| Quote |
Said
and/or written by |
In |
| "It
can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced
the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.'" |
Douglas
Adams |
The
Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul |
| "This
is the sort of English up with which I will not put." |
Winston
Churchill, referring to ending a sentence with a preposition--or maybe
not doing so. |
The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations attributes this to "Marginal comment
on state document, quoted in Sir Ernest Gower's Plain Words." |
| "Did
I do anything wrong today, or has the world always been like this and
I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?'" |
Arthur
Dent (written by Douglas Adams) |
The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book version of quote) |
"...and
Black squcked his thrug till all he could whupple was geep.
"'Geep,' whuppled the parrot." |
James
Thurber |
The
Wonderful O |
| "As
God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." |
Arthur
Carlson (played by Gordon Jump) |
WKRP
in Cincinnati, the Turkey Drop episode |
| "'If
you have some liniment I'll put it on my dignity,' Mrs. Whatsit said,
still supine. 'I think it's sprained.'" |
Madeleine
L'Engle |
A
Wrinkle in Time |
"Do
I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large; I contain multitudes.)" |
Walt
Whitman |
"Song
of Myself" |
| "...I
know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have
been changed several times since then." |
Alice
(written by Lewis Carroll) |
Alice
In Wonderland |
| "The
future is whatever you make it - so make it a good one!" |
Doc
Brown (played by Christopher Lloyd) |
Back
To The Future, Part III |
| "It
ain't over until it's over, and then it's really over." |
John
Blocher, paraprasing Yogi Berra ("It ain't over until it's over") and
Mr Kisha. |
Mr.
Kisha was John's science teacher. His quote: "Nothing happens until it
happens, and then it really happens." |
"It's
not my fault (mea culpa)
I'm not to blame (mea culpa)" |
Minister
Claude Frollo (and priests) |
Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| "You
can't ask Lassie questions, Mom. She'll only bark at you." |
Timmy
(played by Jon Provost) |
Lassie (early 1960s tv version) |
| "He
makes me laugh." |
Jessica
Rabbit (voiced by Kathleen Turner) |
Who
Framed Roger Rabbit? |
| "There's
a certain amount of hurry-up involved." |
Ringo
Starr (Richard Starkey) |
Help! |
| "I have
my own soul, my own spark of divine fire!" |
Professor
Henry Higgins (played by Rex Harrison, book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner) |
My
Fair Lady |
| "Scrambled
Eggs/Oh, baby, how I love your legs." |
Paul
McCartney |
Early
lyrics to the tune that became "Yesterday" |
| "So
much time and so little to do! Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you." |
Willy
Wonka (played by Gene Wilder) |
Willy
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
| "Today's
Weather: Shoes" |
cartoon
by Jack Ziegler |
Quoted
in Time Magazine (or was it Newsweek ?). The cartoon
appeared in a book called Hamburger Madness |
| "I'll
rise, but I won't shine." |
Tom
(written by Tennessee Williams) |
The
Glass Menagerie |
| "Just
a ramblin' kind of kangaroo." |
Clarion
'77 catchphrase |
based
on a story by Mike McNevin Hayes, or was it Rand Graham? D.M. Rowles? |
| "And
then everyone was run over by a truck." |
"How
to Write Good" by Michael O'Donoghue (later used in a story by DM Rowles
or Fax Goodlife; I forget which) |
National
Lampoon
Clarion '77 catchphrase |
| "Places
to go, people to be." |
Unknown |
It's
possible I made this up. |
| "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." |
Westley
(as the Dread Pirate Roberts). Written by William Goldman. |
The
Princess Bride |
| "Character
is what you are in the dark." |
Lord
John Whorfin (played by John Lithgow) |
The
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension |
| "Sorry,
neither." |
Lt.
Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), in response to being called a "fair maiden" |
Star
Trek, "The Squire of Gothos" |
"Not
that there's anything wrong with that."
"No, not at all." |
Jerry
Seinfeld et al. |
Seinfeld,
the "I'm not gay" episode |
| "Dogs
on the grass, look out!" |
James
Thurber, suggesting alternative to Gertrude Stein's "Pigeons on the grass,
alas, alas." |
probably
in Lanterns and Lances |
"(and
only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)" |
e e
cummings |
anyone
lived in a pretty how town |
"How
do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mr Death?" |
e e
cummings |
Buffalo
Bill's Defunct |
"How
To Tell if Your Dog is a Space Alien"
"Invisible Aliens From Space Among Us" |
tabloid
headlines (on successive weeks as I recall), early 1979 |
Weekly
World News ? |
| "Several
centuries (or so) ago, in a country whose name doesn't matter, there was
a tall, skinny, straggly-bearded old wizard named Prospero, and not the
one you are thinking of, either." |
John
Bellairs |
The
Face in the Frost |
| "It's
all part of the rich tapestry of life." |
paraphrasing
Inspector Clousseau (Peter Sellers), original line probably written by
Blake Edwards |
said
when things are going very badly, original expression from A Shot in
the Dark |
| "You
stick to that story, son." |
John
Lennon |
A
Hard Day's Night |
| "Not
me, Mom." |
staff
of Morse Road Public Library |
Columbus
OH, circa 1984 |
| "'How
reliable is he?' Arthur gave a hollow laugh. 'How shallow is the ocean?
How cold is the sun?'" |
Douglas
Adams |
So
Long and Thanks for All the Fish |
| "It's
a moral imperative." |
Chris
Knight (played by Val Kilmer), possibly quoting from the movie Silkwood |
Real
Genius |
| "Skip
a bit, Brother." |
Brother
Maynard |
Monty
Python and the Holy Grail |
| "...the
human heart in conflict with itself." |
William
Faulkner |
frequently
quoted by Harlan Ellison |
| "I'm
not going to keep on pretending I'm asleep, Albert." |
Blood
the dog |
"A Boy
and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison |
| "...with
vicious pumas in the cravasses." |
Tommy
Smothers |
"Cabbage," The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers |
| "Justice
is blind, Your Excellency, and she may be led around by anyone." |
Guy
Williams as Don Diego de la Vega |
Zorro
Fights His Father" episode, Zorro (Disney, 1958) |
| "I have
no quarrel with history, but I am often appalled by the people who make
it." |
Guy
Williams as Diego de la Vega |
"Zorro
Fights His Father" episode, Zorro (Disney, 1958) |
| "It's
kind of fun to do the impossible." |
Walt
Disney |
One
of my Disneyland t-shirts has this quote on it |
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
|
Leonardo da Vinci |
quoted by J. Michael Straczynski in Babylon 5 DVD commentary
|
