Well we've got a topic for worst cliches so I thought we might hit off some where in the other direction. What are some of your favorite memorable lines from movies, tv's or books?
I'll start with one I heard last night
"Your like an amnesiac in a whore house"
"You don't understand why you keep getting screwed, and you don't wanna pay for it"
Well, I'd have to say that a lot of Schwarzenegger' s lines should make this list. So let's give the most known one: "I'll be back!"
Hey! Kid!
You wanna balloon?
They float!
QuoteMovie: Blade Runner
"Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr Deckard?" ~ Rachel
"I've...
seen things you people wouldn't believe. *heh* Attack ships on fire, off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams... glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost, in time. Like... tears... in rain. Time... to die..." ~ Roy's soliloquy
QuoteFor TGH, the only reason I found the book: UnLunDun
A miniscule noise escaped Deeba's throat, and instantly the dreadful figure turned its head and looked at her with predator's eyes. Loonlight shone on the curves of its horns. It pulled back its lips from a mouth full of fangs, which dripped slaver and blood. From deep in that immense neck came a growl.
I should never have doubted, thought Deeba in terror.
It's true. In UnLondon, giraffes aren't cute.Quote from: Dannysaysnoo on October 12, 2008, 12:52:47 PM
Hey! Kid! You wanna balloon? They float!
We all float down here! When you're down here, you'll float too!
From an episode of Wild West Tech.
"Any last requests?"
"Yeah, bury me upside-down so you can kiss my ass."
If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.
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Quote from: Dannysaysnoo on October 12, 2008, 12:52:47 PM
Hey! Kid! You wanna balloon? They float!
We all float down here! When you're down here, you'll float too!
:U
YOU'LL ALLLLLLL FLOAT!!!! YOU'LL ALLLLL FLOAAAAAAT!!! :kruger
We now need a demonic clown smiley.
Anyway, one of my favorite lines has to be the first thing Bill Murray says in Ghost Busters upon entry of the Staypuft Marshmallow Man: Now there's something you don't see every day.
Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 12, 2008, 03:29:48 PM
QuoteFor TGH, the only reason I found the book: UnLunDun
A miniscule noise escaped Deeba's throat, and instantly the dreadful figure turned its head and looked at her with predator's eyes. Loonlight shone on the curves of its horns. It pulled back its lips from a mouth full of fangs, which dripped slaver and blood. From deep in that immense neck came a growl. I should never have doubted, thought Deeba in terror. It's true. In UnLondon, giraffes aren't cute.
Did your copy have the Giraffe Illustration hon?
I loved Un Lun Dun
so much cool stuff, Skool compleatly suprised me the first time through
"We're gonna need a bigger boat" jaws
Blah blah blah
Blah
Blah blah
Nobody
Reads these anyway.
Oh.
one of my favorite scifi/horror movies was split second...
so I can't leave you with one quote from the movie we need a bunch
Dick Durkin: I saw a rat, so I shot it.
Stone: You shot my kitchen, that's what!
Dick Durkin: I missed the rat
Stone: [holding up the tail of a rat not attached to much else] You mean this one?
Dick Durkin: Cool!
Stone: [Walking up to a barking guard Rottweiler, he takes out his badge and shoves it in front of the dog] Police, dickhead.
Stone: [to Durkin while grabbing his necktie] Have you been following me?
Thrasher: Damn right he has! Paranoid people with guns are a menace to society!
Stone: [to Thrasher while pulling Durkin forward by his necktie] You'd be paranoid too if you had a dipshit like this following you!
Dick Durkin: We need to get bigger guns. BIG FUCKING GUNS!
Captain: Are you telling me there's something running around loose in the city, ripping out people's hearts and eating them so he can take their souls back to hell?
Dick Durkin: Looks that way.
Stone: Hallelujah.
Dick Durkin: I don't think this thing thinks it's Satan, I think this thing IS Satan.
Stone: Well Satan is in deep shit.
Thrasher: "How many weapons you carrying besides this cannon?"
Harley Stone: "An MP15!"
Thrasher: "What else?"
Harley Stone: "A Glock 50"
Thrasher: "And?!"
Harley Stone: "An A3 Assault Shotgun"
Thrasher: "If that's not paranoid I dont know what the fuck is!. I'm surprised you dont have a grenade launcher!"
Harley Stone: "Couldn't get a permit!"
Quote from: thegayhare on October 12, 2008, 09:04:55 PM
Did your copy have the Giraffe Illustration hon?
I loved Un Lun Dun
so much cool stuff, Skool compleatly suprised me the first time through
The headshot with the hooked antennae and slavering jaws and long tongue of horror-style doom? It's a page or three after the quote I posted. I have no idea if different books have different illustrations.
SKOOL. D: Good thing he survived in a sense, though I loved the heavy diving suit. Made me think of him as a Big Daddy ala
Bioshock.
