Tom Rath
Tom Rath

The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

C-3PO: He says the scouts are going to show us the quickest way to the shield generator.
Han Solo: Good. How far is it? Ask him.
[3PO turns to ask, Han pulls him back]
Han Solo: We need some fresh supplies too.
[3PO turns again; Han pulls him back again]
Han Solo: Try and get our weapons back.


[and again]
Han Solo: Hurry up, will ya? Haven't got all day!

Die Hard with a Vengeance
Die Hard with a Vengeance

Zeus: [John's driving through the park in the stolen cab, to get to the subway station payphone on the time Simon set for them] I told you 9th Avenue is the quickest way south.
John McClane: Stop all the goddamn yellin'! I know what I'm doing.
Zeus: Not even God knows what you're doing!

Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible II

Mission Commander Swanbeck: [during a breifing in Sevile, Spain] Ms. Hall and Ambrose had a relationship which he took very seriously... she walked away and he's been wanting her back ever since. We believe she's our surest and quickest way of locating him.
Ethan Hunt: And then what?
Mission Commander Swanbeck: Make sure she

continues to see him, gets him to confide in her, and report to you.
Ethan Hunt: You made it sound as if I was recruiting her for her skills as a thief.
Mission Commander Swanbeck: Well then I misled you, or you made the wrong assumption. Either way, we are asking her to resume her prior relationship - not do anything she hasn't already done...

voluntarily, I might add.
Ethan Hunt: No. She's got no training for this kind of thing.
Mission Commander Swanbeck: What? To go to bed with a man and lie to him? She's a woman - she's got all the training she needs.

Mulan
Mulan

Shan-Yu: [gets a doll from his falcon] What do you see?
[tosses the doll to his soldiers]
Hun Twin 2: Black pine, from the high mountains.
Hun Twin 1: [finds hair on doll] White horse hair, imperial stallions.
Hun: [sniffs doll] Sulfur, from cannons.
Shan-Yu: This doll came from a village in the

Tung Shao Pass, where the Imperial Army's waiting for us.
Hun Archer: We can avoid them easily.
Shan-Yu: No. The quickest way to the emperor is through that pass. Besides, the little girl will be missing her doll. We should return it to her.

Eragon
Eragon

Eragon: Stand up!
Murtagh: [laughs] All my life I've dreamed of dragons.
Eragon: Who are you, and why are you following us?
Murtagh: I'm Murtagh, and you need me, Dragon Rider.
Eragon: Thanks, but we're fine without you.
Murtagh: You seek the Varden? I know the

mountains, every valley and stream.
[points to Arya, who is on the ground]
Murtagh: She will suffer if you go astray.
Eragon: [suspicious] Why would you risk your life for us?
Murtagh: My family was slaughtered by the king's men when I was a boy. I heard rumors, they said a Rider had appeared. If there were ever a time

for retribution, this was it.
Eragon: If you can show me the quickest way to the Varden.
Murtagh: Then to the Varden it is.
Murtagh: [walks forward a few steps, then stops and turns to Eragon] You'll learn to trust me, Dragon Rider.
[Saphira growls]
Eragon: I'm not the only one you need to

convince.