OT - favorite fiction qoutes

[narf poit chez BOOM]

so, since where doing favorite this and that, how about favorite fiction qoutes?

i've got a couple in my sig.

[Fyron]

I am partial to this little gem by Mr. Vir Cotto:

"What do -you- want?" "I'd like to live -just- long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this..." *waggle* "...can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I am partial to this little gem by Mr. Vir Cotto:

"What do -you- want?" "I'd like to live -just- long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this..." *waggle* "...can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?" <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Curses! He beat me to it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

One of my Favorites is the ST:TNG episode when Picard is haggling with the Sheliak, and catches them with a technicality. They start to panic and ask for a repreive, and Picard cuts them off.

Riker: "You enjoyed that."

Picard: "You're damn right."

Picard then wandered the bridge wiping dust off the fixtures while the Sheliak kept trying to hailing him.

[DavidG]

"He's dead Jim"

"It's worse than that Jim, They took his brain!"

"Nothing is over! Nothing!" (made extra funny by the bad acting)

"DINSDALE!"

"Look you stupid git you've got no arms!" and pretty much the whole rest of the Holy Grail script.

[Rollo]

"From my cold dead hands!" (Charlton Heston in ... oh, wait.. that wasn't fiction. I wish it was. *sigh)

[Erax]

These may not be my favorite quotes, but they are the ones that came to mind just now.

Heir to the Empire (Lando to Han Solo) : "All right, next time I'll destroy the generator on the ground and you can fly her into the Death Star !"

Back to the Future : "Roads ? Where we're going, we don't need roads."

Night of the Creeps : "The good news is, your boyfriends are here. The bad news is, they're all dead."

[narf poit chez BOOM]

(Charlton Heston in ... oh, wait.. that wasn't fiction. I wish it was. *sigh)
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">we get non-fiction in here, next thing you know we get a debat. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Ed Kolis]

"So let me get this straight... you plan to fly on a magic carpet above the mountains to visit the King of the Potato People and beg for your freedom... and you want me to believe you're PERFECTLY SANE???" - Arnold Rimmer, "Quarantine", Red Dwarf

[clark]

"Jane, you ignorant ****." SNL - Dan Aykroyd

[Parasite]

Too bad people don't read books anymore. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Check my sig. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Parasite:
Too bad people don't read books anymore. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Check my sig. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Oh, so it's book fiction you wanted! Well, that's easy!

"'And what of your companions? What about Legolas and me?' cried Gimli, unable to contain himself any longer. 'You rascals, you wolly-footed and wool-pated truants! A fine hunt you led us! Two hundred leagues, through fen and forest, battle and death, to rescue you! And here we find you feasting and idling - and smoking! Smoking! Where did you come by the weed, you villains? Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!'"

The Two Towers, JRRT

[Loser]

CAUTION: Dark Star Spoilers!!

PINBACK: All right, bomb, prepare to receive new orders.
BOMB #20: You are false data.
PINBACK: Huh?
BOMB #20: Therefore, I shall ignore you.
PINBACK: Hello, bomb.
BOMB #20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore. I shall refuse to perceive you.
PINBACK: Hey, bomb.
BOMB #20: The only thing which exists is myself.
PINBACK: Bomb?
PINBACK: Snap out of it, bomb.
BOMB #20: In the beginning there was darkness, and the darkness was without form and void.
BOILER: What the hell?
PINBACK: Yoo hoo, bomb...
BOMB #20: And in addition to the darkness there was also me. And I moved upon the face of the darkness.
BOILER: Bomb, hey bomb.
PINBACK: Hey, bomb...
BOMB #20: And I saw that I was alone.
Pause.
BOMB #20: Let there be light.

[SpaceBadger]

"Necessity exists." - various Liaden Universe inhabitants

"The confusion of mind you dub honor is a disease, for which the Roknari galley-masters have the cure." - Lupe dy Cazaril to Ser dy Joal

"I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. If I decide you die, you will die when I choose, where I choose, by what means I choose, and you will never see the blow coming." - dy Cazaril to dy Joal, a few minutes later

"When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned or sundered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy." - Lupe dy Cazaril to Ista dy Chalion

(eh, too many more quotes I could add from this one - I just re-read the book recently)

"One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me." - Aral Vorkosigan

"Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live." - Cordelia Vorkosigan to newborn son Miles

(could go on and on with Cazaril and Vorkosigan quotes here, but then I'd be digging through Bujold books all evening to make sure I get the quotes exactly right...)