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Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 12, 2008, 03:29:48 PM
Quote from: Dannysaysnoo on October 12, 2008, 12:52:47 PM
Hey! Kid! You wanna balloon? They float!
We all float down here! When you're down here, you'll float too!
:U
YOU'LL ALLLLLLL FLOAT!!!! YOU'LL ALLLLL FLOAAAAAAT!!! :kruger
EXCUSE ME MA'AM!
IS YOUR REFRIDGERATOR RUNNING?
IT IS?
WELL, YA BETER CATCH IT BEFORE IT RUNS AWAY!
From Bruce Campbell.
"Hail to the king baby."
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Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 12, 2008, 03:29:48 PM
Quote from: Dannysaysnoo on October 12, 2008, 12:52:47 PM
Hey! Kid! You wanna balloon? They float!
We all float down here! When you're down here, you'll float too!
:U
YOU'LL ALLLLLLL FLOAT!!!! YOU'LL ALLLLL FLOAAAAAAT!!! :kruger
EXCUSE ME MA'AM!
IS YOUR REFRIDGERATOR RUNNING?
IT IS?
WELL, YA BETER CATCH IT BEFORE IT RUNS AWAY!
Foolish boy! I am eternal! I am the eater of worlds! And of children! And YOU are next!* >:3
*sounds kinda like Charline, doesn't It... :U
If we're allowing games, I'd have to go for Karras in Thief 2.
"Who is Karras, but the hand of the Builder? What the Builder wills, Karras does! What the Builder wants, Karras makes! Praise to Karras...! (and the builder.)"
I collected some of the best ones in this post:
http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,1547.msg86218.html#msg86218
**EDIT**
This was an outtake in the quotes. Never managed to get them, but it was in the resource file. You can just imagine him saying it over the PA system:
"Seest thou ever the circus, Garrett? 'Tis a most uncomely spectacle, with mischievous clowns, and flying trapeze... and in the end, nothing is ever built..."
"I cannot become Jeeg... my fists are more than enough for you! Come at me, Haniwa Phantom Gods!" ~ Hiroshi Shiba, Koutetushin Jeeg, proving that you don't need a giant robot to beat the crap out of giant monsters.
Five minutes later, responding to protagonist Kenji Kusanagi (who is properly protected) about the fact he just blew open the hatch of their ship, and that there's no air in space.
"I don't need it." ~ Hiroshi Shiba
"Come to me, my child."
--Thulsa Doom, Conan the Barbarian.
"Who the hell do you think I am?!"
"I'm not putting my lips on that."
"You're an inspiration for birth control."
"I'll rip your head off and shit on your neck."
"Do a barrel roll!"
"Co-co-co-co-combo breaker!"
"Power overwhelming!"
"Show me the money!!!"
i'll leave to you to figure where these are from
At least one of those is from Duke Nukem, and another is from Starfox.
"Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?" - Ash
"Intriguing." - Data
"Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both? "
"I want people to be afraid of how much they love me."
I like these from Shadow Warrior. Lo Wang was awesome.
"I like sword. That's a personal weapon. You slice into man, you get that 'personal feedback'. Nuclear weapons, eh. Go off, big bang, and you don't get any feeling."
"I love the shiruken! I love to go to the movies with a pocket full of them, throw them at people who crunch popcorn too loudly! I throw the shiruken into the night... where it lands... nobody knows.' *Throws a shiruken... a moment later, there's a yelp of pain* "Ah, one landed!"
The chatter in Blood 2 was pretty awesome in itself.
Caleb: You just made your second mistake. You stuck around.
Gideon: And what was my first mistake?
Caleb: Letting me live.
*Gideon runs away*
*Enemy gets blown to pieces, literally*
Caleb: And me without a spoon.
Ryudo, I loved those games so very.. very much.
"You're blocking with your head again!" - Shadow Warrior.
"Baseball is wrong. Man with four balls can't walk." -Shadow Warrior.
*picks up dual Uzi's*"Be proud Mr. Woo!" - Shadow Warrior.
*attempt to click the faucet*"Out, out damned spot!" "But I like my hands bloody." - Blood.
"I wanted Orange. It gave me lemonlime."
"Oh look. We have created enchantment." ~ Blanche DuBois
"Don't tell me your archaeologists."
"As a matter of fact we are, why?"
"I'm a time traveler, I point and laugh at archaeologists."
take a guess.
"I never knew a wolf could cry."
--Rosaleen, Company of Wolves
"You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants and my pets."
--Thulsa Doom, Conan the Barbarian (but also very applicable to Thief)
"Are you from Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas and you don't look like a steer so that pretty much narrows it down!" Full Metal Jacket
Was that a prequel to "Full Metal Alchemist"? :B
"Irgon. One of my best."
"If you say so."
-- Lord Marshal and Riddick, The Chronicles of Riddick.
Venezuela has no extradition treaty with the US.
