Movie Quotes / Best Single Line from a Movie

[SHOOB]

Going to give shot at this. It has been brought to my attention at how many movies I have seen. Maybe to many. So I am going to throw this quote thread out there. Here's the first one.
Now the first time you kill somebody, that's the hardest. I don't give a shit if you're fuckin' Wyatt Earp or Jack the Ripper. Remember that guy in Texas? The guy up in that fuckin' tower that killed all them people? I'll bet you green money that first little black dot he took a bead on, that was the bitch of the bunch. First one is tough, no fuckin' foolin'. The second one... the second one ain't no fuckin' Mardis Gras either, but it's better than the first one 'cause you still feel the same thing, y'know... except it's more diluted, y'know it's... it's better. I threw up on the first one, you believe that? Then the third one... the third one is easy, you level right off. It's no problem. Now... shit... now I do it just to watch their fuckin' expression change.

[NewportBarGuy]

That was a great flick, SHOOB!

I'll hold off announcing it, except to admit that Brad Pitt played his best role ever. (Most of you must know it.)

I'll add some (Both of these are from the same movie, not SHOOB's selection)...

"So what's with the nurse's uniform?"
"These are O.R. scrubs."
"OH, ARE they?"

"I've applied for early admission to Oxford and the Sorbonne. Harvard is my safety."

One of the better films...

This should be a good thread. Good idea SHOOB.

(Almost as good as Connections Thread) heh...

[blackjack18x]

Damn man, I just bought that movie on DVD this week.

"I'm the Anti-Christ. You get me in a vendetta kind of mood, you will tell the angels in heaven that you had never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you. My name is Vincenzo Coccotti"

[SHOOB]

Newportbarguy
Brad Pitts finest role to date.

"So what's with the nurse's uniform?"
"These are O.R. scrubs."
"OH, ARE they?"
Great Movie! Best rendition of Apocolypse Now remake!
Don't thank me, Brewmonkey I were talking about. It's all him!

BJ18X
One of the greatest 10 minutes of Dialogue between two greats. "YA SEE THAT?........FUCKS YOU ALL UP!!!!!!!"

[SHOOB]

Brewmonkey
For you only.
"Put this in your mouth so you don't bite your tongue off. ... Hey, let's try the head this time. Beauty. OK. See, if you'd stick to your twelve point maintenance program, eh, then we wouldn't have to jump start you like this. Oh no, you had to do it your way. You think you KNOW EVERYTHING, eh. OK, here we go. I'm gonna take it up to 90 this time."

[SHOOB]

Today's quote

"I'm a criminal.....my word don't mean dick!"

[XXNavy]

From one of my favorite movies...

"You guys are a bunch of slack-jawed faggots ! This shit will make you a fuckin sexual tyranasaurus, just like me !"

[SHOOB]

"Strap this to your sorry ass Blain!"

[XXNavy]

"You're bleedin, Blaine !"

"I aint got time to bleed "

"Got time to duck?"

[blackjack18x]

A couple quotes from one of Brad Pitt's best flix

"With a gun in your mouth, you speak only
in vowels"

"Whoa! Now you're shooting a gun at your imaginary friend
near four hundred gallons of nitroglycerine."

Jim

[SHOOB]

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

[blackjack18x]

"Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!"

"Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are."

[DFC5343]

Never underestimate the predictabilty of stupidity

If my answers frighten you, don't ask scary questions

[NewportBarGuy]

"You're gettin' ready to blow? I'm a mushroom-cloud-layin' motherfucker! Every time my fingers touch brain I'm "SUPERFLY T.N.T.," I'm the "GUNS OF NAVARONE." I'm what Jimmie Walker usta talk about. In fact, what the fuck am I doin' in the back? You're the motherfucker should be on brain detail."

[blackjack18x]

Hand me my wallet.
Which one is it?
It's the one with "bad motherfucker" written on it.


Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since I'm in a transitional period, I don't want to kill either one of your asses.

[NewportBarGuy]

I love you, Honey Bunny.

[GackMan]

Originally posted by blackjack18x
A couple quotes from one of Brad Pitt's best flix


Don't condescend me, man. I'll fuckin' kill ya.

(bubble bubble, cough cough)

[SHOOB]

Blackjack,
I did not think anyone would remember Buckaroo Bonzai!!!!!!!!!!!

[blackjack18x]

Originally posted by SHOOB
Blackjack,
I did not think anyone would remember Buckaroo Bonzai!!!!!!!!!!!


I love that movie man! I just made some friends sit through the dvd this weekend.

[SHOOB]

"Wait! I know this one. This is where the coyote puts himself into a sling shot and straps on an ACME rocket."


"No, I'm serious, things didn't work out too well for the coyote."

"Well we have much better rockets than the coyote."

[Bravo_One_Three]

Originally posted by blackjack18x
Hand me my wallet.
Which one is it?
It's the one with "bad motherfucker" written on it.


Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since I'm in a transitional period, I don't want to kill either one of your asses.

Yeah, I saw that one last night.

"So is a dog a filthy animal?"
"I wouldn't call a dog filthy but they are dirty. But I still wouldn't eat the motherfucker... dogs have personality, and that goes a long way, which is more than I can say about you right now."

[SHOOB]

"you can tell me sewer rat tastes like pumpkin pie but how would I know? I wouldn't eat the filthy mother fucker!"

I used the same soap you did mothre fucker and my towel didn't look like no mother fuckin maxi-pad!""

[DFC5343]

One small step for man.....one giant leap for weenie kind!

[SHOOB]

DFC I am stumped!

[Bravo_One_Three]

"Oh I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration?"

"Say 'What" again mother fucker!"

[SHOOB]

"What language do they speak in What?"

[Bravo_One_Three]

"A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night. "

[SHOOB]

Pesci is a bad mother fucker in this!!!!!!!

[NewportBarGuy]

"If you don't have my money for me, I'll crack your fucking head in front of everyone in the bank. And just about the time I get out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. But guess what? I'll crack your fucking head again! 'Cause I'm fucking stupid! I don't give a fuck about jail! That's my business. That's what I do."

[Bravo_One_Three]

"Whoa... whoa... whoa... stop right there. Eatin' a bitch out, and givin' a bitch a foot massage ain't even the same fuckin' thing.

Not the same thing, the same ballpark.

It ain't no ballpark either. Look maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but touchin' his lady's feet, and stickin' your tongue in her holyiest of holies, ain't the same ballpark, ain't the same league, ain't even the same fuckin' sport. Foot massages don't mean shit.

Have you ever given a foot massage?

Don't be tellin' me about foot massages - I'm the foot fuckin' master.

Given a lot of 'em?

Shit yeah. I got my technique down man, I don't tickle or nothin'.

Have you ever given a guy a foot massage?

Fuck you.

How many?

Fuck you.

Would you give me a foot massage? I'm kinda tired.

Man, you best back off, I'm gittin' pissed."

[Bravo_One_Three]

"We're supposed to be robbin' this place, you dumb fuckin' hebe!"

"Nicky's methods of betting weren't scientific, but they worked. When he won, he collected. When he lost, he told the bookies to go fuck themselves. I mean, what were they going to do, muscle Nicky? Nicky was the muscle."

"No matter how big a guy was, Nicky would take him on. You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat; you beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun; and if you beat him with a gun, you better kill 'em, 'cause he'll be coming back and back, until one of you is dead. "

[GackMan]

Ok... since we are busing out so much PF

One of my personal favorites:

"That's Kool and the Gang, Jimmy. We don't want to fuck your shit up.

You don't want to fuck my shit up? You're fucking my shit up right now! You're going to fuck my shit up big time if Bonnie comes home."

[blackjack18x]

Look at the big brain on Brad!

[Who Me?]

DFC - Groovers rock! How do we stop?

From tonight's entertainment - "People in glass houses sink ships"

[SHOOB]

"People in glass houses sink ships"

The Boondocks!

[armybrat04]

"This is paradise, I'm tellin' ya. This town like a great big pussy jus' waitin' to get fucked."
"I never fucked anyone over in my life who didn't have it coming to 'em."
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
"Why don't you try sticking your head up your ass? See if it fits!"
"I want what's coming to me."
"What's coming to you, man?"
"The world, chico, and everything in it."

[Bravo_One_Three]

Now playing on my VCR:

"Why am I calling you by your first names? I don't even know you. I still call my boss "Mister", and I've been working for him for seven years, but all of a sudden I walk in here and I'm calling you Rick and Sheila like we're in some kind of AA meeting. . .I don't want to be your buddy, Rick. I just want some breakfast."

[SHOOB]

"It's big, It's juicy, It's three inches think!"
"I believe the customer is always right"
"DEFENSE"
Great movie

[Bravo_One_Three]

Originally posted by armybrat04
"This is paradise, I'm tellin' ya. This town like a great big pussy jus' waitin' to get fucked."
"I never fucked anyone over in my life who didn't have it coming to 'em."
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
"Why don't you try sticking your head up your ass? See if it fits!"
"I want what's coming to me."
"What's coming to you, man?"
"The world, chico, and everything in it."