"Think it through." - many characters, many authors

SpaceBadger

[Ed Kolis]

Books, eh? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

"Then, following his success proving the nonexistence of God, Man went on to prove that black is white, and promptly got run over at the next zebra crossing." - The Hitckhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

"Three... Two... What, no, I would not like any coffee, I am a bomb and I don't drink coffee, now, oh drat, where was I? I lost count, guess I'll have to start all over again!" - Starship Titanic, Douglas Adams

[Erax]

Heir to the Empire is a book by Timothy Zahn. You won't find the first quote I posted in any of the SW movies. But here's a quote from another book :

"Do you mean that we will all be eaten by things with tentacles for faces ?"
"Nothing so pleasant, but - "

(The Light Fantastic)

[Loser]

"Life.. is like a box of chocolates. A cheap thoughtless gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back in another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those all you've got left is a.. is an empty box.. filled with useless, brown paper wrappers."
-The Cigarette-Smoking Man

[clark]

"The travelling salesman had fed me pills that made the linings of my veins feel scraped out. My jaw ached. I knew every raindrop by its name. I sensed everything before it happened. I knew a certain Oldsmobile would stop for me even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside it I knew we'd have an accident in the storm. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.""- FH, Jesus Son by Denis Johnson's.

Dude, check it out.

[Sinapus]

"This is what happens when you let rednecks play with antimatter, sir." -Mike O'Neil, Hell's Faire by John Ringo.

"I hate humans." -various Posleen Kessentai in Hell's Faire and When the Devil Dances

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

"More and more of our imports are coming from overseas." -- W. Bush (his term is fiction)

[DavidG]

"First U get de sugar, den u get de power, den u get de women" - Homer Simpson

[oleg]

Originally posted by EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro:
"More and more of our imports are coming from overseas." -- W. Bush (his term is fiction) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually, it may be an absolutely correct comment on the failings of Mexican and Canadian economies http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[primitive]

Blame Canada http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

[narf poit chez BOOM]

united states of america:land of the crybabies. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ October 24, 2003, 19:41: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro:
"More and more of our imports are coming from overseas." -- W. Bush (his term is fiction) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Taken in context it makes perfect sense.

[Thermodyne]

My favorite fiction quote is just fair when read, but when heard spoken with a heavy Spanish accent, it is quite memorable.

“We don’t need no stinking badges”

or if you prefer

“Wee donn neeeeed nooo stinken badges”

[Loser]

Where is that originally from, Thermo?

[Parasite]

Originally posted by Loser:
Where is that originally from, Thermo? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">"Blazing Saddles"....

Earlier in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

Edit: See http://www.filmsite.org/trea.html

[ October 24, 2003, 21:59: Message edited by: Parasite ]

[Instar]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
My favorite fiction quote is just fair when read, but when heard spoken with a heavy Spanish accent, it is quite memorable.

“We don’t need no stinking badges”

or if you prefer

“Wee donn neeeeed nooo stinken badges” <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Badgers? We donn neeeed nooo stinken badgers! -- UHF

[narf poit chez BOOM]

what's UHF? besides a video format.

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Loser:
Where is that originally from, Thermo? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Treasure of the Seara Madras 1948 B/W with Bogart.
http://bogart-tribute.net/images/posters/trea1.jpg

[narf poit chez BOOM]

no, the video format is VHF. i think UHF has something to do with radio's.

[Loser]

UHF are all those channels after 13 on your television.

It is also The Weird Al Movie.

[edit: thanks Thermo]

[ October 25, 2003, 01:02: Message edited by: Loser ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, that clears that up. thanks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

bad mouse. distracting from fiction qoutes.

[ October 25, 2003, 02:56: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

forgot about this one.

"asimalate this." - Worf, just before blowing up some borg. i'd been waiting for someone to say that.

[ October 25, 2003, 06:55: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Cyrien]

Hrmm... how about from Scary Movie 3. Easily the best line in the movie would be...

"The aliens can travel across the stars but they can't open wooden doors?"

A nice reference to the Circles aliens and other sci-fi aliens across the ages that have been stopped by the old barricaded wooden door. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[SpaceBadger]

You want movie quotes, you just can't beat the new Governor-elect of California. Leaving aside all of the classics that everyone knows from the Terminator flicks, there's this gem from Commando:

Arnie: Hey Sully, remember when I said that I would kill you Last?
Sully: Yeah, yeah, that's right, you said that!
Arnie: I lied.
Sully: YAAAAAAAaaaaahhh! SPLAT!
A moment later...
Girl: Where's Sully?
Arnie: I let him go.

But my real favorite Arnie scenes are too long to quote - the parts in Last Action Hero when he is making fun of himself (and appearing both as himself and as a movie character) - like when Maria is chiding him not to keep talking about the restaurant all the time (this was back when he and some other guys started up Planet Hollywood).

SpaceBadger

[Cyrien]

Hehe... Commando... ahhh the old Arnie B movie classics... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[gregebowman]

How could I forget this one? It's from Blade Runner:

Wake up. It's time to die!

[Erax]

If you like goofy terror movies, be sure to buy a card game called "Grave Robbers from Outer Space". Played with the right crowd, it's guaranteed to make you laugh until you're helpless.

