OT - favorite fiction qoutes

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Parasite:
Too bad people don't read books anymore. Check my sig.

Oh, so it's book fiction you wanted! Well, that's easy!

"'And what of your companions? What about Legolas and me?' cried Gimli, unable to contain himself any longer. 'You rascals, you wolly-footed and wool-pated truants! A fine hunt you led us! Two hundred leagues, through fen and forest, battle and death, to rescue you! And here we find you feasting and idling - and smoking! Smoking! Where did you come by the weed, you villains? Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!'"

The Two Towers, JRRT

[Loser]

CAUTION: Dark Star Spoilers!!

PINBACK: All right, bomb, prepare to receive new orders.
BOMB #20: You are false data.
PINBACK: Huh?
BOMB #20: Therefore, I shall ignore you.
PINBACK: Hello, bomb.
BOMB #20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore. I shall refuse to perceive you.
PINBACK: Hey, bomb.
BOMB #20: The only thing which exists is myself.
PINBACK: Bomb?
PINBACK: Snap out of it, bomb.
BOMB #20: In the beginning there was darkness, and the darkness was without form and void.
BOILER: What the hell?
PINBACK: Yoo hoo, bomb...
BOMB #20: And in addition to the darkness there was also me. And I moved upon the face of the darkness.
BOILER: Bomb, hey bomb.
PINBACK: Hey, bomb...
BOMB #20: And I saw that I was alone.
Pause.
BOMB #20: Let there be light.

[SpaceBadger]

"Necessity exists." - various Liaden Universe inhabitants

"The confusion of mind you dub honor is a disease, for which the Roknari galley-masters have the cure." - Lupe dy Cazaril to Ser dy Joal

"I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. If I decide you die, you will die when I choose, where I choose, by what means I choose, and you will never see the blow coming." - dy Cazaril to dy Joal, a few minutes later

"When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned or sundered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy." - Lupe dy Cazaril to Ista dy Chalion

(eh, too many more quotes I could add from this one - I just re-read the book recently)

"One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me." - Aral Vorkosigan

"Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live." - Cordelia Vorkosigan to newborn son Miles

(could go on and on with Cazaril and Vorkosigan quotes here, but then I'd be digging through Bujold books all evening to make sure I get the quotes exactly right...)

"Think it through." - many characters, many authors

SpaceBadger

[Ed Kolis]

Books, eh?

"Then, following his success proving the nonexistence of God, Man went on to prove that black is white, and promptly got run over at the next zebra crossing." - The Hitckhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

"Three... Two... What, no, I would not like any coffee, I am a bomb and I don't drink coffee, now, oh drat, where was I? I lost count, guess I'll have to start all over again!" - Starship Titanic, Douglas Adams

[Erax]

Heir to the Empire is a book by Timothy Zahn. You won't find the first quote I posted in any of the SW movies. But here's a quote from another book :

"Do you mean that we will all be eaten by things with tentacles for faces ?"
"Nothing so pleasant, but - "

(The Light Fantastic)

[Loser]

"Life.. is like a box of chocolates. A cheap thoughtless gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back in another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those all you've got left is a.. is an empty box.. filled with useless, brown paper wrappers."
-The Cigarette-Smoking Man

[clark]

"The travelling salesman had fed me pills that made the linings of my veins feel scraped out. My jaw ached. I knew every raindrop by its name. I sensed everything before it happened. I knew a certain Oldsmobile would stop for me even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside it I knew we'd have an accident in the storm. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.""- FH, Jesus Son by Denis Johnson's.

Dude, check it out.

[Sinapus]

"This is what happens when you let rednecks play with antimatter, sir." -Mike O'Neil, Hell's Faire by John Ringo.

"I hate humans." -various Posleen Kessentai in Hell's Faire and When the Devil Dances

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

"More and more of our imports are coming from overseas." -- W. Bush (his term is fiction)

[DavidG]

"First U get de sugar, den u get de power, den u get de women" - Homer Simpson