Frankly my dear...

It seems like the AFI has run out of stuff to do, and I'll it does is make lists now.

So here's the top 100 movie quotes of all time

The criteria is pretty vague:

CULTURAL IMPACT: Movie Quotes that viewers use in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, they become part of the national lexicon.
LEGACY: Movie Quotes that viewers use to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.

But at least they freely admit that they're full of crap:

Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary. When you consider that any phrase from American film is eligible, you realize this is our most subjective topic to date. We expect nothing less than a war of words as we reignite interest in classic American movies.

Even in the top 10 the entries are a bit questionable. I think the rules needed to be clearer if this was a list of impact at the time, or still relevant impact.

Looking at the list, there are plenty of relevant movie quotes that have become part of the language. Many of them would probably be unique SIPs, (if amazon was cataloging them).

But there are others that were already part of the language, and that's why they were in the movie in the first place. I'm pretty damn sure that "Houston, we have a problem" predates Apollo 13 by a few decades. And movies that were books: Sherlock Holmes, Gone with the Wind.... I'm no linguist, but I'd assume, based on the super popularity of the books that those quotes were already in the American conciousness before the movies...

Enjoy the list. At least this list doesn't make me feel stupid. I've heard of almost all of the movies.

Nobody puts Baby in a corner.