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    What are your favorite quotes from movies or books. One that you just love the sound of or maybe one that you always use or one that you are waiting for just the right moment to use.

    I just love the sound of this one.

    "Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."

    Ahab to Starbuck, Moby Dick
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    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be.” -Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut

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    ''No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true''--Cinderella (I'm a kid at heart I love Disney movies, lol)

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    Also from Moby Dick:

    Ishmael: "Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
    Starbuck's last, desperate attempt to persuade Ahab to stop his vendetta: "Away! let us away! - this instant let me alter the course!"

    And everyone knows Ahab's last words but they're still awesome:

    "To the last, I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."

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    Quote Originally Posted by R-209 View Post
    Also from Moby Dick:

    Ishmael: "Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
    Starbuck's last, desperate attempt to persuade Ahab to stop his vendetta: "Away! let us away! - this instant let me alter the course!"

    And everyone knows Ahab's last words but they're still awesome:

    "To the last, I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
    That's also Khan's last words from the movie Star Trek - the Wrath of Khan. (I think that the name of the movie, it's been a while)

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    "I never prayed before. I don't even know who I'm prayin' to. Maybe I'm too young to know what the world is supposed to be, but it's not supposed to be this. It can't be this. So...please." Huey Freeman, The Boondocks.
    "Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: 'A horrible person.' We weren't even testing for that."

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    More of a monologue, but I love it.

    "Don't talk to me about self-respect. That's somthin ya tell yourself you got when you got nothing else. What kind of self-respect is there living on asprin tablets and chicken salad sandwiches? Look Marty, the only thing that counts is that stuff you take to the bank, that filthy buck that everybody sneers at, but slugs to get.
    Oh I know how you feel. You're a nice guy. But the world isn't for nice guys. You've got to kick and punch and belt your way up because nobody's going to give you a lift. You've got to do it yourself, cause nobody cares about us except ourselves." Joan Crawford as Ethel Whitehead, The Damned Don't Cry.

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    Young Guns II (1990)
    William H. Bonney: You remember the stories John use to tell us about the the three chinamen playing Fantan? This guy runs up to them and says, "Hey, the world's coming to an end!" and the first one says, "Well, I best go to the mission and pray," and the second one says, "Well, hell, I'm gonna go and buy me a case of Mezcal and six whores," and the third one says "Well, I'm gonna finish the game." I shall finish the game, Doc.
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    Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
    Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
    ~Exchange between Peter and Egon, Ghostbusters.
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    Warning- some of these are kind of heavy/emo. But meaningful.

    "Sometimes someone like you needs to be bitten by a poisonous snake, so you can be like the rest of us." The old Mexican guy from "Committed."

    "Why are you wearing that stupid rabbit suit?" "Why are YOU wearing that stupid man suit?" Frank from "Donnie Darko"

    Tom Stall: I remember the moment I knew you were in love with me. I saw it in your eyes. I can still see it.
    from "A History Of Violence"

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    Monologues are perfectly fine. Heavy is fine. Emo is fine. It doesn't necessarily have to be meaningful. It can be a scene from a movie, play, speech or part of a book. Anything that just sticks in mind and you find yourself thinking about or saying for whatever reason.

    "This was no boating accident" or "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." Just curious what people come up with.

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    "Money is important in life. It does not give you happiness, we all know, but it sure calms the nerves."- actress Maria Felix

    "To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered." Actress Theda Bara

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    "How dare you talk to me like that! What makes you so much better than me? What do you do? Kill people? Deal your drugs? Real contribution to human history, Tony! What makes you think you can be a father? You don't even know how to be a good husband!" -Scarface

    "There is no nobility in poverty. I’ve been a rich man, and I’ve been a poor man. And I choose rich every fucking time." - Wolf of Wall Street

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    "Dancing tables, making deals with devils like a drunk beauty queen"

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    I won't let that happen.
    I don't care what it takes. I don't care if it kills me.
    I don't care if it kills you. I won't give up.
    And if the two of you do, you can go straight to hell!


    http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M934483...on%27t+give+up.

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    "She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita."

    -Vladamir Nabokov, Lolita

    I read this book when I was in high school, so it made me both very uncomfortable and at the same time opened to the intense complexity of sexual desires in people. If you haven't read Lolita, it's narrated by a pedophile who falls in love with his 12 y/o stepdaughter; it's so tragic and so beautifully written. Very memorable read.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elektra Luxx View Post
    That's also Khan's last words from the movie Star Trek - the Wrath of Khan. (I think that the name of the movie, it's been a while)
    This was a Jeopardy! clue last night, in a category on literary character's last words. The correct answer for Ahab's was "Thus I give up the spear," but I was certain it was the stabbing/spitting lines. I must have been thinking of Khan.

