Dead Poets Society

John Keating: "I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself."
Nolan: "At these boys' age? Not on your life!"

"Mr. Meeks, time to inherit the earth."

Dalton: "Gentlemen, what are the four Pillars?"
Dalton, Knox, Meeks, Neil, Todd: "Travesty. Horror. Decadence. Excrement."

Meeks: "I'll try anything once."
Dalton: "Except sex."

"I'm exercising the right not to walk."

Hopkins: "The cat sat on the mat"
John Keating: "Congratulations, Mr. Hopkins. You have the first poem to ever have a negative score on the Pritchard scale."

"Excrement! That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We're not laying pipe! We're talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? 'I like Byron, I give him a 42 but I can't dance to it!'"

"For the first time in my whole life, I know what I wanna do! And for the first time, I'm gonna do it! Whether my father wants me to or not! Carpe diem!"