Is a navy blazer okay or do I need a suit and tie?

Carole: I like it when you don't shave.
Vincent: That's good to know. I'm not above using stubble as a seduction tool.

Vincent: I see cranky people... they're everywhere... they don't know they're cranky.

Man: I'm concerned that your director is a drug addict.
Maxine: No, my director is a former drug addict. I, myself, am a former high school student and everyone in this room used to poop in their pants. What, exactly, is your point?

Tom: Who was the sadist that decided lobster tasted best if you threw it into boiling water while it was still alive?
Amy: It was probably the same guy who looked at an artichoke and decided that there was something in there worth fighting for.

Carole: I want to talk.
Vincent: Uh oh.
Carole: What?
Vincent: No conversation ever started that way and ended up good for the guy.

Carole: You could say no.
Vincent: Somehow I don't believe that.

Vincent: Come on in. We're teaching Ariadne how to be infantile.

Tom: This is hard.
Amy: Wow. Okay. I hate this conversation already.

Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself
They come through you but not of you
You may house their bodies, but not their souls
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday
- An excerpt from "Children" by Kahlil Gibran


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