"100 lines Geeks should know" Topic

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The comments add many more, of course.

Pretty good list. There were a few I didn't know.

I'll add one – "We're robbing the place, not occupying it." Zoe to Jayne in Serenity.

Some curious choices for the given sources, and more curious ommissions, but I stopped worrying about comprehensivity in such lists long ago. This list comes from the writer's particular circle of Geeks. If all geeks were the same, they would cease to be quite so geeky.

Great list. I've been trying to indoctrinate my brood with many of those classics.

Aren't they missing a few from Aliens?

Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! (Animal House)

"Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth … I am Death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me."

Seth: All right, vampire killers… let's kill some ing vampires. (Dusk till Dawn)

Multipass ? (Fifth Element)

"No habla Ingles…"
"Habla Smith & Wesson?"

And no Kelly's Heroes quotes or Blazing Saddles ????

"Do ya think you used enough dynamite, Butch?"

What hump?

"Forget it Ming, Dales with Me!" – Flash Gordon.

"Crazy! I mean like so many positive waves maybe we can't lose! You're on! " Odd Ball, Kelly's Heroes

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Good list, but it needs atleat 5 SG1 quotes

I guess they are saving up for a sequel.

"It goes on.The race is not over";Massala in "Ben-Hur" and "I see you've met Fluffy";Hagrid in the first "Harry Potter" movie.

I didn't recognize the Star Trek quotes, and I saw nothing from The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, or Reservoir Dogs, the three most quotable movies ever*. I think I'm a different kind of geek.

*Well, to me, anyway.

Some good ones but whaaaay too many lame ones. The Goonies? Caddyshak?? Hmmmmmmm

Even geeks have standards…

How about some of these:

"One never knows when an inconvenient truth will fall between the cracks and vanish" – Londo Molari, Babylon 5

"I'll keep it short and sweet. Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business." – Montgomery Burns, Simpsons

"The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe. The loud ones are the ones that take the credit" – Londo Molari, Babylon 5

"That's me – large and in charge" – Bender, Futurama

"The time has come when I no longer control events – they control me" – Steiner (Michael Caine – The Eagle has landed)

"I've seen what power does and I've seen what power costs: the one is never equal to the other" – G'Kar, Babylon 5

"I was born warrior caste but I see now that the calling of my heart is religion!" – Neroon, Babylon 5

"Yet sworn word may strengthen the quaking heart," said Gimli.
"Or break it," said Elrond. Lord of the Rings (The book, obviously…)

"We'll burn that bridge when we get to it" – Doctor Who (Tom Baker)

"No fate but what we make" – (Linda Hamilton, Terminator 2)

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all, as wanting" – Spock (Leonard Nimoy).

"Guilty – my evil self is at that door and I have no power to stop it" – Doctor Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), Forbidden Planet

"The pleasure is to play – makes no difference what you say" – 'The Ace of Spades' – Motorhead

"Outside of the box is where I live" – Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica)

"It's not easy having a good time – even smiling makes my face ache" – Frank-n-furter (Tim Curry) – Rocky Horror

"Doctrine is the last refuge of the unimaginative" – Lt. Col Ferrando (Generation Kill)

"Never eat more than you can lift" – Miss Piggy

"You win again, gravity" – Zap Brannigan (Futurama)

"Villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot" – Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) STNG

"Delusions of adequacy" – Zack Allen, Babylon 5

"I don't want to die – there are still so many things I don't own" – Bender (Futurama)

"It is a natural law: Physics tells us that for each action there is an equal and opposite reaction – they hate us, we hate them, they hate us back. So here we are: victims of mathematics" – Londo Molari, Babylon 5

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John T

It wasn't until this morning that I finally saw the title of this thread properly: it isn't GREEKS. (I need new glasses….)

"In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." (Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey)

Sex and death -- two things that come but once in a lifetime
. . . but at least after death you're not nauseous. Miles Monroe Sleeper

I'm fighting for your honor -- it's more than you've ever done. Rufus T. Firefly Duck Soup

JW

No 'I hate Illanois Nazis'?

"Once,I shot an elephant in my pajamas;how he got in my pajamas,I don't know" Groucho Marx/"Animal Crackers"

How about Roy Batty's final words…"I have seen attack ships on fire off the should of Orion…."

"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, .. or be destroyed."

"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."

"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."

(This was always one of my favorites)

Yes I know this is brand new, but I think it should be added.

Doctor "Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Attraxi?"

Alien: "No,"

Doctor,"Okay, one more, just one more…is this world protected?"

Doctor,"You are not the first ones to come here…. There have been so many. What you have got to ask is…what happened to them?."

Doctor,"Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically….RUN!"

"We deal in lead, friend." – Steve McQueen – The Magnificent Seven

"YOU. SHALL NOT. PASS!"
-Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad-Dum

McCoy: Spock, I know one thing about these little creatures (tribbles). I like them. Better than I like you.
Spock: Doctor, they do indeed have one redeeming charateristic.
McCoy: What's that?
Spock: They do not talk too much.
-The Trouble With Tribbles

"The world sucks because some dead ditz made a wish? I just wanta be clear."
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Come, dinosaur. We're not welcome in the House of No Imagination."
-Phoebe Bouffet, Friends

he doesn't mention Aliens

"Nuke 'em from orbit, its the only way to be sure"

"In space, no one can hear you scream"

and my fave quote I can use in everyday conversation

Fifth Element

"big badda boom"

and Seinfeld, eek its popular culture, not geek culture

"Negative, I am a meat Popsicle." Korben Dallas, the Fifth Element

Cyberman: "This is War!"

Dalek: "This isn't war, its pest control!" Zap!

"Charlie don't surf!" Colonel Kilgore