‘RUNNING ON EMPTY’  SENTENCE  STARTERS ( REQ’D BY ANON ! )
↪  all  taken  from  the  1988  movie. feel  free  to  edit  them  as  you  see  fit,  &  enjoy !

• “you are certifiable!”
  
• “now go out there and make a difference.”
• “your mother and i tried. and don’t let anyone tell you any different.”
  
• “i love you, baby.”
• “it’s dangerous for you and it’s dangerous for them but i’m sorry, i just couldn’t stop myself.”
  
• “i just needed you to know … i don’t know what i’m doing, and i love you.”
  
• “i didn’t feel like having my picture taken with those sub-humans.”
• “i’m very happy with you.”
  
• “aren’t we supposed to question authority? you’re the one who taught me that!”
  
• “now go out there and make a difference.”
• “if you want to go back, that’s fine with me.”
  
• “you’re a bully.”
• “no. i’m a liar.”
  
• “you can’t dance to beethoven.”
  
• “why do you have to carry the burden of someone else’s life?”
  
• “what’s this about a pizza?”
  
• “that’s wit, not anger!”
  
• “so now that we’ve determined i belong here, let’s talk about you.”
  
• “i think that’s too much to ask.”
  
• “i want to learn how to cook.”
  
• “what are you doing here if you think so ‘highly’ of it?”
  
• “we’ll see you again. you can be sure.”
  
• “you’re on your own, kid.”
  
• “now, i have no right in telling this to you.”
  
• “they gave them to me, and i know i packed them but … i just can’t find them.”
• “there’s no reason to think they’re onto us yet so stay calm.”
  
• “it’s wonderful having a new name every six months.”
  
• “my god (name). why’d you throw it all away?”
• “you can’t keep running away from something you had nothing to do with.”
  
• “you deserve your own chance!”
• “what about us?”
  
• “they need me.”
  
• “i need you.”
• “it must be nicer over there.”
  
• “i wanna stay.”
• “well, on birthdays, we’re all ‘sam’.”
• “it’s great not recognising yourself in the mirror!”
  
• “i think i’ll go to new york and i’ll learn to write and i’ll come home every christmas and everyone will be really polite.”
  
• “that doesn’t sound so bad. “
• “you have a lot of secrets, don’t you? and now you have another one.”
• “you sleeping with her?”
  
• “baseball is my life.”
• ‘guitar is my life.”
  
• “you said ‘walk’ not ‘hike’.”
  
• “you tired?”
  
• “you know, i was really surprised when you called me.”
  
• “i wasn’t sure if you liked me or not.”
• “sometimes you’re so … distant.”
  
• “well, i’m not too sure if you like me too much either.”
  
• “take it on faith. i usually don’t follow people i don’t like for ten miles into the middle of the woods.”
  
• “why’re you so angry?”
• “you scare a lot of people.”
• “what’s wrong with being nice?”
• “they see what they wanna see and they block out everything else.”
• “i don’t know a thing about you. you might as well have sprung full-grown out of the head of zeus.”
  
• “i’m a vegetarian; i don’t want little pieces of finger in my food.”
  
• “can i help?”
• “that was delicious babe; you outdid yourself.”
  
• “oh god, i’m old enough to set the house on fire.”
  
• “that’s you all over: afraid to commit yourself.”
  
• “it’s okay; i want to.”
  
• “you wouldn’t talk to me.”
  
• “what am i doing?”
• “i just wanted to talk to you.”
  
• “i couldn’t stay with you that night - not because i didn’t want to …”
  
• “i just wanted to tell you that i was sorry.”
  
• “i wanted to tell you why i couldn’t be with you - not without you knowing; i didn’t wanna lie to you.”
  
• “go ahead, hit the sack. you got school tomorrow.”
• “you really like her, don’t you? smart ones are always the best.”
  
• “i don’t know how to say goodbye.”