Quotes (Page 11)!

  1. "That's rumor for you. If we could modulate it with the truth, how useful it could be…" ~Commander Sir Samuel Vimes
  2. "The Watch was back and out there on the streets, and it they weren't actually as good as Detritus at kicking [tail feather] they were definitely prodding buttock." ~Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
  3. "[Vimes]'d always imagined that manky was how your mouth felt after three days on a regurgitated diet. It was horrible to think you could look like that." ~Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
  4. "I'm worried and confused. So the first rule in the book is to spread it around." ~Commander Sir Samuel Vimes
  5. "There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in [Tartarus]." ~Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
  6. "Vimes yawned. Sleep. He'd be better for some sleep. Or something." ~Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
  7. "I think [Vimes]'s got a sort of soft spot for the Patrician, in his way. He once said that if anyone was going to kill Vetinari, he'd like it to be him." ~Captain Carrot Ironfounderson
  8. "Of course you can't. Because there's nothing to see. You can't see it. That's how you can tell it's there. If it wasn't there, you'd soon see it! [huge, manic grin] Only you wouldn't! See?" ~Commander Sir Samuel Vimes on light
  9. "You ain't gonna be happy until you fricassee somebody's brains out." ~Agent J to Agent K
  10. "The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!" ~Algernon Moncrieff
  11. "That's why you're on PBS. Because you're pithy." ~Jon Stewart
  12. "We are going to be raising a generation of mentally impaired people." ~Jon Stewart
  13. "You are the reason the Women's Lib movement took so long!" ~Kayleigh to Helena
  14. "For a dreamer, night's the only time of day." ~Jack Kelly, "Santa Fe"
  15. "We've got a ton of rotten fruit and perfect aim." ~The Newsies chorus, "The World Will Know"
  16. "When I dream on my own, I'm alone, but I'm not lonely." ~Jack Kelly, "Santa Fe"
  17. "Cleric, I can only hope to one day be as uncompromising as you." ~Brandt
  18. "Algie, you're always talking nonsense." ~Jack Worthington
  19. "Everyone else we've bumped into has died, why not you?" ~Jonathan Carnahan
  20. "Do I bloody look alright?" ~Jonathan Carnahan
  21. "Kid in a candy store." ~Marshall on Ardeth Bay when he acquires his machine gun
  22. "I wanna go bug shooting." ~Duckie while watching The Mummy
  23. "One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people." ~Stephen Carell on Carson Daly
  24. "Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever gets credit for being." ~Richard Roeper
  25. "Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash." ~Richard Roeper
  26. "I'd say that I'm also recommending [Equilibrium] for the cool gun battles." ~Richard Roeper
  27. "I like the flakes and you like the sugar frosting." ~Roger Ebert to Richard Roeper on Equilibrium
  28. "May these young men and women go forth and procreate wisely so that the world is full of good people." ~My band director's "graduation speech"
  29. "with as much damage as [Trace Beaulieu's] hair took from chemicals over the course of MST3K, I'm amazed he still _has_ any..." ~Captain Chaotica!!
  30. "...follow coincidence far enough and you'll find it tied to fate..." ~Apoletta
  31. "I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork." ~Christian Bale
  32. "I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all." ~Christian Bale
  33. "Personally, I love going to see a film when you can really watch a character. If you've just read some article about who the actor is sleeping with, that's gonna be at the back of your mind all the time while you're watching the film." ~Christian Bale
  34. "It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience." ~Christian Bale
  35. "Well, absolutely none, obviously." ~Christian Bale in response to "When you got married yourself, you did, of course, ruin the lives of thousands of Bale-heads out there, and I'm curious how much guilt you feel about that."
