
STATUS:
In process:
One Digimon Adventure 02 fic.
ABOUT:
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COOL QUOTES:
Media:
Watson: "I am inclined to think -"
Holmes: "I should do so."
~ Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dory: "You are very squishy. So I shall name you squishy. And you shall be my little squishy."
~ Finding Nemo
Jacques: "All the world's a stage."
~ As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Puck: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
~ A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Hero: "Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps!"
~ Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
Holmes: "Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper."
~ Sherlock Holmes: The Sigh of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes: "There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast."
~ Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Black Peter, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes: "It is a question of cubic capacity. A man with so large a brain must have something in it."
~ Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
~ Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
Holmes: "Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?"
~ Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Dying Detective, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Izzy: "We are all connected by one common event."
Mimi: "... We all took French?"
~ Digimon 01
Holmes: "Pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest. Nothing has more individuality save, perhaps, watches and bootlaces."
~ Sherlock Holmes: The Yellow Face
Sora: "Now that you boys have holes in your heads maybe your brains will get enough oxygen."
~ Digimon 01
TK: "T.A.?"
Cody: "He forgot how to spell T.K.!"
~ Digimon 02
Joe: "Uhh, I just remembered that I forgot to... remember something."
~ Digimon 02
Mustang: "You can call me Roy Mustang. Or just Lieutenant Colonel. Hell, you can call me the Flame Alchemist. Whatever you do, remember the pain."
~ Full Metal Alchemist
Ed: "Attention, gun-toting extremists! You hear me all right? Or did you blow your ears out playing target practice?"
~ Full Metal Alchemist
Frank: "That just goes to show ya... Everyone's from somewhere."
~ Everybody Loves Raymond
House: "Cheese is the devil's plaything."
~ House M.D.
House: "After all, how many times can you pause it when Lindsay Lohan wins the spelling bee... What is it about a girl that can spell?"
Wilson: "It's a math contest."
House: "What is it about a girl that can count?"
~ House M.D.
House: "I suppose 'minimal at best' is your stiff upper-lip British way of saying 'no chance in hell.'"
~ House M.D.
House: "You coud have just asked."
Wilson: "And you would have lied."
House: "And you would have believed me, which would have kept us both happy."
~ House M.D.
Davis: "Hey! I was so cute when I was little!"
Tai: "... That's me, Davis."
Davis: "Oh. Sorry Tai."
~ dub version of Digimon Movie 4, after seeing a photo of a young Tai who ismissing his front tooth. (This exchange is different in the Japanese - Daisuke just says "who is that" and Taichi says "sorry, that's me.")
Angemon: "I think we should have taken a left at the search engine..."
Angewomon: "I told you to ask for directions! Ugh! Just like a man!"
~ dub version of Digimon Movie 4 (sadly, this exchange does not occur in the Japanese.)
Holmes: "By the way, Watson, you know something of racing?"
Watson: "I ought to. I pay for it with about half my wound pension."
Holmes: "Then I'll make you my 'Handy Guide to the Turf.'"
~ Shelock Holmes: The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
Hawkeye: "Some men are born great. Others have greatness thrust upon them. And then there are those us who get it both ways."
~ MASH
Spock: “I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic circuit using stone knives and bearskins.”
~ City on the Edge of Forever, Star Trek Original Series
Kirk: “My friend is obviously Chinese. I see you've noticed the ears. They're ... actually quite easy to explain...”
Spock: “... Perhaps the unfortunate accident I had as a child -”
Kirk: “- The unfortunate accident he had as a child, he caught his head in a mechanical ... rice picker.”
~ City on the Edge of Forever, Star Trek Original Series
Kirk: “Spock, I don't know what you think you're doing, but this is an order. Report back to me at the settlement in ten minutes. We're evacuating all colonists to Starbase 27”
Spock: “No, I don't think so.”
Kirk: “You - don't - think - so - what??”
Spock: “I don't think so Sir!”
