OT: Good quotes

[Renegade 13]

Inspired by Atrocities trying to find the source of a quote, I think it'd be neat to collect a bunch of good quotes and their sources. I like quotes. Don't know why... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

Please try to keep the thread clean, without letting it devolve into something...else. Like most threads do after a short time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

I go first!

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

I know, Nietzsche was a bit of a freak, but I like the quote for some reason.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! !!!!!" - The SW Emporer, reflecting on the ultimate futility of interfering in familial relations.

[Raging Deadstar]

Renegade 13 said:
"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

I know, Nietzsche was a bit of a freak, but I like the quote for some reason.



For some reason You are amongst the three people that I suspect would post Nietzsche. I have no idea why... The Others Strangely are Dogscoff and Puke.

Then Agin I'm about to Quote some Churchill, so I can't really talk http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Just trying to find one short enough, a great man for speeches but long winded at times http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

"If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

[Starhawk]

"Don't be worried about that bullet with your name on it, worry about the battle cannon shell with "To Whom it may concern."
-Some soldier from some war http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

"Retreat Hell we're just advancing in the other direction."
-Wasn't that Patton?

[Randallw]

"Don't worry men, they couldn't hit an elephant at this..."

last words of a US officer.

Some more Churchill.

Lady MP "If you were my Husband sir, I would poison you"
Churchill "If you were my Wife I'd drink it"

Lady MP "You sir are drunk!"
Churchill "And you're ugly, but I'll be sober in the morning"

[Atrocities]

"This is my BOOOM Stick!"
'Yup fella's, you left your back door wide open on that one!"

"Its right here plain as purple crayon!"

"Where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Do you see any flying cars?" - Unknown but sounded like 'Sisko - DS9'

[dogscoff]

From "Sean of the Dead", one of the finest films ever made:

"You want to put your lives into the hands of this man, a man whose idea of a romantic nightspot and impenetrable fortress are one and the same?"

[Jack Simth]

Atrocities said:"Where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Do you see any flying cars?" - Unknown but sounded like 'Sisko - DS9'

I remember seeing that - it was on a commercial, with the actor that played Sisko - for computers, I think.

"Until now, I didn't think it was possible for someone to force me into being trustworthy." Sam Starfall (http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1000/fv00984.htm)

[Loser]

Jack Simth said:

Atrocities said:"Where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Do you see any flying cars?" - Unknown but sounded like 'Sisko - DS9'

I remember seeing that - it was on a commercial, with the actor that played Sisko - for computers, I think.

sigh
No one remembers Hawk (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096646/).

[Emperor's Child]

Starhawk said:
"Retreat Hell we're just advancing in the other direction."
-Wasn't that Patton?



Nope: That quote is from Gen Chesty Puller, United States Marine Corps, who was in command of the First Marine Division at Chosin, Korea, when he found the allied flanks on either side of him had collapsed and he was facing roughly seven Chineese divisions trying to encircle and demolish his command. He got his division out, and ground up a few chineese divisions in the process.

[Atrocities]

"What do you mean they cut the power? How could they cut the power man, their animals?"

"Game over man, game [censored] over!!!!!!!!!!!" - I love this one http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif The ultimate bad *** pooped himself. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, but the dice are loaded."
-Taken from the splashscreen upon researching Probability Mechanics in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

"Ommmmmmminous Hummmmmmm....."
-Do I need to explain? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

There's load more but I gone and forgot 'em.

[Emperor's Child]

I love these:

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

"Veni, Vidi, Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered)

"Nuts"

[Renegade 13]

Raging Deadstar said:
For some reason You are amongst the three people that I suspect would post Nietzsche. I have no idea why... The Others Strangely are Dogscoff and Puke.


Am I really that predictable? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[b]"If you want to create an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

[El_Phil]

"There's an ugly name for those who do things the hard way." The Cheshire Cat

"If you only ever read one book in your life, I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut." LAT

"All artists are willing to suffer for their art. So few are willing to learn to draw." Don't know who, but it is worringly true. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Spock quotes: http://tvsothertenpercent.tripod.com/startrek/spock.html

[Puke]

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
-Churchill

"Vae victis" (Woe to the conquered)
-Brennus, leader of the Celtic army ransoming the city of Rome in 390 BCE.

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!"
-unknown / various

and because its expected of me:
"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. "
-RD knows who...

[Baron Munchausen]

Raging Deadstar said:

Renegade 13 said:
"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

I know, Nietzsche was a bit of a freak, but I like the quote for some reason.



For some reason You are amongst the three people that I suspect would post Nietzsche. I have no idea why... The Others Strangely are Dogscoff and Puke.