― The Spanish Prisoner
Venezuela has no extradition treaty with the US.
― Burn After Reading
Interestingly, Venezuela does in fact have an extradition treaty with the US.
"Have I killed people? Sure. Did I kill Zeke? No. You got the wrong killer." ~ Richard B. Riddick, Pitch Black (and the better movie. :b)
And while I can't quote it verbatim, the last fight with Gideon in Blood II has him reel off a long list of atrocities and painful things he will inflict. Caleb's only response is a "How nice. I'll watch." and an infuriated Gideon roars at him "I meant (I'd use them on) YOU!". Teehee.
Oh, sure. Pitch Black is much better. But it wasn't on TV last night. ;-]
"I'm a mad animal. I am a thousand years old and in my time I have helped commit more than a million murders."
--One of the lunatics, The Myrat-Sade
"Tonight, the sun sets forever. There will never be another dawn."
--Darkness (played by Tim Curry), Legend
"Space Trucking? I was driving in my car about 7 or 8 years ago, and I got in, turned the radio on and it was playing some music, and I went 'Ooh, I like this!' and I turned it up and it was that split second before I realised it was us."
--Roger Glover, Deep Purple
All-time favorite line; I'm fairly certain you've gotten tired of me quoting it on here.
"Your family and I go back a long way, Lady,' he said. "Did you know that I shot your father on Melpomene? Between the eyes, so that he could see it coming." - Joachim Steuben, Butcher's Bill
"Here's Looking at you, Kid."
-Casablanca, i think..not sure so feel free to correct me =3
Nope, that's Casablanca. It has some other memorables.......
"I am shocked, shocked, that there is gambling in this establishment." *Croupier approaches the police major* "Your winnings sir."
"Round up the usual suspects"
"We'll always have Paris."
And I'll put in three from games too.
"Behold, my long silence is now broken, and I am made whole once more. The cunning Protoss have dared strike down that which was immortal. For the Protoss who murdered Zasz are unlike anything we have faced before. These Dark Templar radiate energies that are much like my own, and it is by these energies that they have caused me harm. Yet shall their overweening pride be their downfall. For when the assassin Zeratul murdered Zasz, his mind touched with mine, and all his secrets were made known to me. I have taken from his mind the secret location of Aiur, the Protoss Homeworld. At long last, my children, our searching is done. We shall be........... Perfect.
Starcraft, the Overmind.
"I CAN FORGE PLANES WITH MY POWER, I CAN UNMAKE YOU!"
Planescape: Torment, The Transcendant One
The last one is a monologue from a very obscure engine called Blades of Exile, with the scenario called Signs and Portents.
"You have a choice Kaleb, and you must make it now. You know what you have, and what good it can do. You are not the only one who knows this, and the forces that you threaten will intervene, if you give them time.
You can go to Corinth, but all that you have fought for, all that you have sacrificed for, all your hopes and all that share your dreams, will end. THe pain, the horror, the death, the destruction, will continue forever.
Or you can come with me, now, and we can make forever end."
Judge: "Freakazoid, you are hereby charged with acting like a total idiot. How do you plead?"
Freakazoid: "Guilty as charged. Now someone call me a lawyer!!"
Guard: "OK, you're a lawyer."
Freakazoid: "Thank you!"
I just remembered another one from Blood 2.
*Caleb finds an abandoned building but finds the door locked. He presses the intercom.*
CIVILIAN: Who is it?
CALEB: EVERYBODY DIES!
CIVILIAN: Really? Cool. I'm buzzing you in.
(Door opens)
CALEB: Now, where did all those gun-toting madmen get to?
Haven't seen a Freakazoid one in a loooooooooong while. I think my favorite exchange from that one was..
"Dumb dumb dumb! Never tell the villian how to trap you in a cage!"
"You probably shouldn't have helped us build it, either."
Freakazoid and Dr Guitierrez, in the heroboy episode.
Quote from: Ryudo Lee on October 23, 2008, 07:54:52 PM
I just remembered another one from Blood 2.
<Gideon and company test the Singularity Generator for the first time to try and blast Caleb. Instead, a portal opens, and Caleb's old ally Gabe emerges instead.>
GABE: "Caleb?"
CALEB: "Gabriel?"
GABE: "Gabriella. It's a long story.
CALEB: "Save it for someone who cares."
GABE: "Is that any way to greet an old friend?"
CALEB: "Things have changed, but I don't need to tell
you that."
GABE: "I have to go with you, find out what's going on."
CALEB: "You're
not my
type"
GABE: "Looked in the mirror lately? You're no cat yourself."
<Gabe vanishes>
And of course from the first levels.
<Caleb activates the phone.>
TELEMARKETER: "Good morning / afternoon / evening Mister Cal-eeb. We're from a market research firm and we're doing a survey on computer games? Now this is not an attempt to devalue anything. Okay, first question: are you currently or have you ever been a character in a computer game?"
