Favorite Quotes

[Jetthebinturong]

"Your highness, I'm afraid the tides will not allow us to bring the ship in."
"I do not know much about the tides, captain; can you explain something to me?"
"Of course, princess."
"Do the tides command this ship?"
"I'm afraid I don't understand."
"You said the tides would not allow us to bring the ship in. Do the tides command this ship?"
"No, princess."
"And if I were to have you thrown overboard, would the tides think twice about smashing you against the rocky shore?"
"... No, princess."
"Then perhaps you should worry less about the tides who have already made up their minds about killing you, and worry more about me, who's still mulling it over."
~ A Fire Navy captain and Princess Azula, Avatar: The Last Airbender

[LT Sandpaw]

"Let's get to the crash site,"
"Alright, just don't shoot that thing so close to my ear, I can barely hear as it is.
"Ok lets go."
*Moves ten feet.*
"Get down!"
*Shoots the gun right next to Nelson's head.*
"What did I just tell you? I swear to God if you do that again!"
"Shut up!"
*Shoots gun next to Nelson's head again.*
"Aaaaaah!"
"Are you okay? Nelson are you alright?"
"What!"


"What happened to him?"
He fell out of the helicopter!"
"How did he do that?"
"He fell out!"


"They are shooting, should we shoot back?"
"Hold your fire until the shoot at you?"
"How do we know if they are shooting at us?"
"Bullets crack when they are near you."
*Bullet cracks next to them*
"Now are they shooting at us?"
"Yes!"
"Sir they're shooting at us! Sir! They are firing!"
"Then shoot back!"


"Sir Shigar and Gordon again request permission to secure until convoy arrives. Over."
"General, crowds in the hundreds now, from where they are they can see things clearer then any of us. They know what they're asking."
"Let me talk to them. This is Garrison, I want to make sure you know what you're asking for so say it out loud and clear."
"We're asking to go in and set up a perimeter until ground support arrives."
"And you realize I cannot tell you when that might be, it could take quite a while."
"Roger that."
"Do you still want to go in there?"
"Yes sir."
"Colonel."
"Yes general?"
"Its your call."
"Roger that. Coveena, put 'em in."

Black Hawk Down

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

Zome quotez from Dune by Frank Herbert. Tiz Major!

That which submits rules. ... The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows — a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.
   -Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam's hint to Paul regarding the Kwisatz Haderach

To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
   -from Manual of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.
   -from The Humanity of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
   -from Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries by the Princess Irulan

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
   -from Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

Und zome from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, alzae Major!

This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

"But the plans were on display . . ."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."

There's no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now. ... What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light years away, you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

[Eulaliaaa!]

"You can never tell anyone, especially your mom. Because if you do, you'll wake up one morning and you won't be in your bed. You'll be outside the walls far, far away, tied to a tree. And you'll scream and scream because you'll be so afraid, but no one will come to help, because no one will hear you. But something will hear you. The monsters will come. And you won't be able to run away when they come for you. And they'll tear you apart and eat you up all while you're still alive. All while you can still feel it. And no one will ever know what happened to you... or... you can promise not to ever tell anyone what you saw here and then nothing will happen. And you'll get cookies... lots of cookies."
-The Walking Dead

[Milady Scribe]

"You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You'll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She's the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That's the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She's the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she's kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author's making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce's Ulysses she's just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It's easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she's going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she's sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn't burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you're better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes."

-- Rosemarie Urquico

[Gonff the Mousethief]

Milady, that was one of the best quotes on here. I especially enjoyed the "got through the first chapter of Fellowship" part  .

[Søren]

"What I'm saying is that I think, maybe, the best things, the richest things aren't supposed to come easily, and that sometimes the moments that make the most sense happen when everything else doesn't."
-Juliet O'Hara, Psych

[Cornflower MM]

@Milady Scribe: Best. Quote. Ever.

[Hickory]

"The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round, round and round
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round, round and round.

...

A simple little children's song, but it was this song that inspired my concept of Mutually Assured Destruction.
We build an A-bomb, they build an A-bomb.
We build an H-bomb, they build an H-bomb.
Round and round.
Round and round.
The wheels on the bus leading us towards an unending escalation of new, more powerful, more deadly weapons, which is what led me to my greatest achievement, the lonosphere Particle Beam. In order to ensure peace on earth, I built the deadliest weapon in the universe.
But that's the end of the story.
Let me take you back to the beginning."

-Irvin Thatcher, Eureka.

[Dannflower Reguba]

@LT Sandpaw: That made me think...

"Once that first bullet goes past your head.... Politics go right out the window."
~Black Hawk Down

@Jet the binturong: That quote just made my night  Literally just watched the entirety of both shows... Poor cabbage man.

[Delthion]

There's one quote that I can almost remember...let's see here...

  "We'll come back, maybe in the summer with the warm weather. We always like to come back; see the girls in the skirts and the miniskirts."
  "Some of the boys in them too!"

~Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, National Concert Hall in Scotland I believe, the quote was close but not perfect.

[Milady Scribe]

Wish I had time to watch Braveheart. *sigh* Stephen is the best.

Stephen: Stephen is my name. I'm the most wanted man on my island, except I'm not on my island, of course. More's the pity.
Hamish: "Your island"? You mean Ireland?
Stephen: Yeah. It's mine.
Hamish: You're a madman.
Stephen: I've come to the right place, then.

@Del: Love that one. How about... "Tell you what. If I sang the first line to you, would you roll back the second line?"
"...what is it?"
"Why don't we all join hands and we'll contact the living?"
(From their live album "The Makem and Clancy Concert", at the beginning of "Mary Mack")

[Delthion]

I love that quote!

"I have ask them every bloody thing twice! You're like the Irish woman that took the two pills, to be sure, to be sure!"

[Milady Scribe]

Heeheehee!

"What have you been smoking? Good. Whatever you have, pass it on 'round to the rest of them."

They are, simply put, magnificent.

[Delthion]

"They also have little bottles in brown paper bags over there, pass it over here and we'll all get going!"