Elling Quotes
[Elling is about to order two train tickets to Oslo]
Train ticket salesman: Yes?
Elling: Yes!
Train ticket salesman: You're going to?
Elling: Yes, we! Kjell Bjarne and I are going to Oslo of course.
Train ticket salesman: One way?
Elling: There are more ways?
Train ticket salesman: Yes?
Elling: Yes!
Train ticket salesman: You're going to?
Elling: Yes, we! Kjell Bjarne and I are going to Oslo of course.
Train ticket salesman: One way?
Elling: There are more ways?
Movie: Elling
Martine: What have you been doing all day, clever?
Robert: This morning I worked at my garage.
Martine: Do you own it?
Robert: No, I don't.
Martine: Then why is it "my garage"?
Robert: At "the" garage. Right.
Martine: You're not listening. How do you know it's a garage? Are you sure the word isn't "swimming-pool" or "hotel"?
Robert: I suppose it could be.
Martine: Exactly. How do things get particular names?
Robert: They're given them.
Martine: Who by?
Robert: This morning I worked at my garage.
Martine: Do you own it?
Robert: No, I don't.
Martine: Then why is it "my garage"?
Robert: At "the" garage. Right.
Martine: You're not listening. How do you know it's a garage? Are you sure the word isn't "swimming-pool" or "hotel"?
Robert: I suppose it could be.
Martine: Exactly. How do things get particular names?
Robert: They're given them.
Martine: Who by?
Movie: Elling
Narrator: Where is the beginning? But what beginning? God created heaven and earth. But one should be able to put it better. To say that the limits of language, of my language, are those of the world, of my world, and that in speaking, I limit the world, I end it. And when mysterious, logical death abolishes those limits, there will be no question, no answer, just vagueness.
Movie: Elling