Post brief quotes from fiction/narrative/whatever

Jess (Zoë Deschanel): "I am going to have a one night stand. Tonight it's all about what 'Little Jess' [points toward crotch] wants."

— Easy Girl (TV series).

Jayne: "Unable to get a neural...."
Simon (coaching him in medical jargon): "Response."
Jayne: "Response! Hell, I don't know. If I wanted schooling, I'd-a gone to school."

Firefly

"— What happen to you in real life that made you like this?
I graduated from MIT and then I got into a horrible accident and I lost half my brain."

— New Girl S2

Simon: "If I didn't know better, I'd say you're ready to save some lives!"
Mal: "Now all we need are a couple o' patients."
Simon: "Corpses, actually. For this to work, River and I will have to be dead."
Jayne: "Huh. I'm starting to like this plan."

Firefly

"Schmidt: Where's Krista?
Brother of Schmidt: Krista and I have a new arrangement. I can sleep with whoever I want, but she doesn't speak to me or live with me anymore."

— New Girl

Mal: "Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery."

Firefly

"Are you actually cooking a fritatta in a saucepan? What is this, prison?"

— New Girl

Jayne: "The doc did good, comin' up with that job. Don't mean I like 'im any better. Nothing buys bygones quicker than cash. Maybe I'll give him a tattoo while he's out."

Firefly

"You walk into a shoe store with one-hundred-and-fifty, you come out with one shoe!"

— The Color of Money

River (after slashing Jayne): "He looks better in red."

Firefly

"'How did you do that?' you asked, incredulous.

The pithy, monosyllabic answer uttered in response changed your life forever: 'Vim.'"

— Vim Creep

Doctor, to Mal: "You must be new. Don't get comfortable. Your type doesn't last long here. When your supervisor hears about the rude and disresp— AGHHH!"
[He collapses. Behind him, Zoe lowers defibrillator paddles.]
Zoe: "Clear."

Firefly

"Oh, no. No dogs are allowed on the shuttle, son. I am afraid Scraps will have to be shot.
<BANG>
—SCRAPS!!!! He shot him! He shot Scraps!"
Eh, heh, just joking! Just blanks. See, Scraps is fine!"

— Airplane II: The Sequel

River: "Your toes are in the sand."
Jayne: "And your head's up your—"
Simon: "Hey! Back off."

Firefly

"Striker, you get that ship down, and down safe, there just might be a few of us who will forget about Macho Grande."

—Airplane II: The Sequel

Mal (reacting to Zoe and Wash's embrace): "Cut it out! The job's not done 'til we're back on Serenity."
Zoe: "Sorry, sir. Didn't mean to enjoy the moment."

Firefly

"In his drive to create the world’s most efficient company, Jeff Bezos discovered what he thought was another inefficiency worth eliminating: hourly employees who spent years working for the same company."

— New York Times "daily email" June 15, 2021

Jayne: "You know what I'd appreciate? You stop flapping that pretty mouth at me. I'm trying to figure a way out of here. I can't do it with you yammerin'."

Firefly

Ziskey: " So, how many of you would say you speak English fairly well, but with some difficulties? A little English? [some dude raises hand] Yes? You speak some English?"
Some dude: "Son of bitch. Shit."
Class: "Son of bitch. Shit."

— Stripes

River: "Two by two, hands of blue... two by two, hands of blue...."

Firefly

“The goal of these two changes is to make our safety safer and more equitable."

— Ted Wheeler

What two changes?

"Don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.”

— "Rick," Casablanca

Quote:

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

What two changes?

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Hmmm?

"Your days of finger-banging old Mary Jane Rottencrotch are over!"

— Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, Senior Drill Instructor!

OK, fine. The two changes are that municipal/city police are not advised to pursue violations not immediately or in se hazardous, whatever that means, and that city police are not to begin conversing with subjects about the contents of their person without telling them of their right to refuse any search.

It's really not a big deal. A bit of wallpaper. But it could be significant for a smaller town that has been, I would say, besieged by a number of foreign interests, especially including by all prejudice inhabitants of neighboring states and counties.

