Quote Something Good

[Darth Sushi]

From Highlander:
Kurgan: [to everyone in the church] I have something to say! It's better to burn out than to fade away!



From Conan the Barbarian:
Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?

Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.

Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.


From Aliens:
Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?

Vasquez: No. Have you?

[anon]

"I was always lazy. Until those fortified yogurts with vitamins and stuff came out. Now I still do nothing, but much faster and with twice the energy" -- Roberto Pettinato

"This isn't about stealing from the rich to give to the poor, like Robinson Crusoe did" -- Carlos Menem

[bigboab]

One more drink and I will be under the host - Dorothy Parker

[megabyteme]

Excellent choice, boab. Your post enticed me to look up more of her quotes:

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

• Parker's answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.

[Darth Sushi]

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. - Ozzy Osbourne

[bigboab]

The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure - Oscar Wilde

[Artemis]

“'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.”

- Sir Winston Churchill

[natedogg]

"I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest." Rodney Dangerfield

[pone44]

“So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It’s too much. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or another.” Jaime Lannister/The Kingslayer-GRRM

[Alien5]

If assholes could fly...
this place would be an airport.