"This is the nature of war: by protecting others, you save yourselves. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself." - Seven Samurai
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"This is the nature of war: by protecting others, you save yourselves. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself." - Seven Samurai
"If God did not want them to be shorn, he would not have made them to be sheep!" —The Magnificent Seven
"Danger always strikes when everything seems fine." - Seven Samurai
"I couldn't get enough. I mean, her pussy was like heroin to me. And it wasn't just about the sex, either. Naomi and I got along, I mean, we, we had similar interests and shit." —The Wolf of Wall Street
"Bandits are coming, you fool. Your head is on the block and all you think of are your whiskers?" - Seven Samurai
"Remeber. A war is run. We run, both in offense and defense. When you can't run, it's time to die." —Seven Samurai
"Find hungry samurai. Even bears come down from the mountains when they are hungry." - Seven Samurai
"How do I know a yak from a bear?" —Ch. Bronson in Telefon
recycled yet remembered remebered
"You fool! Damn you! You call yourself a horse! For shame! Hey! Wait! Please! I apologize! Forgive me!" - Seven Samurai
"Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle, which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is the struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character.” —James Terry White
Gorobei Katayama: "Have you killed many?"
Heihachi Hayashida: "Since it's impossible to kill them all - yah!"
Heihachi Hayashida: "I usually run away."
Gorobei Katayama: "A splendid principle."
Seven Samurai
"—Who dressed me?
—I did. I'm a big fan of bears.
—I'm not wearing pants.
—When's the last time you saw a bear wearing pants?
—Wha the, what the fu....
—Eh-d-d-d-d-d! Easy now. The only f-bomb we're using around here is Fred Savage."
—Once Upon a Deadpool
"How'd you like to kill thirty bandits?" - Seven Samurai
"The subtitle 'Per Aspera' comes from the Latin phrase Ad astra per aspera, meaning 'to the stars through hardships." — Maurice Hinson, paralipomena to his edition of Moszkowski, 15 Virtuosic Etudes, "Per Aspera," Op. 72
"You embarrass me. You're overestimating me. Listen, I'm not a man with any special skill, but I've had plenty of experience in battles; losing battles, all of them. In short, that's all I am. Drop such an idea for your own good." - Seven Samurai
"Unless you happen to be really savvy about the inner and outer workings of all your car's systems and its machinery and how all of that technology works together, you'll take it to someone who does know how to keep it maintained." — Todd Lammle CCNA Routing and Switching Complete Study Guide
"—Are you crazy? You're not going to eat that are you?
—I'm hungry!
—His refrigerator's been out of order for two weeks now: I saw milk standing up in there that wasn't even in the bottle.
—What are you, some kind of health nut? Eat, Murray, eat."
—motion picture, The Odd Couple
Kambei Shimada: Kikuchiyo, born on 17 February, the Second Year of Tensho. [He suddenly bursts out laughing]
Kikuchiyo: What's so damn funny?
Kambei Shimada: You don't look thirteen!
Seven Samurai
"The right hand needs legatissimo and subtle shaping of four-measure phrases. Think of a lyrical rather than a virtusoso molto animato." —Maurice Hinson, notes to Moszkwoski étude n° 13, Op. 72
"They say the fish that gets away looks bigger than it really is." - Seven Samurai
"Marlboro maker Altria said it sees cigarette sales in the U.S. falling even faster than it had expected." — front page sidebar "What's News" from the WSJ, last Friday.
Yes, I actually plunked down the four dollars for it on last Friday, hoping their good Friday crossword would still be there and to catch up on the news. No, I haven't actually gotten around to reading it yet.
"Don't you see? A real sword will kill you." - Seven Samurai
"Hey kid, what do you think you're doing: flying [a] jet? [...] Look, professor. I've been through a war. I've seen people panic and run a hundred times. Maybe ten times they had a reason. The other ninety they were just stupid: crazed, with idiotic fear. Well, whichever is the case here, it'd still make a darn good book." —motion picture The Slime People
"Consider who we're dealing with here. Give a wolf a taste of your leg and he'll ask for your hand." - Seven Samurai
"A generalization of the integral for functions of one or more variable lead to the idea of multiple integrals for functions of two or more variables. [...] [W]e postpone consideration of this topic to Chapter 6." —Spiegel, Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists, 1971.
"Use your balls, if you've got any!" - Seven Samurai
"Dalton, I always heard you had balls big enough to come in a dump truck." — Road House
"I'm with you. But I have to say that, although I understand the farmers' suffering and understand why you would take up their cause, it's your character that I find most compelling. In life one finds friends in the strangest places." - Seven Samurai
"There's a crack in the dilithium crystal, Captain. I cannot have her running in under two hours, Captain!" —probably some hallucinated episode of Star Trek
"Don't mess with me. I may look like hell, but I'm a real samurai!" - Seven Samurai
"Tendering a coin through the trap door of the fare slipped out and away, leaving an effect of uncanny, eccentric ghostliness upon the driver's mind." — Conrad,The Secret Agent
Gorobei Katayama: "Where shall we start our patrol?"
