What is your favorite memorable line from a movie/novel?

[schnaa]

"Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords..."

[Zaphod]

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice, not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany." The opening line of A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.

I also love the last line of this book, "O God, please give him back. I shall keep asking you." I am not a Christian and I don't believe in God, but just thinking about this live sometimes moves me to tears. As does this line from The Lord of the Rings "I will take the ring, though I do not know the way."

[MarkDW]

"Are you gonna pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie? The Outlaw Josey Wales

[Thynight]

"For who could ever learn to love a beast?"

[freefall]

"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" - Cloud Atlas

"How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all." - Atonement

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies." - Fahrenheit 451

[Seghers]

[OPHELIA_HARDIN]

LOL -- hey, that's pretty good!

"There seems to be an alien pubic hair floating around in my gin, never seen it before in my life, have you?"Burke Dennings - The ExorcistA similar line is in the novel too, lol

[chrisrobin]

"Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." - Casablanca

"Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup." - Sunset Boulevard

[BostonPirate]

[Solid Gold]

I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!!

[Solid Gold]

I don't think were in Kansas anymore

[Solid Gold]

Cough,cough...I think I have the black lung.

From the best movie ever...Zoolander.

[unloadonme]

"Excuse me, but do you have the Texas Chainsaw Mascara?"

That's from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert I believe.

[unloadonme]

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

(Scoop, Evelyn Waugh)

[Solid Gold]

Well this is another fine mess you've gotten us into.

Olliver Hardy.

[blackbeltninja]

Describing a guy who'd been beaten up:

He looked like he'd been hit through the face by a sack-full of God.



-d-

[TheFallenAsexual]

Scary Movie (after Cindy offers a homeless man a sandwich): "I said a dollar, BITCH!"

[cgymike]

Five Easy Pieces (restaurant scene) where Jack Nicholson says: "You see this sign...?" Classic.

[jft245]

Zed's dead baby....Zed's dead.

[AstareGod]

"I have a gun, and I can turn you from a rooster to a hen in one shot!"

(Dolly Parton's character in Nine to Five, and I'm paraphrasing.)

[BeredKaiNev]

In response to the question: "Doesn't that itch?" after falling into poison ivy.

"I feel like Lindsey Lohan's pussy."

Eating Out 4: Drama Camp

[Sparky-Sparky-Boom-Boom]

"Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords..."

I love this line from kill Bill, love the way lucy Lui says it.

My fave line of all time from my fav movie is...........

[yhtang]

"I'll be right here...." from ET.

[Adrock-JD]

"Nothin's in it. It's pure ol Lipton's tea. Drink it, Rosemary." - Ruth Gordon in 'Rosemary's Baby'

[Adrock-JD]

"This is some shit, up with which we will not put!" - Brenda in 'Scary Movie 4'

[doctorsun]

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." - Shirley Jackson in The Haunting of Hill House

[bike10]

Book the opening and closing lines of Tale of Two Cities. Movie Louie this beginning of great frienship/ Casablanca

[Georgiadude]

"I'm not bad Mr. Valiant, I'm just drawn that way." Jessica Rabbit-Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[desertboi]

"I'm your huckleberry" Val Kilmer, Thombstone.

I agree, this is one of my favorites!

[desertboi]

Another great movie line for me is, "gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit?" - Happy Gilmore

[gsdx]

"Goddammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!" - General Beringer, War Games

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" - President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

[teadrinker]

What gsdx said. Couldn't have chosen better movie lines. Oh, and:

"Hello, Houston, this is Odyssey. It's good to see you again." Apollo 13.

-T.

[umjreon88]

"By all means move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me." - Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada

[TheLyingGame]

Most memorable?

[freefall]

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." - Shirley Jackson in The Haunting of Hill House

Ah, I forgot about this passage. A downwardly unsettling opening passage for a novel - and surely the best ever written.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill house, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for 80 years and might for 80 more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

[AshyPhoenix]

I forgot about this little gem from the movie Closer. Go watch it. Now. The script is fantastic.

Larry: "Alice, tell me something true."
Alice: "Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off... But it's better if you do."

[hungbuzz]

"NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH!!!"


Molly Weasley

[hungbuzz]