Ferris Bueller Quotes

• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

  William Faulkner

  Fun, Grief, Statistics

  If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem "The Wild Palms" (1939)

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• I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it.

  John Hughes

  Life, Events, Ass

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• Wake up and smell the coffee.

  Ann Landers

  Coffee, Espresso, Smell

  Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 1955.

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• I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Believe In Me, Just Believe

  "God" (song) (1970).

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• When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

  John Hughes

  Monday, Ideas, Tuesday

  "John Hughes in Interview". www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2009.

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• The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

  Dana Gould

  Party, Days Off, Republican

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• Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.

  Edie McClurg

  Czech Republic, Together, Prague

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• She got to you, too, huh?" I said, sliding onto the bench seat across from him. "Actually, I called her." Luca grinned. "I'm vomiting from a possible case of food poisoning. You?" "Sudden onset menstruation." He nodded respectfully. "Classic." "Yeah, but I should have gone for something more long-term. Yours will get you out of the whole afternoon. Ferris Bueller would be proud.

  Rachel Vincent

  Should Have, Long, Vomiting

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• I think I heard it [ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ] earlier. This was being played on a station in San Francisco called Live 105, which was a new wave station. It was one of the first stations to change its format in the early '80s. There was this wave of really strange music coming from Europe like Kraftwork and Freur.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Europe, San Francisco

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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