Favorite Quotes

[Reliant121]

Uh....that's just plain weird.

It's french, What do you expect? XD

[Varthikes]

A few Pern quotes:

"Nothing will change yesterday. So now you deal with today."
--Orlith; Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

"The best solution is not always easy to accept."
--Brekke; Dragonquest

"People will hear what they wish to hear, and believe what they want to."
--Brand; All the Weyrs of Pern

[Dakarne]

Aside from the one in my sig, I've always been quite fond of this one;

'I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.'
--Shylock, the Merchant of Venice.

Yes, it's a long one, but it's impossible to shorten Shakespeare too much. And this is the shortened one.

[Captain Seafort]

Welcome to DITL.

If you were to list all the great quotes from Shakespeare you'd probably run into the post limit before you got half-way, there's so many of them. Crispin's probably my favourite, followed by that one of Shylock's.

[Graham Kennedy]

" You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out."

William Tecumseh Sherman

[Dakarne]

Welcome to DITL.

Thank you. I'm yet another resident Brit (I've noticed that there's a few), this time a Scots-Irishman who lives in Lancashire and studies English literature (hence the Shakespeare).

If you were to list all the great quotes from Shakespeare you'd probably run into the post limit before you got half-way, there's so many of them. Crispin's probably my favourite, followed by that one of Shylock's.

I'd have to say that Shylock's quote is one of my favourites because you can replace Jew with anything and rant it at someone who's bigoted against that thing. Though I also quite like Prospero's two finishing soliloquies from The Tempest, a few of those from Hamlet, and a few of the ones from Measure for Measure.

[Mikey]

Welcome!

I have to second the soliloquies from The Tempest, as well as (corny and obvious, I know, but I still love it) MacDuff's closing monologue from MacBeth.

Plus, the following from Miller's The Crucible -

"A fart on Thomas Putnam!"

[Dakarne]

'The uploads replicate and develop relationships. Most of them go very bad. You sometimes get an entire virtual planet of four billion people devoted to building prayer wheels in an attempt at a denial of service attack on God.'
-Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

[Mikey]

Mel Brooks said (his emphasis) -

"Tragedy is when I cut my little finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."

[Blackstar the Chakat]

Here's a favorite of mine:

Cyber Controller: I will bring peace to the world. Everlasting peace. And unity. And uniformity.
The Doctor: And imagination? What about that? The one thing that led you here, imagination. You're killing it dead!
Cyber Controller: What is your name?
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor.
Cyber Controller: A redundant title. Doctors need not exist. Cybermen never sicken.
The Doctor: But that's it! That's exactly the point! Oh, Lumic, you're a clever man. I'd call you a genius... except I'm in the room. But everything you've invented you did to fight your sickness. And that's brilliant. That is so human. But once you get rid of sickness and mortality, then what's there to strive for, eh? The Cybermen won't advance, you'll just stop! You'll stay like this forever. A metal Earth with metal men and metal thoughts. Lacking the one thing that makes this planet so alive: people! Ordinary, stupid, brilliant people!
Cyber Controller: You are proud of your emotions?
The Doctor: Oh yes.
Cyber Controller: Then tell me, Doctor, have you known grief, and rage, and pain?
The Doctor: Yes. Yes, I have.
Cyber Controller: And they hurt?
The Doctor: Oh yes.
Cyber Controller: I can set you free. Would you not want that? A life without pain?
The Doctor: You might as well kill me.
Cyber Controller: Then I take that option.
The Doctor: It's not yours to take! You're a Cyber Controller! You don't control me or anything with blood in its heart!
[The Cybermen tense, as if prepared to attack him]
Cyber Controller: You have no means of stopping me. I have an army - a species of my own.
The Doctor: You just don't get it, do you? An army is nothing! 'Cause those ordinary people, they're the key. The most ordinary person could change the world! Some ordinary man or woman... Some idiot...

[Blackstar the Chakat]

From Yu-Gi-Oh! the Abridged Series:

Seto Kiba: Ah, the blue screen of death! My mortal enemy.

Seto Kiba: Screw the rules I have money

Triston: My voice gives me super strength!

Bandit Keith: (at the end of every speech)...IN AMERICA!

Bakura: (after Joey gets thrown to the ground) Check his pulse Yugi! (actual 4Kids dialog)

Joey: Must risk life for cards(almost drowns)

Triston: Holy fuck on a fuck sandwich

(going into a mueseum)
Tea: Do you think they'll have DDR in there?
Yami: It's Japan, of coarse they will

Yami: Man I hate milkshakes, die milkshake die! thats right milkshake you have been defeated you go to milkshake prison

Yami: ,"huh?yugi u little *beep*u son of a *beep beep beep beep*i'm going to tear off your *beep*and shut them right up your *beep beep beep beep* and that *beep beep beep beep beep*on your *beep beep beep beep*with *beep beep beep* in the *beep beep*and *beep beep beep beep*your *beep beep beep*so that you'll have *beep*sideways.*beep*

Yami: (to the tune of Disney's Beauty and the Beasts' song) Fucking birds..this date is lame..its such a bore. I'd rather be at home playing card games more at all. If you ask me, Tea's a whore. But that's nothing new she was like that before.

[Uzume]

My personal fave is," Mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter." I'm not sure when or if ever I've heard it, just been saying it for years.


Oh yeah, and Space Balls Dark Helmet's " Evil will always triumph because good, is dumb."


Heroes
Syler- She's a shiny new toy, and she's all mine.

"Good to know." Preston A. Roberts

"There is more room on the outside then inside." - Some old guy in the park as ar as I know.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

From Mythbusters:

Adam: Things are exploding in my car. What could be better?

Rob Lee (US Narrator): and Grant stunt-double requires an CPR.
[Grant is seen performing "CPR" on his dummy.]
Grant: Don't give up on me now!
Tory: Are you done playing with yourself?

[Jamie is about to shoot an oven door with a shotgun.]
Adam: All right, Jamie, here's your motivation: this oven door is run off with your wife, and you've decided to gear up and get even. So go for it!
[Jamie shoots oven door couple of times. Adam starts laughing at the second shot.]
Rob Lee (US Narrator): I guess the moral is: don't elope with Mrs. Hyneman.

[The first test Hindenburg catches fire and nearly burns out in the shop.]
Adam: That would be the textbook definition of irony, kids...

Adam: Next on Discovery, the world's deadliest piñata!

Grant: A theory is that the shock of cold water will- [lava lamp suddenly explodes]
Tory: [Laughs] You should have seen the look on your face, it was priceless

Adam: I have never invented anything that can launch a tennis ball this hard into this.
[Adam looks back at the steam cannon.]
Adam: Actually, I just did

Tory is making explosives from herbicide]
Tory: Frank, why are you standing so far away?
Frank Doyle: Because I wanna continue to live.
Tory: So then the next question is, why am I standing so close?

Tory: We killed a dead President.
Grant: Ben Franklin was never President.
[Grant and Kari walk away, stifling giggles.]
Tory: Wasn't he? Dammit

Adam is digging a hole in front of the workshop to bury pigs for a test.]
Jamie: Adam doesn't know it yet, but he's digging his own grave.
Adam: What's that?
Jamie: What? Nothing

[Jamie is trying to get a duck to quack.]
Jamie: Quack, damn you!

[Having busted the myth, Adam and Jamie are about to release the ducks into the bay. One of the ducks quacks loudly.]
Adam: Where were all those quacks when we needed them?

[Aaron]

"For every battle honour, a thousand heros die alone, unsung and unremembered"

[Deepcrush]

If as you say I shall not cry for you, then I will cry for myself without you.

-My father at his mother's wake-