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Topic: Classic Quotes
Sometimes you hear something or see something, and it's so funny or thought-provoking or flat out repeatable that it just HAS to be written down and remembered.

Keep it clean, folks - enjoy!

#1 Sep 04th 2007, 5:52pm
WendWriter
TV chef Gordon Ramsay learned his trade working for Marco Pierre White. Speaking of his former employee, Marco said on TV's Hell's Kitchen:

"I didn't make Gordon cry, he chose to cry."

#2 Sep 04th 2007, 5:54pm
Vanafindiel
Val Kilmer, Real Genius:

"Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?""

"Sir, let me take this moment to compliment you on your fashion sense, particularly your slippers."

#3 Sep 05th 2007, 7:46pm
WendWriter
Written in the dirt of a white van:

"Overtake quietly, the refugees are sleeping."

#4 Sep 06th 2007, 4:13am
VikingValkyrie267
May I join this fun?

Some kid screamed this at my friend. "You stink like ostrich!"

Here are some I like. I saw them on iGoogle, I love my random quote of the day.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

- Stephen King

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

- Bill Nye

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Sir Francis Bacon

There was also, my absoult favorite, "Bright faces hide Dark Hearts."

I'm sorry I know alot of quotes.

"Well, ---- me," he said, "A ----ing wizard. I hate ----ing wizards!"

Well maybe you shouldn't ---- them, then." muttered one of his hench men, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes. - form the book Mort, Terry Prachett

#5 Sep 06th 2007, 8:22pm . Edited Sep 08th 2007, 12:36pm
Redneck626
My favorite Rush Limbaugh quotes:

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”

"The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them."

Compassion is no substitute for justice.”

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.”

“You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.”

#6 Sep 23rd 2007, 6:48pm . Edited by WendWriter, Sep 24th 2007, 10:55am
WendWriter
From a colleague at work today - so funny I just had to post it:

"Wendy, there's only one thing wrong with you calling people toerags - toerags are occasionally useful!"

#7 Sep 26th 2007, 11:45am
WendWriter
My dad sent me this:

The tech support problem dates back to long before the industrial revolution, when primitive tribesmen beat out a rhythm on drums to communicate:

This "Fire Help." Me Groog.

Me Lorto. Help. Fire not work.

You have flint and stone?

Ugh.

You hit them together?

Ugh.

What happen?

Fire not work.

(sigh) Make spark?

No spark, no fire, me confused. Fire work yesterday.

*sigh* You change rock?

I change nothing.

You sure?

Me make one change. Stone hot so me soak in stream so stone not burn Lorto hand. Small change, shouldn't keep Lorto from make fire.

*Grabs club and goes to Lorto's cave*

#8 Sep 26th 2007, 11:46am
VikingValkyrie267
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
#9 Nov 02nd 2007, 7:47pm
The Sugarfaerie
Nice one, Viking!

I've become addicted to Firefly at the moment, so here's a quote from my favourite pairing:

Wash: Isn't that like science fiction?

Zoe: We live on a spaceship, honey.

Another one, this time from the film of Firefly, Serenity :

Mal: So what does that mean?

Wash: Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?

Mal (on the intercom): This is your captain speaking, we may be experiencing some light turbulance and then explode.

And now a quote from the great Oscar Wilde:

There is no such thing as a moral or amoral book. Books are well-written, or badly written. That is all.

#10 Nov 02nd 2007, 8:55pm
Saber Apricot
My favorite from Serenity is, "She is starting to damage my calm." I actually say, "You're damaging my calm," and such once and a while (mostly as a joke), so I got a hoot out of that line.
#11 Nov 02nd 2007, 10:51pm
The Sugarfaerie
Yeah, I love that line... The whole series and the film are really well written. Another great line from Serenity:

Mal: And if I'm wrong, you may as well just shoot me now.

*River aims her gun in his face*

Mal: Or we could talk some more.

And another from the series:

Wash, playing with his plastic dinosaurs: We have found this land, and we shall call it... This Land!

#12 Nov 03rd 2007, 1:22am
VikingValkyrie267
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized
#13 Nov 03rd 2007, 11:05am
The Sugarfaerie
My Firefly addiction is growing by the minute...

Zoe, grabbing Wash: Captain, take the helm. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.