Kambei Shimada: "The spot that worries us the most, of course."
Seven Samurai
"We shall find that Laplace transforms provide useful means for solving linear differential equations. For this reason, it will be necessary for us to find Laplace transforms of derivatives. The following theorems are fundamental." — M. Spiegel, Advanced Mathematics for Scientists and Engineers
"Got what you deserved, you mud snails." - Seven Samurai
"Finally they get all this stuff into me, and they say, 'The situation is so mixed up that even some of the things they've established for years are being questioned--such as the beta decay of the neutron is S and T. It's so messed up. Murray says it might even be V and A.'" — Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
"Into the mud, scum queen!" - The Man with Two Brains
"We had tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease--the delight in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing." — Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
"Where am I? I'm in Boise, Idaho. No, no, no, wait a minute, I'm in Anchorage, Alaska. No, no, wait, I'm in Casper, Wyoming. I'm in the lobby of a Howard Johnson's and I'm wearing a pink carnation." - Midnight Run
"They desecrated your world of beauty with their sordidness. The day of the crimson executioner has now come!" — Bloody Pit of Horror
Also: "You're not my accountant!" :)
"They desecrated your world of beauty with their sordidness. The day of the crimson executioner has now come!" — Bloody Pit of Horror
Also: "You're not my accountant!" :)
"Well, let me describe the scene to you. There are these guys, see? They've probably been up for like two days. They stink of B.O., they have coffee breath, they're constipated from sittin' on their asses for so long, they're sitting in a van, and they're probably parked right up the street from your office, Eddie. Your phone is tapped!" - Midnight Run
"“But you said that Raskolnikov had no axioms,” said the Master. “So how could he rationally justify his actions?”
“I see your point,” I said. “He was trying to do the math. Solve the ethical equation. His hubris was not in rejecting the accepted axioms, but in believing that he can come up with a better set. So, in a way, agent [Ethan] Hunt had the advantage of being a moral simpleton.”
“He was the uncarved wood,” said the Master.""
— from an unusually discursive post by computer scientist Bartosz Milewski.
No, I don't know what he meant, either: usually, as you can see, his blog posts are usually pretty dense applied mathematics or related to advanced computer science topics. HOWEVER, for those who are interested in category theory (not necessarily anything to do with its diverse applications), I recommend his video lecture series, which shows BM to be just as capable of being a captivating lecturer, with as great enthusiasm, as anyone in the abstract sciences. Category Theory is sort of like abstract algebra, except just one step more abstract.
"Is this Moron #1? Put Moron #2 on the phone." - Midnight Run
"Well, I'm saying if I were your accountant." —Midnight Run
Jonathan Mardukas: "Jack, you're a grown man. You're in control of your own words."
Jack Walsh: "You're goddamn right I am. Now here come two words for you: Shut the fuck up."
- Midnight Run
"You're not my accountant!" —Midnight Run
"You have two emotions, silence and rage." - Midnight Run
(Technically, silence isn't an emotion, but it's a great line just the same!)
"Perl will come in handy later when we try to hijack execution with an actual memory address rather than crash the program." —Georgia Weidman, Penetration Testing
Jonathan Mardukas: "No, I don't have to do better than that, because it's the truth, I can't fly: I suffer from aviaphobia."
Jack Walsh: "What does that mean?"
Mardukas: "It means I can't fly. I also suffer from acrophobia and claustrophobia."
Walsh: "I'll tell you what: if you don't cooperate, you're gonna suffer from 'fistophobia.'"
Midnight Run
"Our graves aren't going to disappear like everybody else's who fought here: the Greeks, the Romans, the Carthaginians. God how I hate the twentieth century." —Patton
Jack Walsh: "I know my rights. You owe me phone calls
FBI Special Agent Alonzo Mosely: "What should be of paramount importance to you right now is not the phone calls. It's the fact that you're gonna spend ten years for impersonating a Federal agent."
Walsh: "Ten years for impersonating a Fed, huh?"
Mosely: "Ten years."
Walsh: "How comes no one's after you?"
Midnight Run
"Black milk of dawn, we drink it in the evening
We drink it mid-days and in the morning, we drink it at night."
—Paul Celan, Todesfuge
"Don't say a word to me, Sidney, don't say a fuckin' word to me. I'll get up and I'll bury this telephone in your head." - Midnight Run
"Back in the 1600s, Paulaner monks moved from Southern Italy to the Cloister Neudeck ob der Au in Bavaria. “Being a strict order, they were not allowed to consume solid food during Lent,” the braumeister and beer sommelier of Paulaner Brewery Martin Zuber explained in a video on the company’s website.
