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[Ozle]

What's your favourite film quotes?

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

"I feel like an archaeologist unearthing a long-undisturbed pyramid, only to find a colony of ambulatory squid inside.  Playing backgammon."

It's a quote from Treasure of the Sierra Voltgloss.

Ok, the for-real one that jumped to mind is:

"That's a hooker?  I'll give her a 2, 'cause I've never seen a 1"

[Davio]

"Obviously you're not a golfer"

[Kirian]

"Listen, I have one job on this ship.  It's stupid, but I'm going to do it!"

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

"Well, I believe in the soul, the c**k, the p***y, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. "

[greatexpectations]

"i don't care if helen of troy walks into the bar, that's game 6!"

really the whole scene is great, but without memorizing the whole bit this is the line that sticks out the most.

[Ozle]

"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." Benefits of a classical education.

[Kuildeous]

"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." Benefits of a classical education.

That movie is just so quotable in general.

Often, we modify the machine gun quote.

"Now I have an Ambassador. Ho, ho, ho."

[Davio]

Anything from Full Metal Jacket is great as well.

I love how the movie transitions from boot camp into the horrors of actual combat.

[Ozle]

"You know when I said I'd kill you last............I Lied"

[Ozle]

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

[theory]

My favorite quotes, in terms of the tingly-ness they gave me:

Book: "Only Cat."

Movie: "I never saved anything for the swim back."

TV: "I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game, though, right?"

In terms of funniness:

Book: "Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up, and in fact in later editions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs."

Movie: "Ever heard of Plato?  Aristotle?  Socrates?  Morons."

TV: "People who hold signs, go on to hold many things."  [Sadly, the Simpsons/Futurama quotes all steal each other's votes.]

And I have a whole batch of article quotes, too, but that'll have to be explored more deeply elsewhere:

"The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing."

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

[Ozle]

"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!"

[Kirian]

"Anybody else wanna negotiate?"

"I never took the Koabyashi Maru test... until now.  What do you think... of my solution?"

Theory reminded me of another good one:  "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world; it would be a pity to damage yours."

Or, frankly, any quote at all from Princess Bride.

[Davio]

"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

Can you tell me who this is?

[WanderingWinder]

"Anybody else wanna negotiate?"

"I never took the Koabyashi Maru test... until now.  What do you think... of my solution?"

Theory reminded me of another good one:  "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world; it would be a pity to damage yours."

Or, frankly, any quote at all from Princess Bride.

A la "True love is the greatest thing in the world; except a nice MLT - Mutton, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwich where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomatoes are ripe - tch tch, they're so perky. But no, he clearly said 'To Blathe', and as we all know, to blathe means to bluff, so..."

[theory]

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

Can you tell me who this is?

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

[Brando Commando]

"I don't drugs. I am drugs."

I like this because it implies that there is still territory in the mind and in art that is to be explored.

[Ozle]

"That's no moon...."

[Grujah]

I'll do some comics for starters (US, won't bother translation stuff that nobody knows about anyway ):

Also, these are all.. hmm.. fanboyish?

"You don't get it, son. This is not a mudhole, this is an operating table. And I'm the surgeon!"

"Night's hot as hell. It's a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. I'm staring at a goddess. She's telling me she wants me. I’m not going to waste one more second wondering how I’ve gotten so lucky. She smells as angels ought go smell. Goldie. She says her name is Goldie."

"The though comes out of nowhere, like a bullet carved from madness, and just for an instant I consider ignoring it and walking out of there. But then I remember I have reputation to maintain'Oh yeah, the one other thing, fellas.. UP YOURS!"

"Striking terror, best part of the job"

"Ladies, gentlemen. You've eaten well, you've eaten Gotham's wealth. It's spirit. Now your feast is nearly over. From this moment on, none of you are safe" (actually, I could do a whole page of Batman ones, but I'll stick to these three)

"Glad to hear it, Pilgrim. Cause there's a little girl lyin dead out there that needs avengin'. You kin talk the talk, now let's see ya walk the walk".

"There is good, and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon, I will not compromise in this".

Edit: Oh, and of course

"I know how to make some smiles, puddin'" <3 <3 <3.

[Kirian]

"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!"

That's perhaps my least favorite line in the movie.  It really adds nothing, or very little, and it's atypical of Kirk, who's been taunting Khan all along the way.

[werothegreat]

I'd have to think about this for a second.

"Search your feelings, you know it to be true!" -Empire Strikes Back

-The entire South Park movie - "Do you have the buttfor?" "What's a buttfor?" "For.  Pooping."

-"She would ask herself silly questions, like, how many couples are having an orgasm right now?" *montage of orgasming couples* "Fifteen!" -Amelie

-"Franklin did this, and Franklin did that, and Franklin did some other damn thing.  Franklin smote the ground, and out popped George Washington, fully grown and on a horse, and together the three of them, Franklin, Washington, and the horse, conducted the entire revolution on their own."  "I like it."  -1776

-Most of Kick-Ass - "Who are you supposed to be, the Green Condom?"

-*ear-piercing note* "What was that?" "B flat."  -Victor/Victoria

-"What the hell is a Pirin tablet?"  "It's aspirin, just with the A and the S scraped off."  -The Birdcage

-Really, all of the Birdcage.

-"I'll turn him into a flea!  A harmless little flea!  Then I'll put that flea in a box, then I'll put that flea in another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives.... I'LL SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!  It's brilliant!" *knocks over poison* "...or, to save on postage, we'll just poison him with this!"  -The Emperor's New Groove

-Johnny Depp's speech about immortality from The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus: "All those people... they're all dead."  "Yes, but... Immortal, nevertheless.  They won't get old or fat.  They won't get sick or feeble.  They are beyond fear...  Because, they are forever young.  They are gods.  And you can join them.  Prepare to be reborn.  And remember...  Nothing's permanent...  Not even death."  This just hit me hard because you could tell it was in reference to Heath Ledger.

-"Of course I'm serious!  And don't call me Shirley!"  -Airplane!

-Really, all of Airplane! as well.

-All of Galaxy Quest - "By Grabthar's Hammer... what a savings."

-"I gave all my clothes to the poor."  "What about... those?"  "Oh, the poor didn't want these."  -The Sound of Music

-All of the original Producers - "I'm pain!  I'm in pain, and I'm wet, and I'm still hysterical!"

-"Screw Max!" "I do." "So do I."  -Cabaret

-"We should have bought a squirrel."  -along with everything else from Rat Race.

[Qvist]

"I can't remember to forget you."

[Buggz]

- I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in a dictionary.

And basically the rest of Office Space, too.