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message 101: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Lou Reed

"A boy's best friend is his mother."


message 102: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Norman Bates, Psycho

"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 a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?"


message 103: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Oooh - Hannibal Lector, The Silence of the Lambs

"I just think I'm gonna barf."


message 104: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Marge Gunderson, Fargo

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan"


message 105: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments FDR

"If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone."


message 106: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Michael Corleone, The Godfather II :)

"Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's sample, it would be a Twinkie... thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds."


message 107: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Haha - Dr. Spengler, Ghostbusters

"Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...an athlete...and a basket case...a princess...and a criminal..."


message 108: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Brian Johnson, "The Breakfast Club"

"I am Spartacus!"


message 109: by [deleted user] (new)

Spartacus
"I can't swim
Well hell the fall well probably kill you"


message 110: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

"Winter is coming."


message 111: by [deleted user] (new)

Ned Stark- Game of Thrones

"Do you know where you are? You're in the jungle baby, you're gonna die!"


message 112: by Rebecca (new)

Rebecca | 40 comments Woody Allen

"Close? If you put the two of them together in a tank with a shark, the shark would have an identity crisis."


message 113: by Leigh (new)

Leigh | 6291 comments The Mirror Crack'd

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."


message 114: by VickiLee (new)

VickiLee | 251 comments Madonna

"Underneath all this drag I'm really a librarian, you know?"


message 115: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Bette Midler

"I just don't like the idea of my son spending all this time with a man who carries a gun and goes around whacking people!"


message 116: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Rachel Lapp, "Witness"

"Mr. Neary, please, one more question. Have you recently had a close encounter... A close encounter with something very unusual?"


message 117: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Close Encounters of the Third Kind

"Hey, don't tell me how to lie about my drinking, okay? I know how to lie about my drinking. I've been lying about my drinking my whole life."


message 118: by Leigh (new)

Leigh | 6291 comments Movie Flight

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."


message 119: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Bill Clinton

"Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble..."


message 120: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments The three witches in Macbeth.

"Frau Bleucher" (whinny)


message 121: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Young Frankenstein (love it!)

The mechanism is... Oh James, James... Will you make love to me all the time in England?


message 122: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Tatiana in From Russia with Love

"We killed a man, Drew. Shot him in the back. A mountain man. A cracker."


message 123: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Deliverance.

"Though much is taken, much abides, and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are... One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."


message 124: by Leigh (new)

Leigh | 6291 comments Tennyson

"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing."


message 125: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Nellie Bly

"The foulest stench is in the air,
the funk of fourty thousand years,
and grizzly ghosts from every tomb
are closing in to seal your doom.
And though you fight to stay alive,
your body starts to shiver...
For no mere mortal can resist,
THE EVIL OF THE THRILLER!"


message 126: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Thriller, read by Vincent Price.

"I think this boy's cheese has done slid off his cracker."


message 127: by Rebecca (new)

Rebecca | 40 comments The Green Mile

"Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”


message 128: by Leigh (new)

Leigh | 6291 comments C.S. Lewis?

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."


message 129: by Rebecca (last edited Oct 31, 2013 09:03PM) (new)

Rebecca | 40 comments Yes. The Screwtape Letters.

Salman Rushdie

"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound — if I can remember any of the damn things."


message 130: by Leigh (new)

Leigh | 6291 comments Dorothy Parker

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."


message 131: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Mahatma Ghandi

"Dull November brings the blast,
then the leaves are whirling fast"


message 132: by Leigh (new)

Leigh | 6291 comments Sara Coleridge

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."


message 133: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Abraham Lincoln

"How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?"
"We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers."


message 134: by Leigh (new)

Leigh | 6291 comments Water For Elephants, Sara Gruen

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."


message 135: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Winston Churchill

"We're gonna give you a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging."


message 136: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Sheriff Cobb to prisoner Mal in the film Silverado

"Decide you must, how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered."


message 137: by [deleted user] (new)

Yoda from Star Wars (guessing here though)

"You turn me into a llama and then you kidnapped me"
"Why would I kidnap a llama?"
I don't know you're the criminal master mind not me."


message 138: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Kuczo and Pacha in The Emperor's New Groove.

"May the odds be ever in your favour."


message 139: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Effit Trinket: The Hunger Games

"You may know the right wines, but you're the one on your knees. How does it feel old man?"


message 140: by Rebecca (last edited Nov 09, 2013 05:27PM) (new)

Rebecca | 40 comments From Russia with Love


“I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.”


message 141: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Sharon Kay Penman, The Reckoning

"Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?"


message 142: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

"We are the dead. Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields."


message 143: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments John McCrae

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."


message 144: by Leigh (new)

Leigh | 6291 comments Persuasion


“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”


message 145: by Richard (last edited Nov 12, 2013 05:59AM) (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

"There was a young man of Quebec
Who was buried in snow to his neck.
When asked, “Are you friz?”
He replied, “Yes. I iz.
“But we don’t call this cold in Quebec.”


message 146: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments Rudyard Kipling

"The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for existence had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight."


message 147: by Lorraine (last edited Nov 14, 2013 11:21AM) (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) | 3645 comments 2001, a Space Odyssey

"I do not use crack cocaine nor am I an addict of crack cocaine."


message 148: by Leigh (new)

Leigh | 6291 comments LOL. Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."


message 149: by Richard (new)

Richard (richardcjennings) Oscar Wilde.

"I’m happily married. I have more than enough to eat at home, thank you very much."


message 150: by Samhazy (new)

Samhazy | 43 comments Mayor of Toronto in name only, Rob Ford.

When one person suffers from a delusion it's called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.


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