Favorite Famous Quotes
Thread Starter
Senior Member
Joined: 06-09-2009
Posts: 2,953
From: Clinton, Mass
Henry Fool: "It's a philosophy. A poetics. A politics, if you will. A literature of protest. A novel of ideas.
A pornographic magazine of truly comic book proportions. It is, in the end, whatever the hell I want it to be.
And when I'm through with it it's going to blow a hole this wide straight through the world's own idea of itself."
[sound of bottles breaking]
Henry Fool: "They're throwing bottles at your house. Come on. Let's go break their arms."
A pornographic magazine of truly comic book proportions. It is, in the end, whatever the hell I want it to be.
And when I'm through with it it's going to blow a hole this wide straight through the world's own idea of itself."
[sound of bottles breaking]
Henry Fool: "They're throwing bottles at your house. Come on. Let's go break their arms."
Thread Starter
Senior Member
Joined: 06-09-2009
Posts: 2,953
From: Clinton, Mass
From another Hal Hartley movie called The Book of Life
[Jesus and Satan are doing shots in a bar discussing humans]
Satan: It's amazing the things they do. They're inventing themselves now. Artificial intelligence and cybergenetics and so on.
Jesus Christ: It's impressive, I admit.
Satan: They're cross-fertilizing pears with apples and goats with sheeps, tobacco plants with lightning bugs.
Jesus Christ: Now that's just stupid.
Satan: Well, I agree
[different scene]
Lawyer: It's the Mormons. I'm outta here, you're on your own.
Jesus Christ: Now, who are the Mormons again?
[different scene]
Jesus Christ: I had considered the truth of the gospels to be self evident, but I had no idea it would be perverted by people who claimed to preach it in my name.
[different scene]
Satan: I talked to your boyfriend today.
Magdalena: You're so unimaginative.
[Jesus and Satan are doing shots in a bar discussing humans]
Satan: It's amazing the things they do. They're inventing themselves now. Artificial intelligence and cybergenetics and so on.
Jesus Christ: It's impressive, I admit.
Satan: They're cross-fertilizing pears with apples and goats with sheeps, tobacco plants with lightning bugs.
Jesus Christ: Now that's just stupid.
Satan: Well, I agree
[different scene]
Lawyer: It's the Mormons. I'm outta here, you're on your own.
Jesus Christ: Now, who are the Mormons again?
[different scene]
Jesus Christ: I had considered the truth of the gospels to be self evident, but I had no idea it would be perverted by people who claimed to preach it in my name.
[different scene]
Satan: I talked to your boyfriend today.
Magdalena: You're so unimaginative.
Senior Member
Joined: 05-13-2008
Posts: 2,075
From: Knoxville, TN
"Overwhelming force, is always an acceptable option when faced with the unknown"
Carl Sagen when asked how the military would react to an alien visitation. (when he was designing the plaques for the Voyager spacecraft)
Not one of his positive comments, sarcastic, but most likely true.
Carl Sagen when asked how the military would react to an alien visitation. (when he was designing the plaques for the Voyager spacecraft)
Not one of his positive comments, sarcastic, but most likely true.
Senior Member
Joined: 04-07-2008
Posts: 1,051
From: Wisconsin
"Adventure is just bad planning"- Roald Amundsen, Norwegian Arctic & Antarctic explorer
"And then one day you find, Ten years have got behind you, No one told you when to run, You missed the starting gun" - From Pink Floyd's "Time"
"The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death" - From Pink Floyd's "Time"
"I only know what I can see, but I imagine what could be" - Ian Bairnson, from the Alan Parson's album "On Air"
"And then one day you find, Ten years have got behind you, No one told you when to run, You missed the starting gun" - From Pink Floyd's "Time"
"The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death" - From Pink Floyd's "Time"
"I only know what I can see, but I imagine what could be" - Ian Bairnson, from the Alan Parson's album "On Air"