Quotes from books, movies, etc. that have stuck with you.

SystemicAnomaly

Bionic Poster
"I have a bad feeling about this."

"These aren't the droids you're looking for."

"No. Try not. Do ... or do not. There is no try."

"May the Force be with you."
 
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SystemicAnomaly

Bionic Poster
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...
From the same book:

It is a far, far better thing than I have ever done before; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
 

Sysyphus

Talk Tennis Guru
'stuck with me' is a stretch, but I'm currently reading Lincoln in the Bardo, and some of the passages are poignant.

Such as this lament from the ghost of a man who died by his own hand:

Feeling nauseous at the quantity of blood and its sudden percussive redness against the whiteness of the tub, I settled myself woozily down on the floor, at which time I—well, it is a little embarrassing, but let me just say it: I changed my mind. Only then (nearly out the door, so to speak) did I realize how unspeakably beautiful all of this was, how precisely engineered for our pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime thing: swarms of insects dancing in slant-rays of August sun; a trio of black horses standing hock-deep and head-to-head in a field of snow; a waft of beef broth arriving breeze-borne from an orange-hued window on a chill autumn—
 

T1000

Legend
“The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up around their waists and all the wh0res and politicians will look up and shout “save us”.......and I’ll look down and whisper “no”

“I don’t mind being the smartest man in the room. I just wish it wasn’t this one”

“If he dies, he dies”

“You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.”
 

Sudacafan

Bionic Poster
“This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
(Closing words of Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, just in case this needed clarification)
 
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ollinger

G.O.A.T.
"Lucky that my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains"
----Shakira, singing "Whenever, Wherever"

Lucky???
 

LordGoolbis

New User
Não sou nada.
Nunca serei nada.
Não posso querer ser nada.
À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo. -the beginning of Tabacaria by Álvaro de Campos ( Fernando Pessoa)

Here’s an English translation:
I am nothing
I shall never be anything
I cannot want to be anything.
Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world.
 

TopspintheTerrible

Hall of Fame
I got 7 Mac 11s
About eight 38s
Nine 9s
Ten Mac 10s
The s*** never ends, you can’t touch my riches,
Even if you had MC Hammer and them 357 b#&$*es
- Big Poppa
 

bad_call

Legend
"I understand that if any more words come pouring out of your c*nt mouth, I'm going to have to eat every f*cking chicken in this room."
 

Northern

Hall of Fame
There are several quotes from books and movies that occur to me pretty often in every day life. Something will happen, and these quotes just pop into my brain as the perfect way to explain the situation. Here area few:

The light that burns twice as brightly also burns half as long. (This is often related to tennis. Nadal, polyester strings, etc.)
Blade Runner

Too good to last, he thought. . . Might as well have been a dream, he thought.
The Old Man and the Sea

(Referencing how things might be better if a missed opportunity had been taken) Maybe not. But maybe so.
The Kite Runner

What are some that occur to you in life? Not necessarily your favorite quotes, but ones that pop into your head.
"One must lose the virginity of faith in order to attain the maternity of reason." - Nicolas Salmeron
This one is a poignant parallelism that rings true on many levels, and it's brilliant in its brevity and its connotations. Thug translation: "Truth will sometimes brain**** you, yo!"

"Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise." - Sophocles
Need I say anything else? Better not.
 
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dgold44

G.O.A.T.
Everybody is a big super star because they can post an illiterate comment to the world on Facebook or show off their massive bottom on Instagram
 
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Vcore89

Talk Tennis Guru
Everybody is a big super star because they can post an illiterate comment to the world on Facebook or show off their massive bottom on Instagram

:DThem good [or bad] girls like to wiggle it . . . just a little bit.
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Bartelby

Bionic Poster
Revolutionary movements have always adopted the creed of 'give me liberty or give me death'.

People, however, usually prefer safety aka security by a large margin over liberty.

But Eleftheria i thanatos has more 'pizzazz'.

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
 
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Sysyphus

Talk Tennis Guru
In these times the words of John Steinbeck come to mind with renewed poignancy.

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“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”


― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
 
"Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time, not to be found even among the so-called savage races of the world."

"Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction."

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Mohandas Karamchand Mahātmā Gandhi 1869-1948 cause of death: assassination

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"The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent!"

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William "Bill" Henry Gates III 1955-
 

max

Legend
Emerson:

Wise men know that foolish legislation is like a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting.
 

max

Legend
I mean our culture is as sleeze bag as Europe .
A culture of dirt and filth and such utter indulgements it makes Ancient Rome look normal

And what's sad is that they become anti-science whenever it suits them, when science suggests not self-indulging.
 

ollinger

G.O.A.T.
Not the most memorable but it was interesting to read that Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo (Midnight Cowboy) ad libbed the memorable "Hey, I'm walkin' here!!" as he was crossing the street and a stopped car crept forward.
 

TheGhostOfAgassi

Talk Tennis Guru
Everybody is a big super star because they can post an illiterate comment to the world on Facebook or show off their massive bottom on Instagram
I like this as it’s much less superstars as it was before. Before it was some that was so huge, Madonna and MJ for example, Brad Pitt. The supermodels in the 90s.
Social media made us have so much more to chose from, not only what we have been served from TV.
I love individualism and it’s more and more of it because of social media, also less looking up to stars. It’s healthy in my opinion.
 
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