QUOTES OF THE WEEK

 

Over the years I've used some quotes in my email sig files. They range from the profound to the silly, from film quotes to personal in-jokes. Sometimes all four at once. So, if I've ever sent you an email and you wondered where the quote came from, now's your chance to find out.....

 

Date Used

Quote

Who and What?

6 October 1997

"Jeannie, who wants to see this dance?"

Dave Horsfall in The Full Monty (1997)

13 October 1997

"There’s no time to discuss this in committee."

Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back (1980 / 1997)

20 October 1997

"Uh guys. Olympus would be that way...."

Hades in Disney’s Hercules (1997)

28 October 1997

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist."

Verbal in The Usual Suspects (1995)

12 November 1997

"Oh, behave!"

Austin Powers in Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery (1997)

21 November 1997

"I do wish we could chat longer, but I’m having an old friend for dinner."

Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

5 January 1998

" 'Empire' had the better ending...All 'Jedi' had was a bunch of Muppets."

Dante Hicks in Clerks (1994)

28 January 1998

"Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things."

Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back (1980/1997) and Silent Bob in Mallrats (1995)

24 February 1998

"It’s half an inch thick!"

Yeah, but we’re thicker."

Bimbo and Larry in The Van (1995)

18 March 1998

"No...you're making...you're making all new ones!"

Ian Malcolm in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

24 April 1998

"I’m drowning here, and you’re describing the water!"

Melvin in As Good As It Gets (1998)

5 May 1998

"It’s the millennium, motives are incidental."

Randy in Scream (1996)

31 May 1998

"I’ll be back...."

Ginger Spice confirms the fears of an entire nation. (1998)

29 June 1998

"Smoke all you want. Just don’t exhale."

Wolfstone Mailing List (29 June 1998)

11 August 1998

"American components, Russian components - they’re all made in Taiwan."

Lev Andropov in Armageddon (1998)

14 September 1998

"CPR? I can’t even spell it!"

The Rat in Doctor Dolittle (1998)

9 October 1998

"Why do I get the feeling that someday I’ll be describing this to a psychiatrist?"

Lisa Simpson in The Simpsons

 

11 January 1999

"There are no losers, just people who don’t win."

Bob Monkhouse

15 March 1999

"I’d just like to thank Heather the Weather..."

Peter MacKenzie – Ninewells Poll Winners Party (11 March 1999)

10 May 1999

"Oi, Heather the Weather's still here..."

Exasperated correspondents (May 1999)

30 June 1999

"The bad news is that all the accepted laws of physics are crap."

Yvonne Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart (28 June 1999)

31 August 1999

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."

Qui-Gonn Jinn in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999)

22 September 1999

"That movie has warped my fragile little mind."

Eric Cartman in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)

14 January 2000

"Happiness wouldn't be happiness without a violin-playing goat."

Anna Scott in Notting Hill (1999)

1 February 2000

"Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun?!? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?"

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons

6 June 2000

"I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."

Arthur Dent in The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

15 September 2001

"If religion isn't dead, then maybe it should be."

Judy Finnegan, surprising me with possibly the most valid statement of that dreadful week.

24 June 2004

"You've got to hand it to the Wachowski brothers... It took George Lucas 20 years to kill his baby and they did their's in three..."

Simon Pegg

24 December 2004

"Of all the women I've ever met, you have to be the blondest..."

Andy Hunter in EastEnders

19 May 2005

"Not if anything to say about it, I have..."

Yoda in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

15 November 2005

"What you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar."

Jayne Cobb in Serenity

 

 

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