Wash: Work, work, work.

Jayne: We need a distraction. I recommend Zoe gets naked.

Wash: No.

Jayne, confused: I get naked.

Wash: No! Just no!

And now, from Buffy:

Larry: I'd really like to get me some of that Buffy and Willow action, if you know what I mean.

Oz: Wow, Larry, you've really mastered the single entendre.

#14 Nov 03rd 2007, 8:23pm
Jane of Greywing
Six of my favorites for your enjoyment:

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it than to be sane and have one's doubts."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

"All truth goes through three stages:

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

I apologize, but I forgot to record who said each of these. I keep a collection of quotes on my bulletin board, but did not have the space, time, or motivation to include the authors.

#15 Nov 03rd 2007, 10:38pm
The Sugarfaerie
I believe the quote about fashion was said by Oscar Wilde... Great man for quotes, that one. Here's another one from him:

"All art is quite useless."

Here's one from Doctor Who :

"The angels have my box!"

Doesn't make much sense (that's the point, actually), but it's from my favourite episode, called 'Blink'. I used some lines from that episode as the basis for a Harry Potter fanfic, called Don't Blink.

Another Buffy quote:

Giles: There's a stench of death in the air...

Xander, looking at a bunch of zombies: Yeah, I think that's Bob.

#16 Nov 04th 2007, 12:18am
Rayless Night
Ran across some G.K. Chesterton quotes and thought I'd share:

* Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

Another quote I can add to my arsenal explaining why fantasy literature is literature.

* 'Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture.'

Okay...I do write/read free verse and enjoy it and think some of it is excellent... but I can't help thinking he has a point.

But most importantly:

* Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

#17 Nov 04th 2007, 5:45am . Edited Nov 04th 2007, 2:29pm
Rayless Night
Ran across some G.K. Chesterton quotes and thought I'd share:

* Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

* 'Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture.'

* Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Sorry about the double post, please delete. :)

#18 Nov 04th 2007, 5:45am . Edited Nov 04th 2007, 5:46am
Rowena DeVandal
"How did the existence of this forum escape me?" - Me ;)

Now for the real stuff...:)

From "Buffy"-

"I mock you with my monkey pants!" - Oz (even funnier considering I know someone with pants what have monkeys all over them in neon colors.)

"Tell ya what. You do the homework and I'll copy off of you." - Faith

"And does that mean I have to be a bigger, badder badass than the source of all badness?" - Willow

"Raise your hand if ew?" - Buffy

"You were born with certain advantages, sure. But that doesn't make you better than us. It makes you luckier than us." - Anya

From "Firefly"-

"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." - Shepherd Book

(My personal favorite exchange from the whole series, from the never-aired episode "Heart of Gold")

Zoe: "No one's gonna force you to go, Jayne. As has been stated -- this job's strictly speculative."

Jayne: "Good. 'Cause I don't know these folks, don't much care to."

Mal: "They're whores."

Jayne: "I'm in."

From the X-Men comic "God Loves, Man Kills"-

"Ain't no shortage of windmills in the world t' tilt at." -Wolverine to Magneto.

From the "Astonishing X-Men" graphic novel "Gifted"-

"So tell me...which stage of grieving is this? Denial?" -Logan to Scott, after finding him in bed with Emma Frost.

(In reference to Logan's whereabouts)

Kitty: "Elsewhere? What does that mean?"

Beast: "It means we've narrowed it down to 'else'."

(Upon finding out that Emma teaches ethics)

Kitty: "Oh my God. You teach ethics?"

Emma: "Yes, do let's make jokes right now."

Kitty: "I'm not joking. I have a very large problem with this."

(When told why he's not allowed to kill a psychotic alien)

"Diplomatic &&&&^%^$%$##$%^&^%$^&*()(*(&*&^%^%$#$$%^&^&^%%$%(^%$%#$##%^&%$$^&**ing immunity?" -Wolverine

--------

Honestly, I could quote X-Men ALL DAY!

#19 Nov 05th 2007, 9:46pm
The Sugarfaerie
*gasps* Do I spot another Firefly fan? Yes! I'm not alone!

Welcome to the forum, btw. Hope you enjoy your stay.

In honour of this discovery, I have more Firefly quotes (please note these may not be word for word):

Wash [talking about his wife, Zoe, who's Mal's second-in-command]: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honour and obey.

