2000
The Year 2000 featured Millennium celebrations, dot-com madness, the end of Peanuts, the billionth Indian, the Sydney Olympics, Tiger’s grand slam, an all-NY World Series, Napster trials, DVD’s arrival, Reality TV, hanging chads, a Bush beginning, and Gladiator slaying the rest at the box office. It was a good year for intelligent writing in film Here are all the best movie quotes from the year 2000.
“Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.”
“May those who love us, love us. And those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so that we may know them by their limping.”
“Know what bugs me the most about those soaps? It's people with no lives, watching other people's fake lives.”
“A sword by itself rules nothing. It only comes alive in skilled hands.”
“Getting out of that category of 'friend' is harder than getting out of Alcatraz.”
“There's a certain way a man stares at a woman he loves. The man looks like a boy on his birthday. And he treats the woman as if she were a gift that he's wanted so long to open and now he can't wait to see what the treasure is inside.”
“You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think!”
"When you develop an infatuation for someone, you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason."
“I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.”
“I haven't screamed that hard since the US hockey team beat the Russians.”