  36. "I can now say that I've finally fulfilled a lifelong dream to play Darth Vader!" ~Christian Bale
  37. "I only sound intelligent when there's a script-writer around." ~Christian Bale
  38. "I don't think infinity is finite." ~my Calc teacher
  39. "Why choose asexual reproduction? Perhaps the better question is: Why not? After all, asexual reproduction would seem a more efficient way to reproduce and avoids all sorts of problems." ~A website on asexual reproduction
  40. "So sex may be virtually universal because of the never-ending need to keep up with changes in parasites." ~A website on asexual reproduction
  41. "When we figure out what they are, we slap numbers on them and start flying them." ~Marshall on UFOs
  42. “A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don’t want to, I like it the way it is.” ~Ioan Gruffudd
  43. "See, Horatio, if you had been rich enough to afford a commission as well as a new uniform, you could have joined the army, instead." ~Acting Lieutenant Archie Kennedy
  44. "From Acting Lieutenant to commander of a dung cart in less than a step. My career is looking up." ~Acting Lieutenant Archie Kennedy
  45. "Never underestimate the enemy, Mr. Hornblower, but never over estimate an ally." ~Major Edrington
  46. "Fine thing to die in someone else's war…" ~Acting Lieutenant Archie Kennedy
  47. "It's not history that concerns me. It's the future. It's far more uncertain." ~4th Lieutenant Archie Kennedy
  48. "Each of us can find a maggot in our past which will happily devour our futures." ~Horatio Hornblower
  49. "I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant " ~Major Edrington
  50. "You see? Better already." ~The last words of...one of the characters in the Horatio Hornblower series
  51. "My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon." ~Greg Giraldo
  52. "I actually dieted [for Reign of Fire], because I can't imagine Quinn as being pretty [big], because I thought they are going through a food shortage, these people are probably going to be scrawny. I arrived in Ireland, though, and I saw Matthew [as] Van Zan. And I just looked at him and just went, 'Holy sh--!' You know a whole dynamic of this movie is the two of us clashing and us both being leaders and sort of control freaks. And I have to really look like I can be psychologically and physically a challenge to his character. And he was in such incredible shape. I kind of desperately worked out for a couple of weeks, to try and look like I could, you know, face off against him." ~Christian Bale
  53. "A Welsh dictionary, so the language doesn't die out, a Welsh flag, and myself - I presume this is a time capsule that will preserve me?" ~Ioan Gruffudd when asked what three things he would put in a time capsule
  54. "Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read." ~Samuel West
  55. "What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'" ~Samuel West (his parents are Prunella Scales and Timothy West)
  56. "I'm not an English guy." ~Duckie
  57. "When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up." ~Christian Bale
  58. "There is no cure for a bullet in the brain. It is very fatal." ~Willa Weston
  59. "I find Hollywood really toxic." ~Rachel Weisz
  60. "Eew, I wouldn't kiss a monkey! They don't brush their teeth!" ~Mi abuela
  61. "If people would just leave me alone, I would not have to complain." ~Mi otra abuela
  62. "Don't pith your panth." ~Mi mama
  63. "Making fun of puny states since 1845." ~A beer ad in Texas
  64. "Road unsafe when under water." ~Road sign in Benton, Arkansas
  65. "I wanna give him a big hug...but then he'd probably marry me." ~Duckie on Eric Idle
  66. "No, 'cause then I'd wind up killing us...as well as doing it illegally." ~Duckie when asked if she would like to drive a week before her 15th birthday
  67. "If you get thrown off a horse, you have to get back up and shoot it, right?" ~Quinn Morgendorffer
  68. "Hark! I hear the cry of the hungry, luckless crybabies!" ~Pitstain
  69. "Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar." ~Rod Serling
  70. "I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. . . My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger." ~Ioan Gruffudd
  71. "Yeah, I was lucky because I didn't have to spend hours in freezing water." ~Ioan Gruffudd on Titanic
  72. "The [bottoms] on the trousers aren't very tight. They're very loose and baggy, and I like tight trousers. And the shoes - the shoes have got a bit of a heel, and it's a strange sensation for a man. Especially when you're running. [He mimes a mincing trot.] 'I am mighty Hornblower! Watch me run like a girl!'" ~Ioan Gruffudd
