What is your favorite quote from a book, song, or movie and why?

Question

Please explain in detail. Give the author's name, name of book, song title, etc.

Answer 1

Fish Called Wanda:

Otto: You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nose, English, giant twerp, scumbag, f***face, d***head, a**hole!
Archie: How very interesting. You're a true vulgarian, aren't you?
Otto: You're the vulgarian, you f***! Now apologize!
(Otto dangles Archie out a window)
Archie: All right, all right, I apologize.
Otto: You're really sorry?
Archie: I'm really, really sorry. I apologize unreservedly.
Otto: You take it back?
Archie: I do, I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.
Otto: Okay.

Just the difference in character makes it funny, I guess. A film in 1998, by Charles Crichton. Kevin Kline as Otto, John Cleese as Archie.

Answer 2

i've got not got the e book with me so i can't do a word for word quote, yet: "guy had consistently assumed that he replaced into the main sensible animal on account that he had carried out lots--war, the wheel, ny, etc--mutually as each and all of the dolphins did replaced into muck approximately having a stable time. Conversely, the dolphins felt that they've been the main sensible species--for the coolest comparable reason." --from "The Hitchhikers instruction manual to the Galaxy" (or in all danger "see you later and thank you for each and all of the Fish") the two via Douglas Adams besides as maximum Terry Pratchett books

Answer 3

"We were driving around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold"
It's from the book by Hunter S. Thompson. I reaaly like the quote because the movie is awesome! Johnny Depp is great.

Answer 4

SOG - '6, 8,12 - Brian McKnight' - the line where he says 'where is the good in goodbye' - Thinking about it, when you love someone and the relationship comes to an end and you say goodbye there is no good in it because you are sad, unhappy and heartbroken. I think just that that line is amazing and true and I just love it.

MOVIE - 'Pretty Woman' (said by Kit) - Fifty Bucks Graham for 75 the wife can watch ( just a classic line).

MOVIE - 'Snatch' - (said byTurkish)....'Diamonds...What do I know about diamonds, I'm a boxing promoter' just love his accent

Answer 5

I can't remember anything without you - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Jim Carrey to Kate Winslet).

Why? I think it's the cutest thing ever. He tries to remember past memories of his childhood and she always comes up in them, because he finds himself unable to think of things that she is not part of.

Answer 6

It puts the Lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again
- Buffalo Bill Silence of the Lambs

Answer 7

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. (Edgar Allan Poe)
God is in the rain. (V for Vendetta)
Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye that thou consum’st thyself in single life? (Shakespeare)
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses. And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier. (Walt Whitman)
I celebrate myself and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. (Walt Whitman)
I was once what you are, and what I am you will become. (On 'his' tombstone)
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and be greater than suffering. (Ben Okri)
Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. (Shakespeare)
I want to sleep the dreams of the apples; To withdraw from the tumult of the centuries; I want to sleep the dream of that child; Who wanted to cut his heart on the high seas. (George Herbert)
I shall not be the shadow, but the vision. Nor will I be the echo, but the voice. (Bellew)
You laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh because you’re all the same. (Anonymous)
Beyond the idea of right thinking and wrong thinking is a field__I will meet you there. (Rumi)
Put yourself in a different room. That is what the mind is for. (Margret Atwood)
Conquer by silence, the bondage of words. (Hermes Tresmigestus)
One ship drives east and another drives west, with the selfsame winds that blow. ‘Tis the set of the sails and not the gales which tells us the way to go. (Ella Wilcox)
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Je ne cherche pas. Je trouve! [I seek not. I find!] (Picasso)
I want to live a real life. I don’t want to dream anymore. (Vanilla Sky Movie)
Light hath no tongue, but is all eye. (John Donne)
This too will pass. (From a Beautiful Sufi Story)
I came! I saw! I conquered all!

Answer 8

"nobody's perfect and i stand accused for lack of a better word and thats my best excuse"
JESUS OF SUBURBIA
~*~Green Day~*~

no one is perfect. but everyone says that practice makes perfect. everyone is different and i hate how ppl tell u to be this and that. no one is perfect and there is no other way to say it. that is why i luv this quote!

Answer 9

All are songs.

"Or go to heaven and touch God's face." - Burn - Tina Arena

"l will remember you, will you remember me?" - l Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan

Answer 10

I'll be your Huckleberry, in the movie Tombstone.