The Coolest Quote Thread

[K Man]

Alright, I figured with all this talk of iconic characters, comics and crap lately, I would start a thread of good quotes. Post whatever you can remember from whatever comic, movie, book etc. Try to post the character(s) involved in the quote, the source and perhaps why you think it's so cool.

I've got a few that I like.
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"You've only got five minutes."
"In five minutes I'll tear that whole goddamn building apart..."

- Trinity in response to Link, Matrix:Reloaded.

Awesome because you knew Trinity was a bad-ass hottie in latex...but someone finally said it. ;D
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"There goes our last hope..."
"No, there is another..."

- Yoda in response to Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

Awesome because the directing of the scene was so well done that you really were filled with a senss of hope that this wasn't the end.
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"I'll swallow your soul...I'll swallow your soul..."
"Swallow this."

- Bruce Campbell as 'Ash' in Evil Dead 2 (I think)

Awesome because it's the coolest zombie movie EVER and who didn't want to put an end to that sqealing voice...with a 12 guage.
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"A man might be thought wealthy if someone were to draw the story of his deeds, that he may be remembered. "

- Buliwyf, The 13th Warrior

Awesome because it's what really inspired me to write so much. That one line holds more truth for me than most religions.
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"The Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing. "

- Herger the Joyous, The 13th Warrior.

Awesome because again, it's true.
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"I am the C.L.I.T. Commander!!!"

- Jay, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Awesome because who doesn't want to be?
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"I'm always open, even on Christmas."

- Lucifer, The Prophecy

Awesome because the idea of man caught between a war of heaven and hell on Earth is intriguing, then you toss in the idea the Hell is the only one benefitting...
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"I'm an angel. I kill newborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. And occasionally, when I feel like it, I tear little girls apart. And from now till kingdom come... the only thing you can count on... in your existence... is never understanding why."

- Gabriel, The Prophecy.

Awesome because it's just cool to watch Christopher Walken rattle this off in his usual demeanor.
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"You would fight me?"
"Why not? Do you think I am afraid?"
"I think you've been afraid all your life. "

- Maximus to Commodus, The Gladiator.

Awesome because there used to be this RPG called HoL and each character had 'Nutz' rating, which equated to how much balls a PC had. Maximus had like a 100+ 'Nutz' rating.
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Olly: "You know you've tried the bug sprays, you left small poisonous cupcakes out for them, you've called the exterminator and every wizard in the phone book, but despite your attempts, you just can't get rid of these darn elves! You know! I bet, you know, you're asking me, Precious Roy how can I get rid of these fucking elves? "
Sifl:" Dude! "
Olly:" Folks, you're not dealing with a cockroach or a rat here. You're dealing with a small irritable magical man. Armed to the teeth with a thousand deadly jigs and dance steps."
Sifl: "Oh you know the problems I've been having dancing with elves.
Olly: "Sifl, You've had a lot of serious ass dirty dancing with elves problems! Folks, there's always vacancies at the Precious Roy Elf Hotel. Elves check in but they don't check out, YOU DIG MOTHER! You know, I know what you're thinking Sifl, you're thinking "How does it work?"
Sifl: "No, actually I was thinking about Jaquiline Smith. "
Olly: "Exactly! Everyone knows that an elf can't resist a hooker in a Hotel room! "
Sifl: "What? "
Olly:" It's a simple equation folks. Prostitution, divided by Hotels, equals dead Elves. How does it work? The elves are attracted to the sign outside. "Hookers! I can't wait to get the hookers!" They go in, hop in the sack and they try to do the horizontal jig in super glue for the last time! Those... Little... Bastards... Will... Pay... let's take, some calls! "

- Sifl and Olly, The Sifl and Olly Show.

Awesome because 1) I wished it would work on Legolas, and 2) because this show produces the funniest skit comedy...EVER.
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Olly:" Do you know the language of love? "
Chester:" Yeah, it's like... "
Olly:" How's it go? "
Chester:" Sure, "Hey fruity lips... come on, come on home with me sugar butt."
Olly:" Sugar Butt? "
Chester:" Yeah. "
Olly:" You called a girl "Sugar Butt"? "
Chester:" Yeah, and I keep cereal in my pocket, to feed them. "

- Olly interviewing Chester, The Sifl and Olly Show.

Awesome because again, I wished it worked on Legolas chicks, and it's still the funniest skit comedy show ever...in case you forgot since the above quote.
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"It's not fair!!"
"You say that so often...I wonder what your basis for comparison is."

- Jareth to Sarah, The Labrynth.

Awesome because it points how much us, in the audience, would like to slap the whiny ass main character that bitches throughout the whole movie, complaining how unfair it is. How often do you get stuck in a moving maze headed by a Goblin King? ...That's what I thought.
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Add your own!!

