Quotes (Page 76)!

  1. "Don't worry, Ace. It's only a trap." ~The Seventh Doctor
  2. "The situation, Lavell, is normal. It doesn't get much worse than that. You know, I think I'm rather enjoying this." ~Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
  3. "Don't worry, Brigadier. People will be shooting at you soon." ~The Seventh Doctor
  4. "This is The Doctor. Don't let him baffle you." ~Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
  5. "I like to be treated as a person, not a 'latest one'. Anyway, I don't trust him to guard the Professor's back. That's my job." ~Ace McShane
  6. "I wrote a Very Expensive Episode. I didn’t mean to. It just happened that way, and there was not enough money left in the Season 5 budget to make it." ~Neil Gaiman on why his episode got pushed back a year
  7. "I've learned over the last few months that any comment one makes about Doctor Who is analysed, pored over, interpreted, and for all I know held up to a mirror and then combined with something from the Book of Enoch, by Doctor Who folk on the internet, who then have much too much fun using it to Build Up Theories. So this is a Disclaimer, just for them: There are no mermaids or birds anywhere in my Doctor Who script. That was just me making something up as an example. Honest. Also, this footnote is not a clever double-bluff, and really there are birds and mermaids but I am trying to throw you off the scent by mentioning them and then saying that there aren't." ~Neil Gaiman
  8. "Exotic alien swords are easy to come by. Aces are rare." ~The Seventh Doctor
  9. "Sorry, Doctor, but I think I'm rather more expendable than you are." ~Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
  10. "Consarnit dang busted horse-thievin' alien control panel which ain't nobody can work proper...!" ~Vigilante
  11. "Curse you, David Tennant, and your ability to bring dead kittens back to life with your smile. *shakes fist*" ~Dayle
  12. "I'm pretty sure there's somethin' I have to do some place..." ~Captain Atom
  13. "What is it about Kents and gifts?" ~Lex Luthor
  14. "Chloe, I could never outgrow you. Other than vertically." ~Clark Kent
  15. "By the end of it, all redundancies, slow bits, things that can be thrown overboard, or lines of dialogue that the author is particularly proud of will have gone, and it will be ten correctly formatted pages shorter." ~Neil Gaiman
  16. "[Batman’s] running late. The Batmobile? It lost a wheel. The Joker got away. [beat] That's what _I_ heard." ~The Flash
  17. "I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations - terrible places full of lost luggage and lost souls." ~The Seventh Doctor
  18. "Don't worry; I always leave things to the last moment." ~The Seventh Doctor
  19. "Give Ianto lots to do. You can never have enough Ianto. Just look at LiveJournal." ~James Goss
  20. "I remember in the early drafts for part three [of “Children of Earth], I had Jack walking around naked for quite a long time. They've just rescued him from the concrete, and the only person who isn't really going to be bothered by the fact he's naked is Jack himself. So it made sense to me that it would take someone to say, 'Listen, jack, will you please put some clothes on!'" ~James Moran
  21. "I'll let you into a secret: Russell T Davies has sent Rupesh on a secret mission to Emmerdale to acquire a space big enough for a new Torchwood Hub. He's found this sweet factory, and he's working there under a different name. Now he's just biding his time until Torchwood takes over!" ~Rik Makarem
  22. "I don't really think there's any such thing [as a happiest day], is there? I'm not being cynical, but if you asked me for my 'Favourite Film' or my 'Favourite Book' then I wouldn't have an answer for those, either. Or rather, I'd have hundreds, all for different and contrary reasons. Days are the same." ~Russell T Davies
  23. "We wanted ['Children of Earth'] to have jokes in it, because that's how people react in a crisis - always whistling in the dark." ~James Moran