Then Agin I'm about to Quote some Churchill, so I can't really talk http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Just trying to find one short enough, a great man for speeches but long winded at times http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

"If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."



But Nietzsche produces such great quotes! Twilight of the Idols, for example.

#1 -- Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Should psychology be a vice?
(Footnote by the translator, Walter Kaufman, explains that there is a German proverb: Idleness is the beginning of all vices.)

#3 -- To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher.

#8 -- Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

His early work is not so famous, but equally interesting.

from Human, All Too Human

#87 -- Luke 18:14 improved "He that humbleth himself wants to be exalted."

#499 -- Friend. -- Fellow rejoicing [Mitfreude], not fellow suffering [Mitleiden], makes the friend.

#536 -- Value of tasteless opponents -- Sometimes one stays faithful to a cause only becaus its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

[Puke]

how about:

"morality is the pack-instinct of the human species"

or something like that..

[Baron Munchausen]

Puke said:
how about:

"morality is the pack-instinct of the human species"

or something like that..



Nietzsche usually used 'herd' rather than 'pack'. But there are nuances even in his condemnations:

Human, All Too Human, #233 -- For the despisers of 'herd humanity'. -- He who regards men as a herd and flees from them as fast as he can will certainly be overtaken by them and gored by their horns.

But, over-all he does despise public morality, that is, rigid notions of 'custom' and 'propriety':

Daybreak #19 -- Morality makes stupid. -- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful -- but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the creation of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

[Tamerlane]

I always thought this one was appropriate for SEIV:

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way"

John Paul Jones

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! !!!!!" - The ST Emporer, reflecting on the ultimate futility of interfering in familial relations.



Star Trek Emporer? Some guy who sells stuff in the Star Trek universe? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

*****

"Colonel O'Neil, what the hell do you think you're doing?!?"
"What?! In the middle of my BACKSWING?!"

"Uh, this would appear to be a severe malfunction....."
-Some TV reporter talking about the Challenger..... he said this several minutes after the explosion. When it had just exploded he continues quoting statistics about altitude, speed etc.

[Atrocities]

"We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war." - Any One? If you said Macarthur you are right.

In DS9 Admiral Ross also said these words when the Dominion signed the documents of surrender.

"We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war."

"I am your father." - Vader to Luke Skywalker "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" - Luke Skywalker

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:

narf poit chez BOOM said:
"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! !!!!!" - The ST Emporer, reflecting on the ultimate futility of interfering in familial relations.



Star Trek Emporer? Some guy who sells stuff in the Star Trek universe? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif



The error is corrected. The spelling mistake is fine.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

"Purple alert. This is not a daffodil. Abandon shop!"
-Phil, in the Insanity thread

[Randallw]

That's actually the female Holly from Red Dwarf

[El_Phil]

Ahhh back when Red Dwarf was good.. **sniff** happy memories.

Cat: "You're going to go with one of my plans? Are you nuts? What happens if we all get killed? I'll never hear the last of it."

From that wonderfull half hout of joy "Gunmen of The Apocalypse" which also includes another favourite

Lister: "Maybe it's the moonlight, but I've got to admit you're looking pretty good for a corpse."

[Atrocities]

F*** even the future nothing works!

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Renegade 13 said:Please try to keep the thread clean, without letting it devolve into something...else. Like most threads do after a short time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Hugh Manatee]

"I saw clouds last night. I was Cold. I was colder then ice. I have had no food. I have had no sleep. And then you pour green filth on me...." -From Titus Groan, said by Steerpike to Fuchsia.

[El_Phil]

"It's cold, so bitterly cold here in this fridge." Vic Reeves

[Renegade 13]

Your safe boundaries were once unknown horizons. - I forget

[David E. Gervais]

Nurse: Well, she doesn't have a temperature.
David: That doesn't sound good. Are you sure she has NONE? Not even a bit of one?

I should have been a comedian. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[TurinTurambar]

"It's possible... pig. I might be bluffing. It's concievable... you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. But, then again, perhaps I have the strength after all...
Drop... your... sword!!"

-the Man in Black, "Princess Bride" (The greatest, campiest movie of all time IMHO)

Regards,
Turin

[TurinTurambar]

...and from the same:

"Jou keep using that hword... I do not think it means what you think it means."

-Inigo Montoya ("HELLO!! My name is..." uh-oh don't get me started... lol )

[Atrocities]

"All of your bases belong to us!"
"Ancient treaties stipulate that the SOL system belongs to us."

[Captain Kwok]

It's supposed to be 'All your base are belong to us.'

In some countries you would have been whipped for such a blatant mis-quote.

