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Obscure lines that stick in your head.

[Phone rings, and Neddie answers it]
"Hello, Gryptype?"
"Yes, but how did you know?"
"Well, you're so tall..."

"BBC workers! The canteen is now open. Lunch is ready. Doctors are standing by."

"Don't shout so loud! You'll wake up the Minister for Defence Against Surprise Air Attack."
"I'm awake and I resign!"
"Good! And as you're out of work you can fill the vacancy that's just occurred."
"What?"
"We need a Minister for Defence Against Surprise Air Attacks."

"Listeners, this is smiling Wallace Greenslade speaking to you. Here's good news: from time to time in the next half hour I will be appearing - hope you like me, kids! If, however, you are determined to hear the rest of it, get well soon."
 
From Law and Order: SVU, "Tangled".

Elliot Stabler: Your husband the jealous type?
Judy Trahill: If he cared enough about me to kill, I wouldn't have cheated on him.
 
"If I could just find this damn thing, I could go home."

- First dialogue ever spoken on Homicide: Life on the Street
 
"The dawn of reason lights your eyes
With the key you realize
To the kingdom of the wise"

(Alan Parsons Project, 'Nothing Left To Lose')
 
Not only a line that get'ss tuck in my head but one I had to use today:

"Left! Your other left!"
 
Some lines from what I watched to entertain myself tonight:

From The Fast and the Furious:
Dom: [looking at the junked Toyota Supra being hauled in] I said a ten-*second* car, not a ten-*minute* car.
Jesse: You could push this across the finish line, or tow it.
Dom: You couldn't even tow that across the finish line.
Brian: No faith.
Dom: I have faith in you, but this isn't a junkyard. This is a garage.

From The Earth to the Moon:
Ed Mitchell: Uh, stand by.
Alan Shepard: While you're looking that up, you might recognise what I have in my hand as the handle for the Contingency Sample Return [screws six-iron onto the CSR as he speaks], it just so happens to have a genuine six-iron on the bottom of it. [picks up a small white ball] In my left hand I have that white pellet familiar to millions of Americans, I'll drop it down here. This suit is so stiff I can't do this with two hands, but I'm gonna try a sand trap. [swings 'club'].
Mitchell: You got more dirt than ball that time, Al!
Shepard: Got more dirt than ball! Here we go again [swings club again, hits the golf ball this time], straight as a die! [opens sun visor, looks at his rapidly vanishing ball] Miles and miles and miles!

:D
 
"I shall alert the media."
One of the most perfect line deliveries I've ever seen in any movie. :lol:
Agreed. :lol:
I was thinking more about just what makes it so good. That line is positively dripping with the sort of sarcasm which can only truly come from the absolutely loyal but long-suffering servant of a person who is decent and good... but a complete and oblivious ass. Gielgud pulls it off marvelously. :D
 
From Law and Order: SVU, "Honor". An Afghan woman is the victim of an honor killing at her brother's hand. Testifying at trial for the prosecution is a college professor, a Mideast specialist, who knew the victim. On cross-examination the brother's defense attorney questions the professor closely about the ancient tradition of honor kililngs, trying to use the prosecution's witness to the defense's advantage.

Defense Attorney: So it’s reasonable, having grown up in this world [of honor killing], that my client may have come to accept honor killing as necessary to survive?

Professor: Well, he may have accepted it, but I hardly think that it is reasonable.
 
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