fav movie and book quotes.

Gideon Seymour was unknown to the vast majority of the crowd, but the Tar Man's support of him predisposed them in his favor. Thirty thousand pairs of eyes focused on the small figure with a rope around his neck. Gideon stepped forward and spoke. His voice rang across the fields of Tyburn, and the crowds shuffled forward in order to hear him the better.

"I do not deny that I have done wrong," he said in a loud, strong voice that trembled only slightly. "And before God and the people I say that I truly repent of my sins. But I am not guilty of those crimes of which I am accused. Nor have I led a more wicked life than that of my betters who have seen fit to bring me here to this accursed place. I stole food when I was starving, and I know that I am not alone here in having to choose between life and breaking God's law."

There were murmurs of approval.

"Yet I tell you that I have seen the future and in that different land there will be justice! No one shall be driven by poverty to a life of crime and deceit! Live in the hope that better things are yet to come and that if individual men are wicked, the heart of our nation is sound, and we shall create our own paradise on earth."

The crowd now broke into cheers. Flowers were thrown onto the scaffold.

"Life is sweet, my friends! Do not waste a moment of it! Fare thee well!"

-From Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer (It makes more sense if you read the book.)
 
This is from a show aired on focus on the family by a guy called Ryan Dobson;

(topic is that comprimising never works)

Ryan: Do you have a wallet?
Guy on the plane with him: Yes.
Ryan: Does it have money and credit cards in it?
Guy on the plane: Yes.
Ryan: Can I have it?
GOP: No!
Ryan: Do you want to comprimise?
GOP: Yes.
Ryan: Ok gimme half, then we'll go to luch and I'll buy.
GOP: No!
Ryan: See it doesn't work. And now I'm angry... very angry.... and I would like to shoot you.
GOP: :eek:
Ryan: Do you wanna comprimise?
GOP: I don't know....
Ryan: Ok I'll shoot your toe off. C'mon I'm a good shot. Then you'll cry and I'll laugh and we'll go to lunch and I'll buy.
GOP: :eek: No!

:D:p
 
"Thank you, Capitan, I needed that scratch to awaken me!"

-- Zorro, in the 1939 Tyrone Power movie, just before finishing off Basil Rathbone.
 
Favorite Quotes, Anybody?

"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept the fact that its face too is grotesque, that is in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing-down that will soften their real look. When we look into the face of good, we are liable to see a face...full of promise." ~Southern writer Flannery O'Connor
 
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present."
Alice Morse Earle, Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights... (1902)
 
Just saying but there are like 3-4 threads out there for quotes.... not including this one.

Aaand;

Don't remeber the exact quote but its something like this- "The ambushers found themselves suddenly ambushed..." -Redwall, the Bellmaker.:D

"We will always be free in ways that evil could never understand." - Toto, The Tale of Mozart the Meerkitten.

"Sometimes there are no answers." Saphira, Eragon.

"What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning." Silverstream and Graystripe, Warriors (cat books) Fire and Ice.
 
Mozart the Meerkitten said:
Just saying but there are like 3-4 threads out there for quotes.... not including this one.
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Whoops...I could only find one other quote thread that's currently open for posting, but it had gotten buried, and I forgot it existed. :o If one of the mods wants to move the posts in this thread to that one, it would be great.
 
"Excuse me, I'm new here, so I ain't rightly certain: is everybody in this country as butt-ugly as you three?" -- Tom Selleck to bad guys, before opening a can of walloping on them, in "Quigley Down Under"
 
"Herbie if you don't stop then you won't be invited to the wedding."

"There's no Muffin in here, only Napoleon!"

"Everybody wants to be a cat,"
"Because the cats' the only cat who knows where its aaat,"
"Oh yeaaaah." < best quote ever!

"FOR NARNIA AND FOR ASLAN!!!"

"FOR FREEDODM AND FOR THE GREAT WHITE CAT!!!"

"Fine but I'm not in denial."
"Denial."
 
But the sons of Men die indeed, and leave the world; wherefore they are called the Guests, or the Strangers. Death is their fate, the gift of Iluvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy. But Melkor has cast his shadow upon it, and confounded it with darkness, and brought forth evil out of good, and fear out of hope. - From The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
 
iMerge with an older thread on this subject. Nice quotes, everyone. I only read the new ones from 2010 -- otherwise there were about 5 pages worth. Welcome, SEA-106, I did not see you post before.

There are a lot of quotes I love in the Bible, especially the one in my siggie. So instead of the Bible let me try ...

"Dear darling, life is sad. I know it's sad. But I think it's gallant to pretend that it isn't."
- Horace Walpole

“In most of our lives we have the impression that the world has done us considerable harm and comparatively little good. Yet if the Abba of Jesus loves us, if He pursues us as a tremendous Lover who is dying (in His Son) to be with us, then we are committed to the notion that His world, the work of His hands, is out to do us good. And that means taking the risk of letting others do good to us. It means going into the wedding feast celebrating with the firm conviction that we are not going to be chumped, cheated or disastrously surprised.”
- Brennan Manning

“The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to know what a person’s story is about, just ask them what they want. If we don’t want anything, we are living a boring story. If we want a Roomba vacuum cleaner, we are living stupid stories. If it won’t work in a story, it won’t work in life.”
- Donald Miller
 
"Yet He concealed something. Solemn supermen and imperial diplomatists are proud of restraining their anger. He never restrained His anger. He flung furniture down the front steps of the Temple, and asked men how they expected to escape the damnation of Hell. Yet He restrained something. I say it with reverence; there was in that shattering personality a thread that must be called shyness. There was something that He hid from all men hen He went up a mountain to pray. There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked up our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth."--Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton
 
"You're an apprentice. You're not ready to think." Halt and Gilan, The Ruins of Gorlan.

"I'm going to carve your heart out with a spoon!"
Later:
"Why a spoon?"
"Its dull! It'll hurt more!" The Sherrif of Nottingham, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

"You Shall not Pass!" Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring.

"Attack! Charge! Or I will..." a guy at my school.

lol :D
 
This is one of my favorite parts from the movie, A Man for All Seasons
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William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down--and you're just the man to do it--do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
 
Here is my favorite quote from the movie Sense and Sensability:



"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove.O,no! it is an ever-
fixed mark,that looks on tempest and is never shaken..."
 
"O-de-lally! O-de-lally!" -Robin Hood


"Take me to my people." Bran, Hood
^taken in the context of the book that quote is rather amusing as he meant his relatives out beyond the mountains and instead got taken deep into the heart of a forest to find "his people"- a rag-tag group of villagers hiding from the Ffenfric(sp?) who had taken over their lands.

"One of the books is fake." Johnis, Chaos.

"No, I'm not calling on you anymore.... or you.... or you!" my history teacher today during our review when the 10th graders were being crazy.:p
 
"Fate is Inexorable" The saxon Chronicles Bernard Cornwell

"Its not mine to take" Peter Narnia Prince Caspian

"You couldn't hit water if you fell out of a boat"

thats all off the top of my head...
 
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