David Lynch: "Here in LA, kind of a haze, a hazy, sunny morning. Very still right now. Around 66 degrees farenheit, 19 celsius. This morning I was thinking about the group, Pink Floyd."
— David Lynch's Weather Report 7/15/21
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David Lynch: "Here in LA, kind of a haze, a hazy, sunny morning. Very still right now. Around 66 degrees farenheit, 19 celsius. This morning I was thinking about the group, Pink Floyd."
— David Lynch's Weather Report 7/15/21
Wash: "No, what this marriage needs is one less husband. Right now it's kinda crowded."
Firefly
"Did you enjoy Mongo Santamaria's music? Good for you, but he really is a pig! The bandages on his fingers do not imply a gentle man."
— Found art in the NYC area, date unknown
River: "I... I threw up on your bed."
Simon: "Yup. Definitely my sister."
Firefly
"Well, it's time for the weekend projects. Uh they may be the same projects we had during the week, but, whatever. I hope they go smoothly, and they turn out great. This afternoon, it'll be going up to 84 degrees farenheit, around 29 celsius, and, it looks like, there will be blue skies and golden sunshine."
— David Lynch's Weather Report 7/17/21 UTC -7
Jayne (after seeing a beautiful woman come aboard for some... intimate time with Inara): "I'll be in my bunk."
Firefly
Vincent Hanna (Pacino): "I bet she's got a GREAT ASS! And you got your head all the way up it!"
— Heat (Michael Mann, dir.)
Wash: "Didn't want you taking off without me. In fact, didn't want you taking off at all. Thought I might take this run instead — me and the Captain."
Mal: "The Captain who's standing right here, telling you that's not going to happen?"
Firefly
"I was in a local Guitar Center store looking at a Les Paul. When the salesman asked what I'd be playing with it, I said jazz and some blues. the salesman then asked, 'who plays jazz on a Les Paul.' I replied, 'Well, Les Paul for one.'"
— an anecdote heard on some jazz guitar forum
Mal: "Okay [chuckling], um... I'm lost. Uh... I'm angry. And, I'm armed."
Firefly
"Good morning. It's July twenty-three. Two thousand twenty one. And if YOOOOOOOU can believe it, it's a Friday once again."
— David Lynch's Daily Weather Report 23-vii-2021
Wash: "Bye, hon." [sarcastic] "We promise not to stop for beers with the fellas!" [turning to Mal] "So... are we gonna sing army songs or something?"
Firefly
"Well, you know, if a very, very heavy set women were to come on to this set and started eating, you know, hot dogs, and as a joke, and maybe sing some songs, it would change this atmosphere. you know."
— interview David Lynch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTv2c2rptLw
Inara: "If I choose a woman, she tends to be extraordinary in some way. And the fact is, I occasionally have the exact same need you do. One can not always be one's self in the company of men."
Councilor: "Never, actually."
Firefly
“They played for the smile of music, a good drink of whiskey, and if you played good enough you got a good lookin’ girlfriend!” — Buddy Guy, guitarist and singer, unknown source.
Mal: "Look— this thing, with you and Zoe—"
Wash: "Really not looking to talk on that topic."
Firefly
“To be trustworthy is not more important than seeming to be trustworthy.” — Peter Lorre's character in the movie Beat the Devil
Mal: "Hey, I let that [stupid (in Chinese)] trick of yours slide back there because this is a milk run. But when I go on a mission, I'm taking Zoe, and that's the drill. You know that. I mean, what happens if we get in a situation here?"
Wash: "Hey, I've been in a firefight before. [Pauses] Well, I was in a fire. [Pauses] Actually, I was fired, from a fry cook opportunity. [Pauses again.] I can handle myself."
Firefly
"Shut up, you skinny bucket of piss! You're not worth going to jail for, for murder."
— Birdy an Alan Parker film.
Mal: "You okay?"
Wash: [Panicking] "I think I've been kidnapped."
Mal: "Yeah."
Firefly
"I assume that per over-the-top regulations that Robert Loggia alternates between calling him 'Bate' and 'Bates.'"
— commentary track to Psycho II
Wash: "I don't want you to spare me, Mal. If you think you know what's happening then you tell me. You wouldn't spare Zoe if she were in this situation with you, would you? You would be planning, and plotting, and possibly scheming. So, whatever Zoe would do in this instance is what I wanna do. And you know why? Because no matter how ugly it gets, you two always come back. With the stories. So... I'm Zoe. Now... what do I do?"