~ This Side of Paradise, Star Trek Original Series
Kirk: “Spock, comments?”
Spock: “Very bad poetry, Captain.”
Kirk: “A more useful comment, Mr Spock?”
~ Catspaw, Star Trek Original Series
Spock: “Logic is little tweeting bird chirping in meadow. Logic is wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad.”
~ I, Mudd, Star Trek Original Series
Flavius: “What do you call those?”
Spock: “I call them ears.”
Flavius: “Are you trying to be funny?”
Spock: “Never.”
~ Bread and Circuses, Star Trek Original Series
Oxmyx: “Kracko's put the bag on your captain.”
Spock: “Why would he put a bag on the captain?”
Oxmyx: “Kidnapped him, you dope.”
~ A Piece of the Action, Star Trek Original Series
Oxmyx: “Nobody helps nobody but himself.”
Spock: “Sir, you are employing a double negative.”
~ A Piece of the Action, Star Trek Original Series
Spock: “Must we?”
Kirk: “It's faster than walking.”
Spock: “But not as safe.”
Kirk: “Are you afraid of cars?”
Spock: “Not at all, Captain. It is your driving that alarms me.”
~ A Piece of the Action, Star Trek Original Series
Spock: “Are you sure it isn't time for a ‘colourful metaphor’?”
~ The Voyage Home, Star Trek Original Series
Spock: “I made an error in my computations.”
McCoy: “Oh? This could be an historic occasion.”
~ Tomorrow is Yesterday, Star Trek Original Series
McCoy: “My dear girl, I am a doctor. When I ‘peek,’ it's in the line of duty.”
~ Shore Leave, Star Trek Original Series
Spock: “I need your advice.”
McCoy: “Then I need a drink.”
~ Obsession, Star Trek Original Series
Thug: “Are you tryin' to make trouble?”
McCoy: “Who, me?”
Thug: “Don't give me those baby blue eyes.”
McCoy: “What?”
~ A Piece of the Action, Star Trek Original Series
Khan: “Where am I?”
McCoy: “You're in bed, holding a knife at your doctor's throat.”
Khan: “Answer my question!”
McCoy: “It would be most effective if you would cut the corotic artery, just under the left ear.”
Khan: “I like a brave man.”
~ Khan and McCoy, Space Seed, Star Trek Original Series
Scotty: “Thank heavens!”
Spock: “Mr. Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them.”
McCoy: “Well then, thank pitchforks and pointed ears!”
~ Obsession, Star Trek Original Series
Kirk: “The word is no. I am therefore going anyway.”
~ The Search for Spock , Star Trek Movie
Father Mulcahy: "He was a real blessing out there. And God willing, he will never bless me again."
~ MASH
Aragorn: "Many riders on swift steeds are coming towards us!"
Legolas: "Yes, there are one hundred and five. Yellow is their hair, and bright are their spears. Their leader is very tall."
Aragorn: "Keen are the eyes of the Elves."
Legolas: "Nay! The riders are little more than five leagues distant."
~ Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (if you don't know, a league is roughly 3 miles)
Legolas: "Where is Gimli?"
Aragorn: "I do not know. I last saw him fighting on the ground behind the wall, but the enemy swept us apart."
Legolas: "Alas! That is evil news."
Aragorn: "He is stout and strong. Let us hope that he will escape back to the caves. There he would be safe for a while. Safer than we. Such a refuge would be to the liking of a Dwarf."
Legolas: "That must be my hope. But I wish that he had come this way. I desired to tell Master Gimli that my tale is now thirty-nine."
~ Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
LotR Nerd: "They're not gay. They're hobbits."
~ Clerks II
Margali: "Love always lasts longer than hate... Hate makes a big noise, but love is an echo: if you send a little of it out, it bounces around for a long time, so a lot of people can hear it. And sometimes, when you least expect it, it bounces back home and surprises you."
~ Excalibur #77
Nightcrawler: "Never let scoundrels dictate the terms of honor to you. They'll always use it to manipulate good men into doing stupid things."