My favorite movie of ALL TIME!

"I'm not gonna kill you Frankie. No, I aint gonna kill you."
"Ahhhh Tony you won't be..."
"Manny, shoot this piece of shit."

[armybrat04]

I too love that movie
"Say hello to my little friend.."

[SHOOB]

"IS he dead?.......He ain't dancin!!!"
Capt'n lou is hilarious in that.

[GackMan]

"Like a Virgin" is all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The whole song is a metaphor for big dicks.

No it's not. It's about a girl who is very vulnerable and she's been fucked over a few times. Then she meets some guy who's really sensitive—

--Whoa...whoa...time out Greenbay. Tell that bullshit to the tourists.

It's not about a nice girl who meets a sensitive boy. Now granted that's what "True Blue" is about, no argument about that.

Which one is "True Blue?"

You don't remember "True Blue?" That was a big ass hit for Madonna. Shit, I don't even follow this Tops In Pops shit, and I've at least heard of "True Blue."

Look, asshole, I didn't say I ain't heard of it. All I asked was how does it go? Excuse me for not being the world's biggest Madonna fan.

I hate Madonna.

I like her early stuff. You know, "Lucky Star," "Borderline" - but once she got into her "Papa Don't Preach" phase, I don't know, I tuned out.

Hey, fuck all that, I'm making a point here. You're gonna make me lose my train of thought.

Where was I?

You said "True Blue" was about a nice girl who finds a sensitive fella. But "Like a Virgin" was a metaphor for big dicks.

Let me tell ya what "Like a Virgin"'s about. It's about some cooze who's a regular fuck machine. I mean all the time, morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.

How many dicks was that?

A lot.

Then one day she meets a John Holmes motherfucker, and it's like, whoa baby. This mother fucker's like Charles Bronson in "The Great Escape." He's diggin tunnels. Now she's gettin this serious dick action, she's feelin' something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. It hurts. It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt. Her pussy should be Bubble-Yum by now. But when this cat fucks her,it hurts. It hurts like the first time. The pain is reminding a fuck machine what is was like to be a virgin. Hence, "Like a Virgin."

[blackjack18x]

"I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's fucked up. That ain't my fault. It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government fucks in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to fuckin' type, 'cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big fuckin' surprise"


and from something completely different:

"Fly Fatass! Fly!"

[Bravo_One_Three]

"See, it always comes back to the pie. No one ever says "Hey! You're that guy from Loser" or "Hey you rocked in "Boys and Girls".

"Come on, you stuck your dick in a pie"

[Suthrn Defndr]

Buckaroo Bonzai was a good flick for the soul. My latest favorite that I ran out and bought is Enemy at the Gates. I am kind of tight with the cash so a purchase is saying something.
I haven't got any spiffy quotes from Hollywood wars. Just trying to get my posts up to the avatar level (100).:D

[blackjack18x]

Call me 'Boo-Boo-Kitty-Fuck', bitch!


I am the master of the clit.

and one more for good measure:

Holy hell, is that monkey waving at us? Oh shit! It understood us! Maybe it's some kind of super monkey. What if there's more supermonkeys up at that lab? WHAT IF THEY'RE CREATING AN ARMY OF THEM? Holy shit! It must be a conspiracy like in the X-Files....ROSWELL style! This little monkey could be the fuckin' damn dirty ape responsible for the fall of the human race. In this world gone mad, we won't spank the monkey- the monkey will spank us. And after the fall of man, these monkey fucks'll start wearing our clothes and rebuilding the world in their image! OH and only those as super smart as me will be left alive to bitterly cry - DAMN YOUS! Goddamn yous all to hell!

[blackjack18x]

Originally posted by Suthrn Defndr
Buckaroo Bonzai was a good flick for the soul. My latest favorite that I ran out and bought is Enemy at the Gates. I am kind of tight with the cash so a purchase is saying something.
I haven't got any spiffy quotes from Hollywood wars. Just trying to get my posts up to the avatar level (100).:D

I've been meaning to see Enemy at the Gates after catching the documentary on Snipers on the History channel that mentioned that a few months back.

Jim

[DocHabu]

I'm reloaded...ok?
Come on in here you mother fuckers.
Come on in, I'm waiting for ya.
Why, you ain't coming in?
Ok, ... I'm coming out.
Are you up against it now motherfucker.
I'm gonna blow your fucking brains out.
You think your bigtime?
Your gonna fuckin die bigtime.
You ready?
Here comes the pain.

[blackjack18x]

This one might be a little too obscure. An oldie but, IMHO, a goodie.

It's depressing that the words "secret agent" have become synonymous with "sex maniac."

Are you Richard Burton?
No, I'm Peter O'Toole!
Then you're the greatest man that ever BREATHED

[Olsson]

A couple of my favorites:

" Yeah that's just the way it is. About the time I get to liking someone, they ain't around very long"

(deadpan) "I've noticed when you get to disliking someone, they ain't around very long either."


and:

(as cannibalistic, headhunting bear-things prepare to attack: "but I'm not a warrior!"

"Very soon, you will be."

[SHOOB]

13th Warrior?

[wolfhound227]

"Everbody gotta die sometime,Red" - SSGT Barnes, Platoon.

"No, no, don't tug on that, you never know what it's attached too"- Buckaroo Bonzia

"Big-Boo-Teh! Big-Boo-Teh!" - Buckaroo Bonzia

My favorite exchange of all time from Pale Rider:

Preacher: Long walk.

Settler: Yup.

[SHOOB]

"You just shot and unarmed man!!!!!!!!.............
Well.........................................He should of armed himself then........."

[blackjack18x]

In worst cowboy accent:
"Aw shit, Dick! What we gonna do now!?"

Here's some from possibly the best cowboy movie made:

"That's Latin, darlin'! It appears Mr. Ringo is an educated man. Now I really hate him!"

"You called down the thunder, well now you've got it!"
"You tell him the law is coming...you tell him I'm coming...and hell's coming with me, you hear!? HELLS COMING WITH ME!"

Damn, I might have to run out and buy that now.

and from the second best:

"Then you jump first."
"No, I said."
"What's the matter with you?"
"I can't swim."
" Why you crazy, the fall will probably kill you."

Card Player: I didn't know you were the Sundance Kid when I said you were cheating. If I draw on you, you'll kill me.
Sundance Kid: There's that possibility.

[SHOOB]

No there are one liners and then there is Tombstone.
"Your so drunk you're probably seeing double.........I have TWO GUNS.........One for each of ya!........."

OK now here is one from one of the greatest movies ever!
"I .....AM....AN F....B.....I AGENT!!!!!!!"
Was just kidding about great.

[blackjack18x]

I don't believe I'm posting this one:

"The Beach Boys is gonna get you a great ass whuppin', don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy! You can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man."

[XXNavy]

"He's not a hard man to find, leaves a trail of dead men wherever he goes"..

[rheanna_92]

Luck will save a man if he holds to the courage of his convictions

[blackjack18x]

Surprised these weren't done yet, they're not all that obscure, but good quotes nonetheless:

"I've got a bad feeling about this"
"Never tell me the odds."
"Do, or do not, there is not try."

[SHOOB]

Come to the Dark Side!

[blackjack18x]

"The alliance... will die. As will your friends. Good, I can feel your anger. I am unarmed. Take your weapon. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!"

"Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station!"

Yup, I'm a Star Wars geek.

Jim

[Bravo_One_Three]

"CAN YOU DIG IT!?"

[DFC5343]

"I only speak two languages. English and bad english".

[rheanna_92]

That's just like a Wop to bring a knife to a gunfight.

-Sean Connery
The Untouchables

[DFC5343]

"Sir...are you human?"


"Ahhhh...no I am a meat popsicle."

[NewportBarGuy]

"Green?"


"Super-green"

[GackMan]

Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me.

[blackjack18x]

Originally posted by Bravo_One_Three
"CAN YOU DIG IT!?"

"The truce, is it still on?"
"Warriors, come out to plaaaayaaay!"

And, just so you know, I just bought Tombstone and Butch Cassidan & The Sundance Kid on DVD. You've been warned.


Jim


Aw hell. Here's another one. "I'm your huckleberry"

[armybrat04]

"I don't speak freaky deaky dutch, ok, perv boy"

"Your a tri-pot"

And from one of my favorites:
Uncle Avi: Should I call you Bullet? Tooth? Bullet Tooth
Tony: You can call me Susan if it makes you happy.
Turkish: Fuck me, hold tight. What's that?
Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
Turkish: No, Tommy. There'a a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers?
Tommy: It's for protection.
Turkish: Protection from what? "Zee Germans"?

Vinny: Why are we stopped here? Whats wrong with that spot? Tyrone: It's too tight.
Vinny: Too tight? You could land a jumbo fucking jet in that!

[NewportBarGuy]

Mickey "dhsadfjhasd asdlkjfakljas lksjakjf sadlkjslkfjds dsfkj msdkjf doncha know?"

