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Bond films are not common sources for inspirational or thought-provoking quotes.  This is especially true for the bad guys in 007 movies - they tend to just focus on saying evil things.  However, over the years, a few wise thoughts have been cruelly spoken in the name of world domination.  Here are the top five wisest things ever said by a villain in a James Bond film.

Football season brings many a manly man to his comfy recliner, forced to watch hours of gridiron amidst the protests of relatives passing by.  We've showed the money to Jerry Maguire, cheered for Rudy, felt the player's pain in North Dallas Forty, and even got a 'little misty' near the end of the touching Brian's Song.  In honor of the armchair quarterback's game, here are the ten best movie quotes about football. 

A kiss is a symbolic expression of a meaningful connection between two people.  Kissing has been a staple of Hollywood since The Perils of Pauline.   Even film titles have featured the kiss, like First Kiss, Last Kiss, French Kiss, Butterfly Kiss, Shanghai Kiss, The Long Kiss Goodnight and the much sought-after How to Kiss.  We’ve seen both A Prelude to a Kiss and A Kiss Before Dying.  In honor of Spiderman’s coveted MTV Award for ‘Best Kiss’, here are the 14 best movie quotes about kissing.

Charlie Chan is a fictional detective from the Honolulu Police Department who solved crimes and uttered wisdom in 47 different films between 1925 and 1949.  He solved crimes around the world, despite the unsuccessful support of his Number 1 and Number 2 sons.  Chan was played by six different actors, none of them Chinese.  These films introduced ancient Asian wisdom to North American pop culture.  Here are the wisest 10 quotes from Charlie Chan films.

Movie quote from: Contact (1997) – Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster)

In the opening minutes of the movie Contact, the camera scans back from the Earth, passing planets, stars, and galaxies, until the view illustrates our own insignificance in the vast universe.  It is a great metaphorical foundation for the key message of this movie – there is no inherent meaning to our lives.     We must create that meaning ourselves.
 

From the early days of film, we have been fascinated with China.  The Chinese have been associated with positive images like wisdom, hard work, and loyalty, despite political and religious differences with the west.  From The Good Earth to the Oscar winning The Last Emperor, to the recent film The Painted Veil, here are 18 quotes that portray how films define the enigmatic country that is China.

Coffee is the lifeblood of many busy people.  These addicted souls cannot fully function until the Java is flowing through their veins.  Buying your own unique brand of designer coffee became a statement of 1990's individuality.  As those days of Starbucks on every corner begin to fade into the economic frugality of the late 00's, we pay tribute to those halcyon days when coffee was crack.  Here are the 13 best movie quotes about life's greatest guilty pleasure.

The Beijing Summer Olympics will bring to center stage all the good, the bad, and the ugly that is high profile sport.  Many Olympic movies have been made, trying to capture those universal themes of excellence, commitment, and personal sacrifice.  The best of the bunch is Chariots of Fire, a fascinating tale of two completely different British runners who compete for gold at the 1924 Olympics.  Here are the 11 best movie quotes about the essence of Olympian ideals.
 

Hollywood producers have seldom seen cycling as a central theme for the movies they create.  The most notable exception is 1979's Breaking Away, where a young man who idolizes Italian bike racers transitions from adolescence to adulthood and rallies his friends to compete in the Little Indy 500.  Although there are few cycling films, there are even fewer movie quotes about the sport.  Here are the only five quotes we can find about the love of biking.

Although it was one of the worst movies of 2008, The Love Guru film made us wonder: what bits of advice have movies offered to film goers in the past?  Advice often comes preceded by one of two words - "Always..." or "Never...".  This week, we ignore the traditional "Never say never" advice and begin with 20 useful bits of film advice from Never Neverland.