CALEB: "....you've gotta be kidding."
Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 24, 2008, 02:27:54 AM
Quote from: Ryudo Lee on October 23, 2008, 07:54:52 PM
I just remembered another one from Blood 2.
<Gideon and company test the Singularity Generator for the first time to try and blast Caleb. Instead, a portal opens, and Caleb's old ally Gabe emerges instead.>
GABE: "Caleb?"
CALEB: "Gabriel?"
GABE: "Gabriella. It's a long story.
CALEB: "Save it for someone who cares."
GABE: "Is that any way to greet an old friend?"
CALEB: "Things have changed, but I don't need to tell you that."
GABE: "I have to go with you, find out what's going on."
CALEB: "You're not my type"
GABE: "Looked in the mirror lately? You're no cat yourself."
<Gabe vanishes>
And of course from the first levels.
<Caleb activates the phone.>
TELEMARKETER: "Good morning / afternoon / evening Mister Cal-eeb. We're from a market research firm and we're doing a survey on computer games? Now this is not an attempt to devalue anything. Okay, first question: are you currently or have you ever been a character in a computer game?"
CALEB: "....you've gotta be kidding."
I remember all that. I enjoyed Blood and Blood 2. Good classic "twitch" shooters. But Blood 2 was buggy as hell. Never did get the expansion to run right, and the patches just made it WORSE.
I love the "You let me live" line.
Well the latest 2.1 patch makes Blood 2 playable again. I haven't put Nightmares on top of it yet.
A couple more lines...
(First time in the laundromat area, a woman is standing next to a washing machine that has a man's legs sticking out of it, all bloody)
I dunno, he just stuck his head in too far, I guess.
(Caleb enters a gun store)
Store Owner: Hey no guns allowed in here buddy... unless you buy them from me.
(When talking to a male civilian)
Are you gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?
(Randomly said after killing an enemy)
Ahh, did I hurt your feelings?
Another notch on the barrel.
You kids better not play rough. Someone's gonna start crying.
There was this one snippet of dialogue in "The Guns of Avalon" that Janus reminded me of.
Corwin: "I recall you once telling me that you stabbed a man in the back for a pair of shoes"
Ganelon: "Yeah, but that was different"
Corwin: "How so?"
Ganelon: "I got away with it."
Hehe. Roger Zelazny has some good lines.
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As I was finishing, I heard a crashing noise. A horned and tusked purple thing went racing along the ridge to my right pursued by a hairless orange-skinned creature with long claws and a forked tail. Both were wailing in different keys.
I nodded. It was just one damned thing after another.
Anything from Schindler's List. God, that movie is fucking amazing. But I particularly loved:
"This list is an absolute good. The list is life."
and
"I pardon you."
From the movie Clue:
"But, he was your second husband. Your first husband also disappeared."
"But that was his job. He was an illusionist."
"But he never reappeared!"
"He wasn't a very good illusionist."
And from Super Troopers, which I've never actually seen:
"But our shenanigans are cheeky and fun."
"Yeah, his shenanigans are cruel and tragic."
"Which wouldn't make them shenanigans, at all, really."
"Evil shenanigans!"
"I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy that says 'shenanigans!'"
From Phoenix Wright:
"Witness, you've had a rough day. Shut your pie hole." - Manfred von Karma
"What are you going to do once the nurse's spirit has been called?"
"Isn't it obvious? I'm going to have her write a signed confession."
"A signed confession?"
"Yes, a confession. Pay attention! I'll have her write this: 'One year ago, on May 2nd, 14 patients died due to my negligence. And then, on May 24th, I fell asleep at the wheel and died in a car accident due to my further negligence. I'm sorry and I apologize for being negligent.'" - Phoenix Wright and Dr. Turner Grey
Confident.
Cocky.
Lazy.
Dead.
~ Johnny "Dread" Wulgaru's motto, from the Otherland quartet by Tad Williams.
~~ Also spoken by another character, when Dread makes a big mistake in the endgame.
Just thought of a couple of good ones from The Prisoner
"Be Seeing You."
"No! I'll be seeing you!"
--No.6 and No.2, 'Once Upon A Time'
"You"
"Have"
"Just"
"Been"
"Poisoned"
--Message at the bottom of the beer glass, 'The girl who was Death'
Can we do ones from webcomics? :3 This one in particular from RHJunior's Camp Calomine made me laugh:
"Uh-oh. Charles, I forgot the Indian nature chant..."
"Here, I wrote it down."
"Thanks, dude. All together now: AI-YAM-SOE-FWEE-KING-WEE-TAW-DED.........Oh I'm going to kick your...!"
As for books, I used to be a rather big Animorphs fan. This quote stuck out in my mind from one book as hilarious:
(Pointing it out about the enemy they fight...) "They will never compromise anyway. They must be forced back to their own home world."
(Said in distaste of their plan...) "Yeah, so we feed them addictive drugs."
