Other Titles • The Shipping News • Noeuds et dénouements (2001) • Schiffsmeldungen (2002)
Quotes from The Shipping News (2001)
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Billy: It's finding the center of your story, the beating heart of it, that's what makes a reporter. You have to start by making up some headlines. You know: short, punchy, dramatic headlines. Now, have a look, what do you see? [Points at dark clouds at the horizon] Billy: Tell me the headline. Quoyle: Horizon Fills With Dark Clouds? Billy: Imminent Storm Threatens Village. Quoyle: But what if no storm comes? Billy: Village Spared From Deadly Storm.
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Quoyle: ...broken man can heal.
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[Tert is ordered to buy Quoyle a new computer] Quoyle: IBM please. Tert Card: Go back to your work Quoyle! Quoyle: I!... B!... M!
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Petal Bear: It's 8:05. I think I'm gonna fuck you by 10:00.
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Quoyle: [reading the newspaper] This is from the "News of you Neighbors" column. "The pole on the corner of Main and West Streets has a sign on it that says it's illegal to place anything on that pole. We see the postman has landed in the clink for throwing the mail in Killick-Claw Harbor. He said he had too much to deliver and the folks could just take a dip and help themselves. Guess it helps if you can swim." Quoyle: This is professional stuff. How am I supposed to write this?
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Jack Buggit: . . I need a reporter. And you'll do local car wrecks. Take the picture, write the story. We run a front-page photo of a car wreck every week whether or not we actually hav a a car wreck. Now, there's a knack for taking photos that make you feel something. If there's a dark patch on the ground it reads blood whether it's motor oil or Diet Coke.
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Billy: [delivering a eulogy at Jack's wake] Jack is ... Jack is all right now. You all know ... we are only passing by. We walk over these stones a few times. Our boats ... sail for a little while on the waves and then they have to sink. Jack knew that, better than anyone. Right, Jack?
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Jack Buggit: You don't have the sense God gave a donut, do you?
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