"Ultimately most problems can be solved by applying a large brick to the
correct skull. Difficulties arise when you don't have a brick or can't find
the right skull. The devil is always in the details." Marcus Cole
- Babylon 5
"I say we nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Ripley & Hicks - Aliens
And of course Alexander's footer:
> "Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt
There's a couple more, but I'll get the original source so I quote them right.
'Neath Southern Skies
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Mary had a little LAM, It's thrusters all aglow; And everywhere that Mary
went, The 'Mechs were sure to blow.
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> "I say we nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
"Okay, we waste him. No offense." - Hicks (Aliens)
"I don't know if you're keeping up with current events but we just got our
asses kicked pal!" - Hudson (Aliens)
"Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" - Hudson
"No, have you?" - Vasquez (Aliens)
"Die! Come on, come on, come get it baby! Come on, I don't got all day! Come
on! Come on, come on you bastards! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of
this?"
- Hudson (Aliens)
"Alright, gear up. Two minutes, people. Get hot! Somebody wake up Hicks."
- Apone (Aliens)
"Hicks, meet me at the south lock. We're coming in." - Gorman
"He's comin' in. I feel safer already." - Hudson (Aliens)
"Is this to be a stand up fight sir, or another bug hunt?" - Hudson
"All we know is that a Xenomorph may be involved." - Gorman
"Excuse me sir, a what?" - Frost
"It's a bug hunt." - Hicks (Aliens)
"That's it man, game over. Game over man." - Hudson (Aliens)
And, finally, the immortal:
"Get away from her you BITCH!" - Ripley (Aliens)
I think I've seen this movie too many times.. <grin>
Or my personal favorite: "I've always found that you can get more with a kind
word and a two by four than with just a kind word alone." Marcus (the ever
popular) Cole Babylon 5
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> At 02:09 27/02/98 -0600, you wrote:
"The phased plassma laser in zur surty megavatt rangch" "Hey, just what you
see pal.."
"Come with me if you want to live"
"Anyone not wearing factor 2000 sunblock is gonna have a VERY bad day"
"Why not make peace with your maker?" "My /maker/ was some geek in lab
coat and I really don't think he wants to know me right now" (SA&B is being
reshown in the UK, but not so you'd notice...)
Also the WHOLE of Star Wars, and just about anything G'Kar and Londo have ever
said to each other.
TTFN!
Jon
My all time favorite quote from Alien: Kane: "Quit your griping." Lambert: "I
like griping."
My personal favorite:
How can you kill women and children?
Easy... You just don't lead 'em as much!!! Hahaha... Ain't war Hell?!!
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> "That's it man, game over. Game over man." - Hudson (Aliens)
My favourite quote was from B5 when Ivanova and Marcus are trying to
communicate with one of the old ones and discover the old ones understood what
they were saying,they just didn't choose to use English
"I didn't know they were French"
David Best
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Or, from Empire Strikes Back:
"Eee Choutta." - 3P0-model droid
"How rude." - C-3P0
> My all time favorite quote from Alien:
"I got a bad feeling about this drop." - Frost
"You always say that Frost. You always say 'I got a bad feeling about this
drop.'" - Crowe
"Okay, okay. When we get back with you, I'll call your folks." - Frost
(Aliens)
Well, it looks like SOMEONE is going to have to interject some
literary references. Don't you guys READ? :-)
Anyway, here's some of my favourite SF passages.
"You don't hit a man with your hand unless you're naked and they've
nailed your feet to the ground." - David Drake, _Cross the Stars_
"They set a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his
pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on the street
called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest
of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a
kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT." - William Gibson,
_Count Zero_
"The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its
batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt." - Neal
Stephenson, _Snow Crash_
"There's only four things that we [Americans] do better than anyone else
music movies microcode (software)
high speed pizza delivery" - Neal Stephenson, _Snow Crash_ (starring
one of the best named figures in SF: Hiro Protagonist)
"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead
channel." - William Gibson, _Neuromancer_
> From Blade Runner (properly incorrectly):
I've seen things you people would never beleive. Attack ships on fire off the
shoulder of Orion,
I've seen c-beams gliter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate.
All these moments lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
The Doctor, from "Survival":
"There are worlds out there, "Where the sky is burning. "Where the sea's
asleep, "And the rivers dream. "People made of smoke, "And cities made of
song. "Somewhere there's danger, "Somewhere there's injustice, "And somewhere
else the tea's getting cold. "Come on Ace, we've got work to do."
Highly paraphrased, from "The Also People" by Ben Aaronovitch:
"Only another Drone or a Starship could shoot down another Drone." "Okay,
let's do a search of all starships within range. What's the weapon range of
one of your starships?" "About thirty lightyears."
> From "Excession", by Iain M Banks (I don't have the exact words
"What's that on our sensors?" "It's an, um, cloud, of starships."
"Cloud?"
"I know it's not a strictly correct military term, but I count eighty thousand
three hundred and twenty two ships. I've told them that we're surrendering."