General Favourite quotes

[AdmiralFishface]

Not just Star Wars related - Memorable quotes from movies, books, whatever

 

Some of my movie favourites...

 

Captain Spock: There is the old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China. - Star Trek VI

 

General Chang: I can see you Kirk. Can you see me?

Captain James T. Kirk: Chang.

General Chang: Oh, now be honest, Captain. Warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be. No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends." - Star Trek VI

 

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. Weve made too many compromises already; too mny retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they've done. - Ster Trek-First Contact

 

Khan: I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up. - Star Trek II

 

The Joker: My balloons. Those are my balloons. He stole my balloons! Why didn't anyone tell me he had one of those... things? Bob, gun.

[bob hands him a gun, Joker shoots him] - Batman

 

The Penguin: I believe the word you are looking for is "AAAAAAAAHHHHH"! - Batman Returns

 

Elwood: They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God. - Blues Brothers

 

Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.

Jake: Hit it. - Blues Brothers

 

Dr. Peter Venkman: Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon... what've you got left?

Dr. Egon Spengler: Sorry, Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. - Ghostbusters

 

President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

 

Ohboy, that's a lot of quotes, and I'm not halfway through...

[Thumper]

I love quotes. It took me a while to go through my files and pick out a few.

 

"Someday I would like to stand on the Moon, look down through a quarter of a million miles of space and say, 'There certainly is a beautiful Earth out tonight.'" -Lt. Col. Rankin

 

"Whoopee!" -Pete Conrad, third man on the Moon

 

"Banana hammock!" -JD, Scrubs (maybe you just had to be there. )

 

 

From various sources (in other words, I don't remember where I first saw them):

 

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

 

"Chaos, panic, disorder...my work here is done."

 

"I'll procrastinate tomorrow."

 

"Don't think of it as being outnumbered, think of it as unlimited target selection!"

 

 

Finally, paraphrased from someone at work:

 

Did you see what he put down on this list for what he's bringing to the

Thanksgiving dinner? "Appetite."

 

I've got a ton from Firefly, but in the interests of time and space, I won't list them here.

 

-Thumper

[the_mask]

Okay, time for one of my absolute favourites from yet another green guy: Shrek

Is that another one of these onion things ? - Eddie "the donkey" Murphy

 

For some reasons I always have to think of this, when I see Obi-Wan talk about his point-of-view thingy

 

 

And another one, this time from a partially green guy:

 

I'm only laughing on the outside,

my smile is just skin-deep.

If you could see inside,

I'm really crying.

You might join me, for a weep. -Jack "the Joker" Nickolson

(followed by some sniggering upon the look on Kim Basinger's face)

[AdmiralFishface]

Joker had some good ones...

"Do I look like I'm joking?"

"Hey you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses on, would you?"

 

And my favourites from Shrek are

"What's that? It's hideous!" - "Well, that's not very nice. It's just a donkey."

"Five shillings for the posessed toy" and

"Sure it's big enogh, but look at the location!"

 

Oh, well, they're all good.

[Guest Scathane]

"Famous last words, kiddo! Mine were: Gee! From up here it almost looks like the guy with the hook’s holding a rifle!"

 

– Boston Brand in The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman

[AdmiralFishface]

Just found a few great ones in my favourite cartoon, Calvin & Hobbes...

 

"I'm being educated against my will! My rights are being trampled!"

"Is it a right to remain ignorant?"

"I don't know, but I refuse to find out!"

- Calvin & Hobbes

 

"What state do you live in?"

"Denial."

- Miss Wormwood & Calvin

 

"That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"

 

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

-Calvin

 

"I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low."

 

"Why spend time learning when ignorance is instantaneous?"

 

-Hobbes

[Brass_Bra_Leia]

I love quotes! There are certain words or phrases that just hit me and stay.

 

Ride Bodly Ride, the shade replied, if you seek for El Dorado -

El Dorado by Edgar Allan Poe (one of the only Poe poems that didn't totally freak me out, we won't even get into Tell Tale Heart)

 

Of course this has to be folloowed by John Wayne in the movie El Dorado, "So are you ready to Ride Bodly Ride"

 

You People Make my a*& twitch - Meg Ryan in French Kiss

 

Love is Paitent, love is kind... (is that 1Cor 13?, I love that verse)

 

I told you once you son of a b*tch, I'm the best that's ever been - Charlie Daniels, Devil Went Down to Georgia

 

I did not have sex with that woman - President Bill Clinton (had to throw it in there)

 

"Children are brain damaged" Bill Cosby

[Stellar_Magic]

Bill Cosby's comedy routine, I love it!

 

You see a five year old has the ability to see straight through you and find just the wrong thing, "What do you want for Breakfast?"

 

"Choclate Cake!"

 

"What choclate cake?"

