Quotations, Fav Movie Lines, and so on and so forth etc

[Almero]

"But darling, if you have a baby, you won't be the baby anymore".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOOhWOv3dno


"I'm a short, fat slut".

Oveboard (1987)

[Baranovich]

"Now let's go surprise Harry Heth."

[Mal Hombre]

"To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.” Howard Phillips Lovecraft

[MrInBetween]

Originally Posted by Baranovich

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."



And we Americans have the nerve to wonder why the rest of the world laughs in their sleeves at us? Something to think about...

Conspiracy fact my friends, NO theory about it.

Obviously I have no time for Donald Rumsfeld himself, but although he got a lot of stick for saying this, I happen to think it makes perfect sense. It's an elaboration of this point:

Originally Posted by MaxJoker

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

~ Confucius

It's not as pithily expressed, but by popularising the distinction between what you know you don't know, and what you don't even know that about, the man can be said to have rendered some service to mankind after all. And here's some people who agree (via Wikipedia):

...linguist Geoffrey Pullum [said] the quotation was "completely straightforward" and "impeccable, syntactically, semantically, logically, and rhetorically".

...Rumsfeld's defenders have included Canadian columnist Mark Steyn, who called it "in fact a brilliant distillation of quite a complex matter"

...and Australian economist and blogger John Quiggin, who wrote, "Although the language may be tortured, the basic point is both valid and important..."

[Mal Hombre]

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won
Arthur Wellesley,1st Duke of Wellington

[Baranovich]

Why you doin' this, Doc?

Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.

Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.

...I don't.

[MaxJoker]

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

~ Joseph Stalin


There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

~ Sun Tzu


Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

~ Barack Hussein Obama

[Baranovich]

"This regiment was formed last summer, in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There are less than three hundred of us now..."

[Baranovich]

"Is that true, then ? He's a peeler 716. Come to arrest the Zulus!"

[MrInBetween]

John Lennon

Did say:

We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

(At the Royal Variety Performance) Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery.

Did not say:

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

- well, he did, in Beautiful Boy, but he wasn't the first person to say that, or something similar - that was Allen Saunders in Reader's Digest.

Time is a concept by which we measure our pain.

- as Danny Baker claimed a few weeks ago introducing a BBC4 music programme, but the Boomtown Rats did. The Lennon lyric had 'God' as the first word, and also as the title of the song.

(When asked if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world) He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles.

- this turns out to be from a Jasper Carrott routine.