Miss Beryl Quotes in Nobody's Fool (1994)

Miss Beryl: Do you still bet on that horse race of yours?

Sully: What, the trifecta?

Miss Beryl: Yes. Has it ever come in?

Sully: Not yet.

Miss Beryl: But you still bet on it.

Sully: Well, sure. I mean, the odds have gotta kick in sooner or later.

Miss Beryl: Fine. That's exactly the way I feel about you.

Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?

Sully: Not often. Now and then.

Miss Beryl: Mr. Sullivan, you're wearing a necktie. Are you in trouble with the law again?

[first lines]

Miss Beryl: Mr. Sullivan.

[banging on ceiling]

Miss Beryl: Mr. Sullivan. God just took out Mrs. Gruber's bird bath!

Miss Beryl: [to her husband's picture] He's getting closer Clive. Last year it was the street light at the end of the block, now it's Mrs. Gruber's bird bath. I think God's zeroing in on me. I have the feeling this is the year he lowers the boom.

Sully: [quoting] Beware the chains we forge in life.

Miss Beryl: I don't suppose you remember who said that?

Sully: *You* did Miss Beryl, all through 8th grade.