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

[Nishin]

奥山の松葉に凍る雪よりも我が身世に降る程ぞ悲しき
Fragile as the snow frozen to the pine needles in the deep mountains, my own existence in the world

[jensu846]

"Our pets heads are falling off!" see who can guess that line first. such a great flick!

[star-warrior]

"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts." To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.

[backagain]

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"

[JayHawk]

It is in my Signature....... and I am trying.....

[Anders123]

"On such an inimical world life can evolve in one of two ways. There are the defeated, littered on countless planets across the cosmos; weak, anaemic creatures huddled in their dead-end sanctuaries, a little protective niche in the local ecology, never rising above a rudimentary level, their very lack of sophistication providing them with the means of continuation. Or there are the triumphant, the creatures which refuse to be beaten, which fight tooth and nail and claw against their adversity; those for which circumstances act as an evolutionary spur."

Not a quote, but a small excerpt from The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. I've read the entire trilogy twice now, and plan to read it again in the future; it's just so incredibly well written.

[PreTTy PeTe]

"hi-ho"

Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by kurt vonnegut

[gsdx]

"I believe one should fight for what one believes. Provided one is absolutely sure one is absolutely right."

"I am sick of your foul language, your crude behavior and your sluttish manner. There are certain things a decent woman keeps private, and only a filthy slut would have done this and those who stood by and encouraged her are just as bad. I don't care who's responsible - you're all to blame. Now, I am going to leave this room for five minutes by which time that disgusting object had better be removed and the windows opened to clear away the stench. If you must play these filthy games, do them in your homes, and not in my classroom!"

Mark Thackeray, To Sir, With Love.

[G-Lexington]

My favorite novel is Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, but my favorite quote is from another of his novels - Taiko. It's spoken by a minor character named Kanbei. He is sent by one lord to anther to request a favor, but to his surprise, he's taken prisoner and thrown into a castle dungeon. While sitting in the cold dank dungeon, he says this line, out loud, to nobody.

"It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world."

Lex

[chrisrobin]

"You can't handle the truth!" - A Few Good Men/Aaron Sorkin

[ravenstar]

You're just a virgin who can't drive

[JayHawk]

Because someone told me they had siggies disabled......

The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin,
~Jules WInnfield - Pulp Fiction

[Anders123]

Because someone told me they had siggies disabled......

Thank ye kindly.


Another good one from a novel I read recently:

“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[ravenstar]

Clueless? ?

Tis indeed Clueless. Love that film.

[voyager1994]

“What is for you to decide is what to do with the time that has been given you”
― Gandalf, Lord of the Rings

[PreTTy PeTe]

"I just wish that I could go some place where nobody knows me"

Stand by Me

[diamondstar]

"Show me a beautiful woman and I'll show you a man who is tired of fucking her" - A Perfect Stanger

[jft245]

Kyle's mom is a big fat bitch.

[Nishin]

One of my favourite movie ever...



From Neon Genesis Evangelion:

This world is filled up with pain
its inhabitants sink in emptiness
and their hearts are filled with loneliness

[rocabar]

'The fates have given mankind a patient soul.'


'Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.'


-Homer, The Iliad

[Axxess]

"INCONCEIVABLE!"

"You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"

I don't know about favorite, but they're pretty cool.

[Saybrooke]

"The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it."

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[The Fly]

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

[OPHELIA_HARDIN]

"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

[Nishin]

"The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it."

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Nice one, I looooved this episode !!

There was no pain
No fear no doubt
Til they pulled me out,
Of heaven
So that's my refrain,
I live in hell,
Cause I've been expelled
from heaven, ...
I think I was in heaven

[DanikShade]

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.
- Mark Twain

[DanikShade]

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

I love that one! I have that as my notification sound for texts on my phone lol. Right on.

[likecharlie]

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"

[Adrock-JD]

"Goddammit that's not all; because if one of those things gets down here then all of THIS, this bullshit you think is so important, you can just kiss all that goodbye!" - Ellen Ripley in ALIENS

[palbert]

"The beginning is a very delicate time." - Frank Herbert, Dune

[RJ1979]

"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 Exorcist

A similar line is in the novel too, lol

[alphaxxx]

I'm only brave when I have to. Being brave doesn't mean looking for trouble.
The Lion King

[PreTTy PeTe]

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[redfox70]

"Get away from her, you bitch!" Ellen Ripley in Aliens.

[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

[TickTockMan]

"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

[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-

[cgymike]

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