[Ed Kolis]

"Greetings Hunam! How do you wish to torture me today?" - Spathi Commander, Star Control 2

"The power of the ancients is now yours to command... You have crushed all opposition beneath your heel..." - Victory sequence, Master of Orion II

"Fight, Megaman! For everlasting peace!" - Victory sequence, Megaman (NES)

[Atrocities]

Captain Kwok said:
It's supposed to be 'All your base are belong to us.'

In some countries you would have been whipped for such a blatant mis-quote.



Ah yes, thanks.

[Atrocities]

"Is this a joke? Because if it is, it's NOT very damn funny!" - Poster on the MOO3 forums in reference to the game MOO3 after its release.

"I'm not addicted to playing SEIV, I just have to do one more turn." - Atrocities

[narf poit chez BOOM]

"Chew, and swallow." - Me, in responce to the question 'How can you eat all that?'

[dogscoff]

One of my favourites from Red Dwarf:
Hideous mutant vampire polymorph disguised as a beautiful woman: "Hi, 'm the Genetic Mutant"
Cat: "Jenny who?"

From http://www.sockbaby.com (episode 1)
"Go back to your alien brethren, and tell thedm that Ronnie Cordova says they're gay!"
(Normally I wouldn't find that funny, but sockbaby is awesome.)

[Renegade 13]

"Me, me, me"....."Me too" Agent Smith 1 says the first part, to Agent Smith 2 (who says the second part) in the Matrix Reloaded after Agent Smith 1 takes over the body that became Agent Smith 2's. I dunno, I just love that, maybe you have to have seen it. Great movies.

It is like wiping your *** with silk. - The Merovingian in the Matrix Reloaded. That one cracks me up too.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

"Never - EVER - invade unless you know you can outsmart the enemy at all points. And even then make sure you outnumber him at least 10 to 1!"
-me

"War is decided by the smallest of inconveniences - rioting border colonies, drops in construction speed due to pop leaving the planet on a colonizer, stars going nova without reason....."
-again, me

"They haven't defeated you until they've destroyed all your stars, wiped out your colonies, eliminated all orbital defenders and have overwhelming ground forces on your homeworld..... and even THEN you're not defeated!"
-again, me

"What do you mean, the Emperor of the Khartozia Imperium needs a life just because he's referring to himself in the third person nowadays?"
-me..... again

[Atrocities]

"Shazzabot!"

"I intend to wipe them off of the face of this Earth with the fury of Gods own wrath."

[Ed Kolis]

"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." - Marketing slogan for MOO3, which was unfortunately much less successful than whatever famous general the quote was taken from http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[El_Phil]

No it was unfortunate, MOO3 just wasn't any good. It was a crushing disappointment that's why it wasn't successful, nothing unfortunate about it.

[Raging Deadstar]

Ed Kolis said:
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy."



I'm sure that was some prussian general...
*rummage*

Karl Von Clausewitz (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_von_Clausewitz). Heh, watching lot's of Documentaries is really beginning to pay-off.

"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick" ~ Theodore Roosevelt http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

"Just tell me the universe isn't going to fall apart and kill me and I'm good." - The unaptly named Dandy

"The universe isn't going to fall apart and kill you." - The unaptly named Mistake

"Then see, I'm good." - Dandy

http://www.dandyandcompany.com/ - A boy, 'his' dog, their respective girlfriends, his dogs' brother, his dogs' brothers' faithfull killer robot, the crocadile in the back yard, the boys' evil double, the boys' dogs' evil double, the boys' dogs' brothers' evil double, aliens, government conspiracies, superheroes, a cosmic beanie, evil robot dogs...I have a vague memory of a talking frog...

...Confused yet?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

'"What was that?" Jerry asked, peering over the edge.
"I think it was a ninja dwarf," Wiz said wonderingly.
Danny frowned. "That sounds like a character from a D&D game." He thought for a second. "A bad D&D game."'

Rick Cook, The Wizardry Cursed. I've quoted him before in these threads, and never used up everything. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[DeKaye]

"Good to go, Good to go" - Jodie Foster in Contact - Goofy quote, but it shows strength.


oops, wrong words, shoiuldn't try to conjur up quotes when one is extremely tired. :}

[Atrocities]

""I ate his liver with some pharber beans and a nice chiantie." - Emperor Fang when asked by the President of the Friendly Planet Alliance about the disposition of their Ambassador.

[dogscoff]

Recently rediscovered this old favourite:

Thug: "What's that, some kind of fancy hair dryer?
Schlock: If by "hair" you mean "plasma", and by "dryer" you mean "cannon" then yes, it's a hair dryer.

