Your favorite quotes, sayings, movie lines, idioms, etc.

[eternalcrimson]

What are your favorite quotes, sayings, movie lines, idioms......actually it can be anything that’s written or spoken. I’ll start off.

This one is a old Japanese idiom.

Originally Posted by Classic Japanese Idiom

minoru hodo atama no sagaru inaho kana

Literally it means “The Mature Rice Plant Lowers Its Head”. The English translation would be Maturity brings humility and respect for others.

When rice is mature and ready to harvest, the heaviness at the top of the plant pulls it down low to the ground. Japanese see this as analogous to how the wisdom of years fills a man with humility and causes his head to bow heavily in his deep respect for life and nature.

This next line is my favorite and best line from War Games.

Originally Posted by Stephen Falken:

Now, children, come on over here. I'm going to tell you a bedtime story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up, David.

I also loved this line from Silence Of The Lambs

Originally Posted by Hannibal Lecter

Do you know what you look like to me with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube with little taste . . . . But you’re not more than one generation removed from poor white trash….

From there I forget how the rest of it goes but I think it’s…

…..and oh how the boys loved you with those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars. Dreaming of getting anywhere even all the way to the F.B.I.

[Cyntrox]

Originally Posted by Me

Democracy is no longer a competition about who's best, it's who's not worst.

Yeah, and what's in my signature.

[Underwater Ophelia]

A hard man is good to find. --Mae West

[KontanKarite]

Your imperfections make you better than perfection.

[Vako]

I like sayings. Here are some of my favorites. I did not site all the authors. if you can please forgive that.

* It's not what you say, it's what people hear.

* Under Democracy, one party always devotes it's chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule, and both commonly succeed, and are right. -H.R. Menken

* Use the system to change the system.

* If you try to be everything to everyone, you will be nothing to anyone.

* None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.

* I would rather live under individuals who make mistakes than under expert conformity.

* The Universe is an infinite room furnished in splendor for us to play in. -Robert A. Heinlein

* There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

* Sometimes it becomes necessary to separate the war from the warrior.

* There's nothing decent about censorship.

* Unification does not need to mean the end of diversity.

* Of all the words of tongue and pen, the saddest of these, "It might have been". -John Greenleaf Whittier

* Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

* The future rest upon those who can, and those who do.

* There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

* After all is said and done, much is said, and little is done.

* We have conveniently forgotten that government produces nothing and has nothing to give us that it does not first take from someone else who works to produce it.

* Be steel-hard in goals, and flexible in tactics.

* The freezer is more attractive than the grave.

* The most terrifying fact about the Universe is not that it is hostile, but that it is indifferent. But if we can come to terms with it's indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

* A species that does not become space-faring will become extinct.

* Organized religion is the last refuge of lost souls.

* The price of freedom of thought is eternal vigilance of mind.

* Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever.

* He who chooses to take the path of least resistance will arrive at a destination of lesser fulfillment.

* Nothing in education is so amazing as the ignorance it teaches.

* A fool and his money are soon elected. -Will Rogers

* "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"

* Love does not insist on it's own way.

* Zealotry is always the refuge of the under-educated, the easily excited, and the misinformed.

* Stay cool, have fun, and treat people fairly, and even if you lose, you will win people's respect.

* Just because a jackass travels the world, does not mean he will come back a horse.

* The Human mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open.

* Individuals' rights are not subject to a public vote. A majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. The political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by the majority, and the smallest minority on Earth is the individual. -Ayn Rand

* If one, then all. If not, then none.

* When you do things right, no one will notice you've done anything at all.

* When you find yourself on the side of the majority, It is time pause and reflect. -Sammual Clemens

* In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

* Mistakes... It could be that purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

* When people are free to do as they please, they usually end up imitating each other anyway.

* The truth is more important than the facts.

* I believe in God, only I spell it N-a-t-u-r-e.

* Liberty is a duty, not a right.

* "We are here to defend Democracy, not practice it."

* The best way to deal with change is to help create it.

* Remember the future !

[disorder]

God creates Dinosaur.
God kills Dinosaur.
God creates Man.
Man kills God.
Man creates Dinosaur.
Dinosaur eats Man.
Women inherit the earth.


That's someone's signature, but I can't remember whose.