Mal: Yeah, well- she swore to obey?

Wash: Well, no... But that's my point! She obeys you without question! There's obeying going on right under my very nose!

Zoe: Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

(This is my favourite quote ever)

Wash [pretending to read a eulogy]: Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, slightly less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...

Ah, Zoe/Wash, I'll never get tired of them. Though I have developed an odd fascination with Zoe/Mal... I know, I know! It's so wrong! But I'll only read fics for that pairing that are set preseries. Zoe belongs with Wash, no question.

Anyway, now for some Buffy:

Willow: I don't want to be the last hope! I crumble under pressure! Can we have another last hope?

Buffy: I think I speak for everyone when I say 'huh?'

Xander: Y'know, for a moment there I thought you were going to make an expression.

Oz: Well, I felt one coming on, I won't lie.

Harry Potter

Molly Weasley: NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU **!!!!!!!

#20 Nov 05th 2007, 10:23pm . Edited Nov 05th 2007, 11:31pm
Rowena DeVandal
Yes, Sugarfaerie, I am a devout "Firefly" fan...:) But i was one of the unfortunate ones that didn't get to see the series when it aired, due to it coming on at an odd time so i was always at work when it showed...:/ I caught one here and there, but never enough for it to make sense to me...but i LOVE Joss Whedon and saw the movie when it came out, bought THAT, then got the series with my taxes last year...:)

Now, one of MY most favorite quotes is from an outtake:

Mal: "Kaylee! Find that little kid that's taking a dirt nap with the Baby Jesus. We'll need a hood ornament."

:D

#21 Nov 06th 2007, 12:09am
The Sugarfaerie
I've only recently started watching Firefly, they're playing the whole series on the Sci-Fi Channel. I haven't seen all the episodes yet, and never in order. First episode I saw was 'Shindig'. Needless to say, I was confused. I saw Serenity at a friend's place a while back, that's how I became interested in the fandom. I'd by the DVDs if I wasn't so hopelessly broke right now...

I started reading a fic that was a crossover between Firefly and Doctor Who. Two of my fave series brought together, and they fitted remarkably well...

Anyway, to make sure this post isn't total spam, a quote from tonight's episode, 'The Train Job':

Wash [looking at the unconcious Jayne]: Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?

#22 Nov 06th 2007, 2:26am
Rowena DeVandal
I found a website not that long ago that has all kinds of shows that you can just watch...i'll dig up the link and PM it to you when i get home...:)

And now, another quote-

"Wuo-shang mayer, maysheen, byen shr-to*… Please, God, make me a stone…" -River, from the movie "Serenity", on the surface of Miranda.

*"I will close my ears and my heart and I will be a stone" -translated from Chinese.

#23 Nov 06th 2007, 3:36am
VikingValkyrie267
Allright now it's time for Transformers. Some funny, some serious.

Agent Simmons: Mean little sucker, huh.

Maggie Madsen: That thing is freaky!

Agent Simmons: Kinda like the iddy biddy energiser bunny from hell!

USAF Master Sgt. Epps: Raptor, Raptor do you copy? We have your visual, Green smoke is the mark, provide air cover for the vector black hawks for extracton.

Ironhide: Its Starscream!

USAF Master Sgt. Epps: Please tell me you copy

(Starscream is my Favourite)

Sam Witwicky: Hello? 911 emergency. My cars been stolen! I'm in pursuit! I need the whole squadron, bring everyone! No, no don't ask any questions, my father’s the head of the neighbourhood watch!

Girl: [to Ironhide] Excuse me, are you the tooth fairy?

(Awsomest movie scene ever.)

Frenzy: All Spark located.

Starscream: This is Starscream: All Decepticons, mobilize.

Barricade: Barricade en-route.

Devastator: Devastator reporting...

Bonecrusher: Bonecrusher rolling...

Blackout: Blackout incoming... All hail Megatron!

Optimus Prime: At the end of this day, one shall stand, one shall fall!

Glen Whitmann: Ok, Maggie, look. Lemme break it down to you, how it's gonna happen. They gonna come thru that door, they're gonna play good cop, bad cop. Don't fall for that, alright?