 

"The Choclate Cake behind you..." And I turned and lifted the box and thought to myself, what goes in choclate cake, eggs and milk, thats nutrition...

[the_mask]

Another one:

 

I'm from the south, the deeeep south (snigger)

 

-Little Nicky

[Guest Scathane]

And of course, we can't skip:

 

When you rule out all impossibilities, what remains - however improbable - must be the truth.

 

- Sherlock Holmes/Mr. Spock

Edited March 3, 2006 by Scathane

[Brass_Bra_Leia]

Bill Cosby's comedy routine, I love it!

 

You see a five year old has the ability to see straight through you and find just the wrong thing, "What do you want for Breakfast?"

 

"Choclate Cake!"

 

"What choclate cake?"

 

"The Choclate Cake behind you..." And I turned and lifted the box and thought to myself, what goes in choclate cake, eggs and milk, thats nutrition...

 

 

Dad is great he gives us choclate cake.

I loved that. My parents had a bunch of Bill Cosby tapes and when we annoyed them they would just put one on and laugh. I teach parenting classes and one of the things we always teach is when all else fails use humor. Bill Cosby definately puts parenting into perspective.

 

My other favorite was the Noah one. and of course Child birth. When I was in labor those lines from his act would just keep flashing through my mind.

[Thumper]

Just found a few great ones in my favourite cartoon, Calvin & Hobbes...

 

I love Calvin & Hobbes! Especially Calvin's snowmen. That strip has some great lines, and Bill Watterson writes some excellent poems. The "state of denial" was hilarious.

(FoxTrot is my favorite comic strip, but C&H is right up there with it.)

 

 

...can't...resist...writing...Firefly quotes....

 

"Burn the land and boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me." -from the theme song

 

"You paid money for this, sir? On purpose?" -Zoe

 

"The planet's coming up a mite fast."

"That's just because I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all."

"Well, if that happens, let me know."

"Okay." -Kaylee, Wash (pilot), Mal (captain)

 

Okay, got that out of my system for now.

 

Never really listened to Bill Cosby's routines.

 

-Thumper

[the_mask]

Just found another gem on my pc at home:

 

Give a man a compilation tape

and he will dance for a night.

Teach him to scratch

and he will dance for generations.

 

-Ali G

[AdmiralFishface]

It is time to bring out the big guns - Babylon 5...

 

"The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote." - Kosh

 

"Now, landing thrusters.. landing thrusters, hmm. Now if I were a landing thruster, which one of these would I be?" - Londo Mollari

 

"Captain, we're sorry. We thought you were dead." - Drazi Spokesman

"I was. I'm better now." - Capt. Sheridan

 

"Are you trying to cheer me up?"

"No sir, wouldn't dream of it."

"Good, I hate being cheered up."

"In that case we're all going to die slow, agonizing deaths."

"Thank you, I feel so much better now." - Capt. Sheridan, Cmdr. Ivanova

 

"When I said my quarters were cold, I did not mean, 'Oh, I think it's a little chilly in here, perhaps I'll throw a blanket on the bed.' No, I said it was COLD, as in, 'Oh, my left arm has snapped off like an icicle and shattered on the floor'! This is highly inappropriate, Captain!"

"You're right. There are several other parts of your body I'd much rather see snapped off." - Capt: Sheridan, Londo Mollari

 

"I'm still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen."

"Yes, and I'm prepared to give you one, Commander, as soon as the room stops spinning."

"This station creates gravity by rotation. It never stops spinning."

"Well, you begin to see my problem, huh?" - Cmdr. Sinclair, Londo Mollari

[the_mask]

B5 ? Ok, here goes:

 

"What was the excercise about ?"

 

"About beauty ... in the dark"

 

"Seems to work, you're already sounding like a Vorlon"

 

-Sheridan to Ivanova about one of his first exercises with Kosh

[Thumper]

Kosh makes my head hurt.

 

"A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles." -Kosh

 

"We are all star stuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out." -Delenn (I love that line)

 

"I'm not authorized for that kind of information."

"But you are the head of security."

"Then what kind of head of security would I be if I let people like me know things that I'm not supposed to know? I know what I know because I have to know it. And if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me, and I don't let anyone else tell me either. Now look, we have tried most of the other ambassadors, why don't you speak to G'Kar, maybe he knows something about this ship."

"Under the terms of our recent treaty, I am not authorized to have any official conversation with the Narn without Centauri approval."

"So you'll ask unofficially. And I can give you reasonable assurances that the head of security will not report you for doing so."

"Because you won't tell yourself about it?"

"That's right. I never get involved with my own life. It's too much trouble."

"This is a very strange place you have here, Mr. Garibaldi."

