Sentence examples for quoting a character from inspiring English sources

"You can't handle the truth," McVeigh said, quoting a character played by Jack Nicholson in the film A Few Good Men.

On the campaign trail last year, Al Gore liked to lament the injustices of the world by quoting a character from the 1991 movie "Grand Canyon".

He wants to bring us "as close as we can get to this often elusive historical figure," sometimes telling the story as if he were an eyewitness, or quoting a character from a novel.

As Nelson embarks on her intellectual and emotional journey, Harry also goes on various excursions in order to become the person he is now, whom Nelson describes, quoting a character from Harry's 2001 film, "By Hook or By Crook," as neither male nor female but "a special — a two for one".

Once we were in the car and he was quoting a character from a network comedy show.

A popular Egyptian novel, "Utopia," set in a future Cairo, quotes a character explaining an uprising.

In the middle of her splendid new cabaret tribute to Frank Loesser, Andrea Marcovicci quotes a character from Neil Simon's "California Suite" as complaining, "You're worse than a hopeless romantic; you're a hopeful one".

To the Editor: Nathaniel Rich, in his review of "Last Night at the Lobster," by Stewart O'Nan (Nov. 4), quotes a character who wonders, "Who, besides the people who actually work here, thinks about Red Lobster?" Many people indeed think about Red Lobster, which is the focus of an international boycott of Canadian seafood intended to force an end to the barbaric annual Canadian harp seal hunt.

The memo continued for a page and a half in this vein, referring to two partners by name as "tormentors," gently digging at law firm culture and quoting a Dickens character: "the law is a ass [sic], a idiot".

While I acknowledge the irony of quoting a television character here, the point still stands.

And so, he said, smiling broadly and quoting from a character in "The Sopranos" who was quoting Al Pacino in "The Godfather, Part III," "Just when I thought that I was out, they p-u-l-l me back in".