Lively Letters: Your favorite movie quote

Doug Lively

Date: November 16, 2025

For some lighthearted reading this week, I am listing my favorite movie or TV “quotes.”

In no particular order (although Christmas and Thanksgiving movies are on my mind) I suggest you list any one you remember that I have missed.

GO!

“Merry Christmas, you old building and loan.”

“You’ll shoot your eye out.”

“Yippee Ki-Yay, M_________”

“Every time a bell rings…”

“Ya killing me smalls.”

“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

“I’ll be back.”

“Aw geez, Eedi”

“Nip it, nip it in the bud.”

“Death cannot stop true love.”

“You’re standing on my trunk.”

“Frankly my dear, I don’t…”

“Walk this way.”

“That’s the way he wants it, that’s the way he gets it.”

“Swing away, Merrill.”

“One of these days Alice, to the moon.”

“Say hello to my little friend.”

“You keep using that word.”

“What we have here is failure to communicate.”

“My father was slaughtered by a six fingered man.”

“There’s no way, NO way that you came from MY loins.”

“If you break it in half, you don’t get two nickels, you get sh!t. Try and smoke it. You understand?”

“I would not, could not, in a train.”

“That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run.”

“You beat everything, you know that?”

“If you build it, they will come.”

“Oh, that what now. I tell you what now between me and you. There is no me and you. Not no more,”

“Boy says he can eat 50 eggs, he can eat 50 eggs”

“He’s gonna throw you a fastball.”

“There’s no crying in baseball.”

Doug Lively is a lifelong Augustan and local columnist for the Augusta Press. He previously served as a member of the Augusta Aviation Commission. 

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A product of Richmond County and lifelong Augustan, Doug Lively appreciates the value of the written word and how it marks thoughts, ideas, history and opinion for posterity. Words matter. The spoken word can be laced with inflection and expression to nuance meaning but the written word requires work to precisely relay a thought, idea or opinion. It is an art in danger of extinction.

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