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Daily dialogue — April 14, 2009

Scott Myers

14 Apr 2009
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“I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics.”

 — Mr. Maguire (Walter Brooke), The Graduate (1967), screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, based on the novel by Charles Webb

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