15 Quotes
As part of my desperate attempt to put something up here five days a week (and generate comments), I am reduced to doing an internet meme game. Good news is, this one is fun for you. It’s simple: I post quotes, you name the source. These come from movies and television. Ready? Begin.
Update: Nothing but good answers so far, but still lots to go.
Final Update: All answers revealed. I can’t believe I didn’t include any of my favorite quotes from Zero Effect.
1. “A plan is just a list of things that don’t happen.” — Way of the Gun
2. “You’re going to open your mouth and lift houses off the ground. Whole houses, right off the ground.” — The West Wing
3. “So how do you get to be the King?” / “It ain’t like that. See, the King stay the King.” — The Wire
4. “I’m calling the United Organization of the National Brotherhood of Its None of Your Damn Business, Lewis. I’ll be with you in a second.” — The American President
5. “There are only murderers in this room!” — Road to Perdition
6. “I’m a writer. I give the truth scope.” — A Knight’s Tale
7. “Everything is a mythical, cosmic battle between faith and chance.” — Children of Men
8. “Oh, Thomas! She has cut my strings! I am unmanned, unmended, and unmade, like a puppet in a box.” / “Writer, is he?” / “Row your boat!” — Shakespeare in Love
9. “You are so pathetic! That was Little House on the Prairie!” / “Was it the homecoming episode of—” / “Yes, it was the homecoming episode of Little House — Scrooged.”
10. “I am but a shadowy reflection of you. It would take but a nudge to make you like me.” — Raiders of the Lost Ark
11. “Who said we were terrorists?” — Die Hard
12. “It hurts doesn’t it? Your hopes dashed, your dreams down the toilet. And your fate is sitting right besides you.” — Rounders
13. “Tell him the dream is over. Tell him Howard Hughes said so.” — The Rocketeer
14. “You know, every day I get out of bed and drag myself to the next cup of coffee. I take a sip and the caffeine kicks in. I can focus my eyes again. My brain starts to order the day. I’m up, I’m alive. I’m ready to rock. But the time is coming when I wake up and decide that I’m not getting out of bed. Not for coffee, or food or sex. If it comes to me, fine. If it won’t, fine. No more expectations. The longer I live, the less I know. I should know more. I should know the coffee’s killing me. You’re suspicious of your suspicions? I’m jealous, Kay; I’m so jealous. You still have the heart to have doubts.” — Homicide: Life on the Street
15. “Why would the universe make fun of us?” / “Maybe it’s insecure.” — Life
2 sounds so familiar, but I can’t place it.
11) Die Hard
13) The Rocketeer
And a lot of them sound so familiar I’m going to kick myself for not remembering.
Correct!
7. “Everything is a mythical, cosmic battle between faith and chance.”
Children of Men?
Good catch, Steven!
1. Way of the Gun?
oh, and thanks for the heads up about hulu.
#2 sounds like something out of Firefly (I could imagine Mal delivering the second half of the line), but I know it’s not – I can spot a Firefly quote at fifty paces. Whatever it is, though, I’ve seen it, and I’ll be kicking myself when you reveal it or someone figures it out.
#3 is Bodie and D’Angelo in Season 1 of The Wire.
Which, holy crap, is that not the greatest TV show ever, or what?
#8-Shakespeare in Love
10 is belloq to Indy from raiders of the lost ark.
Number Nine is Scrooged, I love that line.
Hi. #15 is from the tv show “Life”. Now what did I win??
I imagine #4 is from Beverly Hills Cop – - which one I can’t say – 3 perhaps?
I guess I’ll jump in- #14 is from Homicide: Life on the Streets. Frank Pembleton to Kay Howard.
the matt returns for more right answers. Paw misses on, but it’s a good guess, considering the Lewis reference. Sara spots Kay’s name and knows what it’s from.
With that, I reveal the answers to all of them.
I totally knew that Knight’s Tale one. Damn.