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Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.
Mark Twain

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening

Mellow greetings, sir.
What seems to be your boggle?
Demolition Man

"It's better to be a pirate
than to join the Navy."
Steve Jobs

“Tank, load us up.”
Trinity (The Matrix)

"I know kung fu."
Neo (The Matrix)

Welcome to the desert of the real.
Morpheus (The Matrix)

“You see Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.”
Peter (Office Space)

“What if we're still doin' this when we're 50?”
Peter (Office Space)

“I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?”
Tom Smykowski (Office Space)

“I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.”
—Milton (Office Space)

“You know what, I do want to express myself, okay. And I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it.”
—Joanna (Office Space)

“Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. ”
—Nina (Office Space)

“Okay. Sounds like a case of the Mondays. ”
—Chochtkie's Waiter (Office Space)

“The ratio of people to cake is too big."
—Milton (Office Space)

“I could put... I could put... strychnine in the guacamole.”
—Milton (Office Space)

“If they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire.... ”
—Milton (Office Space)

“That's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him. ”
—Bob (Office Space)

“You should come over and watch kung fu tonight.”
—Peter (Office Space)

“Uh, did you get that memo?”
—Lumbergh (Office Space)

“There is no spoon.”
—Boy (The Matrix)

“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand.”
—Cameron (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“No, not again. I... why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?”
—Samir (Office Space)

“Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good.”
Ferris (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“I am very cute, very alone and very protective of my body. I don't want it violated or killed, all right?”
—Jeannie (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“You wear too much eye makeup. My sister wears too much. People think she's a whore.”
—Police station dude (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.”
—Ferris (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind.”
—Principal Rooney (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo.”
—Sloan (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“We need to talk about your TPS reports.”
—Lumbergh (Office Space)

“To a cop the explanation's always simple.”
—Verbal (Usual Suspects)

“I'm telling you this guy is protected from up on high by the Prince of Darkness.”
—Jeff Rabin (Usual Suspects)

“Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.”
—Ferris (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“You're not dying, you just can't think of anything good to do.”
—Ferris (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“A man with priorities so far out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile.”
—Ferris (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“You guys got nothing to worry about, I'm a professional.”
—Parking Attendant (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.”
—Ferris (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“You realize if we played by the rules right now we'd be in gym?”
—Ferris (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)

“Maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.”
—Mouse (The Matrix)

“How about I give you the finger, and you give me my phone call?”
—Neo (The Matrix)

“It‘s the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.”
—Trinity (The Matrix)

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.” [src]


—Howard Scott

“All of my filth is arranged in alphabetical order. This, for instance, is under ‘H’ for ‘toy.’”
—Chris Knight (Real Genius)

“Sooner or later you're going to realize that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”
—Morpheus (The Matrix)

“What's really going to bake your noodle later on is: Would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?”
—The Oracle (The Matrix)

Neo: “I just thought... you were a guy.”

Trinity: “Most guys do.”
—(The Matrix)

“You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. I know my rights.”
—Neo (The Matrix)

“Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, ’cause Kansas is going bye-bye.”
—Cypher (The Matrix)

“You're cuter than I thought. I can see why she likes you.”
—The Oracle (The Matrix)

“I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?”
—Morpheus (The Matrix)

“Yet another in a long series of diversions in an attempt to avoid responsibility.”
—Chris Knight (Real Genius)

"We, as criminal defense lawyers, are forced to deal with some of the lowest people on earth, people who have no sense of right and wrong, people will lie in court to get what they want, people who do not care who gets hurt in the process. It is our job — our sworn duty — as criminal defense lawyers, to protect our clients from those people." [src]
—Cynthia Rosenberry

"They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit! It's rainin'!'"
—Ruby Thewes, Cold Mountain

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
—Ralph Hodgeson

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
—Bill Watterson

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
—Bill Watterson

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
—Bill Watterson

You inherit 5 million dollars the same day aliens land on the earth and say they're going to blow it up in 2 days. What do you do?
—Veronica Sawyer, "Heathers"

You were nothing before you met me. You were playing Barbies with Betty Finn. You were a Bluebird. You were a Brownie. You were a Girl Scout Cookie.
—Heather Chandler, "Heathers"

Artists use lies to tell the truth while politicians use them to cover it up.
—Evey Hammond, "V for Vendetta"

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
—V, "V for Vendetta"

Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?
V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
—"V for Vendetta"

There's no certainty — only opportunity.
—V, "V for Vendetta"

"Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that."
—Colonel Tigh (BSG)

You have great insights about matters of little consequence. [src]
— Misfortune Cookie

Someday this will all seem funny. Oh, not to you. Did you think we meant to you? [src]
—Misfortune Cookie

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
—Charles Bukowski

"Who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?"
—Harold Crick (Stranger Than Fiction)

"The world is full of sluts on skates."
—Sadie Burke (All the King's Men)

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
— Ray Bradbury

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
—Lloyd Dobler (Say Anything)

One question: do you need... someone, or do you need me?... Forget it, I don't really care.
— Lloyd Dobler (Say Anything)

Hey my brother, can I borrow a copy of your "Hey Soul Classics"?
— Lloyd Dobler (Say Anything)

"Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones."
— Anais Nin, Henry and June

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
— Albert Einstein

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut

Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.
—Kobi Yamada

"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, 'What the heck happened?'"
—Larry the Cable Guy

"What if this is permanent?" [src]
—Cat and Girl

If you don’t have someone calling you on your shit, you’re lost. [src]
— Michael J. Fox

"I thought I wanted a nice, normal life. I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane. You know?"
—Richard Mayhew (from Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman)

If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people.
—Michael Moore (Sicko)

It is far pleasanter to sit comfortably in the shade rubbing red pepper into a poor devil's eyes than to go about in the sun hunting up evidence. [src, p.171]
— 19th Century English legal commentator

"Well, I do know that if you think that life's a vending machine where you put in virtue and get out happiness, you're going to be disappointed."
—Nate (Six Feet Under)

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
— Confuscious
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People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
—V, "V for Vendetta"


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