Dale Cooper: In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.
Windom Earle: The only thing Columbus discovered was that he was lost!
Major Briggs: Achievement is its own reward, pride obscures it.
Sheriff Truman: Jelly donuts?

Dale Cooper: Harry, that goes without saying.
Catherine Packard Martell: Didn't he want to talk to me?

Pete Martell: Yeah, but we told him you were on your world tour, he should contact your press agent.
Ben Horne: We've lain a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight; all of Twin Peaks' best and brightest.

Jerry Horne: We're holding it in a phone booth?
Dale Cooper: Fellas, coincidence and fate figure largely in our lives.
Dale Cooper: Harry, I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.
[repeated line]

Dale Cooper: Damn good coffee!
Dale Cooper: Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.
Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill: One woman can make you fly like an eagle, another can give you the strength of a lion, but only one in the Cycle Of Life can fill your heart with wonder and the wisdom that you have known a singular joy.
Big Ed Hurley: It's not the first time, it won't be the last, but I'm in that doghouse again.
Dale Cooper: [Lucy pours Cooper a cup of coffee. He takes a sip and promptly spits it out]

Dale Cooper: Damn fine coffee! And hot!
FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper: [with a smile to Sheriff Truman] Harry, you're all right.
James Hurley: When did you start smoking?

Donna Hayward: I smoke every once and a while. Helps relieve tension.

James Hurley: When did you get so tense?

Donna Hayward: When I started smoking.
Jerry Horne: Sheriff, your 24 hours are up. I demand you to arrest my client or release him!

Sheriff Truman: Ben Horne, you are under arrest for the murder of Laura Palmer.

Ben Horne: Great move, Jer.
Giant: The owls are not what they seem.
Man from Another Place: When you see me again, it won't be me.
Man from Another Place: Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song... and there's always music in the air.
Laura Palmer: I feel like I know her... but sometimes my arms bend back.
The Log Lady: One day my log will have something to say about this.
Donna Hayward: The police didn't love Laura, nobody loved Laura but us.
Dale Cooper: Ask me why I'm whittling.

Sheriff Truman: I give up. Why are you whittling?

Dale Cooper: Because that's what you do in a town where a yellow light still means slow down, not go faster.
Blackie O'Reilly: Well Fred, what's your line?

Big Ed Hurley: [undercover] Own a gas station.

[Cooper nudges Ed in his side]

Big Ed Hurley: I'm an oral surgeon.

Blackie O'Reilly: Well, I got a Chevy parked out back with a serious root-canal problem. Want to take a look?
The Log Lady: My log saw something that night.
Jerry Horne: I am 100% sure that we're not completely sure.
FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole: Cooper, you remind me today of a small Mexican chi-wow-wow.
Dale Cooper: Harry, is that bag smiling?
Bobby Briggs: I got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that your father has bought a condo in Flip City, and the good news is that he is about to win the Civil War.
Hank Jennings: You're his whore, Norma.

Norma Jennings: I'd rather be his whore than your wife.
[repeated line]

Dwayne Milford: [into a microphone] Is this thing on?
Leland Palmer: Through the darkness of future past / The magician longs to see / One chants out between two worlds / Fire walk with me. I'll catch you with my death bag. You may think I've gone insane, but I promise I will kill again!
DEA Agent Dennis: I understand we're both staying at the Great Northern. How's the food up there?

Dale Cooper: Dennis, you're in for a big surprise.

Sheriff Truman: So are they.
Major Briggs: How was school, son?

Bobby Briggs: Fine. How was work?

Major Briggs: Work was fine.

Bobby Briggs: What exactly is it you do?

Major Briggs: That's classified.
Dale Cooper: I believe I was visited by a giant last night. Twice.

FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield: Any relations with the dwarf?
Annie Blackburn: [praying] Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth / As when one cutteth wood upon the earth / But mine eyes are unto thee, O God The Lord: / In thee is my trust, leave not me / Keep me from the snares they have laid for me / And the gins of the workers of iniquity / Let the wicked fall into their own nets / Whilst that I withal escape.
Agoraphobe: I thought you were pure!

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Sonny 2022-04-24 07:01:03

Indeed, the first season is to recognize a familiar face. I have to say that David Fincher's casting taste is quite positive, but the actors here are really too similar, and the first few episodes are really recognized by everyone. I'm not sure, I hope there will be a big breakthrough in the plot of the second season, and I hope there will be legendary strange powers and chaos, eh!
Nathan 2022-04-21 09:01:28

Revisit. Lynch's parts are the funniest and scariest. Other directors: redundant camera movement, pursuit of continuity between camera cuts. David Lynch: The camera movement is self-exposed, the medium shots and close-ups are shot with medium focus, and the panorama is shot with an exaggerated wide-angle to display the room completely, like the Rabbit Theater later. Foreseeing the heaven and hell of the Video era - omnipresent cameras and arbitrarily stretched time.