Your Favourite Line?

Terry

EamonnKeane wrote: »

not really a line, more of a sequence of lines:

A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,
Loitered about that vacancy; a bird
Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,
Were axioms to him, who'd never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.

-WH Auden

Oh. That reminds me.
I always liked this one:

1. The Road Not Taken


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20
Robert Frost.

Mushy

Fawlty Towers:

Guests: *as girs starts crying*Now look at what you started
Basil: No, you started it by invading Poland*does goosestep into reception and back in*

That is possibly th funniest thing I've ever seen on tv, and possibly ever will. When I first saw it, I just thought the walk was funny, but now knowing the history behind it, its priceless.

Smashing Pumpkins-Zero:
"Emptiness is Lonliness and
Lonliness is Cleanliness
Cleanliness is Godliness and
God is Empty, Just like...Me"

Delivered in vintage Billy Corgan style

History Lecture(1st Year)
"You see, Louis(French King before Revolution) had a bit of a problem. The thing was, he couldnt get his tool to transform into a powerful weapon"

Thats a good way to describe impotence, and totally irrellevant(sp?) to anything.

Mint Sauce

pulpfiction

diner scene

Honey Bunny: [about to rob a diner] I love you, Pumpkin.
Pumpkin: I love you, Honey Bunny.
Pumpkin: [Standing up with a gun] All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Honey Bunny: Any of you fcuking pr!cks move, and I'll execute every motherfcuking last one of ya!

more pulpfiction

Jules: What does Marcellus Wallace look like?
Brett: What?
Jules: What country you from?
Brett: What?
Jules: What ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak English in What?
Brett: What?
Jules: ENGLISH, MOTHERFCUKER! DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT?
Brett: Yes!
Jules: Then you know what I'm saying!
Brett: Yes!
Jules: Describe what Marcellus Wallace looks like!
Brett: What, I-?
Jules: [pointing his gun] Say what again. SAY WHAT AGAIN. I dare you, I double dare you, motherfcuker. Say what one more goddamn time.
Brett: He's b-b-black...
Jules: Go on.
Brett: He's bald...
Jules: Does he look like a b!tch?
Brett: What?
[Jules shoots Brett in shoulder]
Jules: DOES HE LOOK LIKE A B!TCH?
Brett: No!
Jules: Then why you try to fcuk him like a b!tch, Brett?
Brett: I didn't.
Jules: Yes you did. Yes you did, Brett. You tried to fcuk him. And Marcellus Wallace don't like to be fcuked by anybody, except Mrs. Wallace.

Gekko

see my sig! - I suppose the first two sentences are the key ones.

But of course there are many more...

RoyalMarine

take it bítch its christmas

Wilde

"Winston was dreaming...."
"The girl with dark hair was coming toward him across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him; indeed, he barely looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time. Winston woke up with the word 'Shakespeare' on his lips."
1984 George Orwell

Some Palahniuk:
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Some Funny Quotes:
PeepShow;
Jeremy Osborne: [crouching behind a bush with Mark, in Sophie's back garden] It's payback time. And she's going to pay back... in fear dollars!

Jeremy Osborne: Super Hans got a bass loop for our track that is so good that when he tried turning it off, he physically couldn't do it.

Mark Corrigan: [thinks] She's ignoring me. Of course, she's ignoring me. I sent her a swastika.

Mark Corrigan: Life's all pain. Pain, gloom and misery... Hey, 33% extra free. I am doing excellent shopping. My depressed state of mind means being even more frugal than usual.

Jeremy Osborne: This is good, this is just like watching a porn film, except I can't see anything, I haven't got a hard on, and I want to cry...

Mark Corrigan: [thinks] If he hangs himself over this I can stick an orange in his mouth and call it a fatal **** accident.

A tidbit from the brilliant Mighty Boosh:
Howard Moon: Stop tugging at my mink!
Vince Noir: Mink? That's a bit off, isn't it? You're supposed to be a zookeeper.
Howard Moon: Yeah, well, it's a different law in the tundra, Vince. It's kill or be killed.
Vince Noir: What, by a mink?
Howard Moon: They get very big out here.
[gesturing at floor-length mink coat]
Howard Moon: This whole thing is just one mink.
Vince Noir: That's not right. I know, I read a pamphlet.
Howard Moon: So? I once glanced at a hedge. What's your point?
Vince Noir: No, it was a mink pamphlet. "Minky Monthly". There were millions of them on the front, dancing around. It said that it takes about ninety mink just to make a small ladies glove.
Howard Moon: That's 'cause they're really crap at sewing.

watna

The suspect is hatless, I repeat hatless.

Lawless_Samurai

1st RULE: You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB.

2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about FIGHT CLUB.

3rd RULE: If someone says "stop" or goes limp, taps out the fight is over.

4th RULE: Only two guys to a fight.

5th RULE: One fight at a time.

6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes.

7th RULE: Fights will go on as long as they have to.

8th RULE: If this is your first night at FIGHT CLUB, you HAVE to fight.

Blackhorse Slim

Sh!t.
What?
Rollers.
No!
Yep.
Sh!t.

:cool:

MOH

watna wrote: »

The suspect is hatless, I repeat hatless.

I am directly under the earth's sun ... nnnnow


Mad Dog and Glory:
"Women. Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em."
(Did make the mistake once of quoting that in a group of people who hadn't seen the film , some of whom tok it far too seriously and gave me funny look for a while)

Lawless_Samurai

Vincent Hanna: "You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow, brother, you are going down."

Neil McCauley: "There is a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way. We've been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second."




