Most scary games people play in real life are old sleepover classics played in the dark: Sardines, Murder in the Dark, Bloody Mary and Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board. None of them need more than a dark room, a flashlight or a mirror. The fear comes from the dark and from everyone’s…
The Scarlet Letter quotes about sin that show up most in essays come from three characters: Hester, who sins openly; Dimmesdale, who hides it; and Chillingworth, whose revenge Dimmesdale calls worse than either. Nathaniel Hawthorne published the novel in 1850, and it is set in Puritan Boston in the 1640s. The quotes below are grouped…
The quotes from The Awakening that come up most in essays trace Edna Pontellier’s change from a wife her husband regards as property in Chapter 1 to a woman who says “I give myself where I choose” in Chapter 36. Kate Chopin published the novel in 1899. It is set among wealthy Creole families at…
The “just the facts, ma’am” quote is credited to Sgt. Joe Friday, Jack Webb’s detective on the police drama Dragnet, but Friday never said it in those exact words. His usual line was “All we want are the facts, ma’am.” The shorter version grew out of a 1953 comedy record by satirist Stan Freberg that…
These 90s trivia questions and answers cover movies, TV, music, toys, tech and news from 1990 to 1999, with the answer directly under each question. A good opener for any group: which 1997 film was the first to earn more than $1 billion worldwide? The answer is Titanic. The questions are grouped into six rounds,…
The most famous War of 1812 quotes are two naval lines from 1813: Captain James Lawrence’s “Don’t give up the ship!” and Oliver Hazard Perry’s “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” Both are documented by the U.S. Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command, and both became rallying cries while the war was…
The metaphor most often cited in “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is King’s call to lift national policy “from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the letter on April 16, 1963, while jailed for leading nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, and he uses metaphor throughout…
“Just keep swimming” is Dory’s motto in Pixar’s Finding Nemo (2003). She says it to Marlin at his lowest point in the film: “When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming.” The line means keep going, even when you can’t see how things will work out. That plain meaning…
The most inspirational quote from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) comes in the opening narration: the Enchantress warns the Prince “not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.” Almost every other line worth quoting from the film comes back to that idea. The quotes below are from the 1991 animated film,…
The Godfather favor quote is Don Vito Corleone’s line to the undertaker Amerigo Bonasera in the opening scene of The Godfather (1972): “Someday, and that day may never come, I’ll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter’s wedding day.” Marlon…