The first time we played it we made a movie called 'Night Monsters from Mars vs. Doctor Undead', in which a priest drove around in an old car, taking on various other occupants who invariably died. In the end I think the monsters got him too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Cheeze]

"I have come to kick *** and chew bubble gum...and I'm all out of bubble gum." http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Cyrien:
Hrmm... how about from Scary Movie 3. Easily the best line in the movie would be...

"The aliens can travel across the stars but they can't open wooden doors?"

A nice reference to the Circles aliens and other sci-fi aliens across the ages that have been stopped by the old barricaded wooden door. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think it was more referencing the more recent movie with Mel Gibson, who stopped being a preacher when his wife died, and all the horrible alien invasion stuff made him gain his faith back... I forget what that movie was called. It wasn't very good.

[ October 29, 2003, 05:08: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I think it was more referencing the more recent movie with Mel Gibson, who stopped being a preacher when his wife died, and all the horrible alien invasion stuff made him gain his faith back... I forget what that movie was called. It wasn't very good. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">"Signs"

[Growltigger]

Anything by Terry Pratchett..

"Thunder rolled, it rolled a six"

"The landscape was up and down like a honeymoon duvet"

"the book looked slightly foxed, and possibly squirrelled, badgered, rabbited and dragoned as well"

"Gods are the outmoded relics of an out of date belif system, take Io, the Thunder God, wehat space is there for him in modern life <cue crash of thunder> where's the nearest snowline? 200 miles away?! good! take Fobol, God of Avalanches, what a tosser"

Pure gems each and every one

[Erax]

Pratchett is incredibly quotable. I occasionally use the 'thunder rolled a six' line (as well as the 'nothing so pleasant' line) in my email sigs.

Edit : And his books are now available in Portuguese ! I've bought the first two for my wife and now we have another Pratchett fan. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ October 29, 2003, 14:27: Message edited by: Erax ]

[Cyrien]

Yah. It was to Signs. Just couldn't remember the title of the movie and remembered it had to do with crop Circles so... Circles. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

let's see if anyone know's where this one came from:

'when are you people going to lay off my cooking?'

'when my scars heal. i had to pound a stalk of celery into that meatloaf and it still came after me.'

[narf poit chez BOOM]

how about this one?

"I suppose my naval tactics were a bit primitive," he admitted.

Image:

A man. Stooped, filthy, clad in rough-cured animal skins. In his hand he clutches an axe. The blade of the weapon is a crudely shaped piece of stone, lashed to the handle with rawhide.

He is standing on a log, rolling wildly down a river. Hammering fiercely at another man, armed and clad as he is, standing on the same log.

Stone ax against stone ax.

Just ahead is a waterfall.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[Erax]

The first quote sounds like Marsha's cooking, from CRfH! (see my sig). Never read the second one, though.

[dogscoff]

I think it was more referencing the more recent movie with Mel Gibson, who stopped being a preacher when his wife died, and all the horrible alien invasion stuff made him gain his faith back... I forget what that movie was called. It wasn't very good.

...

"Signs"
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The moviepunks (http://www.moviepunks.com/?id=43) sum it up quite nicely.

[Ran-Taro]

"It's a pity she won't live, but then again, who does?"

- Gaff, Bladerunner

"If only you could see, what I have seen, with your eyes"

Roy Batty, Blade Runner

[ November 06, 2003, 20:58: Message edited by: Ran-Taro ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The first quote sounds like Marsha's cooking, from CRfH! (see my sig). Never read the second one, though.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">well, your right to think webcomics. wrong on the character and gender. want a clue?

[DavidG]

The religous discussion in another thread reminded me of this one:

"We're all born sinful; except for Jesus who was perfect and he was sent to save us, but how can he save us unless we are sinning. So we have to go on sinning in order to be saved and go to heaven. That's how Christianity works. That's why it suits so many people." - Charlie from Nuns on the Run

[narf poit chez BOOM]

oh, sure. and a witch weighs as much as a duck. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ZeroAdunn]

"Sean had never hit a girl before, but he found he liked it, so he kicked her a few times while she was down."

[ November 07, 2003, 06:01: Message edited by: ZeroAdunn ]

[Atrocities]

"Those who don't want to get shot, best clear on out the back!" - Clint Eastwood Unforgiven

"Yep nice try boys. But you left your back door wide open on tha one." - Bruce Campbell Army Of Darkness

Read Signature as well:

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Thirteen : Recruiting Drive

If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.

—California saying

To you or the toad.

—Niven's restatement of California saying

—well, most of the time anyway . . .

—programmer's caveat to Niven's
restatement of California saying

- Rick Cook's Wizardry Compiled. did i meantion the www.baen.com (http://www.baen.com) has a free library?

more Rick Cook: "We're going to need him," Nancy said. "Someone has got to explain this mess. Some of this code is literally crawling with bugs."