Mal: "Probably not talk quite so much."
Wash: "Right. Less talking. She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic."
Firefly
"It was a Trojan Horse, Morty. Never trust the French. All right, fun is fun, but now the federal government is going to be pissed again. Way to go. And on America's birthday, or whatever the fuck Thanksgiving is."
— some cartoon
Wash: "I mean, I'm the one that she swore to love, honor, and obey."
Mal: "Listen, if— [surprised] She swore to obey?"
Wash: "Well, no... not — but that's just my point! You, she obeys! She obeys you. There's obeying going on right under my nose!"
Firefly
"Well. Here we go, for the weekend projects. Sometimes they're the same projects that we work on during the week. But whatever the case, good luck to us all."
— David Lynch's Weather Report 14-viii-2021
Mal: "There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey."
Wash: "Name one!"
Mal: "She married you!"
Firefly
"Lillian: I always knew that Kitty was a perverted little snatch!"
Gittes: Lillian! Lillian, please. I'm trying to be a gentleman about this. Now get down on your knees."
— The Two Jakes
Simon (looking at a severed ear): "Well, it's a clean cut; with the right equipment I should be able to reattach it... that's assuming there's a head."
Firefly
"Yes, Jeffrey, that is a human ear. You did right by bringing it to me. I'll send it over to the coroner's office.
Detective Williamson, what do you think they might be able to find out?"
— Blue Velvet (paraphrase)
Niska: "Do you know the writings of a Xiang Yu?"
Mal (straining in pain from torture): "You starting a book club?"
Firefly
"Alex went on to become Dr. Van Halen. Gynecologist, Los Anglese, CA." original music video, "Hot For Teacher."
Zoe: "Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?"
Book (pulling out a rifle): "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."
Firefly
"There's something I don't like about a band who always smiles."
— Dead Kennedys, "MTV."
Zoe: "Okay, people. If it moves, shoot it."
Kaylee: "Unless it's the Captain!"
Zoe: "Unless it's the Captain."
Firefly
"If warm air rises, then Heaven could be hotter than Hell."
— Steven Wright
River (after effortlessly killing three bad guys): "No power in the 'verse can stop me."
Firefly
"This is a formica table. Green is its color."
— Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
Mal (fighting a torturer who had earlier revived him): "Haven't you killed me enough for one day?"
Firefly
"We were all sitting there going, 'Where's this guy Brian? He should have been here an hour ago.' 'Oh him? He's downstairs playing pool with the roadies.' So we thought, well, at least he plays pool."
— Malcolm Young in AC/DC Hell Ain't A Bad Place To be
Simon: "I, uh, I never — never shot anyone before."
Book: "I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone… yet."
Firefly
"Are you out of your goddamned mind? What in the hell is wrong with you people?"
— a daily refrain of indeterminate repetitions by an unnamed person upon hearing uncontrolled "pet" canids out his or her goddamned window at home.
Mal (as the show opens, he is sitting naked on a rock in the middle of a desert): "Yep. That went well."
Firefly
"What do women and Nvidia have in common?
...
They both do not make very good drivers."
— joke heard somewhere (Nvidia is a company that makes graphics cards for computers, and probably other stuff, and causes a lot of grief among those kids and their video gamerings and their linux...hardware devices use a small bit of very low-level code to "communicate" with various hardware and software layers, called "drivers"...rather difficult to write them, unless assembly language is your native tongue. Their drivers may not be great for other platforms -- dunno -- but I hear linux people complain about them all the time).
Monty: "Damn you, Bridget! Damn you to Hades! You broke my heart in a million pieces! You made me love you, and then you… I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!"
Firefly
"Look up 'idiot' in the dictionary, you know what you'd find?'
"A picture of me?"
"No! The definition of the word 'idiot', which you fucking are!"
— Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Mal: "You're gonna want to pull your claw out of that bag, nice and slow."
Firefly
"I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it’s egotistical, but I have it in me. I don’t want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.”
— Mike Tyson
Mal: "You and lipstick are a dangerous combination, if I recall."
Firefly
"'So I did the show and at 4.30 in the morning I was fired,” says Lemmy. He had the last laugh though. In addition to starting Motorhead [sic], he adds that he really enjoyed 'coming home and fucking all their old ladies. Not the ugly ones of course. But at least four. I took great pleasure in it. Eat that, you bastards.'"
— Ten Things You May Not Know About Lemmy
Stifler: "Well, polish my nuts and serve me a milkshake."