Topic awaiting preservation: Name That Quote

OK, here's the rules of the game. I'll give you a few lines from a play, or poem, or something, and then you try and name the poem or play and who wrote it. The first one ot get it right puts down the next line, and so on.

OK...so here we go:

"There was movement at the station
For the word had passed around;
That the colt from Old Regret had got away
And had joined the wild bush horses, he was worth a thousand pounds;
So all the cracks had gathered to the fray."

"The Man from Snowy River" - Banjo Paterson

I'll go with an easy one, just to keep things rolling, and because I always loved this line:

"She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went."

Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible

OK, this took a lot longer than it should have... It's kinda hard to find something that's not incredibly obvious, but not so obscure that only a half-dozen people know it...

Anyways, here goes:
Billy: [Gene is loading a machine gun] Excuse me, is that an Uzi?
Gene: (glances at Babo & Billy) You know, that would make a great TV commercial? 'Excuse me, is that an Uzi?' 'Why, yes it is. Hey, self-defense is no laughing matter! That's why when I want number one, I pack an Uzi...accept no substitutes.'


-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --

Air America....


"I don't want FOP god damnit! I'm a Dapper Dan man!"

OOOO I know!!! That is O' Brother Where Art Thou

OK lets see . . .

"What's going on with those sausages Charlie?"
"5 minutes Turkish."
"It was 2 minutes, 5 minutes ago???"

Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

Snatch

"The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed...."

Stephen King, the Gunslinger

"Son, you've got a panty on yor hay-ed"

Jason

Ahhh, thats on of my favorite movies...Raising Arizona.

"(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

TS Eliot!! The Wasteland/burial of the dead

EVERY ONE HAS HEARD people quarreling. Sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes it sounds merely unpleasant; but however it sounds, I believe we can learn something very important from listening to the kinds of things they say. They say things like this: "How?d you like it if anyone did the same to you?"--?That?s my seat, I was there first"--"Leave him alone, he isn?t doing you any harm"--"Why should you shove in first?"--"Give me a bit of your orange, I gave you a bit of mine"--"Come on, you promised." People say things like that every day, educated people as well as uneducated, and children as well as grown-ups.

Now what interests me about all these remarks is that the man who makes them is not merely saying that the other man?s behavior does not happen to please him. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which he expects the other man to know about. And the other man very seldom replies: "To hell with your standard."


Jason

edit: oops! left title out, that's against the rules =)

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Mere Christianity - C.S Lewis

"Call you me daughter? Now I promise you
You have show'd me a tender fatherly regard,
To wish me wed to a one half-lunatic;
A mad-cap ruffian, and a swearing Jack,
That thinks with oaths to see the matter out"

The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare, Act II

"There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit."

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ ult'a Fedaro.

Shawshank redemption

"Can I see the storage facility?"
"No"
"Why not?"
"Because you did not us the magic word."

(free from memory, so I might be a tad off)

Ghostbusters.

"I like Cheesypoofs!"

South Park

"That cross you wear around your neck. Is it only a decoration, or are you a true, Christian believer?"
"Yes, I believe, truly."
"Then I want you to remove it at once. You are never to wear it within this castle again! Do you know how a falcon is trained, my dear? Her eyes are sewn shut. Blinded temporarily, she suffers the whims of her god patiently, until her will is submerged and she learns to serve. Has your god totally blinded you with crosses?"

'And When He Falleth' - Theatre of Tradgedy

'Broad Horizon as I walk from your embrace.
What I feel is nothing; but the taste of you,
I get buried in your mouth.
I fall in, I don't care if I can't climb out'

whitlams - fall for you.

And the sands of the ocean are the prophets in the eye.
Of the sage who has chosen to forfeit all he knows

'The Majestic Song' - The Tea Party

'Finally, someone let meoutta my cage,
Now, time for me is nothing cause I'm counting no age.
Nah I couldn't be this.
Nah you shouldn't be scared,
I'm good at repairs
And I'm under each snare.'

