I don't know if I have a favorite because it is hard to pick just one...
"Are you out of your Vulcan mind?"-Dr. "Bones" McCoy
"Are you out of your Vulcan mind?"-Dr. "Bones" McCoy
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"But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them."
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One of my favorite quotes comes from the 1936 film, Things to Come. Based on a work by H.G.Wells, the film deals with the progress of humanity after the collapse and reemergence of civilization.
At the end of the movie a character asks if there will ever be an age of happiness and if Man will ever be able to rest. The character Oswald Cabal give this reply;
"Rest enough for the individual man - too much, and too soon - and we call it death. But for Man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet with its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him and at last out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning."
At the end of the movie a character asks if there will ever be an age of happiness and if Man will ever be able to rest. The character Oswald Cabal give this reply;
"Rest enough for the individual man - too much, and too soon - and we call it death. But for Man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet with its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him and at last out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning."
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In addition, here are a few from Heinlein's character Lazarus Long.
"Your enemy is never a villlian in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly."
"Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing---with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place."
"All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can, and must, be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly---and no doubt will keep on trying."
"When the need arises---and it does---you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out---that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse."
"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
"Dear, don't bore him with trivia or burden him with your past mistakes. The happiest way to deal with a man is never tell him anything he does not need to know."
"Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster."
"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Super-natural" is a null word."
"To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods."
"The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man.But it's lovely work if you can stomach it."
"Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite."
"Political tags---such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, facist, liberal, conservative, and so forth---are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
"Your enemy is never a villlian in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly."
"Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing---with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place."
"All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can, and must, be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly---and no doubt will keep on trying."
"When the need arises---and it does---you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out---that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse."
"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
"Dear, don't bore him with trivia or burden him with your past mistakes. The happiest way to deal with a man is never tell him anything he does not need to know."
"Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster."
"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Super-natural" is a null word."
"To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods."
"The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man.But it's lovely work if you can stomach it."
"Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite."
"Political tags---such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, facist, liberal, conservative, and so forth---are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
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"The truth is just an excuse for a lack of imagination."
-Garak, "Improbably Cause", Star Trek DS9
-Garak, "Improbably Cause", Star Trek DS9
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I love that one!
"Let me guess, you're either lost or desperately searching for a good tailor."
--Garak (DS9)
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"Game over, man! Game over!"
(This has to be said in that whiny voice to be effective!)
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"I'll be back."
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"Open the pod bay door, Hal."
"I'm afraid that's just not possible, Dave."
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(This has to be said in that whiny voice to be effective!)
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"I'll be back."
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"Open the pod bay door, Hal."
"I'm afraid that's just not possible, Dave."
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"You're a smart girl, Gay."
"Boss, I bet you tell that to all the girls."
- Zebadiah Carter and Gay Deceiver, 'The Number of the Beast'
I need to read that again....
"Boss, I bet you tell that to all the girls."
- Zebadiah Carter and Gay Deceiver, 'The Number of the Beast'
I need to read that again....
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you know, for kids!
A lot of my favorite quotes are from Firefly:
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
"Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?"
"Big damn heroes, sir."
"Ain't we just?"
"You are very much lacking in imagination."
"I imagine that's so, sir."
"Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
"We live in a spaceship, dear."
"This is the captain, we have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence, and then… explode."
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
"Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?"
"Big damn heroes, sir."
"Ain't we just?"
"You are very much lacking in imagination."
"I imagine that's so, sir."
"Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
"We live in a spaceship, dear."
"This is the captain, we have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence, and then… explode."
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"If your hand so much as touches iron, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.
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Neo: What is the Matrix?
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
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Aliens has a lot of great lines...
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Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.
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Ripley: These people are here to protect you. They're soldiers.
Newt: It won't make any difference.
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Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No. Have you?
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Hicks: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?
Gorman: All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved.
Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what?
Gorman: A xenomorph.
Hicks: It's a bughunt.
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Burke: Look, this is an emotional moment for all of us, okay? I know that. Let's not make snap judgments, please. This is clearly-clearly an important species we're dealing with and I don't think that you or I, or anybody, has the right to arbitrarily exterminate them!
Ripley: Wrong!
Vasquez: Yeah. Watch us.
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Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.
