Favorite quote from a book or media?

I'd have to say Don't say (a noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a derogatory context to refer to black people, and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts. The word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun "negro", itself a variation of the Latin adjective "niger", meaning "black".) Scout. That's common.

From To Kill A Mockingbird.

I don't know what my favorite is, but here's one I thought of randomly:

"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It could have been.'"

From Cat's Cradle.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "save us!" and I'll whisper "no"

Both are from the character Rorschach in Watchmen.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "save us!" and I'll whisper "no"

Both are from the character Rorschach in Watchmen.

InterpolWilco

I like that first one.

This one makes me laugh all the time :lol::

"I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined."

Guess who's quote is this.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "save us!" and I'll whisper "no"

Both are from the character Rorschach in Watchmen.

InterpolWilco

Rorschach is far and away my favorite character in that book. He's so cold, yet so brilliant.

Ian M. Banks - The Crow Road

"It was the day my Grandmother exploded"

"Sanity isn't statistical"

1984

"They call it a 'Royale with Cheese'."rockguy92

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"Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday." - The Stranger Camus

Pretty much all of Catch-22 is great for quoting.

"Venn ist das nurnstuck git und slotermeyer? Ya! Beigerhund das oder die flipperwaldt gersput!" - Monty Python

Love means not being able to pull the trigger twice.

"What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?"

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUKOO'S NEST

"Say hello to my little friend"

Al Pacino, Scarface (1980)

"Say hello to my little friend"

Al Pacino, Scarface (1980)

Josh5890

"Okay. I call my lawyer. He's the best lawyer in Miami. He's such a good lawyer that by tomorrow morning you gonna be working in Alaska. So dress warm"

-Scarface

The Duchess: If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

The Duchess: Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Alice:If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would.

Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Tweedledee: If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Alice: The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things. Humpty Dumpty: "The question is which is to be master— that's all.

From my favorite book(s) of all time ... ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.

It changes a lot. So many favorites out there. :D

Wise words from L, Death Note:

"If you use your head, you won't get fat even if you eat sweets."

"If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours."

I guess anything from Une Charogne by Charles Baudelaire. It means "A carcass" in French. It's the only poem I like so it gets mega kudos from me.

There's also "The net is indeed vast and infinite" by Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, as well as "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes". I like it used in the context of the Laughing Man case from the same show mentioned above, but it is originally from TheCatcher in the Rye by JD Sallinger. And lastly, related to Sallinger again (and also in Ghost in the Shell, again), although I have not read the book, "You know what I'd do. I mean, if I had my goddamn choice? I'd just be a catcher in the rye and all".

There's a whole heap I could take from music but I think my post is long enough already.

"In order to truely kill it you need to love it a little"

Backdraft

anything thats worth taking seriously is worth making fun of

-George Carlin

This

Gretchen: I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me... but I can't help it that I'm so popular.

And This

Cady: Hey! Regina: Why were you talking to Janis Ian? Cady: I don't know, I mean, she's so weird, she just, you know, came up to me and started talking to me about crack. Regina: She's so pathetic. Let me tell you something about Janis Ian. We were best friends in middle school. I know, right? It's so embarrassing. I don't even... Whatever. So then in eighth grade, I started going out with my first boyfriend Kyle who was totally gorgeous but then he moved to Indiana, and Janis was like, weirdly jealous of him. Like, if I would blow her off to hang out with Kyle, she'd be like, "Why didn't you call me back?" And I'd be like, "Why are you so obsessed with me?" So then, for my birthday party, which was an all-girls pool party, I was like, "Janis, I can't invite you, because I think you're lesbian." I mean I couldn't have a lesbian at my party. There were gonna be girls there in their *bathing suits*. I mean, right? She was a LESBIAN. So then her mom called my mom and started yelling at her, it was so retarded. And then she dropped out of school because no one would talk to her, and she came back in the fall for high school, all of her hair was cut off and she was totally weird, and now I guess she's on crack. Both are from Mean Girls.

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter -- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. ... and one fine morning -- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Just the first one to come to mind. From The Great Gatsby.

Edit, another one:

"He stepped onto the path that led through the swamp to the History House.
He left no ripples in the water.
No footprints on the shore.
He held his mundu spread above his head to dry. The wind lifted it like a sail. He was suddenly happy. Things will get worse, he thought to himself. Then better. He was walking swiftly now, towards the Heart of Darkness. As lonely as a wolf.
The God of Loss.
The God of Small Things.
Naked but for his nail varnish."

The God of Small Things.

There was a quote from that book that I like too. went like "I could say to hell with them but I don't." I forgot the rest of the quote though. :| Anyhoo I have like a dozen. Ones in my sig "Hope is the first step into disapointment." "You gotta be a wolf to catch a wolf." Gay is an adjective Lion." and probably more. >_>MrLions