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

[MaxJoker]

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it ,

~ Lou Holtz.


O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet,

~ Saint Augustine.


What ?,

~ Edward Dakota.

[DTravel]

Originally Posted by tygrkhat40

"I don't care how excrementaly runny it is, hand it over with all due speed."

Before that skit, did the word "excrementaly" even exist?

Well, it being Monty Python, it may not even exist now.

[Grey Wolf]

“I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that.”

“I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!”

“I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.”

“My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.”

“I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!”

“I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.”

“People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.”

“I have marvellous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.”

“Life is a re-discovery.”

"Who wants to live forever?"

[Baranovich]

Originally Posted by tygrkhat40

"I don't care how excrementaly runny it is, hand it over with all due speed."

Before that skit, did the word "excrementaly" even exist?

It could very well have been coined by the great John Cleese himself, becoming an unofficial "Pythonism", lol! Wouldn't be surprised if he invented it!

I first remember seeing that skit back in the mid-80s when I was in high school, which was about the same time that Python first came into my life. To this day, I just cannot get over the sheer brilliance and intelligence of those guys. Just a terrifyingly sharp and keen wit, sense of humor, timing, and genuine English genius that I have not seen before or since, and we'll probably not see again in our lifetimes. It is no great surprise that so many of the great comedic minds of our time have come out of England.

This skit for me is John Cleese's shining moment with the Flying Circus. Him and Michael Palin just play off so well against one another. This skit, and "The Parrot Sketch" are two of my top Python favorites.

[Baranovich]

Originally Posted by tygrkhat40

"I don't care how excrementaly runny it is, hand it over with all due speed."

"Oooohhhhhh -"

"What now?"

"The cat's eaten it."

"Has he."

"She sir."

[Grey Wolf]

“There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.”

“I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.”

“I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.”

“The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.”

“I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.”

“I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.”

“The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.”

“My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block.”

[Grey Wolf]

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”

“People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”

“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”

“I recognise terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorise the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.”

“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”

“I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.”

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”

“Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.”

“In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.”

“I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.”

[Mal Hombre]

“People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”
He pinched that one from Robert Bloch...

[Grey Wolf]

Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

“People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”
He pinched that one from Robert Bloch...

"Plagiarism is the Sincerest Form Of Flattery"

[Mal Hombre]

I discovered, much to my surprise — and particularly if I was writing in the first person — that I could become a psychopath quite easily. I could think like one and I could devise a manner of unfortunate occurrences. So I probably gave up a flourishing, lucrative career as a mass murderer.


I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

So I had this problem — work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

And...

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.