They needed something other than water to sustain them, so the monks turned to a common staple of the time of their region – beer. They concocted an “unusually strong” brew, full of carbohydrates and nutrients, because “liquid bread wouldn’t break the fast,” Zuber noted."
—These Seventeeth-Century Monks Did a Beer Fast for Lent
"Sidney, siddown, relax, have a sandwich, drink a glass of milk, do some fuckin' thing." - Midnight Run
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few."
—Shunryu Suzuki
Alonzo Mosely: "Let me tell you something, asshole. I've been working on this Jimmy Serrano thing for about six years; Mardukas is my shot. I'm gonna bring him into federal court, and I don't want any third-rate rent-a-thug who couldn't cut it as a cop in Chicago bringing him to LA on some bullshit local charge. Do I make myself understood?"
Jack Walsh: "Can I ask you something? These sunglasses, they're really nice: are they government-issued, or all you guys go to the same store to get them?"
Midnight Run
"The challenge to the surgeon is to re-attach the muscle to the bone in a way that glides smoothly within the pulley system of the hand. Flexor tendon injuries to the index and long finger tend to impede tasks that require fine motor skills; injuries to the flexor tendons of the ring or small fingers usually have a greater impact on grip strength." — Anon., Wiki, "Musculoskeletal Medicine For Medical Students": "Flexor Tendon Injury."
Jack Walsh: "Eddie, Eddie, I swear to God, don't start with me or so help me, I will shoot him and dump him in a fuckin' swamp!" [Mardukas looks frightened, but Jack frowns and shakes his head at him as if to say, "Not really"]
Midnight Run
"You know what they say: if they're old enough to sit at the table, they're old enough to eat." — coworker's response to my suggestion that Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin bride was pretty good looking.
"You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin' pencil. Do you understand me?" - Midnight Run
"Gimme water. Give me somebody's daughter." — The Who
"Start by shutting up. I know you all of two minutes and already I don't like ya." - Midnight Run
"Cruelty, it's to extirpate by blood including the divine blood, the beastly randomness of the unconscious, human animality, wherever one might meet it." — Artaud, "To have finished with the judgment of God:
=="La cruauté, c’est d’extirper par le sang et jusqu’au sang dieu, le hasard bestial de l’animalité inconsciente humaine, partout où on peut le rencontrer."
"Jack, nothing personal, but fuck off." - Midnight Run
"The company told sellers on Thursday that it will no longer operate its third-party online marketplace or provide seller services on its Chinese website." — Julie Wernau and Yoko Kubota, "Amazon Quits Chinese Business," in WSJ 19-Apr-2019
"Hey! Hey, Robert, what you're doing? —He's mine, Jack, get lost. — Fuck you he's yours, he's mine, what the [unintelligble] you doing. — Well then go straighten it out with Eddie, I collect the money. —I almost got killed too trying to get this guy, he shot at me. — BACK OFF! I said I'm taking him, all right? *— All right. I'm worth twelve-hundred. — All right, Marvin, we're friends, what thet hell we fightin' for?" —MN R
"—I got money, you know. —I'm sure you do. —I'll give you whatever you want. —Start by shutting up. I know you of two minutes and already I don't like you." —MN R
"Whydn't you get yourself a new watch? —Tell you when I know you better. —When you know me better? When you going to know me better? You better? You're not going to know me better. —Shut. Up. —That's what I mean." —MN R
"I can say 'Hello' in a lot of different languages. Not yours, but a lot of them." MN R
"You put Marvin on this case, you fuckin' piece of shit? You fucking, deceptive - you VERMIN! You SLIMEBALL in a SEA of PUS!" - Midnight Run
"All right, it's fucking zero. You happy now, you crazy fuck?" —TBL
Jonathan Mardukas: [impersonating an FBI agent] "Would you describe exactly what the last man who passed a $20 bill to you looked like?"
Bar Cashier: "Thirty, tall...."
Mardukas: "About 6 feet?"
Cashier: [shakes head] "Six-five."
Mardukas: "Dark hair?"
Cashier: "Light-colored."
Mardukas: [looks at Jack] "Sounds like our man."
Midnight Run
"That's bad. This one? Yeah, that's bad too. You'll get a receipt." (or something like that). MN R
" You get it started, and I'll run you over. That's the best plan I can think of." - Midnight Run
"—Wha, what the fuck's going on? You guys ain't cops! —Nah, we're ballet dancers." —MN R
"[Y]ou're a fucking criminal and you deserve to go where you're going, and I'm going to take you there, and if I hear any more shit out of you, I'm going to fucking bust your head and I'm going to put you back in that fucking hole, and I'm going to stick your head in the fucking toilet bowl, and I'm going to make it stay there. —Well. I have to tell you, a restaurant is a very tricky investment." —MN R
Jonathan Mardukas: "You can't steal a truck!"
