Quotes About Dead Poets Society

#1. The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

David Walton

#2. Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

Tom Schulman

#3. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

Jake M. Johnson

#4. What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

Russell Brand

#5. The experience on that movie ( Dead Poets Society ) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

Ethan Hawke

#6. When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

Russell Tovey

#7. The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

Robin Williams

#8. Oh captain my captain

Walt Whitman

#9. Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Robin Williams

#10. Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

Tom Schulman

#11. I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse

Courtney Love

#12. We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

Robin Williams

#13. The trial seemed to be made for television. It involved an attractive lady wrestler, a wealthy Texas rancher and her architect husband, a bomb, and a murder plot.

Jacob Bembry

#14. Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Robin Williams

#15. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#16. When I disconnect from Skype, I can let go of the cheerful face I've been trying to hold for Jess's sake.

Lark O'Neal

#17. Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

Cy Twombly

#18. When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

Tom Schulman

#19. I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Robin Williams

#20. Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

Robin Williams

#21. When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#22. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Robin Williams

#23. Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Tom Schulman

#24. If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

Italo Calvino

#25. I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ).

Henry David Thoreau