  24. "Even so, I was still inclined to close my ears and get on with my interrupted novel, but like many writers atoss in what Conrad described as the 'destructive element,' I had floundered into a state of hyperreceptivity; a desperate condition in which a fiction writer finds it difficult to ignore even the most nebulous idea-emotion that might arise in the process of creation. For he soon learns that such amorphous projections might well be unexpected gifts from his daydreaming muse that might, when properly perceived, provide exactly the materials needed to keep afloat in the turbulent tides of composition. On the other hand, they might wreck him, drown him in the quicksands of indecision." ~Ralph Ellison
  25. "...that (by contradiction, I mean) is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang. (Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy.) I know; I have been boomeranged across my head so much that I now can see the darkness of lightness." ~Invisible Man
  26. "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence." ~Invisible Man
  27. "Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action." ~Invisible Man
  28. "When I discover who I am, I'll be free." ~Invisible Man
  29. "Everybody has to be trouble to somebody." ~Mary Rambo
  30. "Sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action." ~Brother Jack
  31. "It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." ~Invisible Man
  32. "Did Angel deal with this kind of lip? I mean, other than from me? Did Buffy deal with this kind of lip? Again, other than from me?" ~Spike
  33. "Most difficult [thing to draw]? Number ten's nose. It's not huge, but it's not small either." ~Piu Guerra
  34. "I've always felt that to write about light, and life, you should experience darkness and loss." ~Tony Lee
  35. "It isn't totally horrible all the time." ~Merlin about working for Arthur
  36. "Whatever you do, don't go into my room. I'll deal with it later." ~Merlin
  37. "Merlin, come here. Look what I've found. A place where you can put things; it's called a 'cupboard'." ~Arthur
  38. "There is no way that is a proverb. You just made that up." ~Merlin
  39. "In life, you always have a choice. Sometimes it's easier to think that you don't." ~Guinevere
  40. "You would think that pelting the same person with fruit would lose its appeal after a while, but oh, no." ~Merlin
  41. "Apparently, herpes makes you hella active once you contract it." ~Jasper Redd about the nature of herpes medication commercials
  42. "Is this thing sloshing? Four words you don't want to hear when you pick up a coffin..." ~Guybrush Threepwood
  43. "It'd be flattering if I wasn't so married and he wasn't so dead." ~Elaine Marley about LeChuck’s endless attempts to woo her
  44. "Booyah! Look out, LeChuck! Here comes Guybrush Threepwood's glowing sword of hot monkey vengeance!" ~Guybrush Threepwood
  45. "You know, it's nice to see your repeated deaths and dismemberments haven't dampened your enthusiasm." ~Guybrush Threepwood to LeChuck
  46. "Hmm... I guess court isn't in session today. Which is probably a good thing, considering all the laws I'll be breaking." ~Guybrush Threepwood
  47. "I loathe Pink Pajama Piere with the white hot intensity of a million exploding cannon balls." ~D'Oro the Explorer
  48. "If I was interested in money, I wouldn't be a farmer, would I?" ~Jonathan Kent
  49. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some massive internal hemorrhaging to attend to." ~Reginald Van Winslow
  50. "I should get shouty more often." ~Guybrush Threepwood
  51. "Elaine's ship looks pretty good, considering it was exploding last time I saw it." ~Guybrush Threepwood
  52. "Do I LOOK like a guy who knows what's good for me?!" ~Guybrush Threepwood
  53. "I don't really have the education, jacket, or fedora to interpret ambiguous ancient carvings." ~Guybrush Threepwood
  54. "I promise you probably won't regret this..." ~Guybrush Threepwood
  55. "Score one for the pirate with the pointy feet!" ~Guybrush Threepwood
  56. "Bananas from heaven! Thanks, banana god!" ~Guybrush Threepwood
  57. "It's amazing how many of life's problems are solved by indiscriminate cannon fire." ~Guybrush Threepwood