Maggie Madsen: [rubs forehead]

Glen Whitmann: That's why I ate their food. See, they put the plate of donuts out here to test your guilt. If ya don't touch it, you're guilty!

[picks up empty plate and drops it slightly]

Glen Whitmann: I ate the whole plate. The WHOLE plate. Huh? So me and you. They walk thru that door, you don't say nothin'.

Glen Whitmann: She did it! She did it! She's the one you want!

Ron Witwicky: 5... 4... It's comin' off the hinges, pal. 3... 2... stand back!

Sam Witwicky: What's up?... What's with the bat?

Ron Witwicky: Who were you talking to?

Sam Witwicky: Talkin' to you.

Judy Witwicky: Why are you so sweaty and filthy?

Sam Witwicky: I'm a child. Ya know, I'm a teenager.

Sam Witwicky: [on phone about Bumblebee] Um yeah, Satan's Camaro? It's stalking me!

Optimus Prime: Bumblebee, stop lubricating the man!

Ratchett: [scanning Sam's body] The boy's pheromone levels suggest he wants to mate with the female.

Agent Simmons: Ooh, Nokia's are reeeeal nasty. You gotta respect the Japanese. They know the way, of the Samurai.

Maggie Madsen: Nokia's from Finland

Keller: Yes, but he said... You know, a little strange. He's a little strange

Optimus Prime: With the All Spark gone, we cannot return life to our planet. And fate has yielded its reward: a new world to call home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars: we are here, we are waiting.

See what you made me do?

Oh in honour of yetserday.

Remember Remember,

The Fifth of November

The Gun powder Treason and plot

I see no reason

For the Gun Powder treason

To ever be forgot.

#24 Nov 06th 2007, 5:35am . Edited Nov 06th 2007, 5:43am
Rowena DeVandal
Grins...i LOVED that movie! And MSA is tickled pink that there's another Transformers SUPERgeek on this site! :)

From "Astonishing X-Men: Torn"

(After an -ahem- "incident" between Kitty and Colossus)

Kitty: I phased!

Colossus: Are you all right?

Kitty: Are you?

Colossus: It was strange.

Kitty: I can't believe I phased just then! That's never...it was totally your fault.

Colossus: I like to think so, yes.

Kitty: Tee hee.

#25 Nov 06th 2007, 5:47am
The Sugarfaerie
I found a website not that long ago that has all kinds of shows you can just watch... i'll dig up the link and PM it to you

Oh, yes please! That would be great. Firefly only runs on Tuesdays and it's hell to have to wait for it... It also has the exact same scheduling as Doctor Who on another channel, so I usually watch that and record Firefly, since I'm the only fan in my family. Though yesterday after Doctor Who my dad actually asked if we could watch Firefly now, so maybe I won't have to watch it by myself anymore... Heh. I've got my father addicted, man, I'm good.

And now, from Serenity:

Wash [piloting 'Serenity']: I'm a leaf on the wind... Watch how I soar.

*something crashes against the ship*

Wash [startled]: It's okay! I'm a leaf on the wind!

Mal: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

Chicago:

Annie [is an inmate in prison]: I met Ezekiel Young from Salt Lake City about two years ago, and he told me he was single and we hit it off right away. So we started living together. He'd go to work, he'd come home, I'd fix him a drink, we'd have dinner... And then I found out. Single, he told me? Single, my **! Not only was he married, oh no! He had six wives. One of those Mormons, y'know? So that night when he got home from work, I fixed him his drink, as usual... Y'know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic.

#26 Nov 06th 2007, 12:20pm
VikingValkyrie267
Grins...i LOVED that movie! And MSA is tickled pink that there's another Transformers SUPERgeek on this site! :)

I AM a SUPERgeek.

Chicago:

(I forgot most of it but what I do remeber is:

You could say we broke up because of artistic differences; he saw himself as alive, I saw him dead.

#27 Nov 06th 2007, 2:53pm
Saber Apricot
Ooh, yeah... "He saw himself as alive and I saw him dead." Cell Block Tango is my favorite part from Chicago.
#28 Nov 06th 2007, 3:54pm
The Sugarfaerie
Yeah, I love 'Cell Block Tango' too. Here's another quote from that scene:

Liz: Y'know how people have these little habits that get you down? Like Bernie. Bernie liked to chew gum. No, not chew. Pop. So this one day I come home and I'm really irritated and looking for a little sympathy, and there's Bernie, lying on the couch, drinking a beer and chewing. No, not chewing. Popping! So I said to him, 'You pop that gum one more time'.... And he did. So I took the shotgun off the wall and I fired two warning shots... Into his head.