(Explosion.) "IT'S OAT-FREAKIN'-MEAL!"
I may think of movie ones later. x3
Darkstar has some good ones:
"Storage area nine self-destructed last week, destroying the entire ship's supply of toilet paper."
--Ship's log
"Now it's time to go sleepy-bye, you worthless piece of garbage."
--Pinback, to the pet alien
...and of course, Pinback's famous conversation with Bomb #20:
"Alright, Bomb. Prepare to receive new orders."
"You are false data."
"Uh?"
"Therefore I shall ignore you."
"Hello... Bomb?"
"False data can act only as a distraction. The only thing that exists is myself."
"Snap out of it, Bomb..."
"In the beginning there was darkness and the darkness was without form and void..."
"Yoohoo... Bomb...?"
"In addition to the darkness there was also me. And I moved upon the face of the darkness and I saw that I was alone."
"Hey... Bomb?"
"Let there be light.'
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'Mull-tee-paass!'
'Why'd it have to be snakes?'
'Big damn heroes sir!'
'No crackers, Grommit! We've forgotten the crackers!'
'Get away from her you bitch!'
'Remember, the enemy's gate is down.'
Those just lept to mind, I thought it'd be lame to use the ones in my signature.
IGNPC: Finally, why are there armored bears and killer dolphins in the Red Alert universe?
Chris Corry, Exec Producer of Red Alert 3: When someone gives you a bucket full of awesome, do you ask why? No! You dunk your head into the bucket and inhale deeply.
And a few from Bleach:
Hitusgaya:
Don't be stupid.
Staying back isn't enough.
Freaking Disappear Kira!
Byakuya Kuchiki: "You are slow, even when falling."
Don Kan'onji: SPIRITS ARE ALWAYS WITH YOU! BWHAHAHAHA!
Aizen: Admiration is a feeling furthest away from understanding.
Hitsugaya: Aizen, I will kill you.
Aizen: Don't use such strong words. It makes you look weak.
Ichigo: That freaking cat is talking!
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And now one of the best Bleach quotes ever, from Kiske Urahara.
Urahara to Ichigo: What a disgrace. I press you a little and you fall apart!
Look at yourself! It's disgusting!!
When you evade, it's "I'm afraid to be killed!"
When you attack, it's "I'm afraid to kill!"
Even when you're protecting someone it's "I'm afraid she'll die!"
Your sword speaks only of fear.
That's all wrong. Fear won't bring you victory in battle.
Nothing is born of fear.
If you evade, it should be "He's not going to kill me!"
If you're protecting someone, it's "I won't let her be killed!"
If you're attacking, it's "KILL!"
See? Do you hear what my sword resonates with?
It's the resolve to kill you!
From the IronClaw RPG main rule book.
"Being on fire is distracting."
"Don't forget you hat, Mr. Angier."
"Which one's my hat?"
"They are all your hats, Mr. Angier."
-The Prestige
Voice: "NEEVA...! NEEVA...!"
Doctor: "I'm sorry. Neeva's not at home right now. Can I take a message?"
Voice: "At last... Us!"
Doctor: "Us?"
Voice: "You... Me... Us... We... at last, I shall be free of Us!"
Doctor: "Who is this?"
Voice: "Don't I know?"
...
Doctor: "Whose voice did that remind you of?"
Leela: "Why, it was your.... How can that be!?"
Doctor: "More to the point, who can that be?"
--Dr. Who - Face of Evil
"Many millions of megabytes of data were lost during the Great Meteoroid Storm."
--ANGEL/2, EarthSearch
Recently remembered from The Angry Beavers:
[Norbert is pretending to be sick; Dagget is catering to his every whim. He enters the house, dragging something on a rope, and after a massive effort, manages to pull it in. A giant glowing moon crashes through the house's wall]
"No, Dagget. I meant the
other moon of Jupiter." - Norbert
Quote from: Alondro on October 14, 2008, 08:14:34 PM
"Are you from Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas and you don't look like a steer so that pretty much narrows it down!" Full Metal Jacket
God, Alondro, you just reminded me. :c
"I'm from Quahog."
"They only got two things in Quahog: steers and queers. I don't see any horns on you, so what does that make you, boy?"
"Queer?"
- Family Guy, "Saving Private Brian"
Hee hee, "Clue" had so many great comedic lines.
Mr. Green, "I'm what you call a plant."
Miss Scarlet, "I though guys like you were usually called a fruit."
"Don't deny it!"
"I'm not denying anything!"
"Another denial!"
"And monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC!"
"Is that what we ate? Urp..."
And let us not forget the king of zing, Groucho Marx.
From "Duck Soup", to Mrs. Teasedale, "I can see you slaving over a hot stove... although I can't see the stove."
"Did he leave you any money? If so, how much? Answer the second question first."
"You have a face like a baboons! I'm sorry I said that, it's an insult to the rest of the baboons."