    Captain Picard quotes the book in this famous scene, but gets it wrong. The actual passage is:

    He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it
    That's not even Moby Dick he's talking about. It's a different whale from much earlier in the book. Still sounds cool, though!

    And I guess the model of the Enterprise D represents the Pequod? Didn't realize that before.

    Now I want to see the Moby Dick miniseries with Patrick Stewart.

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    What the hell, since i brought it up...

    Prince Humperdinck: Surrender.
    Westley: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.

    Exchange between Humperdink and Westly, ~The Princess Bride.

    Count Rugen: Ah. Are you coming down into the pit? Wesley's got his strength back. I'm starting him on the machine tonight.
    Prince Humperdinck: [sincerely] Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.
    Count Rugen: Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, then you haven't got anything.

    Exchange between Rugen and Humperdink, `the Princess Bride
    Prince Humperdinck: Please consider me as an alternative to suicide.

    Humperdink, ~The Princess Bride.


    [Vizzini has just cut the rope The Dread Pirate Roberts is climbing up]
    Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.
    Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    Exchange between Inigo and Vizzini, ~The Princess Bride

    Westley: Give us the gate key.
    Yellin: I have no gate key.
    Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, tear his arms off.
    Yellin: Oh, you mean *this* gate key.

    AWESOME Exchange between Inigo and the Guard at the gates of Guilder castle, ~The Princess Bride.

    And, of course, the best.

    Inigo Montoya: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
    Count Rugen: Stop saying that!

    Needs no introduction, ~The Princess Bride.



    Honestly, you throw darts at that script and you're likely to hit a line i love...
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    Quote Originally Posted by R-209 View Post
    This was a Jeopardy! clue last night, in a category on literary character's last words. The correct answer for Ahab's was "Thus I give up the spear," but I was certain it was the stabbing/spitting lines. I must have been thinking of Khan.

    Captain Picard quotes the book in this famous scene, but gets it wrong. The actual passage is:



    That's not even Moby Dick he's talking about. It's a different whale from much earlier in the book. Still sounds cool, though!

    And I guess the model of the Enterprise D represents the Pequod? Didn't realize that before.

    Now I want to see the Moby Dick miniseries with Patrick Stewart.


    OK i screwed up and edited the wrong post, so this is out of order, here's the original:

    You actually read Moby Dick? I was literally forced to in High School. The whaling chapters are punishing! And not in a merely boring way, but aggressively hostile! If i hadn't been on a deadline and a teacher who would know better i'd have put that sucker down and just popped in the Disney version with Gregory Peck. I have literally never been more bored that i was while reading that book. Its a SLOG. Sure, its an American classic, but give me Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations or Oliver Twist any day. Hawthorn's Hawkeye novels are pretty good, too (the most famous being "The Last of the Mohicans"). Moby Dick is a punitive experience. I own the book in hardcover, but mainly for show (look how much endurance i have!). Hugo's awesome as well, from The Three Musketeers to Hunchback. All entertaining. Moby dick you can literally threaten me with, "Give me your wallet or i'll make you read this!"

    Believe it or not the William Goldman book "The Princess Bride, a classic tale of true love and high adventure (the Good Parts version);" you may have heard of it, but most likely from the film, was written as a reaction to Goldman scourging himself through Moby Dick.

    Oh, and, yes, "The Princess Bride, a classic tale of true love and high adventure (the Good Parts version)" is the actual title of the novel the movie "The Princess Bride" is based on. I recommend the book, if you like the movie. You'll fall in love with the book.
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    This has been stuck in my head since yesterday > . <

    "It puts the lotion in the basket or else it gets the hose again." Silence of the Lambs

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    Omg too many to name, and this is making me want to start a book club!

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    "The importance of power is not in its accumulation, but in its execution"

    From erotic story about Lexx Luther and Supergirl I found on the internet.

    " To thine own self be true" Shakespear

    "Like warm apple pie" American Pie.

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    All these quotes are from the movie The International.

    Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn... I'm the one you burn.

    This is a game that rewards patience and balance. You must think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. (The character said this to his son while playing chess.)

    When there's no way out, you find a deeper way in. <--- Pretty much my life motto. lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrSmith View Post
    Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn... I'm the one you burn.
    OMG!!! Love this one.

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    Great idea for a thread, especially with so many possible lines of conservation emanating from any one starting point. I'll try a variation on the theme: I'll post a line, and see if you recognize it (first, without Google ). If it's unfamiliar, go ahead and cheat. Hint: it's part of a short story by a very famous (and very dead) mystery writer.

    The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.

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    On a lighter note: parts of some of my favorite movie lines: 1. "You're gonna need a bigger boat!" 2. "There's no crying in baseball!" 3. "I think I smell Montgomery!" 4. "I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."

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