Post brief quotes from fiction/narrative/whatever

[Jizzelbin]

"Kilpatrick was murdered in a theater; the English police never apprehended the assassin. Historians claim that this does not tarnish the good name of the police, since it is possible that the police themselves had Kilpatrick murdered."

— Borges, "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," Eng. trans. Andrew Hurley

[Elendil's Heir]

Gib: "Same thing happened to me with wife number two, 'member? I have no idea nothing's going on, right? I come home one day and the house is empty, and I mean completely empty. She even took the ice cube trays out of the freezer. What kind of a sick bitch takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer?"

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"Varenicline ["Chantix"] attenuated alcohol-related increases in subjective intoxication and alcohol-related decreases in executive cognitive function. At baseline, varenicline reduced alcohol craving and diastolic blood pressure, and increased associative learning, working memory, and perceptual motor function."

— Verplaetse, et al. (2016). Effect of Varenicline Combined with High-Dose Alcohol on Craving, Subjective Intoxication, Perceptual Motor Response, and Executive Cognitive Function in Adults with Alcohol Use Disorders: Preliminary Findings. Alcohol Clin Exp Res., 40(7): 1567–1576.

[Elendil's Heir]

Helen Tasker: "Have you ever... killed anyone?"
Harry: "Yeah, but they were all bad."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"Well, no, it's just something I didn't never care for. [speaking of Meade Lux Lewis's style of boogie playing on piano]."

— Mac Rebennack, in interview with Ben Sidran in Talking Jazz : An Oral History 1992. NY: Da Capo Press, 371.

[Elendil's Heir]

Samir: "Is there anything you'd like to tell me before we start?"
Harry: "Yeah. I'm going to kill you pretty soon."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

“How could you want to marry a girl you’ve had sex with? My mother once told me, ‘Why eat garbage on your wedding night when you can eat steak?’"

-- Dan Akryod, quote from somewhere (in a movie/TV, pretty siure!)

[Elendil's Heir]

Helen (watching her husband lay waste to a terrorist base camp): "I married Rambo!"

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"I think most musicians have in the back of their mind some guy that they always wanted to play with. And Horace is one of those guys, one of those bands that I always wanted to be in, in the fifties and sixties."

— Archie Shepp, in an interview with Ben Sidran, from Talking Jazz

[Elendil's Heir]

Faisil (briefing his boss on a terrorist): "They call him the Sand Spider."
Spencer Trilby: "Why?"
Faisil: "Probably because it sounds scary."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

“Boomers think we’re slackers and Gen-Z thinks we’re Boomers. OK, Gen-X is an ode to the generation who grew up with indoor cigarette-smoking and only using a camera twice a year (“if you had a camera in the 90s, you were a photographer”). It’s a darkly funny remembrance of being a little girl who experienced sexism beginning at age four with the town flasher. Throughout my life men have continued to try to show me their dicks at inappropriate times, and society still thinks that’s not a big deal.”

some bit of recent Jen Kirkman comedy special (not on Netflix)

[Elendil's Heir]

Gib: "You know what? I'm sick of being in the [surveillance] van. You guys are going to be in the van next time. I've been in the van for 15 years, Harry."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"Czechoslovakian pencil manufacturer Koh I Noor claims that the pencil lead hardness scale was invented in 1802 by Franz Hardtmuth with H representing the family name, F represents his first name, and B after a town called Budějovice where they made the pencils."

*— a possibly spurious talk about the origin of the names of pencil lead hardness indicators (like...9H is very hard...almost unuseable IMHO, whereas 9-10-or-even-12 B are very soft and black indeed. No internal standard exists. I believe this quote came from Wikipedia or perhaps some pencil site. Apologies for the non attribution. "HB" is your standard "number 2" graphite and will do in a pinch in your 2mm lead holder, or your Mistubishi or Staedtler wooden pencil, BTW.

Not that I expect any of us will be taking any standardizing tests run through a Scantron anytime soon! (I use B or 2B by default when I use one of my lead holders for writing).

[Elendil's Heir]

Harry (shown a stolen Russian nuclear weapon by a boastful terrorist leader): "I know what this is... this is an espresso machine.... No, no, wait. Is it a Sno-Cone maker?"

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"So it's a wider ranger of artists that we try and introduce people to today, so they all know about isn't Michael Jackson and Prince."

— Jackie McLean, in Talking Jazz

[Elendil's Heir]

Harry (holding Simon at the sheer edge of an aquaduct): "Son of a bitch, did you think you can elude us forever, Carlos, huh?"

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"Someone flipped a half dollar. Eddie lost the toss and had to break."

— Tevis, The Hustler

[Elendil's Heir]

Simon: "Oh, it's you! Hey, you still interested in that 'Vette at all?"

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"'— I'm already tops in humility,' Benny said.
The woman held out her hand. 'Nice to meet you.'"

— Tevis, Queen's Gambit

[Elendil's Heir]

Simon (whining and pleading): "Oh, God, no, please don't kill me. I'm not a spy. I'm nothing. I'm navel lint! I have to lie to women to get laid, and I don't score much. I got a little dick, it's pathetic!"

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"The picture was of a sad-looking clown in a bright orange suit, holding a staff. Eddie looked at this carefully, not understanding what it meant, but liking it. The clown looked mean as a snake." — Tevis, *The Hustler*

[Elendil's Heir]

Simon: "You're very good. You recognize my style. You're a natural at this."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

“No one ever went to jail for wrong notes.”

Toscanini, big wheel conductor of art music (maybe apocryphal, but sounds like him.)

[Elendil's Heir]

Gib: "The guy's a fake, man. He's taking credit for our moves. Unbelievable!"

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"The cue ball hit the corner ball, jarred it loose, bounced off the two bottom rails and rolled back up the table. The two colored balls hit their cushions and returned to the triangle. It was a perfect break. A few people in the stands applauded. At least there were some who knew what was going on."

-- Tevis, The Color of Money

[Elendil's Heir]

Simon: "Something came over me. I just had to nail this guy no matter what the risk. Pretty hairy. I thought he had me a couple of times. But I can't take credit... it's the training. It shapes you into a lethal instrument. You react in a microsecond without thinking."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"He did not need help, or company, or sex. He needed to roll with the good feeling inside him; the feeling that came from winning money, and he needed to practice nine-ball."

The Color of Money (Tevis)

[Elendil's Heir]

Gib (laughing): "I'm startin' to like this guy. (Harry gives him a mean look; Gib turns serious) We still gotta kill him. That's a given. You know."

True Lies

[Jizzelbin]

"In straights, if you were hot you kept right on going; in nine-ball you had to get over the hump of a break shot."

The Color of Money (Tevis)

[Elendil's Heir]

Gib (as teenage Dana walks by, wearing a motorcycle helmet): "Yeah, I remember the first time I got shot out of a cannon."

True Lies