~ X-men Unlimited #49
Wilson: "Boy meets girl, boy gets stupid, boy and girl live stupidly ever after."
~ House, M.D. "Ugly"
Celebs:
"It doesn't matter what you write, what you believe will show through."
~ Theodore Sturgeon, quoted in Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul
"What no wife of a writer can understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window."
~ Burton Rascoe
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
~ Unknown, Goodquotes.com (many of these quotes are from here)
"Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
~ Robert Kennedy (if only he'd taken his own advice)
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
~ Mark Twain
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
~ Gandhi
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
~ Mark Twain
Misc:
"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends."
~ Czech Proverb
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
~ Henry Ward Beecher
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
~ Aristotle
"A rose and an Amaranth blossomed side by side in a garden, and the Amaranth said to her neighbour, 'How I envy you your beauty and your sweet scent! No wonder you are such a universal favourite.' But the Rose replied with a shade of sadness in her voice, 'Ah, my dear friend, I bloom but for a time: my petals soon wither and fall, and then I die. But your flowers never fade, even if they are cut, for they are everlasting.'"
~ Aesop's fables
Meine Freunde:
"Alarm clocks are for the weak. I do not need one."
~ Doc, my algebra teacher
"Brookfield High School is also the home of student Juliet, who made headlines for crashing into Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell."
~ What Wikipedia thinks is essential to say about my school.
"My friends are bigger losers than I am. I like hanging out with my friends. Even though they suck."
~ Christian, My freshman stalker
"Cows!"
~ Me and my brother
"Dios mio."
~ mi amiga Liza
"I am not your minion."
~ my friend Alli
"You are all my minions."
~ My friend Julie
"We're your Elves. We're your minions."
~ Mike and his friend
Me: "... And so the evil witch said, 'Come into my hut, little boy, and I'll roast your chestnuts...'"
Dude: "snort Chestnuts!"
~ Because my Asian Studies class is full of sexual innuendo.
"Wasn't Martin Luther King Jr. a president?"
"Wait a sec, Martin Luther King was black?"
~ You don't even want to know this chick's name.
"I'm making my own country. Tawkfeekistan!"
~ Tawfeek, an interesting dude, if nothing else...
"There will be no service on July the fourth because it is the Fourth of July."
~ Pastor Dan
Nylamie: "Anything that is edible-in-Mongolia is fine by me."
Monochrone: "I want it duly noted this isn't Mongola, it's Canada so you will not be coming within twenty feet of me, or any skin cells I leave behind."
~ Typical Gaia conversation
"It's all Bush's fault."
~ My dad.
"The computer won't read the disc."
"It's Bush's fault."
~ My bro and my dad
Kyle: "Ben! Come on! Geez!"
Me: "You've been summoned."
Ben: "Ah..."
~ Humanities class
Kathryn: "Hey, who wants me more, you or Rachel?"
Me: "... Me. Definitely. I totally want you. Right here. Right now."
~ Humanities
Me: "You're a chauvinist pig."
Dan: "Guys are smarter than girls. We're better at being chauvinist pigs than- wait a sec -"
Me: "-cackle- Do you have any idea what you just said!"
~ Typical Dan-and-Nicole conversation
Papa Newell: "Plato played football? No kidding! What position?"
Zack: "Center."
~ Humanities
Amy: "Your tater tots are mocking me."
~ Lunch
Sara: "Stop laughing at the monks!"
~ AP English
"A whale condom!"
~ Some boy in my Chem class when he saw the 50 ft tube-shaped balloon deflated. (You can imagine what he said when it was blown up.)
Sogand: "Those glasses make you look like Ghandi."
Me: "o.O"
~ Honors American Government
Chico 1: "Por qué estás triste?"
Chico 2: "Porque mi mama se murió."
Chico 1: "Lo siento. Qué puedo hacer por tú?"
Chico 2: "Sea mi mamá nueva."