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Ripley: These people are here to protect you. They're soldiers.
Newt: It won't make any difference.
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Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No. Have you?
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Hicks: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?
Gorman: All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved.
Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what?
Gorman: A xenomorph.
Hicks: It's a bughunt.
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Burke: Look, this is an emotional moment for all of us, okay? I know that. Let's not make snap judgments, please. This is clearly-clearly an important species we're dealing with and I don't think that you or I, or anybody, has the right to arbitrarily exterminate them!
Ripley: Wrong!
Vasquez: Yeah. Watch us.
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Here's a few from Futurama;
Kif: Do you remember that "course correction" you made, sir?
Zapp Brannigan: No.
Kif: Well it's proving somewhat more suicidal than we initially hoped.
Bender: Come on! It is just like making love. You know, left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor...
Amy: I know how to make love!
Bender: [murmuring in his sleep] Kill all humans, kill all humans, must kill all
Fry: Bender, wake up!
Bender: I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it.
Fry: Why am I sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?
Fry: I'm so confused. The Bender I liked turned out to be evil, and the Bender I hated was good. How can I live my life when I can't tell good from evil?
Bender: They're both fine choices, whatever floats your boat.
Professor Farnsworth: Good news, everyone. Tomorrow you'll be making a delivery to Ebola 9, the virus planet.
Hermes: Why can't they go today?
Professor Farnsworth: Because tonight's a special night, and I want all of you to be alive.
Kif: Do you remember that "course correction" you made, sir?
Zapp Brannigan: No.
Kif: Well it's proving somewhat more suicidal than we initially hoped.
Bender: Come on! It is just like making love. You know, left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor...
Amy: I know how to make love!
Bender: [murmuring in his sleep] Kill all humans, kill all humans, must kill all
Fry: Bender, wake up!
Bender: I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it.
Fry: Why am I sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?
Fry: I'm so confused. The Bender I liked turned out to be evil, and the Bender I hated was good. How can I live my life when I can't tell good from evil?
Bender: They're both fine choices, whatever floats your boat.
Professor Farnsworth: Good news, everyone. Tomorrow you'll be making a delivery to Ebola 9, the virus planet.
Hermes: Why can't they go today?
Professor Farnsworth: Because tonight's a special night, and I want all of you to be alive.
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Ahh! I can't believe I forgot Futurama! One of my favorite Futurama quotes is in my signature:
"Incidentally, you have a dime up your nose."
"I wish! It's a nickle."
Other good ones:
"Impressive! They're laying down mad rhymes with an 80% success rate."
"I believe that qualifies as "ill" at least from a technical standpoint."
"Hey barkeep, I'll have a fuzzy navel and she'll have the girliest drink in the house."
"Two fuzzy navels comin' up."
"WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!!"
"Pathetic human race! Organizing your knowledge by category just made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!" (As a librarian, I just love this one.)
"Incidentally, you have a dime up your nose."
"I wish! It's a nickle."
Other good ones:
"Impressive! They're laying down mad rhymes with an 80% success rate."
"I believe that qualifies as "ill" at least from a technical standpoint."
"Hey barkeep, I'll have a fuzzy navel and she'll have the girliest drink in the house."
"Two fuzzy navels comin' up."
"WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!!"
"Pathetic human race! Organizing your knowledge by category just made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!" (As a librarian, I just love this one.)
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Oooh a scifi quotes thread
"I'm sorry. I"m sorry that we had to defend ourselves. I'm sorry your people were stupid enough to open fire on a station that has several million innnocent civillians, including your own people, and I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I sent them straight to hell.
Anyways.. it's the thought that counts."-Cpt. Sheridan
"Now that you've had time to think about it, do you surrender?"Lord Yupa to a torumekian commander after decimating his troops in less than 5 seconds.
"retreat? in our moment of triumph?"-Moff tarkin
"ZOG"-Entity
"Zog what? Zog yes?....Zog no??"-Ivanova
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this ones from Crown of Slaves, written by David Weber and John Ringo
Captain Overstegan: you're brainless. BRAINLESS. as in, brains of a carrot.
Captain Overstegan: you're brainless. BRAINLESS. as in, brains of a carrot.
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Time for some thrilling heroics.
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These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
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Time for some thrilling heroics.
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These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
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