Jack Walsh: "You were stealing a plane!"
Midnight Run
"My name is Special Agent Mosley.....Jack Walsh....of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. —That's not the name it says on the badge. Do you want me to call the FBI, or do you want to pay cash?" —MN R
Jack Walsh: "That whole fuckin' department was corrupt!"
Jonathan Mardukas: "There's good and bad everywhere, don't you think?"
Walsh: "Eh, well, I'd say there's bad everywhere. Good I don't know about."
Midnight Run
"—Did you ever have sex with an animal, Jack? Remember those chickens around the Indian reservation? There were some good-looking chickens there, Jack. You know, between us. —Yeah, a couple I wouldn't have minded taking a shot at." —MN R
"Why aren't you popular with the Chicago Police Department?" - Midnight Run
"‘Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess and not a dead pavane for a princess!" —Maurice Ravel, cited in Angela Hewitt (Canadian pianist, probably best known for her interpretations of Bach and "French" post-Romantic keyboard works), liner notes to Ravel The Complete Solo Piano Music, on the Hyperion label, 2002.
Jonathan Mardukas: "Come on, cigarettes are killers."
Jack Walsh: "So are women."
Midnight Run
"As an author and programmer, I'm faced with a dilemma: do I simply jump forward to Python 3.0 or [blah blah]." — D. Beazley, Python. Essential Reference. Fourth Edition. the only book on the Python language worth owning in physical format: legible, slim, comprehensive, with interesting insights into the development of the language, notably between 2.6 and 3.x O'Reilly, your days are numbered. Sorry to say, an otherwise loathesome publisher, Addison-Wesley, has a tremendous near-monopoloy in it's Developer's Library series.
Jonathan Mardukas: "You ever had lyonnaise potatoes? They are these types of potatoes that are sautéed but then they have this onion thing added to them, and they are really, really delicious. They work well with any, uh, chicken or pork dish. You know I could set you up with lyonnaise potatoes for the rest of your life."
Jack Walsh: "Why don't you just shut the fuck up?"
Midnight Run
"Yeah, I know, you're going put my head in that place." —Mardukas, MN R
Jack Walsh: "How much [cash] is here?"
Jonathan Mardukas: "Neighborhood of three hundred thousand."
Walsh: "That's a, that's a... very respectable neighborhood."
Midnight Run
"—I did the [dead] bird. —C'mon, now don't talk back. Mime is money. Let's go, come on, move it!" —This Is Spinal Tap
Airline Pilot: "Can I help you guys?"
Alonzo Mosely: "Special Agent Mosely, FBI."
Airline Pilot: "Are all you guys named 'Mosely'?"
Midnight Run
"Working on a sex farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering your livestock
They know what I need."
—Spinal Tap, "Sex Farm" (one day I'll remember all the words so I can sing it at work).
"Are you gonna stand up there with your thumb up your ass? Or you gonna get me the fuck outta here?" - Midnight Run
"And he said, 'Well, son, you won't make much money but you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra.'" — Robertson reporting "The Hawk" in the motion picure The Last Waltz
Airline Ticket Clerk: [selling a flight ticket to Marvin] "Would that be smoker or non-smoker, sir?"
Marvin Dorfler: [exhaling smoke] "Take a wild guess."
Midnight Run
Don Job: "Now let's you just drop them pants."
Bobby: "Drop?"
Don Job: "Just take them right off."
—Deliverance
"You're OK, Jack. I think... under different circumstances you and I probably still would have hated each other!" - Midnight Run
"There is [...] every reason to believe that liturgical rapport, especially right at the beginning of Mass, turns worship into an ecclesiastical version of Hello Dolly." — Th. Daly, Why Catholics Can't Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste
"I'm gonna tell you something. I want this guy taken out, and I want him taken out fast. You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fucking pencil. You get the message?"
Midnight Run
"Working on a sex farm
Wolfing down some cornbread
I'm turning on the TV
Joining the grange."