[GackMan]

"For every action there is a reaction…and a Pikey reaction…is quite a thing."


"I hate pikeys...."

[GackMan]

Originally posted by armybrat04
[BUncle Avi: Should I call you Bullet? Tooth? Bullet Tooth
Tony: You can call me Susan if it makes you happy. [/B]

[Lenny732]

Did your parents have any children that lived?

Your so ugley you could be a modern art masterpiece!!!

Pvt. Pyle what ever you do dont fall down,you'll break my fucking hart!

You climb obstacles like old people fuck!

Whats your name scum bag?

Hell i like you,you can come over my house and fuck my sister.

[Bravo_One_Three]

The best lines from FMJ:

Hartman: PRIVATE PYLE WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO MY BELOVED CORPS?
Pyle: SIR I DON'T KNOW SIR!
Hartman: YOU ARE DUMB PVT. PYLE BUT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW YUR LEFT FROM RIGHT?
Pyle: SIR NO SIR!
Hartman: THEN YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE! YOU WANT TO BE DIFFERENT!
Pyle: SIR NO SIR!
Hartman: (SLAP!) WHAT SIDE WAS THAT PVT. PYLE!?
Pyle: SIR RIGHT SIDE SIR!
Hartman: ARE YOU SURE PVT. PYLE!?
Pyle: SIR YES SIR!
Hartman: (SLAP!) WHAT SIDE WAS THAT PYLE!?
Pyle: SIR LEFT SIDE SIR!
Hartman: Don't fuck with me again Pyle, now pick up your fucking cover!

Hartman: HOLY SHIT, what that Pvt Pyle? WHAT IS IT!?
Pyle: SIR A JELLY DONUT SIR!
Hartman: A JELLY DONUT? HOW THE FUCK DID IT GET HERE!?
Pyle: SIR I TOOK IT FROM THE MESSHALL SIR!
Hartman: Is chow allowed in the barracks?
Pyle: SIR NO SIR!
Hartman: ARE YOU ALLOWED TO EAT JELLY DONUTS!?
Pyle: SIR NO SIR!
Hartman: And why is that Pvt. Pyle?
Pyle: SIR BECAUSE I'M TOO HEAVY SIR!
Hartman: BECAUSE YOU ARE A DISGUSTING FATBODY PVT PYLE!

"Here you go fat boy, they're paying for it... you eat it!"

"You know Rafterman, half of these whores are servicing officers in the Viet Cong, the other half have TB... make sure you only fuck the ones that cough."

"Anyone that runs is a VC! Anyone who doesn't run, is a well disciplined VC!"

[Lenny732]

when i was a child the doctor said "i swallowed a lot of aggression ".along with a lot of cheese burgers!:D
John Candy,Rip

[blackjack18x]

Originally posted by armybrat04
"I don't speak freaky deaky dutch, ok, perv boy"

"Your a tri-pot"

And from one of my favorites:
Uncle Avi: Should I call you Bullet? Tooth? Bullet Tooth
Tony: You can call me Susan if it makes you happy.
Turkish: Fuck me, hold tight. What's that?
Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
Turkish: No, Tommy. There'a a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers?
Tommy: It's for protection.
Turkish: Protection from what? "Zee Germans"?

Vinny: Why are we stopped here? Whats wrong with that spot? Tyrone: It's too tight.
Vinny: Too tight? You could land a jumbo fucking jet in that!

Do ya like Daghs?

It's a caravan, for me mum.

[blackjack18x]

Originally posted by Bravo_One_Three
The best lines from FMJ:

Hartman: PRIVATE PYLE WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO MY BELOVED CORPS?
Pyle: SIR I DON'T KNOW SIR!
Hartman: YOU ARE DUMB PVT. PYLE BUT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW YUR LEFT FROM RIGHT?
Pyle: SIR NO SIR!
Hartman: THEN YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE! YOU WANT TO BE DIFFERENT!
Pyle: SIR NO SIR!
Hartman: (SLAP!) WHAT SIDE WAS THAT PVT. PYLE!?
Pyle: SIR RIGHT SIDE SIR!
Hartman: ARE YOU SURE PVT. PYLE!?
Pyle: SIR YES SIR!
Hartman: (SLAP!) WHAT SIDE WAS THAT PYLE!?
Pyle: SIR LEFT SIDE SIR!
Hartman: Don't fuck with me again Pyle, now pick up your fucking cover!

Hartman: HOLY SHIT, what that Pvt Pyle? WHAT IS IT!?
Pyle: SIR A JELLY DONUT SIR!
Hartman: A JELLY DONUT? HOW THE FUCK DID IT GET HERE!?
Pyle: SIR I TOOK IT FROM THE MESSHALL SIR!
Hartman: Is chow allowed in the barracks?
Pyle: SIR NO SIR!
Hartman: ARE YOU ALLOWED TO EAT JELLY DONUTS!?
Pyle: SIR NO SIR!
Hartman: And why is that Pvt. Pyle?
Pyle: SIR BECAUSE I'M TOO HEAVY SIR!
Hartman: BECAUSE YOU ARE A DISGUSTING FATBODY PVT PYLE!

"Here you go fat boy, they're paying for it... you eat it!"

"You know Rafterman, half of these whores are servicing officers in the Viet Cong, the other half have TB... make sure you only fuck the ones that cough."

"Anyone that runs is a VC! Anyone who doesn't run, is a well disciplined VC!"

Damn man, I think you quoted every Sgt. Hartman part except for
"Pyle put down that god damned gun!"
BANG

Coincidentally, I finally got to see Mail Call for the first time tonight, R. Lee's still funny as hell.

[Bravo_One_Three]

"What are you doing?"
"I just wanted to cuddle..."
"Cuddle?, What a fag..."


"OK while Greenlys out getting coffee, anyone else want anything?"


"You and your fucking rope..."

[Para]

Ok, here is a classic.

MUNNY: I'm comin' outta here... an' any fucker I see out there, I'm gonna kill him... an' any fucker takes a shot at me, I ain't just gonna kill him, but I'm gonna kill his wife an' all his friends an' burn his fucking house, hear?

Nobody better shoot on account of I'm as mean as I say... maybe meaner. I am a damn badman an' you will not find a worse one in hell.

GERMANY JOE: (whispering) Go ahead, shoot him.

Charley just shakes his head and offers the rifle to Germany Joe. And Germany Joe doesn't want it.

GERMANY JOE: I endt no dehpoody. (translation: I ain't no deputy)

[myclearcreek]

"Onion bagel and cream cheese."

"We got us a cowboy."


Rhonda

[armybrat04]

FMJ...
Gunny Hartman: Who said that? Who the fuck said that? Who's the slimy communist shit twinkle-toed cocksucker who just signed his own death warrant?
Gunny Hartman: Private Pyle, I'm gonna give you three seconds, exactly three fuckin' seconds, to wipe that stupid lookin' grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull fuck you!
Gunny Hartman: Bullshit! It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress.
One of my favs from the movie:Gunny Hartmam: Pyle, you had best unfuck yourself and start shitting me Tiffany cufflinks or I will definitely fuck you up!

[Bravo_One_Three]

What's your excuse?
Sir Excuse for what sir?
I'm asking the fucking questions private do you mind!?
Sir no sir!
Well thank you very much can I be in charge for a little while?

Are you shook up? Are you nervous!?
Sir I am sir!
Do I make you nervous?
SIR...
SIR WHAT, WERE YOU ABOUT TO CALL ME AN ASSHOLE?!

[blackjack18x]

Okay, this is from quite a few movies in the 80's. I'll have to set it up though.

A couple are in the woods about to get busy.

Girl:What's that sound?
Guy: Nothing baby, now get undressed.
Girl: I swear I heard something out there.
Guy: Don't worry, I'm here. What's the worst that can happen?

Cue "kill, kill, kill" music.

Sorry, TNN is running a Friday the 13th marathon this week.

[NWPTrainer]

Okay, I cannot believe noone has included two lines from a classic war flick......

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning..."

and...

"Charlie don't surf!"


Or another one from a REALLY cheesy 80's flick.....

"...You are NOT a GOD!"
"Why don't'cha pull the trigger and find out..."

[blackjack18x]

I was actually thinking of "Charlie don't surf" the other day.

Speaking of gods
"Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!"

[blackjack18x]

Aww, don't tell me this thread died out!?

Anybody? Bueller?

[Lenny732]

I eat Green Beret for breakfast.And right now i'am very hungry!

Why dont you let off a little steam Bennett.

And the classic,"I'll be back"

[Bravo_One_Three]

See this? *This* is my *boom stick*! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. *You got that*?

Well hello Mister Fancypants. Well, I've got news for you pal, you ain't leadin' but two things: Jack and shit... and Jack just left town.

[blackjack18x]

"Hail to the King baby"
"That was just pillow talk"
"Good, bad, I'm the one with the gun"

and from a little earlier
"Who's laughing now!?"

Jim

[psyopper]

Does anybody recognize the quote in my sig? Definitely one of the great classic war movies!!

