(In a slow Southern drawl): "What we have here is a failure to communicate."
(In a slow Southern drawl): "What we have here is a failure to communicate."
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
ThriveToScribe (January 22nd, 2014)
"Excuse me sir, but that R2-D2 is in prime condition, a real bargain."
Kai
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." -- Lao Tzu
KrazyIvan (January 3rd, 2014)
On a Saturday Night Live routine, the original actor (Strother Martin) says, "What we have here is a failure to communicate bilingually. Le chat es petite! HOW BIG IS THE CAT?"
That lives for me as one of the great spoof lines of all time.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/79/79qcamp.phtml
i'm the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
kaisnowbird (January 6th, 2014)
Everybody knows you never go full retard.
Kai
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." -- Lao Tzu
85AKbN (January 6th, 2014)
"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy" - Lord John Whorfin in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
sinistral hypergraphica - a slurry of ink
"Nothing means less than zero"
Jon Szanto (February 10th, 2014)
speak english?
english? little. little. sie kommen zehn minuten zu spat. ten minutes too late. already gone.
who?
his friends. and, er, coffin.
coffin?
mr. lime's. accident. knocked over by a car. here, in front of the house. have seen it myself, killed at once, immediately. already in hell [points up], or heaven [points down]. i'm sorry for the grave diggers. hard work in this frost.
A few from my current favorite movie (and one on my top 5 all time):
"You ever seen him when his game is on?"
"He doesn't know what to do!"
"Patti, the moose is okay. He ran off. I saw it."
"It's Friday, Smokey, you ain't got shit to do."
"I gotsta know."
(Yeah, yeah, the first part's important, too, but I'm always quoting the punk.)
85AKbN (January 7th, 2014)
"A man's got to know his limitations."
85AKbN (January 7th, 2014)
"He needed killin'!"
(TV series, not a movie. Pretty sure.)
85AKbN (January 7th, 2014)
Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them.
Henry: Oh yeah?
Wanda: Do you hate them?
Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.
(I remembered that he said this about cops. Anyway, I'm always paraphrasing to say this about such things as spider: "I seem to feel better when they're not around.")
Sheriff Dan Shaw: [after the Stranger blows up the hotel and shoots four men] What the hell happened?
The Stranger: Somebody left the door open and the wrong dogs came home.
ethernautrix (January 7th, 2014)
"Please. Accept the mystery."
85AKbN (January 7th, 2014)
Okay, okay, here's the entire bit of dialogue. I loved it when I watched the movie a coupla, few years ago, and I am delighted that this thread triggered the memory of it.
Clive's Father: Culture clash. Culture clash.
Larry Gopnik: With all respect, Mr. Park, I don't think it's that.
Clive's Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: No. It would be a culture clash if it were the custom in your land to bribe people for grades.
Clive's Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: So... you're saying it is the custom?
Clive's Father: No, this is a defamation. Grounds for lawsuit.
Larry Gopnik: Let me get this straight: you're threatening to sue me for defaming your son?
Clive's Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: But it would...
Mr. Brandt: Is this man bothering you?
Larry Gopnik: Is he bothering me? No. I, uh...
[Larry stares awkwardly at Brandt until he leaves]
Larry Gopnik: See... if it were defamation there would have to be someone I was defaming him to, or I... all right, I... let's keep it simple. I could pretend the money never appeared. That's not defaming anyone.
Clive's Father: Yes. And a passing grade.
Larry Gopnik: Passing grade.
Clive's Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: Or... you'll sue me.
Clive's Father: For taking money.
Larry Gopnik: So he *did* leave the money.
Clive's Father: This is defamation!
Larry Gopnik: It doesn't make sense. Either he left the money or he didn't.
Clive's Father: Please. Accept the mystery.
Larry Gopnik: You can't have it both ways!
Clive's Father: Why not?
From A Serious Man.
85AKbN (January 7th, 2014)
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