Phrases Memorable

“A team at Cornell University has created a computer program to break down the formula behind some of cinema’s most enduring lines, from Dirty Harry’s ‘Do you feel lucky, punk?’ to Casablanca’s ‘Here’s looking at you, kid.’… The researchers found that the more memorable quotes were made up of word combinations unlikely to appear elsewhere in the film. Yet the grammatical structures of the quotes tended to be ordinary. Other interesting quirks of the memorable quotes included more of a use of the indefinite article rather than the definite article, verbs in the past tense and the use of pronouns other than ‘you’.”