Siskel Film Quotes

#1. If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There's not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.

Caroline George

#2. She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne - bubbly and intoxicating - and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn't want to seem like an easy mark.
"If you must know, I've come to join a convent," Evie said, testing him.

Libba Bray

#3. I know I was born and I know that I'll die
The in between is mine
I am mine

Pearl Jam

#4. My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.

Michelle Magorian

#5. You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.

Gene Siskel

#6. Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

Gene Siskel

#7. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

#8. The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Anton Chekhov

#9. Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

Chanakya

#10. It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he at eighteen knew that it would take more than one person to make.

William Faulkner

#11. How many different deaths I can die?

Sylvia Plath

#12. Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

Gene Siskel

#13. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Steve James

#14. They would assume she was a boy, because in her plain trousers and hood she looked like one, and because when people were attacked it never occurred to anyone that it might have been a girl.

Kristin Cashore

#15. A half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful.

Donald Miller

#16. A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.

Gene Siskel

#17. I knew that I had seen, had seen at last
That girl my unremembering nights hold fast
Or else my dreams that fly
If I should rub an eye,
And yet in flying fling into my meat
A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat ...

William Butler Yeats

#18. Can you say the following? Jesus is my Prophet. I've taken His yoke of Truth upon me. Jesus is my Priest. I rely on His sacrifice for sin to give me forgiveness of sins... Jesus is my King. I trust Him to deliver me from evil I submit to His authority over me.

Kenneth Mick

#19. Fine!" he relented, giving her a dirty look. "But only if you stay in front."
She rolled her eyes. "My, what chivalry."
"To hell with chivalry. Your idea, you die first.

Gina Damico