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Who is Bette Davis?"If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on."
Lance Armstrong"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
Mark Twain“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
Sir Isaac Newton"I'm not going to debate you, Jerry. I'm not going to sit here and debate."
Carl Showalter (Fargo)"I'll be back."
Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator."What we've got here is failure to communicate."
Janessa wrote: "The Beatles"Don't let ask for the moon we have the stars""
Now Voyager. Bette Davis was a great actress throughout the thirties, forties etc. I think she won an Oscar for Jezebel.
"He's grown greedier over the years. Before he only wanted my money; now he wants my love as well. Well, he came to the wrong house - and he came twice. I shall see that he does not come a third time."
Leigh wrote, "What we've got here is a failure to communicate"Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke"
Rebecca wrote "He's grown greedier over the years. Before he only wanted my money; now he wants my love as well. Well, he came to the wrong house - and he came twice. I shall see that he does not come a third time."
Olivia de Havilland in "The Heiress"
"Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
2001: A Space Odyssey"Reader, I married him."
Jane Eyre"There is an old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China."
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them."
Fanny Dashwood--Sense and SensibilityFiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself.
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game"What you talkin' bout Willis?"
Different Strokes, Arnold"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
Bill Cosby"The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming."
Alice Munro, "Runaway"."Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia."
Kid, in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid""Little Nelly got a hot reception. Four big shots made improper advances toward her, but she defended her honor with great success."
You only live twice, Bond"I am big! It's the pictures that got small."
Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard"We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning, I'm making waffles!"
Shrek“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vince Lombardi"Nothing ever changes, except man. Your technical accomplishments? Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold. I am such a man."
Khan-Star Trek“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
V is for Vendetta - Alan Moore"Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for... your sister. So, you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the Dark Side... then perhaps she will... "
Darth Vader - Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back (?)"We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life."
C3PO :) Star Wars"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Yoda to Anakin Skywalker."You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."
Princess Leia to Han (and Luke) talking about the Millenium Falcon! "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
Princess Leia from Stars Wars
"A boy's best friend is his mother"
"A boy's best friend is his mother"
Norman Bates in Psycho“Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.”
Sen Lloyd Bensten"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin FranklinIf we are alone in the universe then I'd have to say that the universe aimed very low and settled for very little.
George Carlin. God he was awesome. If he were alive right he would be having a stroke at politics in this country."Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." (a favourite quote of mine)
Love it! Mark Twain"the lunatic is on the grass ...
the lunatic is on the grass ...
remembering days, and daisy chains and laughs ..
got to keep the loonies on the path ..."
Pink Floyd, Brain Damage song"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
H.G. Wells"Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most."
Mark Twain"As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch."
The House of Mirth, Edith WhartonSong lyric: "Saturday night I went downtown, working for the FBI"
Er is it 'Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress?' by the Hollies?"If you ever call me sister again I'll have you strangled in your sleep."
Cersei, game of Thrones"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde"Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day."
The Godfather - Vito Corleone"You've done it, Neville! You've found the Room of Requirement!"
Nevil Longbottom--Harry Potter"The differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
Star Wars, spoken by Darth Vader."Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde"I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you."
Charles MansonOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein"The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph."
Napoleon"Take a walk on the wild side..."
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