#29 Nov 06th 2007, 4:02pm
Saber Apricot
From Superbad:

Fogell: What's it like to have a gun?

Officer Michaels: It's like having two ***. If one of your *** could kill someone.

#30 Nov 06th 2007, 5:09pm
The Sugarfaerie
From Serenity:

Wash: Can we go back to the part where Jayne gets beaten up by a 90 pound girl, 'cause that is never going to get old.

(Jayne, btw, is a man)

Firefly:

Jayne: Anyone forget her coming at me with a butcher's knife?

Wash: Wacky fun?

Mal (undercover): Remember, I always loved you.

Zoe: Sir?

Mal: You're my wife.

Zoe: Oh. Yes, sir. Honey.

#31 Nov 07th 2007, 5:17pm
Saber Apricot
Greg Giraldo: There was a school in New York, they tried to ban Mothers' day. They wanted to ban Mothers' Day, because they said Mother's Day artwork would be upsetting to children from non-traditional families. That's what it's come to. Mothers' Day is controversial. Why don't we get rid of every holiday? Let's get rid of Thanksgiving, right? That artwork has to be upsetting to children who're missing fingers, that has to suck. Every year everybody else has that perfect little turkey tracer card, you know. It's not bad enough your father makes you work the deli-slicer now you got a turkey that looks like its tail feathers were blown off. What kind of garbage-holiday, "Hey, happy Thanksgiving. My turkey looks like it lives near a nuclear plant, happy Thanksgiving."

------

14.14. Muddy Road

Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling.

Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a sink kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.

"Come on, girl," said Tanzan at once. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud.

Ekido did not speak again until that night when they reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer could restrain himself. "We monks don't go near females," he told Tanzan, "especially not young and lovely ones. It is dangerous. Why did you do that?"

"I left the girl there," said Tanzan. "Are you still carrying her?'

#32 Nov 07th 2007, 10:18pm . Edited Nov 08th 2007, 9:34am
Rowena DeVandal
(From Babylon 5, After a discussion on starting the command staff on a new "Food Plan".)

Cmmdr. Susan Ivanova: I'll gain weight!

Dr. Stephen Franklin: At first, yes.

Ivanova: (snorts) Fine. I spend my whole life fighting Imperialism. Now, I am the expanding Russian frontier!

Franklin: But with very nice borders.

(Babylon 5, after knocking out an entire bar full of people and one of them starts waking up)

Marcus Cole: I find that I can get more out of someone with a kind word and a two-by-four than I can with a kind word alone.

(Babylon 5, Kosh to an alien couple regarding their son.)

Ambassador Kosh: The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

#33 Nov 08th 2007, 1:41am
VikingValkyrie267
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

- CS Lewis

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

- Pat Conroy

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

- Simon Cameron

More "V"

V: [Evey pulls out her mace] I can assure you I mean you no harm.

Evey Hammond: Who are you?

V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.

Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.

V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.

Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.

V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.

V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

[carves V into poster on wall]

V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

[giggles]

V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

Evey Hammond: Are you like a crazy person?

V: I am quite sure they will say so. But, to whom am I speaking with?

Evey Hammond: I'm Evey.

V: Evey? E-V. Of course you are.

Evey Hammond: What does that mean?

V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and I don't believe in coincidences.

There is whole thing on why he likes her name.

See, "E" is the fifth letter in the english alphabet and "V" is latin for five. "Y" at the end of her name is the twentyfifth letter in the alphabet makeing 5 squared.

#34 Nov 08th 2007, 5:31am
Saber Apricot
Jim Rohn: Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Anthony Robbins: The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Humboldt: True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Franklin P. Adams: Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Julius Erving: If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Ben Franklin: While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Jean Paul: No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

Voltaire: Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

Plutarch: Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Goethe: Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

#35 Nov 08th 2007, 9:46am
WendWriter
Hi Rowena, hi guys.

Glad to know someone else loves Babylon 5. I was hooked on it for years!

