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Bartlett, line from The Great Escape."Blood. Sometimes it sets my teeth on edge, other times it helps me control the chaos."
Sergeant Doakes in "Dexter" :-)Your job is to craft my doom, so I am not sure how well I should wish you. But I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun. Ta-ta, "H."
Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal“There is no client as scary as an innocent man.”
J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney in The Lincoln Lawyer“Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.”
Ian Fleming"If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you."
Peter Pan - JM Barrie“There are worse forms of prostitution than whoring."
John Rebus, "" by Ian RankinStrip Jack“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.”
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover"Violent death demanded Earl Grey."
Louise Penny, "Still Life""I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", T.S. Eliot.“Of all the cowards who eat my bread, is there not one who will free me from this turbulent priest?”
Henry II, talking about Thomas a Becket."There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."
Who is Pierre Elliot Trudeau? "You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how!"
Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind""I am Groot"
"You had me at hello!" "Jerry Maguire"
Leslie wrote: "Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind""I am Groot""
Guardians of the Galaxy
"First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?"
Good Ole Hannibal Lechter in Silence of the Lambs"I don't think he knows about second breakfast Pip."
Merry to Pippin - Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring"I believe in the single-bullet theory. You can fall in love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side."
Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch"My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done. Such as, drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs."
Goldfinger (the film)"Watch the skies."
The Thing From Another World"We have a Spanish porter at the moment, he's from Barcelona. It'd be quicker to train an *ape*!"
Fawlty Towers"Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat... college."
Woody Allen"My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I’d scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus – that way, I’d visit him every day.”
Joan Rivers"Are you Master of your Domain?"
"I am King of the County. You?"
"Lord of the Manor."
"I'm Queen of the castle!"
Seinfeld"Kid, the next time I say, “Let's go
someplace like Bolivia,” let's go someplace
like Bolivia."
Butch Cassidy to the Sundance Kid"We're gonna give you a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging."
Sheriff Cobb in "Silverado""This is a 44. Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world. It can blow your head clean off. You've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky?"
Dirty Harry
"We accept the love we think we deserve"
"We accept the love we think we deserve"
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower"He slimed me."
What is "Ghostbusters" (great movie)"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
George S. Patton"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed"
Francis Bacon"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy."
Guy Fawkes"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company".
Mark Twain"When the lights go down in the city,
and the sun shines on the bay ..."
Journey "Lights""Well, my friend, I'm not going to beat around the bush. I'm simply not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. Which leaves me no choice, but to raise your salary!"
Ebenezer to Bob Cratchit in "A Christmas Carol"."I'll make you famous."
Billy in "Young Guns 2""I'm gonna give you a little advice Claire. Scrape 'em off. You wanna save somebody? Save yourself."
Frank Cross in "Scrogged"."God bless us every one."
Tiny Tim in "A Christmas Carol""Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"
Chevy Chase in "Christmas Vacation""We're your worst nightmare. Elves with attitude."
The Santa Clause."Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable."
William Shakespeare"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
Albert Einstein"Almost at the moment He died, I heard Him say, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Judah Ben-hur"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Dorothy Parker“Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!”
Hermione Granger, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"You are a very fine fellow, Mr Baggins, and I am very fond of you. But you are really just a little fellow, in a wide world."
Gandalf, to Bilbo Baggins, in "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies""The first shot won't kill you, nor the second, not even the third — not until you crawl over here and kiss my foot!"
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"Look, sir, you talk about the High Command and the Luftwaffe, and then you talk about the Gestapo and the SS. To me, they're the same! We're fighting the bloody lot! There's only one way to put it, sir: they are the common enemies of everyone who believes in freedom."