"You mean figuratively," Jerry corrected.

"I said literally and I mean literally," she retorted. "I tried to run one routine and I got a swarm of electric blue cockroaches." She made a face. "Four-inch-long electric blue cockroaches."
----
"There's one issue we've got to settle first," Nancy said. "Catching errors."

"What's the matter, don't you like electric blue cockroaches?" Danny asked.

"Cockroaches I can live with. They glow in the dark and that makes them easy to squash. I'm more concerned about HMC or EOI-type errors."

"HMC and EOI?"

"Halt, Melt and Catch fire or Execute Operator Immediately."

[ November 10, 2003, 23:41: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[SpaceBadger]

Wait a minute, Narf, I thought witches were made out of wood? Or is it ducks that are made out of wood? Or styrofoam - that floats, too, ya know...

SpaceBadger

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
did i meantion the www.baen.com (http://www.baen.com) has a free library?
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Narf - could you unbury that link a bit? It seems to be a really good one so far.

Or did I just unbury it? No matter.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Wait a minute, Narf, I thought witches were made out of wood? Or is it ducks that are made out of wood? Or styrofoam - that floats, too, ya know...

SpaceBadger
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">yes, but can you build a bridge out of styrofoam?

just to make sure it stays buried: www.baen.com (http://www.baen.com) free library with whole books and preview's around 10 chapter's long.

Twenty-Four : Demons Go Home

Customer support is an art, not a science.

—marketing saying

So are most other forms of torture.

—programmers' response
more Rick Cook.
----
"Pizza!" Wiz said lovingly, caressing the cardboard as she set it on the table. "A real pizza from Little Italy!"

"I got it when I visited your world," Moira told him. "I have kept it hot and fresh by magic since we returned."

Wiz opened the box and breathed deeply. "Pepperoni, sausage and mushrooms. With extra cheese! This is wonderful."

"Best of all, the cooks say that now that they know what a pizza is supposed to be, they can make them."

"Wonderful," Wiz said, concentrating on separating a slice of pizza without losing the toppings.

"I thought you would be pleased."

"Oh, you have your compensations, wench," he said mock-loftily as he lifted the steaming slice to his mouth.

Moira smiled sweetly, waited until just the right moment and jabbed her elbow into his ribs—hard.

And Wiz Zumwalt—mightiest sorcerer in all the World, conqueror of demons, twice victor over the Dark League and keeper of the World's balance—tried to breath tomato sauce through his nose.
even more Rick Cook.

[ November 11, 2003, 04:25: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[atari_eric]

I've freshly discovered Rick Cook. As a programmer, I just love the WiZBiz series. Though it has its ups and downs: There, executing a program involes a brace of arrows and a stout swordarm for the final blow... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Sinapus]

Baen's free library is indeed free.

In the "First one's free" sense. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

In the "First one's free" sense.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">huh?

[ November 12, 2003, 21:05: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[oleg]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">
In the "First one's free" sense.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">huh? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Like in supermarket on Sunday - free sample but pay in full for the whole set http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

oh, no, you must be wandering around the 'web subscriptions' area. what i was talking about is www.baen.com/library, (http://www.baen.com/library) which really is free for the whole book.

[ November 12, 2003, 22:04: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Puke]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
yes, but can you build a bridge out of styrofoam?<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">years ago, they built a prison in San Diego out of styrofoam. well, some sort of composite styrofoam derivative substance. appeareantly inmates would, from time to time, punch through the walls and escape.


My favorite fiction quotes are from reality:

"Vae Victis" were the words Brennus uttered as he threw his sword onto the scales. If you dont know the reference, I highly encourage you to look it up. A quick google search should do it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

if i didn't know about the Flat Earth Society, i would entirely disbelieve that styrafoam prison thing. and since the possibility that the entire things nothing more than a giant hoax appeals to me, well...

i mean, i'm almost sure i don't know anyone who would believe the FES or build a prison people could kick there way out of...but only almost.

[Puke]

Fine, it was a jail, not a prison. the choice of construction materials was to save 600,000 in construction costs.

http://www.sdsheriff.net/library/bf_jails.html

a web search will turn up more references. I found an old article indicating that 11 jailbreaks occured over 7 years, mostly from quick punches through walls. Im almost positive that the building was either closed or turned into a all-female adolecent correctional facility or something.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

only 11? or is that only 11 succesfull?

styrafoam jail... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

'It's a pity the universe doesn't use segmented architecture with a protected mode, Wiz thought to himself as he drifted off.'

more Rick Cook.

[ November 13, 2003, 20:06: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

oh, yes, and i did post a qoute from a webcomic, so i should tell everybody where it's from. that was http://www.fragilegravity.com/core.php

remember, penguins are evil.