My friend and I are setting up a geek-off for tomorrow. One of the categories I am to write questions for is "Quotes": simply, to provide quotes of a geeky origin (Sci-Fi books, Firefly, obscure philosophers or somesuch, even poetry, etc, etc), for which the asked must provide a source. I've got a few--a lot of River from Firefly, actually--but I'm wondering what Jatraqueros think is essential.
Please add sources.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
"There is no spoon" - The Matrix
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
"The enemy's gate is down."
Too easy?
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
"Mawwiage... Mawwiage is what bwings us togewa today." - Princess Bride
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
"I think I think, therefore I think I am" - Ambrose Bierce
"Didn't I just tell you to stop making up animals?" - Sarge, Red vs Blue
Too hard?
--Enigmatic
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
"Dude!" - Bill and Ted
"Ni!"- Knights of Ni
"They've got a Keanu Reeves type guy!" -Satan, from South Park
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
"You know what old Jack Burton always says-" "Who?" "Jack Burton. Me!" - Big Trouble in Little China
"It got into my hand and went bad." - Ash, Evil Dead 2
--Enigmatic
Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
Firefly -
"Well they tell you: never hit a man with a closed fist. But it is, on occasion, hilarious." - Mal
"Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots." - Mal
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
"See this? This is my BOOM STICK." - Ash, Army of Darkness
And, uh, in my misguided undergrad years, I did College Bowl for all of a semester before the over-geekiness drove me away. One of the questions was simply the lyrics from "Karma Police" read in a monotone. No one recognized it for a very long time.
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
This one's probably too long but:
Your children are not your children, They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you, but are not of you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries not with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are shot forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness, For even as He love the arrow that flies, So he loves also the bow that is stable.
Exceprt from The Prophet Kalil Gibran
Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
I think the title of this thread rips off reader's digest...
"It's turtles all the way down." -attributed to bertrand russell
"Spoon!" - The Tick (animated series)
"Fear is the mind-killer." - Dune
"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash, in Army of Darkness
"He's dead, Jim!" - Bones, in Star Trek (the Old Series)
"Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex." - Revenge of the Nerds
...and pretty much anything from The Princess Bride, Star Wars 1-6(but mostly 4-6), the Monty Python movies and Babylon 5. Nerds/geeks love Bablyon 5. Ooh, don't forget all the comics related quotes from the Hulk, Fantastic Four, Spiderman, Wolverine, etc. (no Marvel bias at all, nope).
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Some Firefly/Serenity ones:
If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin steak.
Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill em right back.
This must be what going mad feels like.
Spry, for a dead fella.
If you die, can I have your share?
This must be a result of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety.
Hamsters is nice.
Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hillfolk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.
Finally, we can retire and give up this life of crime.
What, and risk my ship?
That should help.
Ni!
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
quote: Ni!
Funny, I don't remember that line in Firefly... Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
This the captain speaking. We might experience some turbulence, then explode. -Serenity
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