[kalthalior]

"If I hear any more threats against the Captain's life, or any more rumors about going down to headquarters and assassinating the General, or raping the nurses at the field hospital, I'm going to strangle the guy with my bare hands! Got it?" Telly Savalas in Kelly’s Heroes

"In case that happens it means he's the fellow who killed me and I don't like the fellow who kills me, not in general."
"He's not the first psycho to hire us nor the last. You think that's a commentary on us?"
"We're deep in space, corner of No and Where"
"Dear Buddha, I would like a pony and a plastic rocket"
"See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart."
"What the hell's going on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"
" You know, they tell ya to never hit a man with a closed fist but it is, on occasion, hilarious."
" You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery."
"One of you is gonna fall and die and I'm not cleaning it up"
"See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with. Long as she does it quiet like."
"One of those will feed a family for a month. Longer if they don't like their kids too well."
-- All Malcolm Reynolds in Firely/Serenity

[Ed Kolis]

"Come at me! Thrust with your sword!" - Possibly perverted old swordsman from the various Legend of Zelda games http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif
"Behold my floating fortress, the Egg Carrier!" - Dr. Robotnik in Sonic Adventure
"GOT EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD" - Megaman 2. Probably supposed to be "You got the Lead Bubble" or some such, whatever a "lead bubble" is supposed to be http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif
"Metroids are not pets. Metroids are not for target practice." - Space pirate log entry in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
"It breathes. It breathes. It breathes. You die..." - Typical Angband endgame http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif
"That's a, um, red potion. I think it, um, replenishes your hearts. Or something. I'm not sure, I just work here part-time." - Undermotivated shopkeeper in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
"You are too big to be a slug." - Zero to a miniboss in Megaman Zero
"My name is Maha Ganeshariff. All of the data in your memory has been stored in the server in my body. To recover it you must defeat me. Will you do it?!?" - A boss from Megaman Zero

[El_Phil]

Bond girl: "You aren't going to kill me now? Not after what we just did."
James Bond: "Well I wasn't going to kill you before was I?"

[douglas]

Ed Kolis said:
"It breathes. It breathes. It breathes. You die..." - Typical Angband endgame http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif



Heh, reminds me of the time I cast polymorph on something and didn't even get to move again before I died. It went something like this:

You cast Polymorph on the monster.
It turns into a Chaos Vortex!
The Chaos Vortex breathes chaos at you.
You feel your life draining away.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You feel reality warping around you. (several monsters appear)
You feel weaker than you used to be.
You feel clumsier than you used to be.
You feel more sickly than you used to be.
You feel dumber than you used to be.
You feel less wise than you used to be.
You feel less charismatic than you used to be.
The Chaos Vortex breathes chaos at you.
You feel your life draining away.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost a level.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You have lost knowledge of <insert spell name here>.
You feel reality warping around you. (more monsters appear)
The <insert monster here> changes!
The <insert monster here> changes!
The <insert monster here> changes!
The <insert monster here> changes!
The <insert monster here> changes!

And so on, finally culminating with one of the summoned polymorphed monsters finishing my (now level 1) character with one blow. When I cast the initial polymorph that set it all off, I was somewhere around level 20-30, and at full health. Needless to say, I did not experiment with Polymorph again for a very long time, and I was extremely careful about it when I finally encountered a chaos vortex as a normal spawn for the first time.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

'Dear friend, Today I memorized explosive runes!' - D&D joke. Not exactly a quote, but probably has been used in more than one game.

And my sig from another forum: ' 'I ready the picnic lunch! I ready the picnic lunch the dark forces of sauron made us...' - Dork Tower #1013'

[DeKaye]

"This is an ex-parrot" Monty Python
"I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay" Monty Python
"Ahhhhhhh! (then said calmly) I panicked." unknown

[NullAshton]

"Get off the nuclear warhead." - Armaggedon

[ExSentinel]

"Stop firing at the thermonuclear devices" John Travolta in Broken Arrow

[NullAshton]

Hehe. Wonder how many quotes involve nukes.

[AgentZero]

Wash: River is a psychic? That's a little too science fiction for me.
Zoë: You live on a space ship, hun.

Wash: Oh, my God. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing? Oh, right, that would be me. Back to work.

Mal: You've only got to scare him.
Jayne: Pain is scary.

River: Also, I can kill you with my brain.

Commander Harken: Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of.
Mal: May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems.

River: My food is problematic.

Jayne: What'd y'all order a dead guy for?

River: If the snow on the roof is too heavy, you see, the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.
Book: River, please, why don't you come on out?
River: No! Can't. Too much hair.

Jayne: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.

Book: If you take sexual advantage of that girl, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

All of course from Firefly. I think there's also a very special level of Hell reserved for the git who cancelled this show.