—Spinal Tap, "Sex Farm"
"You two are the dumbest bounty hunters I have ever seen! You couldn't even deliver a bottle of milk!" - Midnight Run
"I'm f*cking tired of the fact that you don't fix problems in the code *you* write, so that the kernel then has to work around the problems you cause." —Linus Torvalds post in "[RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline" from 2014
"When this caper's over - and I'm sure it'll be a successful one - we'll get down to the Hawaiian Islands, hell, I'll roll and laugh with all of ya. You'll find me a different character down there. Right now, it's a matter of business." —Reservoir Dogs
"I don't like this. I don't like anything you do, to tell you the truth. Nothing." - Midnight Run
"Well what then, day jobs? —Not in this lifetime!" —Pulp Fiction
"So you're aware of all your behavior, yet you continue to do things that aren't good for you. That sounds sort of foolish, don't you think, Jack?" - Midnight Run
"—Where are you going? —I'm going down to a caffè, drink a lot of pano [sic], and listen to the band. —You won't make it fast, will you? It doesn't do to make it fast: you have to think of the main objective. —Actually, it doesn't do to be fussy."
—Beat the Devil (ETA that's Lollobrigida's and Bogart's characters near the beginning of the [more-or-less a farce/comedy] movie).
"You wouldn't happen to have change for a thousand, would ya?" - Midnight Run
"The statement, 'If X exists, then X has most of the φ's' expresses a necessary truth (in the idiolect of the speaker)." —Kripke,Naming and Necessity
"Well, looks like I'm walkin'." - Midnight Run
"Vincent, get in the car. It looks terrible!" -- /the color of money/
Walsh: "I've known you for all of two minutes and already I don't like you."
Mardukas: "Gee, that's too bad 'cuz I really like you."
Midnight Run
"You win one more game, you're going to be humping your fist for a long time. Got that, Vincent?" —The Color of Money
Mardukas: "What you think Serrano is most afraid of?"
Walsh: "Going cross-country with you!"
Midnight Run
"You know who you got stakehorsin' here for you? This here's Fast Eddie Felson. Who the hell are you? The end of the world?" — The Color of Money
"When have I ever, when have I ever let you down before, you fucking rat?" - Midnight Run
"—Hey, Ace. You know I was thinking: what if we do the Matador rather than the Chrysler? What kind of bucks? —I thought we weren't going to think about bucks anymore." —Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
"I'm gonna blow-torch the both of yous if you don't bring back the Duke." - Midnight Run
"What'd I tell you: all you got to be is willing to take it to the max." — Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
"What am I telling you for... What am I telling you for... What am I... I'll tell you what I'm telling you for!" - Midnight Run
"Keep going, pard'ner, cause my top end is unlimited." — Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
"Now say goodbye, you lying little piece of shit, because I'm letting him go!" - Midnight Run
"—You don't have the right road conditions for this kind of driving. —Eh, tough." — Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
"Did you actually think that you were gonna steal my money and get away with it? I stopped by here to tell you two things. Number one is that you're gonna die tonight. Number two, I'm gonna go home, have a nice hot meal, I'm gonna find your wife and I'm gonna kill her, too." - Midnight Run
"— Hey listen, do you always meet someone for the first time and take an instant disliking to them? — Mary, stop trying to get me make joyful noises." —Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine." - Casablanca
"Lady, if I was attracted to rape, I would have waited till you finished your shower." — Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
"Well ya' know what it means when somebody like me gets off to a bad start? Not a god damn thing." —DM,CL
Yvonne: "Where were you last night?"
Rick: "That's so long ago, I don't remember."
Yvonne: "Will I see you tonight?"
Rick: "I never make plans that far ahead."
Casablanca
"Ugarte—But think of all those poor refugees who must rot in this place if I didn't help them. But that's not so bad: through ways of my own I provide them with exit visas.
Rick—For a price, Ugarte: for a price.
Ugarte—But think of all those poor devils who can't mee Renault's price. So, I get it for them for half. Is that so parasitic?"
—Cblanca
Capt. Renault: "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?"
Rick: "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."
Renault: "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert."
Rick: "I was misinformed."
Casablanca
"[E]ven though we might eat some foods with red food dye in them regularly, our stool doesn't usually become discolored unless you eat huge amounts of it [sic]. Flamin' Hot Cheetos is one food that people will eat enormous amounts of and will see a change in their stool."
—K. Berchelmann, interview with unknown correspondant, KMOX-TV, St. Louis, Missouri, 17-Oct-2012.
Major Strasser: "What is your nationality?"
Rick: "I'm a drunkard."
Captain Renault: "That makes Rick a citizen of the world."
Casablanca
"Eat late and drunk, like a Frenchman." — some twaddle from the NY Daily Press from many years ago, which, unsurprisingly, prompted a rebuttal in the (very, very sad) letters to the editor a week later.
(I think that's what it was called: tabloid, free joke magazine on newsprint, complete with that cocksucker Matt Taibbi and that moron Jim Knipfel. Meh, it'd be in every stupid Ray's pizza shop and whatever).
They did have Tony Millionaire's "Drunky Crow" or whatever in it.
It doesn't a matter: just sourcing the quote or "quote."
Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]
Captain Renault: Everybody out at once!