[Toptomcat]

"Death is but a window. Time is but a door. I'll be back."
-Don't remember, but damn cool!

"Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed."
-Sir Winston Churchill...just quintessential British-bravery quote there.

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
-Did I mention that I like Churchill?

"Stop trying to hit me and hit me!"
-Morpheus

"So, what do you need, besides a miracle?
Guns. Lots of guns."
-Neo

[Xariach]

"Shop smart, shop S-Mart", Ash, Evil Dead 3, right before he pumps the hell out of pump-action shotgun.

This scene shows that Ash is a real kick-ass dude.

This is all I've got of the top of my head, more to come.

[Merovingian]

Two of my favorites:

“Imagination is more important than Knowledge.”

“Brilliance is met by violent opposition by those with inferior minds”

Both Albert Einstein.

[Wizard]

This a LONG one, but a GOOD one:


"He dreamed, as human beings always dream---random firings of memory and imagination that the unconscious mind tries to put together into coherent stories. Bean rarely paid attention to his own dreams, rarely even remembered that he dreamed at all. But this morning he awoke with a clear image in his mind.

Ants, swarming from a crack in the sidewalk. Little black ants. And larger red ants, doing battle with them, destroying them. All of them scurrying. None of them looking up to see the human shoe coming down to stamp the life out of them.

When the shoe came back up, what was crushed under it was not ant bodies at all. They were the bodies of children, the urchins from the streets of Rotterdam. All of Achilles' family. Bean himself---he recoginized his own face, rising above his flattened body, peering around for one last glimpse at the world before death.

Above him loomed the shoe that killed him. But now it was worn on the end of a bugger's leg, and the bugger laughed and laughed.

Bean remembered the laughing bugger when he awoke, and remembered the sight of all those children crushed flat, of his own body mashed like gum under a shoe. The meaning was obvious: While we children play at war, the buggers are coming to crush us. We must look above the level of our private struggles and keep in mind the greater enemy.

Execept that Bean rejected that interpretation of his own dream the moment he thought o it. Dreams have no meaning at all, he reminded himself. And even if they do mean something, it's a meaning that reveals what I fell, what I fear, not some deep abiding truth. So the buggers are coming. So they might crush us all like ants under their feet. What's that to me? My business right now is to keep Bean alive, to advance myself to a position where I might be useful in the war against the buggers. There's nothing I can do to stop them right now.

Here's the lesson Bean took from his own dream: Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants.

Be the shoe."


---Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
The philosophy for every single thing involving competition.






"First lesson? No wonder they used this guy to tend children on the shuttle flights instead of having him teach. If you followed that little piece of wisdom, you'd be paralyzed against a vigorous enemy. Sometimes you have to commit to a fight even when you're weak. You don't wait till you know you're tougher. You make yourself tougher by whatever means you can, and then you strike by surprise, you sneak up, you backstab, you blindside, you cheat, you lie, you do whatever it takes to make sure that you come out on top."

Ditto
I love it because it's just full of ideas for any plot you have in mind. Need subterfuge? Check this little "bag of tricks" quote, and you're OK!



"Because here's the thing---we don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to the enemy and outnumber the other bastard every chance they get. Your kind of murder only works among civilians."

Ditto
Paraphrase: In war in RL, be CN.





"Any teacher who comes here will know exactly what you are, and there'll be about six marines to keep you subdued and sedated because, Achilles, they don't play around here."

Ditto

Become good enough at whatever you do so that when the time comes that you need to get something done, you don't have to "play around."

[Merovingian]

My dad just sent me this one:

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming,
WOW! What A Ride!

[WongFei]

Oo oo I got one!
I don't remember from where, but umm I thought it was cool!
"Some people pary for miracles, but heroes search for them."
It's true when you think about it.

[Wrolf]

All Righty now! Let's lower the class level.

"Alright Brain, you don't like me and I don't like you. But lets just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer."

"I hope I didn't brain my damage"

-- Homer J Simpson

[K Man]

In accordance with the lowered class level by Wrolf...

Ralph Wiggum - " Daddy? Why aren't you at work?"
Clancy Wiggum - "I don't know, why aren't you at school?"
Ralph Wiggum - "My teacher says she's tired of trying..."

{Ralph Wiggum, my personal hero.}

Even better...

Moe (To Bart and Ralph) - "Alright, now you two duel to the death...but uh...Ralphy gets a free practice stab."
Ralph Wiggum - "Hooray"
(Followed promptly by Ralph stabbing himself in the chest with a sword and dying quickly.)

Zap Brannigan in response to how he defeated the Kill-Bots - "I just threw wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their kill limits and shut down."