[blackjack18x]

I'll take a stab and say the "Longest Day" but I'm probably wrong.

Jim

[psyopper]

Originally posted by blackjack18x
I'll take a stab and say the "Longest Day" but I'm probably wrong.

Jim Nope, although that is a definite favorite!!:)

[myclearcreek]

"Life is Tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid"
John Wayne .. Sergeant John M. Stryker, USMC
in "The Sands of Iwo Jima" movie

[psyopper]

Originally posted by myclearcreek
"Life is Tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid"
John Wayne .. Sergeant John M. Stryker, USMC
in "The Sands of Iwo Jima" movie Outstanding!! This young lady knows her movies!! Good job Rhonda!!

[Bravo_One_Three]

"We've known each other for many years, yet this is the first time you've come to me for councel or for help. I can't remember the last time you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is Godmother to your only child.

But lets be frank here, you never wanted my friendship and you were afraid to get into my debt."

Just finished watching... gets better every time.

[lrd]

Originally posted by Bravo_One_Three
"We've known each other for many years, yet this is the first time you've come to me for councel or for help. I can't remember the last time you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is Godmother to your only child.

But lets be frank here, you never wanted my friendship and you were afraid to get into my debt."
"Be my friend, Godfather."

We wore out the tape and now have the DVD.

[Bravo_One_Three]

I'm bringing this thread back!!!

"Get ready, little lady. Hell is coming to breakfast."

"Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."

"These things you say we will have, we already have.

That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another.

It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... and death. It shall be life. "

"Dyin' ain't much of a living boy!"

"Whooped em again, eh Josey!?"

[ralph conner]

One of my all time favorites:cool:

Quote :

Bounty hunter : "I had to come back."
Clint : "I know" - 'BOOM'

Also liked when Clint finally made friends with the dog and
swallowed his 'chaw juice.'

[XXNavy]

Reckon so...

"You gonna pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie?"...

My another of my favorites.
"Billy, you ain't afraid of no man!"
"There's something out there, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die".

[ralph conner]

I really need to see that one again. I forgot the lines...

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"There's something out there, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die".

Somebody from that movie may be our new gov... Either the monster or the hero - I forget. ;)

[SHOOB]

GET TO DA CHOPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

[Axe]

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Dean Wormer,Faber College

[ralph conner]

Originally posted by Axe
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Dean Wormer,Faber College


I sure miss John Belucci.

:)

[ktek01]

With all the Pulp Fiction I cant believe no one put up...

[XXNavy]

I saw that movie five, (count em, five) times the same weekend it came out. Still one of the best sci-fi movies of all times, IMHO.
Sonny Landham played Billy, the scout. It's just too bad "the big man" (Ventura) got killed off so soon.

BTW, I have Aliens Vs Predator, the game, on my `puter right now. It's pretty awsome, for a computer game...

[Axe]

Bring out yer dead.....CLANG.........Bring out yer dead!

I'm not dead yet!!!

Bonk!!!

[ralph conner]

"the big man" (Ventura) got killed off so soon"
_______________________________________

'Probably had to kill him off quickly so he wouldn't steal Arnold's
show...'

IMHO, the realistic part of that movie is the lack of the typical
SciFi premise that ET lifeforms will be benign.

Kinda like my other SciFi fav : The Thing

:D

[XXNavy]

I personally liked the minigun...

"C'mon, you fuckers, old Painless is waitin for ya"...

And the Little Richard tunes in the chopper...

[Gulf Yankee]

I can't believe that no one has quoted one of my favorite films:


"You're so ugly, you could be a poster boy for a prophylactic ad"

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"Just because we're holding hands doesn't mean we're going to take long hot showers together until the wee hours of the morning"

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Cop: "You're gonna pay full price, gunny. I don't give no serviceman's discount"

Gunny: "Too bad, your old lady does"

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Gunny: (waking the troops at 0500) "Drop your cocks and grab your socks"

Private: "But Gunny, you said 0600?"

Gunny "So I can't tell time"

[SHOOB]

".....are you going to sit there with the, I just pumped the neighbor's cat, look on your face?"

"Shut your hole hippee!"

[SHOOB]

Speaking of movies no one has quoted yet.
"Fear causes hesitation and hesitation will cause your worse fears to come true"

"Get me TWO Utah......TWO!"

[DCSO]

"Where are you going you fool, it's only a flesh wound"
Monty Python is a nut. Got to love limey humor!

STAY SAFE

DCSO

[Kid A]

"Oh, by the way, Homer? On your way out if you could kill a couple people for me it would really help me out a lot."

Hank "Don't Call Me Scorpion" Scorpio

[mac3982]

best thing... at the gun show a guy with a tee shirt says" charlie don't surf "and its got a pic on "da man" charlie manson on it!

[Ex-PH]

"They're not Nazi's, Donny, they're Nihilists. There's a difference."


"Who am I? Who am I? I'll tell ya who I am...I'M A GODDAMN VETERAN, THAT'S WHO I AM!"

[Ben Gandhi]

From one of the most underrated movies of all time:

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"You all right?"

"No, I'm not all right. I'm hurt, I'm pissed, I gotta find a new job."

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"You're a handsome devil, what's you're name?"

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If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.

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"Debi's House. Kind of crept up on you, didn't it?"

"No, you drove us here."

[XXNavy]

You got me there...:(

[Bravo_One_Three]

Originally posted by blackjack18x
This one might be a little too obscure. An oldie but, IMHO, a goodie.

Are you Richard Burton?
No, I'm Peter O'Toole!
Then you're the greatest man that ever BREATHED

Casino Royale

[Bravo_One_Three]

Are we awake?
We're not sure. Are we black?
Yes, we are.
Then we're awake, but very puzzled.

I better go check out this Mongo character.
Oh no, don't do that.
Why not?
If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad.

Send wire, main office, tell them I said "ow", gotcha!

Goddammit, Mr. Lamarr, sir, you use your tongue purdier than a twenny dollar whore!

They said you was hung!
And they was right!

I hired you people to try to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots.

[DCSO]

"candy-gram for Mongo"

STAY SAFE

DCSO

[Ben Gandhi]

Originally posted by XXNavy
You got me there...:(

Grosse Pointe Blank. Great movie.

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"A BLACK SHERIFF?!?!?!"

"Why not? it worked in Blazing Saddles."

[SHOOB]

"Excuse me while I wip this out!"


JAKE: (to Sister Mary Stigmata) 5 grand? No problem, we'll have it for you in the morning. Let's go, Elwood.
SISTER MARY STIGMATA: No, no, I will not take your filthy stolen money!
JAKE: Well then... I guess you're really up shit creek.
(Sister Mary Stigmata hits Jake with a ruler for swearing)
SISTER MARY STIGMATA: I beg your pardon, what did you say?
JAKE: I offered to help you... You refused to take our money. Then I said; I guess you're really up Shit Creek.
(Sister Mary Stigmata hits Jake with the ruler again)
ELWOOD: Christ Jake! Take it easy man.
(Sister Mary Stigmata hits Elwood)
JAKE: Oh shit!
(Sister Mary Stigmata hits Jake)
ELWOOD: Jesus Christ!
(Sister Mary Stigmata hits Elwood)
JAKE: Shit!

[TXSWAT]

(Plainclothes Officer walks up to front door of a residence, rings doorbell and wishes to speak with a prostitute, who is hosting a client inside the residence. The John walks up to front door in underwear to see who it is).

John: "Everything alright doll? Want me to get rid of him?"

Officer: "Hit the road pal"

John: "Maybe I will, maybe I won't."

Officer: (pulls out and displays badge of office) "LAPD shitbird. Get the f@*# outta here or I'll call your wife to come get you."

John: (retrieves his clothes from the living room and walks through the front door) "Officer"

Officer: "Councilman."

[Ben Gandhi]

"I looked left...Hollywood looked right...I asked Hollywood, "Where'd he go?"...Hollywood said, "WHERE'D WHOOO GOOOOO???"

"I WANT SOME BUTTS!!!"

"That's a negative ghostrider, the pattern is full."

[brewmonkey]

"Face it kid, you're a neo-maxizoomdweebie! I mean what else would you be doing if you weren't out making yourself a better citizen?"

[Invisible J]

Originally posted by Ex-PH
"They're not Nazi's, Donny, they're Nihilists. There's a difference."


"Who am I? Who am I? I'll tell ya who I am...I'M A GODDAMN VETERAN, THAT'S WHO I AM!"

"I am the walrus" "Shut the fuck up Donny!"

"Nobody fucks with the Jesus"

[Sdiver]

"A Broken Arrow. What's that?"
"It's a code word we have when we lose a Nuclear weapon."
"I don't know what's scarier. The fact that we lost a necular weapon or that it happens so much that we have a code word for it."

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"WILL...YOU....STOP...SHOOTING...AT....THE...THERMO NECULAR....WEAPONS...."

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[mac3982]

why do i have to be Mr. Pink?

[brewmonkey]

"You look like the piss boy!"

"And you look like a bucket of shit!"