Chico 1: "..."
~ Two boys in Spanish class making up a dialogue
Rachel: "What's a terrarium?"
Kathryn: "A place where you keep tarantulas."
~ AP English
Bennett: "Now you know that Peter Pan and Paradise Lost are a lot alike!"
~ English class
Dude: "staring dazedly at another guy"
Mr. Z: "Why are you looking at him like that?"
Dude: "He looks cute in that tie."
~ Guy in Chem staring blankly at basketball player wearing a tie, until Mr. Z asked him why, and he got glib. (Which sort of pissed off the b-ball player. XD)
Kathryn, Rini, and me: "Let's write Paradise Lost: The Musical!"
~ AP English
Kathryn: "You know, people don't usually have a conversation with themselves."
Me: "You mean more than one person is supposed to talk in a conversation? Why didn't I know this? ... But I'm your Evil Overlord. I'm allowed to monologue."
Kathryn: "That you are."
Me: "And you're supposed to sneak around me and ambush me while I rant about nothing."
~ Study Hall
"Let's get Kramer a T-shirt that says 'Michael Richards.'"
~ My dad, about my pug, Kramer
Juliet: "NHS is sort of wacky right now, but I believe in it. I believe! I BELIEVE!"
Me: "Ahh, Juliet's an evangelical minister!"
Juliet: "That's funny, since I'm Jewish."
~ Study Hall
Me: "sits behind Sogand, using fingers to give her horns"
Juliet: "giggle Sogand, behind you..."
Sogand: "?? looks, gasps, YOU EVIL DEMON!!"
~ Literary Magazine club (Sogand whirled around so fast and was so loud that half of us jumped!)
Erika: "What's that?"
Paul: "An amoeba."
Me: "But it has no nucleus."
Paul: "draws a nucleus"
Erika and me: "giggle"
Paul: "There, now it's an amoeba. It's eating a potato."
Me: "... I think the potato's a little bigger than it!"
Paul: "Nuh-uh, this is a super amoeba."
~ Spanish class is sooo not boring!
Sogand: "If I were the pope, I'd nominate you for canonization."
Me: "... Because I brought you sushi?"
~ Lit Mag club
Brother: "Well, if you're ever lost in Japan, you'll know how to find Germany."
~ When we found the German exchange student Kathrin's hometown in a Japanese atlas
Bennett: "The AP test graders don't want to read essays about how much you looooooooved Spider-man or any other Mar-VEL thing."
Random classmate: "Spider-man is DC!"
Me: "Uh, nooooooooo, it's Marvel!"
Bennett: "Isn't Spider-man Mar-VEL?"
Kyle and me: "Yes, Spider-man is Marvel, and it's MARVEL, not Mar-VEL!"
~ AP English
Bennett: "Generally, in a comedy, people do not die."
Me: "Sure they do! What about Wile E. Coyote. He died all the time because anvils fell on him! He just always came back!"
Kathryn: "You burst my bubble."
Kyle: "How do you KNOW he came back?"
Me: "If an anvil falls on you, you die! You have to die!"
~ AP English
Sogand: "You're crazy! Not a bad kind of crazy! Like a... a..."
Me: "A sexy kind of crazy?"
Sogand: "HOW DO I ANSWER THAT!?"
~ Lit Mag club
Incredulous guy: "You don't like Hershey's Kisses? Are you American?"
~ Chemistry
Me: "My flip-flops go 'flip-flop.'"
Kathleen: "But that's what they're supposed to do."
Me: "Nuh-uh! Other girls' flip-flops go 'shuffle-shuffle.' They're 'shuffle-shuffles'!"
~ Study Hall
Me: Awkward silence - awkward turtle! makes awkward turtle sign
Shana: No, gay babies are born during awkward silences!
Me and Kim: ...
Shana: And there's one now!
Me: Maybe he'll be hot.
Kim: That'd be a waste.
~ In the dorm between classes