[PinstripesAndPithHelmets]

"A woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." -Rudyard Kipling

My girlfriend hates that one, which makes me like it even more.

[LegendGirl]

From "Ghost Rider" (the movie):

"I feel lucky."

"I have a dog named Lucky. He has one eye and no nuts."

[LegendGirl]

Originally Posted by disorder

God creates Dinosaur.
God kills Dinosaur.
God creates Man.
Man kills God.
Man creates Dinosaur.
Dinosaur eats Man.
Woman inherits the earth.


That's someone's signature, but I can't remember whose.

It's from the movie "Jurassic Park". Ellie Sadler says it.

[Cyntrox]

Perfection is like a dog. If you chase it, it will run away. -Me

[PersephoneX]

A step towards love is also a step towards insanity- The Marquis

[MollyMac]

"Evil will always triumph over good- because good is dumb"- Dark Helmet

[Renatus]

HK-47: Statement: HK-47 is ready to serve, master.
Revan: You don't need to call me master, you know.
HK-47: Query: Don't I? I was under the assumption that organic meatbags such as yourself enjoyed such forms of address.
Revan: "Organic meatbags?"
HK-47: Retraction: Did I say that out loud? I apologize, master. While you are a meatbag, I suppose I should not call you as such.
Revan: You just called me a meatbag again!
HK-47: Explanation: It's just that... you have all these squishy parts, master. And all that water! How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea...
Revan: Neither do I, come to think of it...
HK-47: Statement: Now do you understand the travails of my existence, master? Surely it does not compare to your existence, but still...
Revan: I survive. Somehow.
HK-47: Commentary: As do I. It is our lot in life, I suppose, master. Shall we find something to kill to cheer ourselves up?


How can anyone hate such a delightful robot?

[Firestorm]

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

[Beowulf]

A favourite quote of mine from Red Dwarf !!!.


RIMMER: I can't let you out.
LISTER: Why not?
RIMMER: Because the King of the Potato People won't let me. I begged him. I got down on my knees and wept. He wants to keep you here. Keep you here for ten years.
CAT: Could we see him?
RIMMER: See who?
CAT: The King.
RIMMER: Do you have a magic carpet?
LISTER: Yeah, a little three-seater.
RIMMER: So, let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you are completely sane?

[opiadirge]

"Seize the carp!" - Out Cold

"It never fails to amaze me how certain allegedly good Christians seem to take a perverse delight in the misfortune of others" Brian Lumley, Titus Crow

"Take it easy" not quite sure why ...

[alshio]

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away, and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewered our perspective tends to be. - Dougas Adams

Imagine chickens were the size of cows. If you walked into a henhouse the chicken would strut up saying "Cluck fucking cluck," and you would run. - My Dad

Voice over: The second date
Woman: I'm pregnant
Man: Fuck off!
Woman: *Stunned silence*
Man: With what? A baby? - Some Movie preview I seen today

“You don’t need a pen to be a writer” – Howard Moon

I'm sorry I got really drunk, ripped your cable modem off the wall, threw it out the window and then proclaimed that I had defeated the Matrix. - A guy on the radio - Triple M, I think.

[Underwater Ophelia]

Originally Posted by alshio

Voice over: The second date
Woman: I'm pregnant
Man: Fuck off!
Woman: *Stunned silence*
Man: With what? A baby? - Some Movie preview I seen today

Ahahaha that's wonderful. What movie?

[Draconysius]

From Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 301:
Two old women (played by Cleese and Chapman) are sitting at a bench in a park.
Cleese: I just spent FOUR hours burying the cat!
Chapman: FOUR HOURS?!
Cleese: Yeah, it wouldn't stop moving.

xD

[Beowulf]

Draconysius, that was funny, what episode is that from ?

Monty Python rule !!!.

[Miss_Hazie_Lane]

"I don't relate to 99% of humanity"-Enid (Ghost World)
"You'll see my beauty spot moves about quite a bit, depending on the location of my largest zit"-Brian Molko

[cryptickisses]

"It's been swell, but the swelling's going down" - Tank Girl

[Mir]

Don't we have a thread just like this one in the Literature Section?

[MollyMac]

Yep. I wonder why no one found it.

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[Mir]

Originally Posted by Beowulf

Draconysius, that was funny, what episode is that from ?

Monty Python rule !!!.

Season 3, episode 1.