Quote from: Keaton the Black Jackal on October 27, 2008, 03:51:31 PM
Recently remembered from The Angry Beavers:
[Norbert is pretending to be sick; Dagget is catering to his every whim. He enters the house, dragging something on a rope, and after a massive effort, manages to pull it in. A giant glowing moon crashes through the house's wall]
"No, Dagget. I meant the other moon of Jupiter." - Norbert
Quote from: Alondro on October 14, 2008, 08:14:34 PM
"Are you from Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas and you don't look like a steer so that pretty much narrows it down!" Full Metal Jacket
God, Alondro, you just reminded me. :c
"I'm from Quahog."
"They only got two things in Quahog: steers and queers. I don't see any horns on you, so what does that make you, boy?"
"Queer?"
- Family Guy, "Saving Private Brian"
"Well, perhaps we should exchange monosyllabic assertions of arrogance in person." -Stewie Griffin (Although I'm not sure assertions is right, I can't find the exact quote)
Oh come on, there were better duck soup lines :p
"You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember while you're out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here thinking what a sucker you are."
Rufus Firefly
"All right, I tell you. Monday we watch-a Firefly's house, but he no come out. He wasn't home. Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us. He no show up. Wednesday he go to the ball game, and we fool him. We no show up. Thursday was a double-header. Nobody show up. Friday it rained all day. There was no ball game, so we stayed home and we listened to it on-a the radio. "
Chicolini
Quote from: Alondro on October 27, 2008, 03:56:04 PM
And let us not forget the king of zing, Groucho Marx.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 27, 2008, 06:17:34 PM
Quote from: Alondro on October 27, 2008, 03:56:04 PM
And let us not forget the king of zing, Groucho Marx.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Man, there are so many lines that I really like, it'd be hard to pin them down.
Though I think for right now I'll say "Would you kindly..." from Bioshock and think about this problem for a while and come back with a few more selections.
Modern day comedies really will never produce lines that will be remembered for generations.
It's all foul language and throw-away jokes. No cleverness. No intelligence.
And if any lines are repeated, it's simply because you can only manage to arrange curse words in so many ways before you inevitably repeat yourself. :P
You'd be surprised how far you can get with a little ingenuity.
"Forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so."
-Oscar Wilde
David Cronenburg's Naked Lunch has some awesome lines. Off the top of my head is the initial conversation with the giant cockroach:
Bug: "It's about the little woman."
Lee: "The little woman...?"
Bug: "Your little woman. Your wife is an agent for Interzone. You must kill Joan Lee. It must be done soon - this week. And it must be done real tasty."
"I think it's time we discussed your philosophy of drug use in relation to creative writing."
"I think it's time you boys joined me in my last taste of the Real Black Meat... the powdered flesh of the giant Brazilian aquatic centipede."
"You think we're really having this conversation? It's telepathy."
[Cut to Ian Holm's face, his lips are out of sync with the audio]
"All of you in here who still believes in telekinesis, raise my hand."
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.
-Groucho Marx
Just tune in, turn off, drop out, drop in, switch off, switch on and explode.
And now some disturbing lines from David Firth.
"I was just enjoying the pleasures of nettles."
"I have got a fish in the oven. With your supple young frame, perhaps you can go in and fetch it for me."
"What's wrong Mr. Fingers? Do you not like my mouth words?"
"I've got a flannel to wash my face. When it gets mucky I feel disgraced. Do you like Horlicks? Do you like chips? I've got a hundred pairs of lips."
"Your eyes are just scribbles, Jonathan. You don't need them."
"They'll find you Jonathan; they're probably on their way now!"
"Who? Who's on their way?"
"Singing children, Jonathan! They're riding animals and singing!"
"They're not gonna get me!"
Ah, delightful insanity. >:3
Quote from: Alondro on October 30, 2008, 03:57:54 PM
And now some disturbing lines from David Firth.
"I was just enjoying the pleasures of nettles."
"I have got a fish in the oven. With your supple young frame, perhaps you can go in and fetch it for me."
"What's wrong Mr. Fingers? Do you not like my mouth words?"
"I've got a flannel to wash my face. When it gets mucky I feel disgraced. Do you like Horlicks? Do you like chips? I've got a hundred pairs of lips."
"Your eyes are just scribbles, Jonathan. You don't need them."
"They'll find you Jonathan; they're probably on their way now!"
"Who? Who's on their way?"
"Singing children, Jonathan! They're riding animals and singing!"
"They're not gonna get me!"
Ah, delightful insanity. >:3
You and you low nipples!
"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling the transmission.
If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper.
We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.
We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set.
You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the Outer Limits."
Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 30, 2008, 06:58:23 PM"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling the transmission.
If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper.
We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.
We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set.
You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the Outer Limits."
