To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
Come on page 2 and still no Dark Knight quotes? Why so serious? - Joker Lets put a smile on that face! - Joker ..some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. - Alfred Pennyworth And... here… we... go! - Joker James Gordon Jr.: Why's he running, Dad? Lt. James Gordon: Because we have to chase him. James Gordon Jr.: He didn't do anything wrong. Lt. James Gordon: Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight. and pretty much the whole movie
"I took gotham's white knight, and I brought him down to our level. It wasn't hard.... madness is as we know, like gravity. All it takes is a little push."
a favorite serious line: "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" - obvious mainstream Robert De Niro quote from Heat Pretty much any quote from Chocolate Mousse in "Top Secret" an under-appraciated complementary character in the movie badassness scale Then anything from Tombstone, anything Blood In Blood Out: Popeye to Miklo: "You want me to take it, ah? You want me to RAPE you, eh, PUTO!
Miller: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness. Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days? Miller: I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?...
“You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know, that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smells like… victory.”
Jensen: YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, MR. BEALE, AND I WON'T HAVE IT!!!!! IS THAT CLEAR?!? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and NOW THEY MUST PUT IT BACK! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! AND YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, AND YOU WILL ATONE!!! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel. Beale: But why me? Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.
I just saw Laurence of Arabia again the other day. Basically every other line in that film is one of the greatest movie quotes of all time: [rquoter] (After Lawrence tries to teach Potter the 'trick' of putting out a match with his fingers) William Potter: Ooh! It damn well 'urts! T.E. Lawrence: Certainly it hurts. Officer: What's the trick then? T.E. Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. [/rquoter] [rquoter] Feisal: "With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the most reliable." [/rquoter] [rquoter] (After Lawrence gives a feeble salute) Murray: "If you're insubordinate of me, Lawrence, I shall put you under arrest!" Lawrence: "It's my manner, sir." Murray: "Your what?" Lawrence: "My manner, sir. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't really." Murray: "I can't make out whether you are bloody bad-mannered or just half-witted!" Lawrence: "I have the same problem, sir." [/rquoter] [rquoter] Auda abu Tayi: I am Auda abu Tayi! Does Auda serve? Howeitat tribesmen: NO! Auda abu Tayi: Does Auda abu Tayi serve? Howeitat tribesmen: NO! Auda abu Tayi: [to Lawrence] I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my people! T.E. Lawrence: My friends, we have been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. Not for money... Auda abu Tayi: No. T.E. Lawrence: ...for Feisal... Auda abu Tayi: No! T.E. Lawrence: ...nor to drive away the Turks. He will come... because it is his pleasure. [/rquoter] [rquoter] Mr. Dryden: Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert: Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me, for ordinary men, it's a burning, fiery furnace. T.E. Lawrence: No, Dryden, it's going to be fun. Mr. Dryden: It is recognized that you have a funny sense of fun. [/rquoter] And from another David Lean film: [rquoter] Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: I told myself it was beneath my dignity for arresting a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the party is beneath the dignity of any man, and the party was right: one man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic; five million people desperate for a bit of fuel will destroy a city. That was the first time I ever saw by brother, but I knew him and I knew I would disobey the party. Perhaps it was the tie of blood between us, but I doubt it. We were only half-tied anyway. Indeed as a policeman I would say, get hold of a man's brother and you're halfway home. Nor was it admiration for a better man than me. I did admire him, but I didn't think he was the better man. Besides, I've executed better men than me with a small pistol. [/rquoter]
favorite lines in a movie: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xpxq-vC5QRA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xpxq-vC5QRA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
One of the films at the top of my list of the best flicks ever made, Ottomaton. I saw it at one of the Downtown movie palaces in Houston when it came out and was so blown away that I saw it twice more during its run. Truly, the beauty Lean created in the desert, with the fantastic music score, is unforgettable. Portions of the soundtrack have popped into my head at the oddest times. Anyway, a couple of quotes from the best science fiction film ever made, in my humble opinion: Bryant: I need ya, Deck. This is a bad one, the worst yet. I need the old blade runner, I need your magic. Deckard: I dreamt music. Deckard: You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl. Rachael: Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard? Deckard: She's a replicant. Tyrell: I'm impressed, Mr. Deckard. How many questions does it normally take? Deckard: I don't get it... Tyrell: How many? Deckard: Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced. Tyrell: But with Rachael it took more than a hundred. Deckard: She doesn't know. Tyrell: She is beginning to suspect I think. Deckard: Beginning to suspect? How can it not know what it is? Roy Batty: I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren't you the good man? Come on! Oh, Deckard! Show me ... what you're made of. Roy Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
"I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."
From fierce creatures, I just love John Cleese: Rollo Lee: Oh, great... terrific! He decides to keep the zoo open, so you kill him! Brilliant! Well done! Thank you so much, especially for shooting him right between the eyes, so that it doesn't look like an accident. Because the people at Octopus will know that he was coming here to close us down, so there's our motive for murdering him. Stunning! Well, Mr. Brain of Britain, what are we going to tell the police, who are, of course, already on their way here? Another example of the thoroughness of your plan! Go on, I'm all ears. [Bugsy stutters] Rollo Lee: What do you suggest we do with the dead body of the incredibly famous man, who you have just... ASSASSINATED? [Bugsy stutters some more] Rollo Lee: Sorry, I didn't... quite catch it... What? What was that?... Pop him in the blender? [Reggie hisses at Rollo, trying to point his attention away from Bugsy] Rollo Lee: I KNOW! I KNOW HE'S DEAD! I DID NOTICE And Rollo Lee: It's an anteater, not a maneater. Sydney Lotterby: What would you be saying if it went over there, jumped into that pram? What would you be saying to the child's mother now? Rollo Lee: I'd be saying, "Madam, you are the victim of an 8 billion to one chance: a leaping anteater. An evolutionary mutant previously unknown to science". And almost any line by Rowan atkinson in Blackadder. But those are in a serie not movies.
I say that all the time! Though I think that most people don't remember the movie, and don't get it. I'll add a few more to the list: All you got to do is use your instincts. How do you think a lion knows to tackle a gazelle? It's written, it's a code written in his DNA, says, "tackle the gazelle." And believe it or not, in every man there's a code written that says, "tackle drunk b*****s." How many pots have you smoken? I'm starvin... let's get some f****n french toast! If I have to hear "Yamo Be There" one more time, I'm going to "Yamo" burn this place to the ground. and just about every other line from that movie!
corneleous: stop it you're humilating him... taylor: Like you humilated me? corneleous: that was different ,we thought you were inferior... taylor: now you know bettter...... Planet of the Apes. one of the best movies of all times!
