B5 Best Lines, Revisited!
Last time, I was largely going from memory when it came to the best lines from this vaunted series. However, I seemed to recall a few after posting, and with the help with Wikiquote, I found many, many more. Damn, that's a good program! Very… thorough! In any event, I decided to drag the list for any half-remembered quotations or ones I might have missed and will be putting them together over the next few days. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!
Season One:
Vance: Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. They'd like a word with you about the common cold.
Stephen Franklin: Tell them to make an appointment
Londo: (to Delenn) Have I ever told you that you are very cute for a Minbari? (to Garibaldi) Oh! And you are cute, too, in an annoying sort of way. Everybody's cute. Everybody's cute! Even me. But in purple, I'm stunning! (Passes out.)
Vir Cotto: Ah! He has become one with his inner self!
Garibaldi: He's passed out.
Vir: That too.
Sinclair: You forgot the first rule of the fanatic: when you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy!
Talia Winters: Casual thoughts are very easy to block, but strong emotions have a way of slipping through sometimes, whether you want them to or not. (sense Garibaldi's thoughts, elbows him)
Michael Garibaldi: Ooh! I think I'm in love.
G'Kar: Let me pass on to you the one thing I've learned about this place. No one here is exactly what he appears.
G'Kar: Narns, Humans, Centauri, we all do what we do for the same reason: because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
G'Kar: (picks up an ant) I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again and it asks another ant, "What was that?" …how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless. And if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants… and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried. And we've learned we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on.
Kosh: Understanding is a three-edged sword.
Kosh: Ahh. You seek meaning… Then listen to the music, not the song.
Jha'dur: You and the rest of your kind take blind comfort in the belief that we are monsters, that you could never do what we did. The key ingredient in the anti-agapic cannot be synthesized. It must be taken from living beings. For one to live forever, another one must die. You will fall upon one another like wolves. It will make what we did pale by comparison. The billions who live forever will be a testimony to my work. And the billions who are murdered to buy that immortality will be the continuance of my work. Not like us? You will become us.
Jeffrey Sinclair: Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do, and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice.
Sinclair: But life has to be more than just a pulse-beat. What we hold sacred gives our lives meaning.
Londo: The next day, I woke up, I saw her in the light of day, sleeping against my arm, and I decided I would rather chew off my arm than wake her up.
Garibaldi: Aw, that's sweet.
Londo: No, no! She had a voice that could curdle fresh milk.
Londo: Exactly my point! Here–six thousand years of recorded history, a history that includes remarkable composers, astonishing symphonies! But what is the one song that half of them sing to their children generation after generation? (sings the hokey-pokey) It doesn't mean anything! I have been studying it for seven days! I had the computer analyze it! I swear to you, it does not mean a thing!
Delenn: The third principle of sentient life is its capacity for self-sacrifice, for a cause, aloved one, for a friend.
Sinclair: I'm still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen.
Londo: Yes. And I'm prepared to give you one, Commander, as soon as the room stops spinning.
Sinclair: This station creates gravity by rotation. It never stops spinning.
Londo: Well, you begin to see my problem.
Sinclair: Nothing's the same anymore.
That's season one down. To be merciful, and save my eyeballs from radiation burn, I think I'll post them by the season from now on. Tune in tomorrow for the nuggats from season two!