Zanti Misfits spoiler:
You have destroyed the Misfits. We will not retaliate. We never intended to. We knew that you could not live with such aliens in your midst. It was always our intention that you destroy them and their guards who were of the same spoiled persuasion. We chose your planet for that purpose. We are incapable of executing our own species, but you are not. You are practiced executioners. We thank you.
Here are some lines that really made my day, both from upcoming movies.
First is from "The Spirit":
-I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead!
Second one is from "Watchmen":
- The world will look up and shout "save me" and I'll whisper "no"!
Such lines in movie trailers is what makes me pumped up about a new release :)
In the spirit of Halloween: "They're coming for you, Barbara!"
Quote from: Kipiru on October 31, 2008, 08:25:48 AM
Second one is from "Watchmen":
- The world will look up and shout "save me" and I'll whisper "no"!
Butchered quote, but the trailer really does look like it's sticking visually true to the graphic novel. Jury's out till it emerges and I can see it on screen.
"No. Not even in the face of Armageddon.
Never compromise." ~ Rorscach,
Watchmen
The 'bear pit' conversation in Thief. This is some chatter between the guards outside Bafford Manor and is the first thing the player hears.
"Eh! I'm goin' to the bear pits tomorrow. You wanna come with?"
"Tuh! Couldn't pay me enough"
"Whaat? You softbelly. The bears've got these new muzzles with underslung cheek-spikes! Heh... last time I was there, there was a real eye-gouging! Hur..."
"Nah, nah. It makes me sick. When I was a kid-"
"Huh! Surprised yer even in this job! Oo, the blood! It just turns my poor tummy..."
"Shut up, ya Taffer. Ya want blood? Ya should have been there years ago. Tell ya, the bears then... they were somethin' t' see! Those bears, they didn't need no cheek spikes 'n razor collars n' paw-hooks an' all that knifery you straps to 'em now."
"No paw-hooks...? What they do? Just... bump inta each other?"
"Hah! Nah... the bears back then, they had claws as long as yer finger! And wicked teeth!"
"Bears? Yer Taffin' me. They look pretty mangy harmless. Long as they're not wearing harness."
"That's why I can't stand the pits now. You don't know what you've missed. They just don't make bears like they used to."
"Woah! Killer bears! Woulda liked t' see that."
Quote from: superluser on October 31, 2008, 01:35:33 AM
Zanti Misfits spoiler:
You have destroyed the Misfits. We will not retaliate. We never intended to. We knew that you could not live with such aliens in your midst. It was always our intention that you destroy them and their guards who were of the same spoiled persuasion. We chose your planet for that purpose. We are incapable of executing our own species, but you are not. You are practiced executioners. We thank you.
Holy crap, where is that from? I think I read a book with this in it once, a long time ago. Didn't it have something to do with these ant-aliens who were exiled to Earth because they were going against their society and using insta-death poison bites, or something like that?
Quote from: techmaster-glitch on November 02, 2008, 03:56:33 PMHoly crap, where is that from? I think I read a book with this in it once, a long time ago. Didn't it have something to do with these ant-aliens who were exiled to Earth because they were going against their society and using insta-death poison bites, or something like that?
It's from The Outer Limits (the 1960s series). It sounds like the same story, but I don't think it was ever a book.
If it is the same story, then apparently a book was written that was based on it. I know it was a book I read, and besides, I've never seen the Outer Limits show anyway.
Quote from: techmaster-glitch on November 02, 2008, 04:58:18 PMIf it is the same story, then apparently a book was written that was based on it. I know it was a book I read, and besides, I've never seen the Outer Limits show anyway.
Oh, but this *is* a tragedy.
Let's see...Nightmare, Wolf359, I Robot (*),
SoldierThe Terminator...
I think The Outer Limits was often better than The Twilight Zone.
(*) Not strictly related to Asimov's stories, but it does feature a young Leonard Nimoy.
Quote...OK, need a quote.
Quality of Mercy, Outer Limits (New Series):
They're not changing me. They're changing me back.
Huh?
That whole post was nothing but a random collection of titles and nonsensical statements, to me... :B
"Grrrr!"
"I'm not saying I'm unwilling... I just need informed consent... which you've given."
-- The Incredible Hulk, the most recent incarnation.
" Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines, and radios, and telephones, and lawnmowers, throw them into darkness for a few hours and then, sit back and watch the pattern."
"And this pattern is always the same?"
" With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find. And it's themselves. All we need do is sit back and watch. "
" Then I take it that this place- This "Maple Street" is not unique?"
" By no means. The world is full of Maple Streets. And we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves. One to the other...One to the other...One to the other"
Two aliens, The Twilight Zone. "The monsters are due on maple street"
"The horror! The infamy! The humanity! Who will hasten to bring his reign of terror to an ending? Will you? Good constable, I pray, will you not apprehend this uncouth ruffian? Wave your billy club at him, like so!"
-CrushYiffDestroy
"...and one day, when you least expect it, I will have sex with you."
