Best movie quotes of 1977

Cledus Snow: You can't drive a fork lift.
Bandit: I can drive any forkin' thing around.

Luke: How did my father die?
Obi-Wan: A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.

[Dr. Terminus has just learned of Elliot's existence.]
Dr. Terminus: Do you think this kid Pete would sell it?
Hoagy: Money talks.
Dr. Terminus: First there's a dragon. Now he tells me money talks. Will miracles never cease?

Jerry Landers: How can you permit all the *suffering* that goes on in the world?
God: Ah, how can *I* permit the suffering?
Jerry Landers: Yeah!
God: I don't permit the suffering. You do! Free will. All the choices are yours.
Jerry Landers: Choices? What choices?
God: You can love each other, cherish and nurture each other or you can kill each other. Incidentally, "kill" is the word. It's not "waste." If I meant "waste" I would have written "thou shalt not waste." You're doing some very funny things with words, here. You're also turning the sky into mud. I look down, I can't believe the filth. Using the rivers for toilets, poisoning my fishes. You want a miracle? *You* make a fish from scratch. You can't. You think only God can make a tree? Try coming up with a mackerel. And when the last one is gone, that'll be that. Eighty-six on the fishes, goodbye sky, so long world, over and out.

Connie: Are you as good in bed as you are on the dance floor?

Paula McFadden: I thought you said you were decent.
Elliot Garfield: I am decent. I also happen to be naked.

TV Announcer: And because of a courageous little girl named Penny, the world's largest diamond, the Devil's Eye, is now at the Smithsonian Institute. But what's even more important, folks, this little orphan's dream has come true. Today, she's being adopted. And here she is with her new mother and father.

Henry Gibson: In the past year, over 800,000 Americans have died. Despite millions of dollars of research, death continues to be our nation's number one killer.

Tom Ripley: Even this river - this river reminds me of another river.

Gopher: If I was you, I'd think about skedaddlin' out of here.
Winnie the Pooh: Why?
Gopher: 'Cause it's "Winds-day."

King Bruno the Questionable: Guards... kill that man.

Brenda Carter: We're gonna be french fries! Human french fries.

Nicolai Dalchimsky: The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep. And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Remember. Miles to go before I sleep.

Mike Leak: LET them play! LET them play! LET them play.

Major David Kabakov: What is this thing you Americans call the Super Bowl?

Karen Wallace: Excuse me, I don't mean to intrude, but could you move your ass, dear?

Lillian: Hemingway, huh?
Sammy: Yes. Hemingway and Cocteau and his red necktie and the crème de la crème.
Dottie: Way down deep, he's very superficial.

James Bond: Which bullet has my name on it? The first or the last?
Major Anya Amasova: I have never failed on a mission, Commander. Any mission.
James Bond: In that case, Major, one of us is bound to end up gravely disappointed, because neither have I.

Sonia: If you want you can stay as long as you please.
Pat Hingle: Thanks, but... I'm leaving town in the morning. I'm going away forever.
Sonia: Oh, big deal, kid! So what if you got thrown out of school? I always got thrown out of school. Beginning in kindergarten.
Pat Hingle: No, that's not it. I don't give a damn about getting thrown out. You wouldn't believe me if I told it to you. It all seems so... absurd! So fantastic.

German Aide: Excuse me for interrupting, but ... British paratroopers have apparently landed. Three kilometers from here.
Field Marshal Model: Why should they do that? There's nothing valuable here. I! I am valuable here! They have all come to capture me!