  73. "It's not hard to stand out when the general level of competence is so low." ~The EMH
  74. "You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!" ~Jon Stewart
  75. "Nasty place, Uberwald. I heard where it's a mystery wrapped in an enema." ~Sergeant Fred Colon
  76. "You're humming, Sam. That means that something awful is going to happen to somebody." ~Duchess Sybil Vimes
  77. "There is a saying: It won't get better if you picket." ~Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
  78. "Lieutenants tend to travel in packs." ~Duckie while watching…you guessed it…Horatio Hornblower "Mutiny"
  79. "The world is in danger! We're saved!" ~Tanya
  80. "I'm Queen Elizabeth. It's fun." ~Tameika
  81. "I've never really liked the Yanks…you can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football." ~Madame Tracy
  82. "When guests are expected aboard the Enterprise, many modifications are made. Of course, many of the houseguests (shipguests?) aboard the Enterprise are aliens. Without some modifications in life-support systems, the visitors would die. And as any competent host will tell you, the death of your visitors is bad form." ~Dave Marinaccio, All I Really Needed to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek
  83. "Have you ever watched the firefighting competitions on television? Firemen from all over America compete in events like the ladder climb or the hose hookup. Obviously, these are the best, most physically fit firemen from their towns. Ever wonder who is left behind in the fire station to protect the citizenry? I'm just waiting for a town to burn down while its firefighters win the competition as the nation's best. It's just dumb enough to happen." ~Dave Marinaccio, All I Really Needed to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek
  84. "I read once that a hunter shot a cow because he mistook it for a squirrel. This is our species I'm talking about." ~Dave Marinaccio, All I Really Needed to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek
  85. "I'm not asking anyone to actually shave a duck." ~My band director
  86. "Piccolo players don't go deaf from playing the piccolo. They go deaf from people yelling at them, telling them to stop!" ~Meg Gasque
  87. "I have decided that, in all future advertising, I shall be billed as a performer on the 'gold metal aerophon, in which audio oscillations are produced by controlled, exhaled, breath and which is fitted with a digitally controlled frequency selecting apparatus.' It sounds so much more important than just 'Flute Player'." ~Glen Ross
  88. "Music is the mushroom on the dunghill of life." ~Anonymous
  89. "A meerkat is regarded as the prairie dog of the southern African plains. It is known for its wonderful disposition and its ability to perform elaborate musical numbers on the Serengeti." ~Nathan Lane
  90. "It's in our nature." ~Captain Jonathan Archer when asked if all humans are stupid
  91. "I don't believe it. I've been ippy-dippied to death." ~Arnold Judas Rimmer
  92. "Surely even humans wouldn't make a book about Ratty Rupert the Rat, who wore a hat, and poison rats under the floorboards at the same time. Would they? How mad would anything have to be to think like that?" ~Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
  93. "Actually, I was just being flippant. But I can do sarcastic if you like." ~Maurice
  94. "I may be stupid-looking, but I'm not stupid. I have time to think about things because I don't keep on talking all the time. I look at things. I listen. I try to learn." ~Keith, aka The Stupid-Looking Kid
  95. "What good was a cat with a conscience? A cat with a conscience was a…a hamster, or something." ~Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
  96. "If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story....You're just a face in someone else's background." ~Malicia
  97. YOU CAN'T LOSE MORE THAN ONE LIFE AT A TIME, EVEN IF YOU'RE A CAT. ~Death
  98. "The crowd looked doubtful. They hadn't read as many stories as Malicia, and they were rather more attached to the experience of real life, which is that when someone small and righteous takes on someone big and nasty, he is grilled bread product, every time." ~Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
  99. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too." ~Darktan
  100. "When in doubt, trill." ~John Phillip Sousa to piccolos

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