"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."

Fratton Fred

How is Lord Flasheart not quoted yet?

Lord Flasheart: Wait, wait, wait, wit, wait a minute. Now I may be packing the kind of tackle that you'd normally expect to find swinging about between the hindlegs of a Grand National winner, but I'm not totally stupid, and I've got the kind of feeling you'd rather we hadn't come.
Captain Blackadder: No, no, no, I'm very grateful. It's just that I'd slow you up.
Lord Flasheart: I think I'm beginning to understand.
Captain Blackadder: Are... are you?
Lord Flasheart: Just because I can give multiple orgasms to the furniture just by sitting on it, doesn't mean that I'm not sick of this damn war: the blood, the noise, the endless poetry.

kev_s88

Terry wrote: »

Oh. That reminds me.
I always liked this one:

1. The Road Not Taken


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20
Robert Frost.

Robert Frost is a horrible, horrible man.

had to study him for Leaving Cert English.

ughhh....

hopalong85

kev_s88 wrote: »

Robert Frost is a horrible, horrible man.

had to study him for Leaving Cert English.

ughhh....

I thought Frost was the best poet i studied for the leaving. Now Plath was horrible.

The Master

More Blackadder

General Melchett: Now Soldier are you ready to give those Frenchies a darn good licking?
Capt.Darling: No Sir it's the Germans we should be licking.
General Melchett: Don't be so revolting Darling! I wouldnt lick a Jerry if He was glazed in honey!

Xavi6

hopalong85 wrote: »

I thought Frost was the best poet i studied for the leaving. Now Plath was horrible.

+1 Frost was pretty handy. Wasn't arsed studyin Plath and then the bitch came up! Cost me my A.

odyssey06

From the brain of Dave Barry:

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. How long, traveling at top speed, will it take the cow to travel 360 feet?

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called "A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark".

I like beer. On occasion I will even drink a beer to celebrate a major event such as the fall of communism or the fact that our refrigerator is still working.

Rob_l

Favourite line

Cocaine

Overheal

"Name one thing you're going to need the stupid fcuking rope for."

kev_s88

Xavi6 wrote: »

+1 Frost was pretty handy. Wasn't arsed studyin Plath and then the bitch came up! Cost me my A.

i studied both and they were equally as bad.did bishop too.she was sh1t

now kavanagh and yeats were poets i could enjoy

Lawless_Samurai

Banana-hammock!!!!

knird evol

from Clint Eastwoods Unforgiven...

Little Bill Daggett: You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and
children.


Will Munny: That's right. I've killed women and children.
I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or
another.
And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill

RuailleBuaille

Does a fat dog slip on lino?

Said with a thick scouse accent and twisted scowl, Mimi Maguire in Shameless - 'There's more than one way to skin a c*nt '

Homer on his medicinal marijuana - 'I could walk right up to the President and blow smoke in his stupid monkey face and he'd just have to sit there grooving on it'

Christopher Walken in True Romance, chilling delivery - 'I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood. You tell the angels in heaven you never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you. My name is Vincent Coccotti.'

Sherrif and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles - 'Are we awake?' 'That depends. Are we black?'

Ulysses Gaze

Some I love;

1. Alec Baldwin's 'motivational' sales speech from Glengarry Glen Ross
2. Richard Roma (Al Pacino's) rant against Williamson (Kevin Spacey) from the same movie. Fierce!

3. From the Simpsons

'No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American Way.

'I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, 'cover for me.'Number two, 'oh, good idea, boss. 'Number three, 'it was like that when I got here.'

Others

Dougal: God, I've heard about those cults Ted. People dressing up in black and saying Our Lord's going to come back and save us all.
Ted: No, Dougal, that's us. That's Catholicism.
Dougal: Oh right.

Dougal: Can I stay up tonight to watch the scary film?
Ted: Ah, no no no. The last time you stayed up to watch a scary film you ended up having to sleep in my bed. I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't even a scary film.
Dougal: Come on, Ted. A Volkswagen with a mind of its own. If that isn't scary, I don't know what is.

Dragan

Was talking about this film over the weekend, so might as well give a great quote from it......

Waking Life :

The Man on the Train : I haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting.

A Primal Nut

You have to watch the scene to understand the context and of course its all in the way Marcellus talks, but he has some brilliant quotes in here (from Pulp Fiction)

Butch: So, what now?
Marsellus: What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a couple of hard, pipe-hittin' niggas to go to work on homes here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. You hear me talkin' hillbilly boy?! I ain't through with you by damn sight! I'ma get medieval on your ass!
Butch: I meant "what now" between you and me.
Marsellus: Oh, that "what now." I tell you "what now" between me and you. There IS no "me and you". Not no more. Two things: One, don't ever tell no one about this. This thing here is between me, you, and Mr. Soon-To-Be-Living-The-Rest-Of-His-Short-Ass-Life-In-Agonizing-Pain rapist here. Two, you leave town tonight, right now, and when you're gone, you STAY gone or you'll BE gone. You lost all your L.A. privileges. Deal?
Butch: Deal.

ibh

That 70's Show. (Best TV show ever btw)

Bob - "If I had a mistletoe, I'd kiss you"
Red - "Yeah well...If I had a mistlefoot, It'd be in your ass"

Red Hand

"Irish hit by English train".

From an Irish Newspaper a number of years ago.

Pompey Magnus

"I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand."
Bob Dylan - Every Grain of Sand

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Percy Bysshe Shelly - Ozymandias

skelliser

Intercourse?!