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"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?"

"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"

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

"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."

"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..."
Spartacus
"I can't swim
Well hell the fall well probably kill you"
"I can't swim
Well hell the fall well probably kill you"
Ned Stark- Game of Thrones
"Do you know where you are? You're in the jungle baby, you're gonna die!"
"Do you know where you are? You're in the jungle baby, you're gonna die!"

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

"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!"

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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!"

"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.”

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."

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

"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."

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

"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."
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."
"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."

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

“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.”

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

"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."

"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.”

"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."

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