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Favorite SciFi Quote
« on: June 23, 2005, 08:26:27 pm »

What is your favorite line? Take in to account the delivery, if it be a movie or game.
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Re: Favorite SciFi Quote
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2005, 08:55:31 pm »

"Khaaaaaaaaan!" not

This one I heard recently, and it made me crack up... but it's not my all-time favorite (need to think more)

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, English dub: "Man should not live by carbohydrates alone, complex or otherwise."
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« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2005, 09:56:15 pm »

"Keep firing, A**holes!" - Lord Helmet
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2005, 05:56:59 am »

Evil will allways win because good is dumb. -Darth Helmet.
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2005, 05:51:01 pm »

Oooh! Firefly has oodles of good lines.

"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here." - Jayne

"Shepherd, doesn't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing people?"
"Very specific. It is, however, rather fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps." - Mal and Shepherd Book

"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." - Shepherd Book

"Dear diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy... Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever." - Jayne reading Simon's diary

"People like a man of god."
"No, they don't. Men of god make people feel guilty and judged." - Book and Mal

The next one is probably my favourite. I guess it needs some background: Strangely enough Jayne had ended up as a revered hero in a town on a backwater planet to the extent that someone took a bullet for him.

"You think there's someone just gonna drop money on you? Money they can use? Well, there ain't people like that! There's just people like me." - Jayne
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« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2005, 12:56:03 pm »

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Oooh! Firefly has oodles of good lines.
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"Shepherd, doesn't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing people?"
"Very specific. It is, however, rather fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps." - Mal and Shepherd Book
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....actually that was Zoe and Shepherd Book--that was the episode where they were going to rescue Mal.

And yeah, Firefly is packed to the brim with awesome quotes
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2005, 08:31:12 am »

"I beamed them into the Klingon engine room, where there
won't be a tribble at all."
-- Scotty from "The Trouble with Tribbles"
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Re: Favorite SciFi Quote
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2005, 06:06:03 am »

Another of my favourites is from the end of Journeyman Project 3:

"It's all in the past, Michelle. And we both know you can't change the past."

Okay, it doesn't work as well when taken out of the context, but a couple of pointers: the main character who says that is portrayed as a bit boring by-the-book kinda guy who never jokes, and the whole game revolves around time travel.
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« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2005, 06:57:54 am »

Heh. The most ironic part was that a few hours before, he was saving priceless mythical relics from destruction. Not to mention Michelles' antics in the second game...
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« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2005, 08:58:50 am »

Who's michelle? I guess they started using characters in the later ones.

I have a number of favorite quotes.


"I find your lack of faith disturbing." (Cruuunch)


(Covenant forces enter the compound, flood spores wafting through the air)

Arbiter: "That stinch. . .I've smelled it before."
Grunt: "Oow, what yummy taste."


"Well done, mighty Protoss! I'm glad to see that you all are as violent as ever." --Kerrigan (Infested)


"How do you get so big, eating food of this kind?" --Yoda


All time favorite:

"Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic-electronic BALL breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharpsticks. . ." --Private Hudson
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Re: Favorite SciFi Quote
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2005, 09:59:10 am »

I like this one because of how badly delivered it was:
"I've been from one side of galaxy to the other.  I've seen a lot of strange things.  But I've not seen anything that'd make me believe there's one all-powerful... Force controlling.... everything." —Han Solo

Ah, Han Solo quotes...
"Jedi Knight!  I'm out of it for a little while and everyone gets dillusions of grandeur..."

"Hey!  Point that thing someplace else!"

(Bounty Hunter: I've been looking forward to this for a long time...)
"Yes... I'll bet you have!" *Shoots him*

"Snakes... why did it have to be snakes?"

...now wait a minute...
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« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2005, 02:22:07 pm »

From the movie "Dark Star". Smiley  Best... Movie.. Ever!!

"Bomb, this is Lt. Dolittle.  You are not to detonate in the bomb bay.  Disarm yourself.  This is an order!"

--Lt. Dolittle talking to Bomb #20.  It's not a smart bomb.  It's a sentient, self-aware bomb.  And it's stuck deep in the throes of Phenomenology when he orders it to disarm.
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« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2005, 02:34:12 pm »

While watching Empire Strikes Back again
the other night (blast from the past) I
was struck by this quote from Yoda:

"You must unlearn what you have learned."

Really profound, I think. What greater thing
stands in the way of learning a new thing but
old knowledge. People of the past refused to believe
the world is round because they _knew_ it
was flat. People who _know_ gays are evil refuse
to accept the idea that society won't crumble or
be super-naturally destroyed. Some scientists
claim they _know_ nothing travels faster than
light....but of course they're wrong....
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« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2005, 08:41:42 pm »

Well, most scientists would love to see evidence of something travelling faster than light... but despite all efforts, they have been able to produce such a thing. So, provisionally, they suppose nothing can.

Why do you think they are wrong?

Or are you just saying that taking SC2/SW/ST/B5 as canon?
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« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2005, 10:01:27 pm »

John Criton: "Yea Yoda, little green guy, trains warriors."

O'NEILL: Jaffa jokes? Let's hear one of them.
TEAL'C: I shall attempt to translate one O'Neill. A serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard 's nose drips.

Urgo: He's gonna scoop your brains out with this big scoopy thingy...

CARTER: P4X 884 looks like an untouched paradise, sir.
TEAL'C: Appearances may be deceiving.
O'NEILL: One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
DANIEL: A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
O'NEILL: Never run with scissors?
HAMMOND: Were you trying to make a point, Major?

and my favorite quote, though not scifi its related in a round about way

"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." -- L. Ron Hubbard
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