#36 Nov 08th 2007, 11:59am
The Sugarfaerie
I was rereading The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak this morning, and was once again struck by some very powerful lines. It's a fantastic book. Basically, it's narrated by a personified Death as he travels through World War II, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Death is so horrified by what he (it's never said outright, but by the narration Death seems to be male) sees, that he becomes frightened of humans. Amazing writing.

So here are some more serious quotes from that book:

(these are some of the first lines in the novel)

Death: Here is a small fact: You are going to die. Reaction to aforementioned fact: Does this worry you? I urge you, don't be afraid. I'm nothing if not fair... Please, remain calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster. I am not vicious. I am a result.

Death: The bombs were coming. And so was I.

Death: I carried them from my fingers like suitcases, draped their souls over my back. It was only the children I carried in my arms.

Death (in reaction to the Holocaust): "God," I ask. Twice, I say it. He never answers me. You think you're the only one he never answers?

#37 Nov 08th 2007, 12:12pm
Saber Apricot
I there was a lot of what McNamara said that I found interesting in the documentary, The Fog of War. Below is from a clip of the film where McNamara is talking about the US bombing Japan during WWII. The clip can be found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er2xCn3_QcQ . Anyone who hasn't seen the film should watch the clip over reading what I transcribed (and found online) from it.

McNamara: I participated in the interrogation of the B29 Bomber cruiser that came back that night. In a room, full of crewmen and intelligence interrogators, the captain got up and said, "God ***, I liked to know who the son-of-a-*** was that took this magnificent airplane, that was designed to bomb from 23,000 feet and he took it down to 5,000 feet and I lost my wingman! He was shot and killed."

McNamara: LeMay spoke in monosyllables. It was basically "Yes," "No," "Yup," or "The hell with it." That was all he said. And LeMay was totally intolerant of criticism. He never engaged in discussion with anybody. He stood up, "Why are we here? Why are we here? You lost your wingman, it hurts me as much as it does you. I sent him there, and I been there I know what it is, but you lost one wingman and we destroyed Tokyo."

McNamara: 50 square miles of Tokyo were burned. Tokyo was a wooden city and when we dropped these firebombs we just burned it.

Lesson #5: Proportionality should be a guideline in war.

Interviewer: The choice of incendiary bombs, where did that come from?

McNamara: I think that the issue is not so much incendiary bombs. I think the issue to it is in order to win a war should you kill 100,000 people in one night, by firebombing or any other way. LeMay's answer would be, "Clearly yes." McNamara, do you mean to say that instead of killing 100,000, burning to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in that one night we should've burned to death a lesser number or or none and then had our soldiers cross the beaches in Tokyo and ave been slaughtered in the tens of thousands? Is that what you're proposing? Is that moral? Is that wise?

McNamara: Why was it necessary to drop the nuclear bomb if LeMay was burning up Japan? And he went on from Tokyo to firebomb other cities. 58% of Yokohama. Yokohama is roughly the size of Cleveland. 58% of Cleveland destroyed. Tokyo is roughly the size of New York. 51% percent of New York destroyed. 99% of the equivalent of Chattanooga, which was Toyama. 40% of the equivalent of Los Angeles, which was Nagoya. This was all done before the dropping of the nuclear bomb, which by the way was dropped by LeMay's command. Proportionality should be a guideline in war. Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional, in the minds of some people, to the objectives we were trying to achieve.

McNamara: I don't fault Truman for dropping the nuclear bomb. The U.S-Japanese war was one of the most brutal wars in all of human history. Kamikaze pilots, suicide, unbelievable. What one can criticize is that the human race prior to time and today has not really grappled with what are, I call, the rules of war. Was there a rule that you shouldn't bomb, shouldn't kill, shouldn't burn to death a 100,000 civilians in a night?

McNamara: LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

#38 Nov 08th 2007, 2:17pm . Edited Nov 12th 2007, 10:41pm
Saber Apricot
Ah, maybe some funny quotes...

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Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. - Maryon Pearson

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

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...Oh boy, so corny.

#39 Nov 12th 2007, 10:45pm
The Sugarfaerie
Time for some Monty Python, methinks:

"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

From 'The Dead Parrot Sketch':

"This parrot is dead. It is deceased! It has perished! If it weren't for the fact it was nailed to it's perch it would be pushing up the daisies!"

