Movie Meme

What the hey. Here's my list:

1. Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw. (mnemex)

2. It was getting so I felt I needed official surroundings.

3. It's poetry. The poetry of war.

4. Slither in.

5. Look at it! Is that or is it not the wrong chinaman?

6. Thank God no one in this city looks up! (mnemex)

7. I always leave one bullet, either for myself or for the other guy.

8. Does the rolling help? (mnemex)

9. You can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when it comes right down to it, this far inside the head it all looks the same.

10. I'm hung like a horse. Think about it.

11. Sheer improvisation, boys!

12. I never saved anything for the swim back. (mnemex)

[Note to bugsybanana: I wish IMDB had all the quotes I wanted. Even at the best of times, one may get these slightly wrong. I hope that's not the case for the ones I did from memory.]

Books, Too

Here are a few quotes from various books.

1. It is difficult to write about a real person.

2. All the years in this ring to you, and all your own years, too. (mnemex)

3. Hic sunt leones.

4. You have solved the problem which philosophers have been debating since antiquity -- the mystery about which no two nations or tribes have ever agreed, and no two men or women have ever agreed, and no intelligent person has ever agreed totally with himself from one day to the next. You know the difference between right and wrong. I am overawed. I swoon. I figuratively kiss your feet. (supergee)

5. Why can I never set my mind on a possible thing? [Caveat: Can't find the source for this, so the wording might be off.]

6. Feathers or lead? (mnemex)

7. I am more your friend than you think--for after our very first encounter, I could by saying a word to the cardinal have had your throat cut! (mnemex)

8. I was worst to the one I loved the most.

9. Who are they, these people who raise us? We think we know them, but they're strangers. They give us so much, make us who we are, and we never find out why.

10. I shall need very good nursing. It will make no difference, for I shall not recover; but I wish everything to be done, to the smallest detail, as if I should. I hate an ill-conducted sickroom, and you will be so good as to nurse me, on the hypothesis that I shall get well.

11. I faint when I cut my finger! Crimson sunsets make me dive beneath my bed! Bloodhounds drive me into screaming fits! I once threw up all over a very distinguished nobleman who introduced me to his blood brother!

12. Until the body melts and the brain ceases to gel, a man who has come out whole after having been put through his paces by the Delian has a heart for living. (redaxe)