Post brief quotes from fiction/narrative/whatever

[Elendil's Heir]

Gib: "The guy is a goddamn used car salesman! I mean, this just keeps getting better and better!"
[Harry gives him a dirty look]
Gib: "I'm sorry, Harry, I know this has got to be painful. But you gotta admit, it's pretty damn funny. I mean, if it was just some idiot and not you, you'd be laughing your ass off."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"I'm sorry, but I'll just bet you're hitting the ball too hard.

[...]

"Big-league baseball players use bats that weigh between 36 and 40 ounces, to try and drive a 5-ounce ball into the next county. Your cue weighs about half what a bat does, the balls weigh just about what a baseball does, and you only have to roll them — on felt — a few feet, frequently a few inches."

— George Fels, Mastering Pool (from the original 1977 edition, with the good photographs....gonna have to put some tape on the spine, starting to fall apart a bit).

[Elendil's Heir]

Harry (talking through microphones and speakers): "The codename of your assignment will be... Boris. And your codename will be...."
Helen Tasker (hopeful): "Natasha?"
Harry: "No... Doris."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"[Y]ou'll find that stacked balls react much better to being stroked smoothly to being stroked hard. That's because a smoothly stroked cue ball transmits more of its force to more of the balls, whereas whereas a cannonball passes its force primarily to the first ball it touches and the last ball in the row."

— Fels, Mastering Pool, 1977 edition with the good photographs.

[Elendil's Heir]

Simon: "Okay, just ask yourself: What do women really want? You take these bored housewives, married to the same guy for years, they're stuck in a rut, then need some release! Promise of adventure, a hint of danger. I create that for them."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers, neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness." — Leviticus, 18:9. (Douay-Rheims transl......I won't cite the Vulgate source, but it's more revealing in the Clementine Vulgate text). Of course, I disagree, but seemed an apt quote.

[Elendil's Heir]

Gib (as Harry is commandeering a U.S. Marine Corps Harrier jet to rescue his daughter): "Harry, do you realize it has, in fact, been ten years since you've been behind the wheel of one of these things?"
Harry: "If I break it, they can take it outta my pay."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

The ruler saith to him: Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man the word which Iesus said to him, and went his way."

— A Catholic Parallel New Testament Polyglot, Engl tr. Douay-Rheims.

[Elendil's Heir]

Gib: "You know what? I say we concentrate on work, buddy. That's what I do every time my life turns to dogshit. I concentrate on work, and that gets me by. All right, buddy? This is gonna be great. You know what? We're gonna catch some terrorists, we're gonna beat the crap out of them, you're gonna feel a helluva lot better."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"Mark Antony reconvened the senate on 17 March and the Senate adopted a resolution that granted amnesty to Caesar's assassins but at the same time ratified all that Caesar had granted, including the bounties that had been granted, or promised, to his veterans."

— John Ramsey, Introductory material written for the 2003 Cambridge Green and Gold prefatory material to Cicero, Philippics I and II. Remarkably prescient.

[Elendil's Heir]

Faisil (as the van slips on ice) "Hey, watch it."
Gib (driving): "It's called ice, and it gets a little slick."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"Sarah spoke to him from the chair in the living room. 'I've heard that pool can be a dirty game,' she said."

— Tevis, The Hustler

[Elendil's Heir]

Gib: "Kids - ten seconds of joy, thirty years of misery."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"'When shall I teach the fair Margot the learned tongue?' Udal asked again."

— Ford, The Fifth Queen