here's some of my favourite lines since the other string seemed to be overwhelmed with responses. sorry if i'm just repeating what other people said...

I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman. - royal

Where's that red one gonna go? - raleigh

You wanna play some word games, or do some experiments on me or anything? - dudley

We could shimmy up that gutter, jump over that window ledge, and then pry open that ventilator shaft. - royal

Richie: Is it because of us?
Royal: Well, of course, certain sacrifices had to be made as a result of having children. But heavens, no.

Raleigh: Dudley has a rare disease combining symptoms of amnesia, dyslexia and color blindness, with an acute sense of hearing. My research...
Dudley: I'm not color blind, am I?
Raleigh: I'm afraid you are.

i have many more favourites, but i don't want to burn your eyeballs and keep writing more and more. i think pretty much all of eli/ owen's lines were golden nuggets.

cheers.

Good idea to start the favorite line topic all over again grauch! :rollin

Love all the lines you pointed out. Here's my 2 cts:

"I know you asshole!"

"This is my adopted daughter, Margot Tenebaum."

"Wildcattin' was written in an obsolete vernacular..."

"Everyone knows Custer died at Little big horn. What this book presuposes is: maybe he didn't?"

"That man has the cancer."

"That's the last time you stick a knife in me, you hear!?"

- "Henry, this isn't really a tax issue, is it?"
- "No I suppose not. I don't know why I put it that way."

"Please stop belittling me."

I love the whole scene with Margot in the bathtub when Etheline comes over. The whole exchange about the television is great "I tied it to the radiator," "Well, any way, it can't be very good for your eyes." Fabulous. "I'm going to kill myself tomorrow," and "Is it dark?" Of course it's dark, it's a suicide note." The whole movie is just full of fabulousness. <p>"Did you do it because of me?"

"Yeah, but it's not your fault."</p>

here are some of mine:

Anyone want to get some cheeseburgers and hit the cemetary?

Royal: I've always been considered an asshole for about as long as I can remember. That's just my style. But I'd really feel blue if I didn't think you were going to forgive me.
Henry Sherman: I don't think you're an asshole, Royal. I just think you're kind of a son of a bitch.
Royal: Well, I really appreciate that.

Royal: Are you trying to steal my woman?
Henry Sherman: I beg your pardon.
Royal: You heard me, Coltrane.
Henry Sherman: "Coltrane"?
Royal: What?
Henry Sherman: Did you just call me Coltrane?
Royal: No.
Henry Sherman: You didn't?
Royal: No.
Henry Sherman: Okay...

Chas: Why'd you kill yourself?
Richie: I wrote a suicide note after I regained consciousness.
Chas: Is it dark?
Richie: It was a suicide note, of course it was.
Chas: Can we read it?
Richie: No
Chas: Can you paraphrase it for us?
Richie: I don't think so

The crickets and the russ-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket, 'Vamanos amigos,' he whispered and threw the busted leather flintcloth over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscallating dusk light.

Commentator 1: That's 72 unforced errors for Richie Tenenbaum. He's playing the worst tennis of his life. What's he feeling right now Tex Heyward?
Commentator 2: I don't know Jim. There's obviously something wrong with him. He's taken off his shoes and one of his socks, and actually I think he's crying.

Eli: I wish you'd've done this for me when I was a kid.
Richie: But you didn't have a drug problem then.
Eli: Yeah, but it still would've meant a lot to me.

Pagoda: He got the cancer.

Raleigh: Do you have an alternate?
Priest: No.
Raleigh: Are there priests on call?

Medical Student: Can the boy tell time?
Raleigh: Oh, my Lord, no!

--actually i love the whole movie. Every line is classic.

I love the part where the commentator says during the tennis match: "Actually I think he's crying."
That line mixed with Luke Wilsons's amazing face expressions ... I didn't know if I should cry or laugh. <p>"That cab has a dent in it"</p>

oh my gosh...what about this one??

"On the run from Johnny Law...aint no trip to Cleveland"

i think that one, along with the "sage-thicket of the saddlecock" line from RT tops it off for me.

or how about this one from BR, after Anthony says he can't cut his hair...

"then you my friend are a damn fool! a damn fool! C'mon Bob"

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...would have to be my favorite! <p>

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