Rushmore Movie Quotes

#1. There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.

Mathew Staver

#3. I'm giving you one minute to play, Kenna, then it's time to start wearing you out. I'll be making up for lost time with that sinner's body.

Anonymous

#4. But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.

Neil Postman

#5. Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#6. She blinks long. Long. Like a prayer-blink.

Jessica Martinez

#7. I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.

Jamie Bamber

#8. We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

John Anderson

#9. The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

Kameron Hurley

#11. Good because I want you too. Now. Forever. Just you

Abbi Glines

#12. Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

Frederick Sanger

#13. People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

Victor Hugo

#14. As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.

Rhys Ifans

#15. You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand.

Gwenn Wright

#16. It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.

Anders Holm