OT - favorite fiction qoutes

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Cyrien:
Hrmm... how about from Scary Movie 3. Easily the best line in the movie would be...

"The aliens can travel across the stars but they can't open wooden doors?"

A nice reference to the Circles aliens and other sci-fi aliens across the ages that have been stopped by the old barricaded wooden door.

I think it was more referencing the more recent movie with Mel Gibson, who stopped being a preacher when his wife died, and all the horrible alien invasion stuff made him gain his faith back... I forget what that movie was called. It wasn't very good.

[ October 29, 2003, 05:08: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I think it was more referencing the more recent movie with Mel Gibson, who stopped being a preacher when his wife died, and all the horrible alien invasion stuff made him gain his faith back... I forget what that movie was called. It wasn't very good.

"Signs"

[Growltigger]

Anything by Terry Pratchett..

"Thunder rolled, it rolled a six"

"The landscape was up and down like a honeymoon duvet"

"the book looked slightly foxed, and possibly squirrelled, badgered, rabbited and dragoned as well"

"Gods are the outmoded relics of an out of date belif system, take Io, the Thunder God, wehat space is there for him in modern life where's the nearest snowline? 200 miles away?! good! take Fobol, God of Avalanches, what a tosser"

Pure gems each and every one

[Erax]

Pratchett is incredibly quotable. I occasionally use the 'thunder rolled a six' line (as well as the 'nothing so pleasant' line) in my email sigs.

Edit : And his books are now available in Portuguese ! I've bought the first two for my wife and now we have another Pratchett fan.

[ October 29, 2003, 14:27: Message edited by: Erax ]

[Cyrien]

Yah. It was to Signs. Just couldn't remember the title of the movie and remembered it had to do with crop Circles so... Circles.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

let's see if anyone know's where this one came from:

'when are you people going to lay off my cooking?'

'when my scars heal. i had to pound a stalk of celery into that meatloaf and it still came after me.'

[narf poit chez BOOM]

how about this one?

"I suppose my naval tactics were a bit primitive," he admitted.

Image:

A man. Stooped, filthy, clad in rough-cured animal skins. In his hand he clutches an axe. The blade of the weapon is a crudely shaped piece of stone, lashed to the handle with rawhide.

He is standing on a log, rolling wildly down a river. Hammering fiercely at another man, armed and clad as he is, standing on the same log.

Stone ax against stone ax.

Just ahead is a waterfall.

[Erax]

The first quote sounds like Marsha's cooking, from CRfH! (see my sig). Never read the second one, though.

[dogscoff]

I think it was more referencing the more recent movie with Mel Gibson, who stopped being a preacher when his wife died, and all the horrible alien invasion stuff made him gain his faith back... I forget what that movie was called. It wasn't very good.

...

"Signs"

The moviepunks sum it up quite nicely.

[Ran-Taro]

"It's a pity she won't live, but then again, who does?"

- Gaff, Bladerunner

"If only you could see, what I have seen, with your eyes"

Roy Batty, Blade Runner

[ November 06, 2003, 20:58: Message edited by: Ran-Taro ]