Casablanca
"—Didn't your mother ever teach you how to react to strangers? Not shoot at 'em? Eh?"
—Midnight Run
"Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."
Casablanca
"Merrin — I'd like you to go quickly across to the residence I've taken, and gather up a cassock for myself [something something offices], purple stole, and some holy water. And, erm, your copy of the Rome Ritual: the large one. I believe we should begin.
Karras — Do you want to hear the background of the case, Father?
Merrin — Why?"
— The Exorcist
"We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night."
Casablanca
"I used the same fucking soap you did, and when I finished the towel didn't look like no goddamned maxipad. Now what if he was to come in here and see his towel like this, Vincent? It's shit like this that's going to bring this situation to a head, man!"
—Pulp Fiction
"Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... here's looking at you, kid."
Casablanca
"The local and global consequence relations are different. Consider the formulas p and <box>p. It is easy to see that p does not locally imply <box>p — indeed, that this entailment should not hold is pretty much the essence of locality."
—Blackburn, de Rïjke, Venema, Modal Logic
*I use <box>p to avoid looking up the unicode character for the box/square operator in modal logics: the <box> is just a square drawn as such, and is the complement of the <diamond> operator, which, as one might think, looks like a diamond. Usually it's just called "box" or "square" in verbal communication, and many times it is interpreted to mean, for example "p is necessary." There's more to say on this topic, and the book I quoted is a very good advanced textbook on the topic I still dip into as a resource and reference, even though I'm not an expert in some of the thornier problems in modal logics, by any means. This concludes the mass. Go in peace.
You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.... You know how you sound, Mr. Blaine? Like a man who's trying to convince himself of something he doesn't believe in his heart."
Casablanca
"Algebraic logic offers a natural way of re-thinking many basic logical issues, but it is important to not miss the woods for the trees."
—Blackburn, de Rïjke, Venema, Modal Logic
Ilsa: "I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met...."
Rick: "Was La Belle Aurore."
Ilsa: "How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris."
Rick: "Not an easy day to forget."
Ilsa: "No."
Rick: "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray; you wore blue."
Casablanca
"All in all, the global modality is a strikingly natural extension of modal logic — and at first glance this seems surprising. How can something so obviously global blend so well with the locality of modal logic? Basically, because the enriched language still takes an internal perspective on relational structure. Although we now have a global operator at our disposal, we still place formulas inside models and evaluate them at a particular state. To put it another way, the intuition that a modal formula is an automaton scanning accessible states is still remarkably robust."
—Blackburn, de Rijke, Venema, Modal Logic
"Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time." - Casablanca
"And this non-college [not-in-college? source audio unclear] bullshit you're giving me, I've got two words for that: 'learn to fucking type.'"
—Reservoir Dogs
Ugarte: "You despise me, don't you?"
Rick: "If I gave you any thought I probably would."
Casablanca
"Mr. White/Larry: What's the cut, papa?
Joe: Real juicy."
—Reservoir Dogs
Major Strasser: "Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?"
Rick: "It's not particularly my beloved Paris."
Heinz: "Can you imagine us in London?"
Rick: "When you get there, ask me."
Captain Renault: "Hmmh! Diplomatist!"
Major Strasser: "How about New York?"
Rick: "Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."
Casablanca
"It takes only a tiny group of engineers to create technology that can shape the entire future of human experience with incredible speed. Therefore, crucial arguments about the human relationship with technology should take place between developers and users before such direct manipulations are designed."
—J. Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget (2010)
"All right, I'll make it easier for you. Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor." - Casablanca
"If we can't imagine a possible world in which Nixon doesn't have a certain property, then it's a necessary condition of someone being Nixon." — Kripke, Naming and Necessity
"You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust." - Casablanca
"I thus could no longer write, as I once did, that 'Holmes does not exist, but in other states of affairs, he would have existed.'" —Kripke, Naming and Necessity
I made a small mistake when glossing the modal operators box and diamond: they are duals of one and the other. The term "complement" isn't appropriate there. If you squint hard enough, the concepts are related, but I clearly meant to express that they are duals, in the way that union and intersection, or the universal and existential quantifier, are. I can't explain why I made that mistake — it's just a typo, really, but it's important to set that right.
Major Strasser: "You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American."
Captain Renault: "We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918."
(Not historically accurate, as it happens - US troops didn't reach Berlin at the end of World War I).
"Ringo: Garçon, coffee. (sotto voce) This place.
Waitress: Garçon means 'boy.'"
— Pulp Fiction
"Major Strasser has been shot. (looks at Rick) Round up the usual suspects!"
Casablanca
"'Ohhh, another precedent has been broken!!!"
— Casablanca.
I do wonder what Renault's private collection of footwear looks like. Oh, dear, it must have put Carrie Bradshaw's to such shame, that poor dear,
Rick: "I congratulate you."