"Thank you." - Garibaldi and David Endawi

[TheViking]

Han: "Laugh it up Furball"

 

 

 

When Chewie is laughing at him......... =)

[the_mask]

Kosh makes my head hurt.

when contact the force you do, make sense, he will

 

Well, the name of the species, that the Centauri had brought to extinction eludes me, so if you know it replace x with it :

 

"You know what the last x said, before he died ?"

"... ?"

"Urrrggghhh"

[Texas_Fett]

I keep a Word file on my computer containing quotes I stumble across and like. Here's a sampling:

 

"The price for living in a democracy is that stupid people can vote, say anything they want, and procreate at will."

-Unknown

 

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

- General George Patton (1885-1945)

 

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

 

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."

- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

 

"When I take action I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10

empty tent and hit a camel in the butt."

-- President of the United States, George W. Bush.

 

"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."

-Winston Churchill

 

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the discovery that liberty is a product of order." -

Will Durant, Historian

 

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

 

It's the job of a leader to make it easy to do the right thing, difficult to do the wrong thing.

-Anonymous

 

"Our Rulers will become corrupt, our people careless...They will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights."

-Thomas Jefferson, 1781

 

Question to retired Gen. Norman Schwartzkoff: "How do you fight an enemy that is ready to die for his country?"

His answer: "That's easy, you accommodate him."

 

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

 

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"

- Abba Eban (1915-2002)

 

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

 

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."

- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

 

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

 

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

 

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

 

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."

- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

 

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

- Steven Wright

 

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."

- Vince Lombardi

 

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

 

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

 

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

 

"Vote early and vote often."

- Al Capone (1899-1947)

 

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

- Robert Orben

 

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"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."

- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

 

"Plato was a bore."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

 

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."

- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

 

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

 

"Hemingway was a jerk."

- Harold Robbins

 

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"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."

- Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

 

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"

- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

 

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

- Tom Clancy

 

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

 

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."

- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live

[AdmiralFishface]

Xon. Londo was talking about the last of the Xon.

 

"How will this end?"

"In fire"

-Centauri Emperor and Kosh

 

"Hostiles might be splitting up so they can be with both groups to keep them in line."

"Unless they are all hostile and some are just more hostile than others."

"Well thank you for that ray of sunshine, Marcus. Next time I feel the need to be depressed I will remember to give you a call."

-Sheridan, Marcus

 

"Knock, knock."

"Who's there?"

"Kosh"

"Kosh who?"

"Gesundheit!"

-Sheridan, Ivanova

 

"Trust me."

"Trust you? Londo, my brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a Centauri. The first time we meet you people, the first time any other civilization, you told us you practically run the entire galaxy. What was it you said, a huge empire."

"Come on, public relations."

"Only, that hasn't be true for a hundred years. Then you give us this line, that Earth is some lost Centauri tribe, making us distance relatives. Until we finally got our hands on some Centauri DNA and find out we are not related at all. Appears aside, we are two completely different species. "

"A clerical error."

-Londo, Garibaldi

 

"Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you." - Londo

 

"ZOG."

"Zog? What do you mean Zog? Zog what? Zog yes? Zog no?

-First Ones, Ivanova

 

and one of my favourites:

"Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it? "

"One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time."

-Londo, Morden

[Stellar_Magic]

B5 eh?

 

The Breen scene

 

"Breen?" -A Narn officer

"Its not Breen." -G'kar

"The taste, the smell, how did you ever import breen."- Narn

"It's not Breen. These are swedish meat balls. It is one of the curiousities of the universe that every culture has their own version of these Swedish Meat Balls."-G'kar

[AdmiralFishface]

A pity for this thread that the best moments in B5 were not carried by words, like in the "one thing at a time" scene, or (one of my favourite scenes also) when the Centauri fleet is bombarding Narn and Mollari stares out the window with a 'Great Maker, what have I done' look on his face.

My very favourite scene is when Londo talks to Morden for the last time, lets the Shadows next to him be shot and finally blows up the island Selini (was that the name?) with the Shadow vessels on it.

 

"What are you going to do, Mollari? Blow up the island?"

"Actually,... now, that you mention it..."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

 

BOOM.

[Jahled]

'Never interupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.'

 

-Napoleon

 

btw:where is untimely anyway?

[Jahled]

'Never interupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.'

 

-Napoleon

 

btw:where is untimely anyway?

[AdmiralFishface]

Ooh, video games...

 

"Ple-e-ease! No hurt, no kill!" - Gharbad the Weak, Diablo

 

"Well, really great to have you with me, Jasp!"

"Your gratitude has been acknowledged."

"Gee, you're a real talker, are you?"

"Your sarcasm has been acknowledged." - Jake Logan, J.A.S.P.E.R. pilot android, Tachyon: The Fringe

 

"Have you ever sat on a piece of gothic architecture for 200 hundred years, it gets right up your arse, you know."

"Uh, isn't it a bit early in the day to start talking about gothic architecture?" - Gargoyle, Conker, Conker's Bad Fur Day