[Bravo_One_Three]

Originally posted by brewmonkey
"You look like the piss boy!"

"And you look like a bucket of shit!"

"It's good to be the king!"

"De-MO-Naaaaaaaayyyyyy!"

"Give to Odipus! Give to Odipus! Hey, whats up Josiphus!?"
"What's up mother-fucker!?"

"What part of Ethiopia are you from?"
"West siiiiide"

[Sdiver]

"It's Good Ta Be Da King."
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"Your Majesty, the peasants are revolting."
"You're telling me.....They stink on ice......PULL !!!!!!!"
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"Seize that man !!!!"
"Ahhhh...seize this honkius."
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"Stop the cart...stop the cart......The nose knows.....Roman Red....A whole field of Wacky Weedius."
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"We are now armed with mighty joint."
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"You men go that way !!!!!! You men go that way !!!!!!!! I'm gonna stay here and walk around in a cricle."
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"Do you care if it falls?"
"What's that?"
"The Roman Empire."
"FUCK IT...."

[Sharky]

"I got a BAD feelin bout this one Bob!"

"We all gotta die sometime, Red."

[Bravo_One_Three]

Originally posted by Sharky
"I got a BAD feelin bout this one Bob!"

"We all gotta die sometime, Red."

"He's laughin at you man, that's the way the gook laughs!"

"Holy Shit! Did you see they way that dudes head just came apart!"

"I say we do the whole village!"

[Ben Gandhi]

Mike: What the fuck are you carrying a gun for? What, in case somebody steps to you, Snoop Dogg?

Sue: Hey man, you're not from here, alright. You don't know how it is. I grew up in L.A.

Trent: Anaheim.

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Hey! What're you kicking me for? You want me to ask? All right, I'll ask! Ma'am, where do the high school girls hang out in this town?

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I'm gonna make Gretzky's head bleed for super fan 99 over here.

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Mike: Hi, how are you ladies doing this evening?
Girl at the Party: What do you drive?

[mac3982]

i was in their doin it man you don't know what i did... what you did was drop the ball probie.. you split the team...

[brewmonkey]

"This aint hot! This is a setting for London broil. I don't think it gets this hot in Africa!"

[ktek01]

Originally posted by Bravo_One_Three
"He's laughin at you man, that's the way the gook laughs!"

"I say we do the whole village!"


LMAO I used those two on a patrol in Thailand, PL was not amused.:D

[Scotty]

Let him in Mikey! Is he brown? Is he clean? Mikey is he clean?

Let's get out of here. Yeah, this party's dead anyway.

Who's the big winner tonight? Mikey wins!

Scotty

[Ben Gandhi]

Trent: You know what you are? You're like a big bear with claws and with fangs...

Sue: ...big fucking teeth, man.

Trent: Yeah... big fuckin' teeth on ya'. And she's just like this little bunny, who's just kinda cowering in the corner.

Sue: Shivering.

Trent: Yeah, man just kinda... you know, you got these claws and you're staring at these claws and your thinking to yourself, and with these claws you're thinking, "How am I supposed to kill this bunny, how am I supposed to kill this bunny?"

Sue: And you're poking at it, you're poking at it...

Trent: Yeah, you're not hurting it. You're just kinda gently batting the bunny around, you know what I mean? And the bunny's scared Mike, the bunny's scared of you, shivering.

Sue: And you got these fucking claws and these fangs...

Trent: And you got these fucking claws and these fangs, man. And you're looking at your claws and you're looking at your fangs. And you're thinking to yourself, you don't know what to do, man. "I don't know how to kill the bunny." With *this* you don't know how to kill the bunny, do you know what I mean?

Sue: You're like a big bear, man.

Mike: So you're not just like fucking with me?

Trent: No I'm not fucking with you.

Sue: Honestly, man.

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Mike: Do you think we'll get there by midnight?
Trent: Baby, we're going to be up five hundy by midnight!

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Mike: Haven't you seen Boyz N The Hood? Now one of us is going to get shot.

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[BenD550]

I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?

-
I can do anything, Im the chief of police

[Sdiver]

Since it comes out tomorrow on DVD...we gotta do a few quotes from the A.H.

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor ?!?!?"
"Germans???"
"Forget it, he's on a roll."
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"Drunk, fat and stupid is no way to go through life son."
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"TOGA !!!!!! TOGA !!!!! TOGA !!!!! TOGA !!!!!!
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"We can't have a toga party. We're on 'Double Secret' Probation....what ever the Hell that is."

[Tabasco]

Steve Grayce, was a 1930’s detective character in a short story titled “The King in Yellow”, by Raymond Chandler. While talking to a stunning readhead, she orders him a drink and he orders a Coke with a dash of bitters. She chides him about the lack of booze, to which he responds:

“I’m an occasional drinker. The kind of guy who goes out for a beer, and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard”.

[mccarthy]

and from my personal favorite...

"You can get killed walking your doggie."

"Cause she's got a GREAT ASS!"

[socket]

"And you've got your head.. ALL THE WAY UP IT!"

[Mike Hunt]

Dont be selfish, share your quotes too.
The tighter you hold on to life the more it slips away from you.

When you face someone willing to die for his beliefs this is good, both you and he have the same aim in mind.

Anyone who believes that they are truly ready to die, will.

Bloodimindedness will defeat skill on all occasions.

There are two ways to defeat an opponent. Work against them, or work with them.

Absence of body is better than presence of mind.

If you can't win a fair fight, cheat.

If someone claims that weapons are for weaklings then I'd prefer to face them over one of their weaklings.

Don't fear the brave man, fear the coward who will fight merely to deny his fear.

If you are at someone's mercy pray that they are evil, since evil loves to gloat and mock. A good person will finish you without a word.

Conscious thought and movement should never be linked, they merely hamper one another.

If you can defend yourself then you can help defend a victim.

Possessions can be replaced, a life cannot.

[RIT_MEDIC]

It is never right, to do wrong, to get a chance to do right.

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I am stealing this one:

Don't fear the brave man, fear the coward who will fight merely to deny his fear.


James D

[XGEP]

'May You Live an Interesting Life'

Chinese Proverb, considered a curse not a blessing.

[RipperTOW]

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-- sometimes attributed to G. Orwell

"Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation."
-- William Lloyd Garrison (abolitionist, in response to criticism that his anti-slavery views were too radical)

"Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demand for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen."
-- Ayn Rand

"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
-- Patrick Henry

[socket]

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

Thomas Paine

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

Samuel Adams

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

Alexander Tyler

[Sdiver]

Those who long for Peace....Must prepare for War.

[BadMuther]

There are some great ones out there, from some great men.

Some of my favorites are a little simpler though.

"If you ain't cheatin, you ain't trying"-any Ranger

"Stickin feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken"-Brad Pitt, Fight Club

"America was neither founded, nor freed, by the well behaved."-unk

"What country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms......What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is natural manure."-Thomas Jefferson

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[Axe]

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they are useless.

When you think the battle is over, quickly sharpen your sword.

[Ex-PH]

Fuck france!

- Bravo 1/3

[PrincessPatriot]

"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water."
~Nancy Reagan

[PrincessPatriot]

Originally posted by Ex-PH
Fuck france!

- Bravo 1/3
O.K.... that was funny.

[Mephistopheles]

"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet."
- Lyle Myhur

"Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check."
- M. C. Escher

"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."
- Andrew Carnegie

"For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency."
- Eric Ambler

[Mephistopheles]

Originally posted by Ex-PH
Fuck france!

- Bravo 1/3
"Bonjour, you cheese eating surrender monkeys!"
- Groundskeeper Willie

[Fire-Gunner]

http://www.angelfire.com/yt/scully1/images/willie5.jpg

[mccarthy]

"This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the utility of existance."
Cormac McCarthy

[lrd]

“I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon. To seek opportunity to develop whatever talents God gave me - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say: ‘This, with God’s help, I have done.’ All this is what it means to be an American.”
~Dean Alfange

[brewmonkey]

"I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day"
- Dean Martin

"I like to say dark beer is a little bit like going to church: Everybody talks about it , but few people actually go."
- F.X. Matt

"Who needs a born-on date when you're in the delivery room?"
- Sign Hanging in my brewhouse

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

[Gulf Yankee]

Originally posted by brewmonkey
"I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink beer to celebrate a major event such as the fall of communism or the fact that the refrigerator is still working."
- Dave Barry

"I only drink on auspicious occasions...like sundown"

[Per Ardua]

I only drink on days ending with a "Y" :D

[wolfhoundcowboy]

"If you are going through hell .... keep going."
-Winston Churchill-

It is better to keep one's mouth closed and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain

"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best."
- Walter Payton

[Kid A]

"The doctors say hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?" - Ronald Reagan


"Molon Labe" (Come and get them)
A Spartan's response to a Persian's insistence that the Persians did not want the Spartan's lives, only their weapons.

[C-M-R]

"Come to me if you want a solution. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for."

Said by a husband looking for trouble.

"Sympathy is what your girlfriend is for."

said by an angry wife.