Victor Laszlo: "What for?"
Rick: "Your work."
Laszlo: "I try."
Rick: "We all try; you succeed!"
Casablanca
"Sterling: And why wasn't that the first thing?
Mallory: Because I said two other things first?"
— Archer, S10E03
"Melanie: Anyway, I keep that picture because of all the fucking time I was there: that's the only picture I've got of me in Japan. [points] And that's Japan.
Lewis: Oh. Well, yeah, I can kind of...it looks. I can tell.
Melanie: Wanna fuck?
Lewis: Yeah."
— Jackie Brown
Rick: "Who are you really, and what were you before? What did you do and what did you think, huh?"
Ilsa: "We said no questions."
Rick: "...Here's looking at you, kid."
Casablanca
"Jules: Mmmmmmm!!!! This is a tasty burger! Vincent! You ever had a Big Kahuna burger? [Vincent indicates "no"] Want a bite? They're real tasty.
Vincent: Ain't hungry.
Jules: Well, if you like burgers, give them a try sometime. Me, I can't usually get them because my girlfriend's a vegetarian. Which pretty much makes me a vegetarian. I do love the taste of a good burger. "
—Pulp Fiction
Go on, I double dare you, the next time you get a burger at some restaurant or bar to say: "Mmmmmm! This is a tasty burger!" To the server or cook.
Berger: "We read five times that you were killed, in five different places."
Laszlo: "As you can see, it was true every single time."
Casablanca
"Laszlo: I'm sure you'll excuse me if I'm not gracious. But you see Major Strasser, I'm a Czechoslovakian.
Strasser: You were a Czechoslovakian. Now you are a subject of the German Reich.
Laszlo: I've never accepted that privilege and I'm now on French soil."
— CBlanca
"Laszlo: I'm sure you'll excuse me if I'm not gracious. But you see Major Strasser, I'm a Czechoslovakian.
Strasser: You were a Czechoslovakian. Now you are a subject of the German Reich.
Laszlo: I've never accepted that privilege and I'm now on French soil."
— CBlanca
Rick: [scoffs] "You understand how I feel. How long was it we had, honey?"
Ilsa: [on the verge of tears] "I didn't count the days."
Rick: "Well, I did. Every one of 'em. Mostly I remember the last one. The wow finish. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain with a comical look in his face because his insides have been kicked out."
Casablanca
"Rick: Yes, that's very pretty. I heard a story once. As a matter of fact, I've heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano, playing in the parlor downstairs. 'Mister, I met a man once when I was a kid,' they'd always begin. Well, I guess neither one of our stories is very funny."
— Cblanca
"Hunsecker: Son, I don't relish shooting mosquitoes with elephant guns. Suppose you just shuffle along and call it a day."
—The Sweet Smell of Success (BLancaster's best role, IMHO).
Captain Renault: "By the way, last night you evinced an interest in Señor Ugarte."
Victor Laszlo: "Yes."
Captain Renault: "I believe you have a message for him?"
Victor Laszlo: "Nothing important, but may I speak to him now?"
Major Heinrich Strasser: "You would find the conversation a trifle one-sided. Señor Ugarte is dead."
Ilsa: "Oh."
Captain Renault: "I am making out the report now. We haven't quite decided yet whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape."
Casablanca
"Julie Hagarty: Stop it: you're just nervous about tomorrow. You'll get the promotion, we'll move into the new house, and we'll be happy. OK?
Albert Brooks: You should hear your voice: it just fills this room with excitement."
— Lost in America
"Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germans have outlawed miracles."
Casablanca
"I don't care what they're talking about. All I want is a nice fat recording."
— Harry Caul in The Conversation
Annina: "Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?"
Rick: "Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so."
Casablanca
"There's one way to talk to the man, and that's in his own language. If the man's language is his guns, you talk to him with a gun."
— Zabriskie Point
Captain Renault: "I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me."
Rick: "It was a combination of all three."
Casablanca
"La la la la little star/How I wonder whar you are/Something, something, up so high/Kicking, screaming, burned alive!"
— "Carol," in Archer S10E04
Captain Renault: "Oh no, Emil, please. A bottle of your best champagne, and put it on my bill."
Emil: "Very well, sir."
Victor Laszlo: "Captain, please...."
Captain Renault: "Oh, please, monsieur. It is a little game we play. They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill. It is very convenient."
Casablanca
"Elwood: Take away the very thing that was kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bullshitting you, okay?
Jake: You lied to me.
Elwood: It wasn't a lies [sic, source audio unclear], it was just...bullshit."
— The Blues Brothers
Ilsa: "A franc for your thoughts."
Rick: "In America they'd bring only a penny, and, huh, I guess that's about all they're worth."