"Clint Eastwood" - Gorillaz

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Funnily enough, I found this while looking through my old schoolbooks the other day. I just finished rereading it yesterday.

Okay, here goes:

He took his Vorpal Sword in hand,
long time the manxome foe he sought.
So rested he by the tumtum tree,
and stood awhile in thought.

oooh! The Jabberwocky!

"The time has come, the ****** said, the speak of many things;
Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax;
Of cabbages and kins;
Of why the sea is boiling hot, or whether pigs have wings"

I put those astrices in becuase that word they represent just gives it away

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So far I knew 2 of these, I am just here at the wrong time heh.

Hehe, I like that one too, Skarjj. I'll let someone else try to get it.

Walrus and the Carpenter
Can't remember which book, though. Through the Looking Glass?

Damn. I need a few to come up with a quote. Be back soon.

"Oh don't talk of love" the shadows purr
Murmuring me away from you
"Don't talk of worlds that never were
The end is all that's ever true
There's nothing you can ever say
Nothing you can ever do... "


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Burn - Jason Perry

"Can this be true?
I don't believe what I see!
A man your age to be as strong as you are!

A mem'ry stirs.
You make me...think of a man.
From years ago
A man who broke his parole
He dissapeared."

nice work skaarj!

- are you googling, or just knowledgeable?

Well, I have googled one of them, but we studied that poem recently in a literature class I did.

Les Miserables (Sheesh...Easy)

"I will hold to my faithfulness to thee," said ____, "till my
death day."

(The name would give it away)

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I've read that. It's from a book whose title I can't remember. It's on ancient northern european lore and life-rules.

I don't know the book, but I know hte passage. It's from Njal's Saga.

BTW CFB: If you're going to say 'Sheesh....easy' to mine, try posting something challenging yourself.

and on we go

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'and Algar fleet-foot came forward and stretched for th his hand. And he too withdrew his hand and turned away'

<interlude>

sorry to interrupt. Nice workaround there, skaarjj.
The quote was sampled from a movie called "Masque of the red death" based on a book by AE Poe which was what I was shooting for.
But since ToT sampled it in their song, you still get yer cookie

</interlude>

-nimraw

[intermission]

Skaarj: Not a lot of people read that book, at least, not that I know of, of course, I'm just a Freshman, and I'm the only one in my class who reads books, pretty much, even though it's an honors class. Most of the class goes: I'll take the shortest book. Anyways, how common is the book, is it pretty common in colledge?

[/intermission]

I wouldn't know, I'm not there. It's pretty common when it's part of reading in a history class I took.

Really, I always thought of you as post Graduate, anyways, you've got me stumped on that quote. I've looked through some textbooks and can't find it and Google didn't turn up anything.

Ahhwell!

I just read it because it was interesting, and it looked interseting, and it was interesting...

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well CFB: I am post grad, so long as you're tlaking about high school. I haven't attended University...yet...


any more takers?

here's a hint:

it's from a fiction book

fantasy to be exact

quite famous.

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that wouldn't be from one of the LOTR books now, would it?
Just a guess... It's the most famous fantasy book I can think of...

Bodhi - Cell 617

nope, almost as famous though

Author's first name is david and surname starts with an E

I know that one, but I can't come up with another quote

Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

Oh wait I got one:

That is David Eddings' book The Isle of Winds

:new quote:
"Computers are useless, they can just give you answers"



Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

Pablo Picasso.

This quote might be tough

While I stand straight I'm right as rain
But when I bend over there's a stabbing pain

I'm getting the feeling that that quote is too tough.
How much longer should I wait to toss out another one?

Here's an easier one:

Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?
It's swell to have a stiffy.
It's divine to own a dick,
From the tiniest little tadger
To the world's biggest prick

Yes! That *is* easier!

Eric Idle from The Meaning of Life: The Autumn Years as the piano player.

Who said? "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

timing sucks

Albert Einstein!

Who said:

"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."