Be careful what you say. Wives have long memories.

[lrd]

Originally posted by C-M-R

Be careful what you say. Wives have long memories. And that is the best quote of the day. :D

[MJH]

Also seen on the first page of specialoperations.com.


"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

[Bourne]

Two of my favorites:

"Believe in yourself." - Steve Prefontaine

"I once met three guys named pain, suffering, and sacrifice. Now, we're inseparable. We're best friends." - Lance Armstrong

[1026]

"Son, you'd better soak your socks in kerosene so the ants don't get your candy ass."

[Gypsy]

Gads...I collect quotes. Here's some favorites....


"People like me do the things I do, so that people like you can continue to do the things you do."-- Johnny Micheal Spann, Killed in Action (Afghanistan) 25 November, 2001

All around us, it is as if the universe is holding its breath. Waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments of revelations. This has the feeling of both. There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war that we fight is not against powers and principalities. It is against chaos and despair. --Babylon 5

"Ask not alone for victory, ask for courage. For if you can endure, you bring honor to yourself. Even more, you bring honor to us all." Unknown

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." Rowland R. Hosteins, Jr.

"We will not waiver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail." President G. W. Bush

"I'm not confused, just well mixed." ~Robert Frost

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the
atmosphere." ~Thomas Jefferson

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM (1874-1956) statement made in 1943

[KJT4]

Originally posted by wolfhoundcowboy
"If you are going through hell .... keep going."
-Winston Churchill-

I like that one too. Here are some more:

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Fortune Favors the Bold -Virgil


They can conquer who believe they can. -Virgil


Deeds Not Words - 22nd INF Reg.


Candygram for Mongo!

[gk404]

"Stand for something or you'll fall for anything"

Not sure who by

[Polar Bear]

I’m not God, but I am the closest thing you will ever meet, so don't piss me off

You know you’re in trouble when sober suddenly has three syllables in it

[troy2k]

My two current favorites make up my signature, the first is properly attributed, the second I simply consider the "SAS" quote.

Others held in high regard:
"Doing bad things to bad people..."
3rd Special Forces Group

"Next to war, all other endeavors pale in comparison"
Unknown (to me anyhow) Greek

"Permanent fortifications are a monument to man's stupidity"
General George S. Patton

"In Vino Veritas"
Brewmonkey I can't believe you didn't peg this one and the next also.

"Beer is proof that God loves us."
Benjamin Franklin

More to follow...

[ralph conner]

'Walk softly - live long! - American Indian saying

'Duty is as heavy as a mountain. Death is light as a feather -
Japanese saying

'The dog is the only animal that returns to it's vomit' - Indian saying

'A cobra with a jewel on it's hood is the most dangerous of all -
Indian saying

'A rabbit always has two exits to it's lair' - Chinese saying

'Far from the eyes - far from the heart' - French saying

'The center of the sun is a ball of fire. Everything else is BS' -
George Carlin's explaination of the meaning of the universe

[echoes]

I start every day with a fun little saying, as I do battle in some way or another, everyday. These can be applied to everyday life, and are very useful.

SUN TZU said: (quote)

*All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity.

*When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are near.

*Offer the enemy a bait to lure him; feign disorder and strike him.

*When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him.

*Anger his General and confuse him.

*Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

*Keep him under a strain and wear him down

*When he is united, divide him.

*Attack if he is unprepared; sally out when he does not expect you.

These are the strategist's keys to victory.

[ch0ker]

Oddly enough, I came across this in my Western Civ textbook in college:

a knight cannot distinguish himself in war if he has not trained for it in tourneys. he must have seen his blood flow, heard his teeth crack under fist blows, ...and, after being twenty times unhorsed, have risen twenty times to fight.

"endeavor to persevere"

and the speech by Vince Lombardi "What it takes to be #1"

[Odin's Underling]

What good is power if you don't abuse it?
Hillary Clinton

I don't know how my car went off the bridge. I must have swallowed a bad ice cube officer.
Ted Kennedy

[yotanka]

By Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.:

"It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing."

"We could have arrived sooner but for the fact that if one flies over Russian occupied territory they shoot at you. Nice friends."

"I consider it no sacrifice to die for my country. In my mind, we came here to thank God that men like these have lived rather than to regret that they have died."

"In view of the prevalent opinion in America that soldiers are, of all persons, the least capable of discussing military matters and that their years of special training is nil compared to the innate military knowledge of lawyers, doctors, and preachers, I am probably guilty of a great heresy in daring to discuss tanks from the viewpoint of a tank officer."

"Aviation cannot take prisoners nor hold ground."

"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is, "To use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."

"We promised the Europeans freedom. It would be worse than dishonorable not to see they have it. This might mean war with the Russians, but what of it? They have no Air Force anymore, their gasoline and ammunition supplies are low. I've seen their miserable supply trains; mostly wagons draw by beaten up old horses or oxen. I'll say this; the Third Army alone with very little help and with damned few casualties, could lick what is left of the Russians in six weeks. You mark my words. Don't ever forget them. Someday we will have to fight them and it will take six years and cost us six million lives."

Jennifer Martinez sends

[SHOOB]

"Lord, protect me from my friends. I can handle my enemies" Voltaire


"We came, we saw, WE KICKED ITS ASS!" Peter Venkman

[Copenhagen]

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." - General George S. Patton

"Good manners are the velvet glove that covers the iron fist."

"If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective." - Ted Nuggent

[brewmonkey]

"Beer is proof that God loves us."

But you missed the rest....

"And wants us to be happy"

[Gulf Yankee]

Originally posted by yotanka
By Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.:

"It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing."

Jennifer Martinez sends


This quote is dead-on accurate, even more so today than when Patton was alive.

Thanks, Jen :)

[yotanka]

Originally posted by Gulf Yankee
This quote is dead-on accurate, even more so today than when Patton was alive.

Well GY, it is my opinion that Gen. Patton was never wrong. I find that his writings and quotes are timely, still relevant today.

Jennifer Martinez sends

[Hawkeye]

"In our business winninng is everything, second place is unthinkable"

GEN Henry H. Shelton

"When I die, I want to go just like my Grandfather, sound asleep....Not yelling and screaming like all his passengers".

Unk.

[Sean0352]

A little off center but still applies...Do or Do Not, there is no Try...Yoda


Sean

[troy2k]

Found on a Special Forces Communications Sergeant's Refridgerator Door...

DESIDERATA
-- Max Ehrmann, 1927 --

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.


With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

[PrincessPatriot]

Wow..... these are some great quotes. I have to respond to two different posts:

Troy2k -- THAT was amazingly beautiful with such a good message. I am going to print that one out and put it on my own fridge!

Sirenx -- YOUR quotes are keepers! I love the one by Mark Twain! So true!!!!!

Keep 'em coming, folks.... this thread was a great idea!

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill, and childbirth... But amusing? Never." --Edna Ferber

[RipperTOW]

"Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the opportunity to write and thank her."
--WC Fields

[Ice H]

Cool thread. :D Here's some of my favorites:

Aesop:
Better no rule than cruel rule.

It's easy to be brave from a safe distance.

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

Please all, and you will please none.


Gertrude Franklin Atherton:
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering ttruth.


Philip James Bailey:
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from hell.


Lucille Ball:
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.


Sir Max Beerbohm:
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.


L. Carroll:
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly!
Like a teatray in the sky.


Joseph Chamberlain:
I never like being hit without striking back.


Samule Langhorne Clemens ("Mark Twain"):
War talk by men who have been in war is always interesting; wheras moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.


Joseph Conrad:
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.


Elmer Davies:
Atomic warfare is bad enough; biological warfare would be worse; but there's something that is worse than either. The French can tell you what it is; or the Czechs, or the Greek, or the Norwegians, or the Filipinos; it is subjection to an alien oppressor.


Charles Dickens:
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.


Charles Monroe Dickinson:
If the days grow dark, if care and pain
Press close and sharp on heart and brain,
Then lovely pictures still shall bloom
Upon the walls of memory's room.


Dionysis the elder:
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.



"George Eliot" (Mary Ann Cross):
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty mead 'em to match the men.


Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Hitch your wagon to a star.

To be great is to be understood.

For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Beauty without grace is the hook without bait.


Euripides:
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.


Benjamin Franklin:
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.


William Hazlitt:
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

When a person dies who does any one thing better than any one else in the world, it leaves a gap in society.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.


George Herbert:
Good words are worth much and cost little.


Homer:
Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.


Horace:
With soaring head I'll strike the stars of heaven.


Edgar Watson Howe:
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.


Victor Hugo:
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.


Rudyard Kipling:
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.


Louis XVIII:
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.


Hector Hugh Munro:
Women and elephants never forget an injury.

A little inaccuracy somethimes saves tons of explanation.


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche:
Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.


Alexander Pope:
He serves me most, who serves his country best.


Harry Potter (and the chamber of secrets):
I would like to register my astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.


The Instruction of Ptahhotep (Ca. 2675 B.C.):
To resist him that is set in authority is evil.


