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

[wimbo77]

Red Dwarf

Kryten '' It's for you. It's an obscene phone call. ''

Alien Woman '' You want to squeeze my buttocks together, to make one juicy giant peach. ''

[lothian]

DEXTER

Vince Masuka . " Your victim was smothered . That's not opinion . That's science , and science is one cold-hearted bitch with a 14 inch strap-on ,"

[Grey Wolf]

A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

[Baranovich]

You've only killed the bride's father, that's all!

Well I didn't mean to -

DIDN'T MEAN TO? You put your sword right through his head!

Oh dear - is he alright?

[MaxJoker]

I got my hair highlighted because felt some strands were more important than others

~ Mitch Hedberg

A watched pot never boils, but it does get paranoid

~ Lesley Wake

Oh Blanche , you know we've got rats in the cellar

~ Jane Hudson

[trailmaster]

The following are quotations related to law and justice.

"It is better that ten guilty men escape than one innocent man suffer"
William Blackstone
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" I disapprove of what you say, But I will defend to the death your right to say it" Voltaire

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The golden thread that runs through British Justice is the presumption of innocence and trial by jury. This statement was inspired by the following quote:

"Throughout the web of the English Criminal Law one golden thread is always to be seen that it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner's guilt subject to...the defence of insanity and subject also to any statutory exception. If, at the end of and on the whole of the case, there is a reasonable doubt, created by the evidence given by either the prosecution or the prisoner...the prosecution has not made out the case and the prisoner is entitled to an acquittal. No matter what the charge or where the trial, the principle that the prosecution must prove the guilt of the prisoner is part of the common law of England and no attempt to whittle it down can be entertained." Viscount Sankey

[wimbo77]

Minder S5 - What Makes Shamy Run ?

Inspector Chisholm

" May I outline the scenario so far. During the last 48 hours Arthur Daley has passed a counterfeit twenty pound note, in that well known den of thieves The Winchester, among the company was a certain character know as The Syrup who a few hours later uses fifteen bent twenties to turn over a wig maker and make off in a Roger Moore lookalike toupee... "

[wimbo77]

I'm Going Slightly Mad - Queen

I'm knitting with only one needle
Unravelling fast its true

[Tmee2020]

Now, is it to lower the price of corn, or isn't it? It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

Lord Melbourne, on cabinet government (attributed)

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by wimbo77

Minder S5 - What Makes Shamy Run ?

Inspector Chisholm

" May I outline the scenario so far. During the last 48 hours Arthur Daley has passed a counterfeit twenty pound note, in that well known den of thieves The Winchester, among the company was a certain character know as The Syrup who a few hours later uses fifteen bent twenties to turn over a wig maker and make off in a Roger Moore lookalike toupee... "

Terry McCann: Rose...if we don't find these diamonds in less than twenty four hours, there's this little Indian geezer who's going to turn me and Arthur into a crowd.