I believe that quote was from Plato, a Philosopher who was born in 427 BC and died in 347 BC.
Well, at least I think it was?

Well what about this one:

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life"

Charles Darwin, of course.

"It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die. None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here."

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ ult'a Fedaro.

Richard Nixon...

quote:

---

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

---

GrythusDraconis
Prince of Gold - Lord of Dragons

MC Hammer...err...Escher

"Quan Tzu is actually a chemical weapons plant masquerading as a fertiliser plant. We know this, the Chinese know that we know this, but we make believe that we don't know and the Chinese make believe that they believe that we don't know, but know that we know.

Everybody knows."

Oh gee, that's a hard one.

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ ult'a Fedaro.

It sounds like it's way a James bond movie, or something action-based like that.

No not James Bond... Jackie Chan... um... can't remember which one though... dang.

Bodhi - Cell 617

Super-Cop maybe? I can even picture the scene, and the intentionally bad dubbing of the sound/video....


-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --

Reminds me of just about every espionage book I've ever read... Can we get a clue as to what genre/media it's from?

GrythusDraconis
Prince of Gold - Lord of Dragons

Under Siege 2

"caw! caw! BANG! F*&^ - i'm dead!"

The Crow
the good one

back in a minute
here we go

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.


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Annabell Lee, by Edgar Allen Poe

How about this:

"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."

Ancient Greek saying. Euripides? Edipus Rex? Socrates?

Warjournal got it! It was Euripides, an ancient Greek philosepher (?)

Okay, then. I'll take it. Woo!

Here we go:

You told me once, dear
You really loved me
And no one else could come between
But now you've left me
And love another
You have shattered all my dreams;

The Crow is my favorite movie, I wish I could check this thread more often, fuck.

[Note: Euripides was a playwright...]

"You are my Sunshine" I did that song years ago

"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. "

That one made me think! Actually, I found it in an electronic back issue of PC Magazine, it's Gene Spafford, in 1992!

Here we go: "The son of a duck is a floater"

<.~ - - - - :!: - - - - ~.>

You are not special.
You are not a beautiful
or unique snowflake.
You are the same decaying
organic matter as everything else.

<.~ - - - - - - :!: - - - - - - ~.>

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Ahhh yes, Chuck Palahniuk...

Fight Club for those of you who only watch movies....

"My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room to jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble hell."

Krets: Sorry to confuse, but the quote in my sig wasn't the quote, it was the saying above it: The son of a duck is a floater.

And yes, Fight Club was great...One of those movies where I rented it not expecting much and ended up buying it.

I believe that is a Syrian proverb.

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ ult'a Fedaro.

Rameses' quote is from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

and since I don't know it and would like to hear the answer, I'll repeat Krets' quote:

"My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room to jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble hell."

(American Beauty perhaps?)

yeah, American Beauty.

Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

What kind of a quote is that?

Ah well, I'll have to do a new one.

"If it bleeds, we can kill it."

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ ult'a Fedaro.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said that right? (dunno in which movie though)

Anyway:
"Life is like a box of chocolate, you'll never know what you're gonna get."



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That one from the Arnie movie is Predator and the latest one is from good ol Forrest Gump
Here's the next one:

"Separate pictures which become one
picture in the spinning... Like the
truth which I must spin here... "

"You don't know how paralysing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter: you can't do a thing." - Vincent Van Gogh

The Beach?

*e* St*ik*r: I've got to concentrate... [his thoughts echo] concentrate... concentrate... I've got to concentrate... concentrate... concentrate... Hello?... hello... hello... Echo... echo... echo... Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon... Manny Mota... Mota... Mota...

Airplane

*cough* ok heres one:
Thou art the corpse of a familiar face!

Mr. Ed IT> fixing accuracy

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Actually my quote was from Sleepy Hollow

"You don't know how paralysing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter: you can't do a thing." - Vincent Van Gogh

Hmmm...Vincent Van Gogh?

Okay guys, I'm going to open up a new thread top continue this onwards right over here.

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ult'a Fedaro.

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