Francois Rabelais:
I drink no more than a sponge.


Jean Jaques Rousseau:
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.


Seneca:
The most knowing of persons,- gossip.


George Bernard Shaw:
Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.


Algernon Sidney:
It is not necessary to light a candle in the sun.


Gertrude Stein:
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.
This is what makes America what it is.


Stein Song:
There's a notable family called Stein:
There's Gertrude, there's Ep, and there's Ein.
Gert's writings are punk,
Ep's statues are junk,
And nobody understands Ein.
(Ep= Jacob Einstein, sculptor. Ein= Albert Einstein, mathematician).


Talleyrand (receipe on coffee):
Black as the devil,
Hot as hell,
Pure as an angel,
Sweet as love.


Sara Williams:
Though my soul may set in darkness,
it will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.


Woodrow Wilson:
The world must be safe for democracy.


Daniel Webster:
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.



*If you don't have a vision of where you want to go, then you'll never get there.

*Experience is the extract of suffering.

*You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.

*An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation.

*If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

*Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

*What you did is not important.
What you learned from it is.

*If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old.

*A good memory is needed once you have lied.

*Men are like chocolate bars- soft, smooth, and they always go to your hips...

[Alacrity]

(paraphrased, as I don't remember it exactly) "There are only two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." - Albert Einstein

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." I forget the one who said that... mighta been Picasso, but I'm probably wrong.

And my favorite. From Musashi:

"He had come to see the Way of the Sword in a new light. A year or two earlier, he had wanted only to conquer all rivals, but now the idea that the sword existed for the purpose of giving him power over other people was unsatisfying. To cut people down, to triumph over them, to display the limits of one's strength, seemed increasingly vain. He wanted to conquer himself, to make life itself submit to him, to cause people to live rather than die. The Way of the Sword should not be used merely for his own perfection. It should be a source of strength for governing people and leading them to peace and happiness."

[Ghostrider 14]

Originally posted by yotanka
Well GY, it is my opinion that Gen. Patton was never wrong. I find that his writings and quotes are timely, still relevant today.

Jennifer Martinez sends

A woman who appreciates Patton! The tanker gods are smiling:D

[XXNavy]

"I believe not in magic, nor sorcery! Lop it's head from it's shoulders. If it's still standing, walk around behind it, and see what's propping it up".
Conan the Barbarian

[XavieN]

Thank you for starting this thread.
I love and collect quotes... (http://www.pmfp.net/main/op.php?cnt=inc/documents/quotes&&t=2)

These are some of my favourites:
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stuart Mill

"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"So unmerciful is life, that everything afterwards is too late."

"Not for fame or reward. Not for place
or for rank. Not lured by ambition
or goaded by necessity. But in simple
obedience to duty as they understood it.
These men suffered all, sacrificed all,
dared all and died."

"Having a SF Commo MOS won't get you a better connection with Jesus. Screwing up during an operation will move you to the head of the line..."
-Tracy Paul Warrington

[Anakin]

"Sometimes the only chance of peace is a readiness for war." - Tony Blair.

[Ghostrider 14]

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.-Edmund Burke

a complimentary quote:

To do nothing makes failure inevitable. - ME!

[RAT]

Here are some I just got from e-mail...

Some oldies but goodies; especially GYSGT Correll's quote at the bottom, from RIP circa '91
Military Quotes
Listed in no particular order

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave...
--Patrick Henry--

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
--Napoleon Bonaparte--

*From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
--Thomas Jefferson--

We have met the enemy and they are ours!
--Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813--

Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
--Julius Caesar--

*War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stewart Mill--

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
--William Tecumseh Sherman--

Freedom isn't free.
--Anonymous--

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
--Winston Churchill--

If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it.
--Anonymous (1940's saying)--

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
--Rudyard Kipling--

Soldiers are men...most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war.
--Henry Knyvett--

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
--Adapted from Henry G. Bohn--

*Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
--Josephus Daniels--

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
--Napoleon I--

*Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.
--Ronald Reagan--

*A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
--John F. Kennedy--

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
--Admiral David D. Porter, USN--

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
--George Patton--

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
--Will Rogers--

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
--Thucydides--

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
--Napoleon Bonaparte--

We make war that we may live in peace.
--Aristotle--

In war there is no substitute for victory.
--General Douglas MacArthur--

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
--Ernest Miller Hemmingway--

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
--Charles Edward Montague--

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
--Oscar Wilde--

*Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
--Blake Clark--

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
--Helvetius--

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier.
--Samuel Johnson--

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell--

**Now I recall the Recon Marines ragged, filthy cammie shirted young men in green paint who move silent like the fog with deadly purpose in their eyes. Swift, Silent, Deadly. I smile. -
--GYSGT Correll, USMC, Retired-- Recon Marine

Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne

[Anakin]

"Life without freedom is no life at all" - off the back of the "Braveheart" DVD.

[pondwater]

IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt
you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your
master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your
aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you given your life to,
broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out
tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and
sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold
on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your
virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common
touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

[King]

Tommy

I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o'beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here." The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die, I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:

O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away"; But it's ``Thank you, Mister Atkins,'' when the band begins to play, The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play, O it's ``Thank you, Mr. Atkins,'' when the band begins to play.

I went into a theatre as sober as could be, They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me; They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls, But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside"; But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide, The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide, O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap; An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.

Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy how's yer soul?" But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints: Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;

While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind," But it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind,There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind, O it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.

You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires an' all: We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational. Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face, The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's "Saviour of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; But Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!

------------------

Rudyard Kipling

[smith308]

My sig file below is my favorite. Got a whole 100 page log Word file of 'em but its the best.

[The Saint]

My Sig. is one of my fav's although from a movie.

And shepherds we shall be, for thee my lord for thee. Power hath decended forth from thy hand so our feet may swiftly carry out thy command. And we shall flow a river forth to thee and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.- Boondock Saints

[airbornelawyer]

It's not the size of the dog in the fight that matters; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain

I'd take you seriously but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
-- Jack Handy

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
-- Jack Handy

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do, you're a mile away and you have his shoes.
-- inspired by Jack Handy

[M]y disagreement with the peace-at-any-price men, the ultrapacifists, is not in the least because they favor peace. I object to them, first, because they have proved themselves futile and impotent in working for peace, and second, because they commit what is not merely the capital error but the crime against morality of failing to uphold righteousness as the all-important end toward which we should strive.... I have as little sympathy for them as they have for the men who deify mere brutal force, who insist that power justifies wrongdoing, and who declare that there is no such thing as international morality. But the ultra-pacifists really play into the hands of these men. To condemn equally might which backs right and might which overthrows right is to render positive service to wrong-doers.... To denounce the nation that wages war in self-defense, or from a generous desire to relieve the oppressed, in the same terms in which we denounce war waged in a spirit of greed or wanton folly stands on a par with denouncing equally a murderer and the policeman who, at peril of his life and by force of arms, arrests the murderer. In each case the denunciation denotes not loftiness of soul but weakness both of mind and morals."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

[troy2k]

One of my favorites

Squad Leader: Ruck up, we're moving in two mikes...
Specialist D: Roger Sergeant, do I have time to rub one out?

My Bravo Fire Team Leader was a very special kind of person.

[Anakin]

One of my favorite quotes was heard around 9.11.01

"They have awakened a Sleeping Giant."

[brewmonkey]

Originally posted by DeadlyAnakinSkywalker
One of my favorite quotes was heard around 9.11.01

"They have awakened a Sleeping Giant."

It was "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and instilled in hima terrible resolve"

Try about 60 years earlier after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

And it was Admiral Yamamoto's response to the attack after the third wave was called off thinking they had successfully destroyed the pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.

[Anakin]

Originally posted by brewmonkey
It was "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant"

Try about 60 years earlier after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

And it was Admiral Yamamoto's response to the attack after the third wave was called off thinking they had successfully destroyed the pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.

Thanks for that. His fear was certainly correct.

[jellyJ]

'For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong'

[troy2k]

Senator Metzenbaum to Senator Glenn: "How can you run for Senate when
you've never held a "real job?"

Senator Glenn: "I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I
served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by
antiaircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the Space
Program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my Life on the line. It
was not a nine to five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash
receipts to the bank.

I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day... to a Veterans
Hospital and look those men - with their mangled bodies - in the eye,
and tell THEM they didn't hold a job!

You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to
the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee...and
you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DADS didn't hold
a job.

You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National
Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember,
and you watch those waving flags. You stand there, and you think about
this Nation, and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?

I'll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day
of your life thanking God that there were some men - SOME MEN - who held
a REAL job. And they required a dedication to a purpose - and a love
of country and a dedication to duty - that was more important than life
itself.
And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible.

I HAVE held a job, Howard! ---What about you?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For those who don't remember - During WWII, Howard Metzenbaum was an
attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA. Now he is a
Senator!

[PrincessPatriot]

Originally posted by troy2k
I'll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men - SOME MEN - who held a REAL job. And they required a dedication to a purpose - and a love of country and a dedication to duty - that was more important than life itself. And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible.

