john hughes

We all have favorite movie lines and if you lived your teen years during the 80's, the lines spoken in John Hughes' movies tend to stick with you. John Hughes passed away yesterday. He had a heart attack while he was walking in NYC; he was only 59. His movies are so embedded in my memories of high school, as are the lines he wrote.

"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

"The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom; I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you that a good phony fever is a dead lock, but, uh... you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. That's worse than school. You fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over, moaning and wailing, you lick your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is high school." Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Jim Baker: "Why do you think you're a dork? I don't think you're a dork. I don't think Mom thinks you're a dork.
Samantha: Mike thinks I'm a dork.
Jim Baker: Mike *is* a dork." Sixteen Candles

Brian Johnson: "Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain... ..and an athlete... and a basket case... .a princess... .and a criminal... Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club." The Breakfast Club

The 80's may be long gone, but thanks to the movies John Hughes wrote and directed, a bit of my teenage experience lives on and what fun it is to share it with my own teens. I sense a movie marathon weekend in our future.....