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Picard's monologue:
"Space: The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship
Enterprise. It's continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds...
To seek out new life, and new civilizations... To Boldly Go Where No One
Has Gone Before."
Dr. Lenard McCoy:
"He's dead, Jim"
"I'm a doctor, not a _______"
Spock:
"Fascinating"
"Live long and prosper"
(In response to T'Pau) "I shall do neither. I have killed my Captain"
Data:
"Intriguing"
"Inquiry"
"Resistance is futile!"
Picard:
"Make it so!"
"Engage!"
"Get off my bridge!"
Yoda:
"Do, or do not. There is no try."
Luke:
"I will not fight you"
"This is your last chance, Jabba. Free us, or die"
Vader:
"Asteroids do not concern me"
Obi-Wan Kenobi:
"Use the Force, Luke"
"Mos Eisley... a wretched hive of scum and villainy..."
"That's no moon... that's a space station."
Marvin the paranoid android:
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet ..."
David Bowman (through HAL):
"All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there"
Hamlet: (in Hamlet)
"To be, or not to be!
That is the question."
Mark Antony: (in Julius Caesar)
"Friends, Romans, countrymen!
Lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar
Not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them
the good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with Caesar"
Julius Caesar: (in Julius Caesar)
"Et tu, Brute? Then Caesar must fall"
Sectoid Ortado: (some guy on IRC)
"Love, life, and blueberry sectoids"
Neil Armstrong:
(or Edwin Aldrin?) "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed"
"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind"
He did not say: "Houston, we have a problem"
Satya: (me)
"If at first you don't succeed, make sure you screw up properly"
"If it's working, something's wrong"
"The net is safer than most people think and also more dangerous
than most people think"
HowlCCC:
"Life is never too busy not to extend the hand of friendship and
help to another"
Bugs Bunny: (you have to hear him!)
"You were expecting maybe the Easter Bunny?" (Space Jam)
"What's up, doc?"
"Confidentially..."
"Pardon me, doc..."
"So long, screwy, see you in St. Louis!"
Elmer Fudd:
"He-ey! There's something awfuwy scwewy going on awound here!"
Howard Paine (Dennis Hopper) in Speed:
"Very, very, exciting, Jack. Some close calls, huh?"
"Do not attempt to grow a brain!"
John Travolta in Broken Arrow:
"Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons??"
Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai:
(roughly)Hum ek baar jeete hain, ek baar marte hai, shaadi bhi ek baar
hoti hai, aur pyaar bhi ek baar. (We are born once in lifetime, we die once,
we marry once, and we fall in love once.)