Whoa... what timing. Their sacrifices will never be forgotten.

Thank you, Troy.

[smith308]

"...a society too squeamish to call evil by its right name has destroyed its first, best defense against cutthroats."
David Gelernter (Unabomber victim)

"Having a gun and thinking your armed is like owning a piano and thinking you're a musician".
Jeff Cooper

BGs are dangerous. Training to survive them is risky, but less so than signing on as lunch
Anon

"There's a fine line between Hard Core and Stupid."
Unknown Marine Plt. Sgt

Life is a bad tactical position.
Anon

There are commands of the sovereign one does not accept. Sun Tzu

"Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of will"
Lord Moran; "The Anatomy of Courge"

"When men cease to believe in God, they do notbelieve in nothing; they believe in anything!"
G. K. Chesterton

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.”
Edward Everett Hale

"You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal."
John De Armond, Performance Engineering Magazine, 1994

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, or die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Robert Heinlein

"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."
Thomas Sowell

"Any idiot can face a crisis -- it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."
Anton Chekhov

"When research is limited or absent, anecdote prevails."
Robert H. Miller

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.
Aldo Leopold

... But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions. Even the standard example of ancient nonsense -- the debate about angels on pinheads -- makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.
S. J. Gould, "Wide Hats and Narrow Minds"

This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possibility of victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
John Steinbeck

Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke

"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." Mary Shafer, NASA Engineer

A true Warrior does not seek war, nor does he wish to do battle. He merely believes it is honorable to cling to a worthy cause. It is noble to reach out to those weaker than himself and it is valiant to believe that many things are worth giving up everything for.
Phil Messina

[troy2k]

"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." Mary Shafer, NASA Engineer

Estimated lifespan in today's Officer corps: 3.7 seconds.

[smith308]

troy2k said:

>Hmmm...

"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." Mary Shafer, NASA Engineer

Estimated lifespan in today's Officer corps: 3.7 seconds.<

troy2k, Mary Shafer's quote was made in the aftermath of the Challanger disaster/tragedy/fiasco

Don

[NewportBarGuy]

If someone can figure out the quote in my sig line, there's an almost as new copy of The Punisher on VHS up for grabs. We're talking Louis Gossett Jr here. High quality prize for whoever can figure it out without SSGT Google.

[Polar Bear]

SNL???

[NewportBarGuy]

You are getting warmer young Anakin.

[ktek01]

Originally posted by NewportBarGuy
If someone can figure out the quote in my sig line, there's an almost as new copy of The Punisher on VHS up for grabs. We're talking Louis Gossett Jr here. High quality prize for whoever can figure it out without SSGT Google.

Skit on SNL about a Blue Oyster Cult recording session, they were recording "Dont Fear The Reaper" That episode was on in re-runs just last month.

[Polar Bear]

I only remember it being on SNL and I have not watched it in awhile....and you won't let us Google:)

[NewportBarGuy]

If we can get the name of the actor that said these immortal words, then we have an absolute winner of the Grand Prize!

[nikto]

Will Ferrell

[Ghostrider 14]

Originally posted by NewportBarGuy
If we can get the name of the actor that said these immortal words, then we have an absolute winner of the Grand Prize!

Christopher Walken?

[ktek01]

Originally posted by nikto
Will Ferrell

Will Ferrel was playing the cowbell, Christopher Walken was the producer who just couldnt get enough cowbell.

[nikto]

Shit, you're right about Walken - I forgot that Ferrell was the "cure" for more cowbell............. That skit is classic, next to Will Ferrell as the kangaroo's bitch.

[NewportBarGuy]

ktek, Ghostrider, Lance Serge, and nikto,

Please report to Thunderdome. 4 men enter 1 man leaves, with a pristine copy of The Punisher. Never in all history has such a prize been offered. May the best man win.

[brewmonkey]

Two men enter, one man leaves!

I just finally got the midget out of my head from the last "Thunderdome" thread!!!

"WHO RULES BARTERTOWN?"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh........

[Ghostrider 14]

Ah, so......."There can be only one."

[Rob_0811]

Pardon the intrusion.

I thought you all might like these.

"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions, who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died."-Adlai Stevenson


"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden

Semper Fidelis,

Rob

[Gold4996]

Ducit Amor Patriae- Led by love of country

Vigilans Et Celer-Vigilant and swift

Intravique animum militaris gloriae cupido-
His heart was pierced by a craving for a soldier's glory.

Pain is good. Pain tells you when you're doing something hard right. It lets you know it's something you'll remember and appreciate forever. Learn to love pain. Don't fight it; accept it. Pain, despair, frustration, rage, sadness are just as important to making life beautiful as their brethren components: love, happiness, joy, contentedness, and satisfaction.

"In the absence of orders, go find something and Kill it."
-Erwin Rommel

If your fellow soldier is technically incompetent, poorly trained and physically weak, he is a threat to you
-COL Stambra

[sailor]

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

It's the lizard king he tried to do anything--Jim Morrison

One of my favorites

[EH162]

soldiers, the most poetic of all.

I salute you all!

E

[Narcosis]

“ Be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup it becomes the cup. If you put it into the bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a tea cup it becomes the tea cup. Now water can flow or it can crash.

Be water my friend.” - Bruce Lee

[Mayonaise]

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is
made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." H. L. Mencken

I believe that any man or woman who, for a period of say five years, has earned his or her living in some lawful and useful occupation, without any recourse to public assistance, should be allowed to vote and that no one else should be allowed to vote. ---H.L. Mencken 1956

"Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demand for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen." -- Ayn Rand

"The American Republic invites nobody to come. We will keep out nobody. Arrivals will suffer no disadvantages as aliens. Be they can expect no advantages either. Native-born and foreign-born face equal opportunities. What happens to them depends entirely on their individual ability and exertions, and on good fortune." -- John Quincy Adams 1819

[smith308]

"Every normal man must be tempted at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
--H. L. Mencken

[XGEP]

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

Edward Abbey

[Dark Helmet]

"Give me my wallet back out of that bag."

"Which one is yours?"

"It's the one that says 'Bad Motherfucker' on it."

[KJT4]

"He who hesitates, masturbates." -Don't remember which movie/tv show, some guy advising his buddy on picking up women.

[Bravo Five Romeo]

"wherever you go... there you are"
-Buckaroo Banzai

[Bravo Five Romeo]

seriously....

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
-Teddy Roosevelt

[Yama]

Originally posted by Bravo Five Romeo
"wherever you go... there you are"
-Buckaroo Banzai

"Hey, hey. Don't be mean. You don't have to be mean. 'Cos remember, no matter where you go: there you are."

[Yama]

Just to succeed at something is not enough; you must succeed correctly.

Neither womb, nor wealth he has not earned is the measure of a man, but what he has been trained to do. Only his skills are his worth.

Everything is a weapon in the hands of a man who understands.

To reason with the unenlightened is like trying to make buildings by watering stones.

Because a bug is faster than a flower does not make it a bolt of lightning.

He who holds the strongest sword makes his slightest whim legal.

When death speaks, everyone listens.

Mankind is the only species that laughs. Mankind is also the only species that dies from lack of conditioning.

[cannibal75]

This was my old sig line:
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." Frank Herbert

Some of my favorites from one of the best sources of quotations, "Fromt he Notebooks of Lazarus Long" by Robert Heinlein:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

"Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage._"

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."_

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect._
But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please -- this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time -- and squawk for more!
So learn to say No - and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you. (This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.) "

Hell, the whole book is great

s/f
cannibal75
sends

[ktek01]

"Fuck.... Ass!"

Boondock Saints


Finally saw that movie, friggin awesome. LMAO

[Ghostrider 14]

Originally posted by ktek01
"Fuck.... Ass!"

Boondock Saints


Finally saw that movie, friggin awesome. LMAO

Ditto, I finally saw it a couple weeks ago. It had me rolling.:D

[1775]

Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it. I'd prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to.

[Mayonaise]

"It's a whole lot better to go up river with seven studs than a hundred shitheads" Col. Charlie Beckwith

[Bravo_One_Three]

"We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly."

"They cut the power.

What do you mean "they cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals! "


"Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man? "
"No, have you?"

"Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"

"He figured he could get an alien back through quarantine, if one of us was impregnated, or whatever you call it, then frozen for the trip home. Nobody would know about the embryos we were carrying; me and Newt. Yes! The only way he could do it, was to sabotage certain freezers on the way home. Then he could jettison the bodies and make up any story he liked.

Fuck. He's dead.

You're dog meat pal!"

[SHOOB]

"Hudson sir!............. He's Hicks"

"man........ you look just like I feel."

[SHOOB]

".......stairs.............where do you think they go?..................
They go up, Ray!"

[Yama]

"...are you questioning me?! I'd hate to think you were questioning me, 'cause that tells me you don't think I know what I'm talking about."

"Everybody's got a plan until they've been hit. Well my friend... you've just been hit. The getting up... that's up to you. ... "