Quotes About The Big Lebowski

#1. I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

Zephyr Teachout

#3. I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#4. I like 'The Big Lebowski'. The Dude is my man. My brother and I can quote that.

Kirby Bliss Blanton

#5. I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reality of them overwhelms halfway conceptions.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Benjamin Disraeli

#7. Yeah? Well, you know, that's just uh like, your opinion man.
~The Dude~ The Big Lebowski

Joel And Ethan Coen

#8. The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'

Stephen Rodrick

#9. Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

Richard Koch

#10. My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

Neil Jordan

#11. Shit, this had to be how Alzheimer's patients felt: Their personality was intact and so was their intellect ... but they were surrounded by a world that no longer made sense because they couldn't hold on to their memories and associations and extrapolations.

J.R. Ward

#12. Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

William Chapman

#13. Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

Ethel Mumford

#14. My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

Mariah Carey

#15. Colonel Aureliano Buendia could understand only that the secret of good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude- 205

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#16. Well that's like, your opinion, man.

Jeff Bridges

#17. I never know what I'm going to get. A 'Sopranos' fan is very different from a 'Big Lebowski' fan.

Steve Buscemi

#18. I just went and saw 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' Julianne Moore - I've been in love with her since 'Boogie Nights.' But also, 'The Big Lebowski.'

Kyle Chandler

#19. I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

Malcolm Gladwell

#20. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

H.L. Mencken