Mr. Wheeler's phrasing may have been a bit inept, but it's forgivable, certainly. But there are at least two reasons, in persona, that his state, pace KBrown(D) and city lag far behind according to any metric one wishes to apply.

here's a link to ABC news, that should go back to the AP Wire desk. It's not important: hillbilly yokels yield to pressure. Building codes under fire. New petitions against tax.

Not intended to be inflammatory, and it's not at all the biggest local news. A small sop, if anything.

Like the man said, "don't amount to a hill of beans." QED.

Gotcha, and thanks for the explanation.

Inara: "What's going on here?"
Kaylee: "Oh, well, let's see. We killed Simon and River, stole a bunch of medicine, and now the Captain 'n' Zoe are off springing the others got snatched by the Feds!"

Firefly

"I play pool like I fuck: everything goes in except the balls."

— ancient corny poolroom joke

Mal (with Jayne trapped in the airlock): "You know, I hear tell they used to keelhaul traitors back in the day. I don't have a keel to haul you on, so...."

Firefly

"He [the Aries man] is forever discussing his new quests and projects. And she [the Capricorn woman] can find such constant narration a tad mind-numbing. — Stella Starsky, Cosmic Coupling

Mal: "You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me! But since that's a concept you can't seem to wrap your head around, then you got no place here. You did it to me, Jayne. And that's a fact."

Firefly

Nic Cage: "Killing me won't bring back your goddamn honey! You bitches! You bitches!"
— The Wicker Man

Mal: "The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face."

Firefly

"There's only two men I trust. One is me. And the other is not you."

— Con Air

^ Great line!

Book (discussing Xiang Yu, an ancient Chinese warrior-poet): "He said, 'Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals… speak on every subject… then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.'"
Simon: "What if you don't live near a volcano?"
Book: "I expect he was being poetical."

Firefly

Fish: "He said I was at the time of my life when my body is going through changes."
Barney: "Sounds like menopause."
Fish: "It is menopause. I caught it from Bernice."

— Barney Miller

Simon: "The government did this to her."
Book: "A government is a body of people; usually, notably ungoverned."
Simon: "Now you're quoting the Captain."

Firefly

"But it’s important for this couple [Aries man, Cancer woman] to let the cracks show, and to delve below the surface."

— Starkey and Quinn, Cosmic Coupling

Book: "Yes, I'd forgotten - you're moon-lighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned?"
Simon: "No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist."

Firefly

"There is no denying that Aries’s astrological influences predispose him to an innate sense of grabby entitlement, if not more than his fair share of arrogance."

— Starky, Cox, Sextrology. The Astrology of Sex and the Sexes

Mal: "Ah, the pitter-patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots...."

Firefly

"Call it.
— Heads."

— The Hustler (film)

Wash: "It's Jayne being so generous with his cut [of a recent heist] that confuses and frightens me."
Zoe: "It does kind of freeze the blood."

Firefly

"Get the fuck out of here, what fucking woman?"

— Goodfelllas

Mal: "That wasn't a bad idea, Wash, but...eliminating the middle man, never as simple as it sounds.... About 50% of the human race is middlemen and they don't take kindly to being eliminated. This quadrant...we play nice. Got enemies enough as it is."

Firefly

Max (Brando): "Nick [De Niro]! You look like shit! What's your secret?"

— The Score, directed by Frank Oz

Zoe: "Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?"
Wash: "You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, Lamby-Toes."

Firefly

Cindy: "Don't get offended by this question but, are you gonna kill me or something?"
Matrix: "No."
Cindy: "I suppose you wouldn't tell me if you were."
Matrix: "Sure I would."

— Commando

Wash: "I love the fact that you two are old army buddies, and you got wacky stories with ribcages in them, but could you have an opinion of your own, please?"

Firefly

John Matrix: "Why don't they just call him Girl George? It would cut down on the confusion."

— Commando

Zoe: "Right. 'Cause what this marriage needs is one more shouting match!"

Firefly