More Firefly:

Zoe: This is something the captain has to do by himself.

Mal [being choked]: No! No it's not!

Wash: Oh my God, we're doomed! Who's flying this thing? Oh, right. That would be me.

#40 Nov 14th 2007, 11:59pm
Sao's Favorite Wife
I think this quote is adorable.

In politics, if you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Sorry to the guys that take offense...

#41 Nov 21st 2007, 10:35am
The Sugarfaerie
Digging up this thread again....

Life On Mars is being rerun (yay!), so I've got some quotes from there...

Gene: You touch that car, I'll come home and stamp on all your toys!

Sam: I am the principle negotiator.

Gene [deadpan]: I'll make you a hat.

And now, a more serious quote from Serenity:

Zoe: You know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later.

This moment is one of the last in the movie. They seem to be talking about the spaceship, but really they're talking about Zoe (why, Joss, why?):

Mal: Think she'll hold together?

Zoe: She's torn up pretty bad, but she'll fly true.

Mal: Could be a rough ride.

Zoe: Always is, sir.

#42 Dec 12th 2007, 1:36pm
Ithil-valon
"The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is shorter than we think." Jean Luc Picard, Star Trek the Next Generation

"Fear is a prison of our own making when we allow it to steal away our resolve to do what we know must be done." Unknown

#43 Dec 19th 2007, 9:04am
Chaos Chao
"Watch your thoughts: they become your words. Watch your words: they become your actions. Watch your actions: they become your habits. Watch your habits: they become your character. Watch your character: it becomes your destiny."

~Frank Outlaw

...

"I can just hear Sauron explaining the basics of ringmaking to the Elves: "Here, use these 'Mordorsoft Foundation Classes'! They make everything really easy, and I've carefully tested them to make sure there are no security holes. Really." Has Bill Gates read LotR?"

~Steuard Jensen

#44 Dec 20th 2007, 8:17pm
The Sugarfaerie
More 'Firefly':

Saffron: Do you know the myth of Earth-That-Was

Wash: Not so much.

Saffron: That when she was born she had no sky, and was open, inviting. And the stars rushed into her, making the oceans boil with sensation. And when she could endure no more ecstasy, she puffed up her cheeks and blew out the sky.

Wash: Whoa. Good myth.

I would add TS Eliot quotes, but I don't have the time, so I'll just add a quick one:

Do I dare disturb the universe?

#45 Dec 20th 2007, 10:05pm
VikingValkyrie267
K i am the only person Alive you watches commercials for fun. This is from a G4 (the gamming channel on digital cabel)

Elton: Why are you such a loser?

John(yes those are their names): Why are you so fat?

Elton: Cause everytime I (bleep) your mom, she gives me a biscut.

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Yes I do love that commercial.

Sorry Wendy, but that word isn't really considered profanity where I am.

#46 Dec 21st 2007, 5:24am . Edited Dec 21st 2007, 5:51am
WendWriter
Psst! Viking, profanity! Please edit or post in The X Box.

Ta.

Funny quote, though.

#47 Dec 21st 2007, 5:41am
rachelprue
My favourite quote of all time would be:

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."

- Theodore Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss.

He's very quotable.

#48 Dec 22nd 2007, 6:23pm
VikingValkyrie267
K Transformers. 2 of them

I forgot his name, but he's the main soldier guy: This is an emergancy pentagon call, I repeat this is an emergancy pentagon call. (Bombs go off.)

Telephon Opperator: Sir the attitude is not going to speed things up any faster.

---

if forgot the other guy's name to sorry

In mah back pocket

You got ten back pockets

Left Cheek, Left Cheek...LEFT CHEECK

---

Sam: Satan's Camero, it's stalking me.

Sorry had to say that. And my all time favorite movie quote.

V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

[carves V into poster on wall]

V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

[giggles]

V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V

#49 Dec 24th 2007, 4:53pm
The Sugarfaerie
This is the way the world ends,

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

-TS Eliot, 'The Hollow Men'

Now, from 'Angel':

Cordelia [meeting a possessed kid's parents]: Hi, I'm Cordelia. Sorry about the possessing and all.

'Buffy':

Harmony: Being a vampire sucks!

#50 Dec 25th 2007, 7:03pm


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