Ilsa: "Well, I'm willing to be overcharged. Tell me."
Casablanca
"unnamed character: Did you get my Cheez Whiz, boy?"
— The Blues Brothers
Rick: "If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"
Sam: "What? My watch stopped."
Rick: "I'd bet they're asleep in New York. I'd bet they're asleep all over America."
Casablanca
" One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic. One soiled."
— The Blues Brothers
"I stick my neck out for nobody!"
Casablanca
"Jake: You got us into this parking lot, pal! Now you get us out!
Elwood: You want out of this parking lot? Okay!"
— The Blues Brothers
Rick [denying an official of the German National Bank entrance to the casino]: "Your cash is good at the bar."
Banker: "What? Do you know who I am?"
Rick: "I do. You're lucky the bar's open to you."
Casablanca
"Nun: I beg your pardon; what did you just say?
Jake: I offered to help you.
Nun: Mmm-hmm...
Jake: You refused to take our money.
Nun: Mmm-hmm...
Jake: Then I said, 'I guess you're really up shit creek.'
Elwood: Christ, Jake, take it easy man.
Nun: Elwood!
Elwood: Ow, shit!
Elwood: Jesus Christ!
Jake: Shit!
Elwood: Ow, you fat penguin!"
— The Blues Brothers
Captain Renault: "This is the end of the chase."
Rick: "Twenty thousand francs says it isn't."
Renault: "Is that a serious offer?"
Rick: "I just paid out twenty. I'd like to get it back."
Renault: "Make it ten. I'm only a poor corrupt official."
Casablanca
"Aretha: This is my man, and it's my restaurant, [and] you two can just walk out that door without your dry white toast, & without your four fried chickens and without Matt 'Guitar' Murphy. [...] You'd better think about what you're saying, you'd better think about the consequences of your actions."
— The Blues Brothers
Jan Brandel [about to hand over a bribe]: "Captain Renault... may I?"
Captain Renault: "Oh, no! Not here, please! Come to my office tomorrow morning. We'll do everything businesslike."
Jan Brandel: "We'll be there at six!"
Captain Renault: "I'll be there at ten."
Casablanca
"Lewis: Why do you go on these trips with me, Ed?
Ed: I like my life, Lewis.
Lewis: Yeah, but why do you go on these trips with me?
Ed: You know, sometimes I wonder about that."
— Deliverance
Captain Renault: [after Rick pulls a gun on him] "Have you lost your mind?"
Rick: "I have. Sit down!"
Renault: "Put that gun down!"
Rick: "I don't want to shoot you, but I will if you take one more step!"
Renault: [With amusement] "Under the circumstances I will sit down."
Casablanca
"Stag-o-lee, he shot that poor boy so dead / You better believe he was bleedin', because it went through bartender's lead."
— made up lyrics to an old tune
"— Before you go, buddy, let me ask you something. How come you all end up with four life-jackets? —Didn't we have an extra one? —No. Drew wasn't wearing his. — Well, how come he, he wasn't wearing it. — I don't know. — Don't ever do nothing like this again."
— Deliverance
No, it's more like:"Nun: I beg your pardon; what did you just say?Quote:
Originally posted by Jizzelbin
Jake: I offered to help you.
Nun: Mmm-hmm...
Jake: You refused to take our money.
Nun: Mmm-hmm...
Jake: Then I said, 'I guess you're really up shit creek.'
GOW!!!
Elwood: Christ, Jake, take it easy man.
Nun: Elwood!
Elwood: Ow, shit!
Christ
OWWW!!! Jesus!
Elwood: Jesus Christ!
CMON!!!
Jake: Shit!
FUCK YOU PIG! SON OF a !!!!
FA...JESUS .... ARE YOU INSANE WOMAN??? AWWWW! OOOF!
Fucking fuck this noise, man.
Elwood: Ow, you fat penguin!
It's pretty hard to transcrbe exactly, and I'm pretty sure it's not worth more effort.
Captain Renault: "Carl, see that Major Strasser gets a good table, one close to the ladies."
Carl: "I have already given him the best, knowing he is German and would take it anyway."
Casablanca
"Boys, you got to learn not to talk to nuns that way!"
— The Blues Brothers
Captain Renault: "How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Someday they may be scarce. You know, now I think I shall pay a call on Yvonne. Maybe get her on the rebound. Hmm?"
Rick: "When it comes to women, you're a true democrat."
Casablanca
"I'll bet you if there was some pussy up there on top of that obstacle you could get up there! <sir, yes sir!> Couldn't you! <sir, yes sir> Your ass looks like about a hundred and fifty pounds of chewed bubble gum, Pyle. Do you know that? <sir, yes sir>."
— Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Full Metal Jacket