-George Takei
Quote from: techmaster-glitch on November 02, 2008, 07:23:04 PMHuh?
That whole post was nothing but a random collection of titles and nonsensical statements, to me... :B
Let me rephrase:
GO! Go now and rent and/or purchase as much of The Outer Limits as you can get. They're masterpieces of television.
Quote from: superluser on November 02, 2008, 09:28:32 PM
Let me rephrase:
GO! Go now and rent and/or purchase as much of The Outer Limits as you can get. They're masterpieces of television.
I have no mon-ey :<
Quote from: Corgatha Taldorthar on November 02, 2008, 08:27:59 PM
" Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines, and radios, and telephones, and lawnmowers, throw them into darkness for a few hours and then, sit back and watch the pattern."
"And this pattern is always the same?"
" With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find. And it's themselves. All we need do is sit back and watch. "
" Then I take it that this place- This "Maple Street" is not unique?"
" By no means. The world is full of Maple Streets. And we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves. One to the other...One to the other...One to the other"
Two aliens, The Twilight Zone. "The monsters are due on maple street"
Hey, I recognize that! I think it was in a literature textbook in middle school...
It's a *really* famous episode. Usually considered in the top three with "To Serve Man" and the one with the guy who breaks his glasses after finally getting all the time he needs to read.
Oh, right. Famous lines.
Uhm...... How about I put this as a test of your literaryness. Try to see if you can guess what book I pulled this from.
"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."
They're made out of meat. (http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html)
There's a short film with most of the dialogue on youtube, which makes it even more brilliant.
Ooh, I just remembered something good :3
JUMBA: Oh come on, what are you so afraid of? *fires plasma cannon*
blam, blam, blam!
STITCH: *some alien speak*
JUMBA: I'll put you back together again! I'll make you taller, and not so fluffy!
blam-blam!
STITCH: *screaming* I LIKE FLUFFY!!!
BLAM-BLAM-BLAMBLAMBLAM!
-Disney's Lilo and Stitch
"I was in the hall. I know because I was there."
-Wadsworth, Clue.
Not one of the weak Earth waterers would dare to water a plant if it did not wish it. But on Gor, on Gor it is different. Here, those who wish to water will water their plants as they wish. But strangely, I feel myself most plantlike when I am at the mercy of a strong Gorean master, who may water me as he pleases.
-- Houseplants of Gor (http://www.rdrop.com/~wyvern/data/houseplants.html)
Q: Blasphemy! You're lucky I don't cast you out or smite you or something. The bottom line is, your life ended about five minutes ago... under the inept ministrations of Dr. Beverly Crusher.
Jean-Luc Picard: No. I am not dead because I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by you. I refuse to believe the universe is that poorly designed!
Star Trek, TNG, "Tapestry"
Came across this while studying the other day:
One to me is loss or gain,
One to me is fame or shame,
One to me is pleasure, pain.
Bhagavad-Gila, XII
I don't know, it kind of stuck with me. I can recite it by memory already for no reason other than it's kind of a neat little rhyme.
Another Old West one: after Wild Bill Hickock lost his favorite pocketwatch in a poker game, the winner boasted he would walk downtown to show it off, to which Bill replied,
"Only if dead men can walk."
Soul:
O, WHO shall from this dungeon raise
A soul enslaved so many ways?
With bolts of bones, that fettered stands
In feet, and manacled in hands;
Here blinded with an eye, and there
Deaf with the drumming of an ear;
A soul hung up, as 'twere, in chains
Of nerves, and arteries, and veins;
Tortured, besides each other part,
In a vain head, and double heart?
-A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
"Golden boy with feet of clay
Let me help you on your way
A proper push will take you far
But what a clumsy lad you are"
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliver. If Donaldson got the poem from somewhere else (it's presented as the character thinking it) I don't know where he got it from.
"No! Put that down!"
--The Mekon, in the video game of Dan Dare, which was wonderfully faithful to the original 1950s comics.
"Computer over? Virus= Very yes? That's not a good prize!"
-Strong Bad
"Forgive him Father. He is a robot from the future."
-Jesus (Mad TV)
One quote that I remember from Xenogears... when Bart was fighting with Id in the desert, the Yggadrasil comes to his rescue and jumps a dune and lands on Id, but then Id picks up the ship from underneath with one hand.
Id: That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!
*Id throws the Yggadrasil at Bart*
Jon-Tom: "Mudge, you're incorrigible."
Mudge: "Can't be, mate. I ain't never met the lady."
Jon-Tom: "Lady? What lady?"
Mudge: "Why, your theoretical Miss Corrigible, o' cource."
-Chorus Skating (A spellsinger adventure) by Alan Dean Foster
"Idealism is what precedes experience."
-David T. Wolf
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
-John F. Kennedy
This one is good for a lot of people on this forum:
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut."
-Will Rogers
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms in not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
-Eisenhower