  58. "I'd better put this cheese back in my pants before a wandering capybara gobbles it up." ~Guybrush Threepwood
  59. "What was that foofing sound?" ~The Marquis de Singe
  60. "The pox is blowing out to sea! Hope that doesn't come back to bite me in the fundament." ~Guybrush Threepwood
  61. "I bet this sticky puddle of tar would be perfect for trapping my evil hand!" ~Guybrush Threepwood
  62. “I think I’m like a 6 1/2. I think I’m good looking enough for television, but the reason I keep getting work is because I care.” ~James Marsters’ “honest opinion of [his] face”
  63. “At one point I had 27 stuffed animals and they were all arranged in a row so I had no room in bed and I was happy as a clam. My favorite was a snake named King Edward.” ~James Marsters
  64. “I like dark apocolyptic video games, but I have no interest in living in those worlds. But if I could be Batman I’d be willing to go to Arkham Asylum.” ~James Marsters
  65. “I give equal time to all footwear!” ~James Marsters
  66. “My favorite word in the universe is “action” so everyone has to shut up and let me get to work.” ~James Marsters
  67. “Society exists to give succor to the individual. There’s no reason for society if it doesn’t serve the individual, so the individual does come first. I’m an American, though, so I’m gonna say that. If I was Chinese, I might tell you the opposite.” ~James Marsters
  68. “I ran a theatre company – I can fix anything, but it only lasts for 4 weeks.” ~James Marsters
  69. "Do you know anyone else who's lost an entire old person in a wheelchair?" ~Lana Lang acknowledging how dumb she is
  70. "I'm thinking of throwing the battle/Can you kindly direct me to hell?" ~Dorothy Parker, “Coda”
  71. "I might mention, my recent dear, I've reverted to normal, too." ~Dorothy Parker, “Finis”
  72. "I like watching the sea. It makes me feel so small." ~Ace McShane
  73. "I am SO willing to wait my turn..." ~The Flash
  74. "The family is miniature golfing, a 20 foot-long anaconda curls out of the cardboard building that represents Korea, and we're supposed to laugh at the parents for suggesting that their little girl not fight the fucking snake? Guys, we don't care who you voted for in the last election; if you see a giant fucking serpent at the miniature golf course, alert the management. Do not have your children fight it with a golf club.” ~ Nick Coffin and David Wong, The 5 Circles of Baffling Web Comic Hell
  75. “Please pause here and take a moment to savor the thought of Hugo Weaving "nuzzling" someone. Really fix that image in your mind.” ~Kate Lawrence, The 5 Most Baffling Sex Scenes in the History of Fanfiction
  76. “Because it's hard to imagine what people called them before then. We figure cries of ‘Ye Gods, watch out for that Chompapottamus!’ were much more common in those days.” ~Michael Swaim, 10 Words and Phrases You Won't Believe Shakespeare Invented
  77. "And the halftime score: Perivale: 600,000,000, the rest of the universe: nil." ~Ace McShane
  78. "You know what's going on, don't you?....You always know, you just can't be bothered to tell anyone. It's like it's some kind of a game and only you know the rules." ~Ace McShane to The Doctor
  79. “There are many winding paths a man can follow to greatness. He could build an orphanage, or perhaps write a symphony. But there is only one man in the history of history to have achieved greatness by screaming ‘yipee-ki-aye-ay [mofo]’ and pushing Professor Snape out of a window.” ~Neal Nicholson, 5 Celebrity Wikipedia Entries They Clearly Wrote Themselves
  80. "Don't interrupt me when I'm eulogising." ~Fenric
  81. “No epiphany [when I turned 40] but gradually my crotch let go of my brain which was liberating.” ~James Marsters
  82. “Hell no [I don’t remember what my first line was]! I don’t remember what my line was yesterday. It was Eeyore complaining about something, that much I know.” ~James Marsters
  83. “I’m not a genius [at improv] but good enough to explore the scene. I’m a really good straight man. But if you want it to be funny, that’s not me.” ~James Marsters
  84. "Enigma's overrated. Especially at three a.m." ~Bruce Wayne
  85. "Maybe we can go out in the parking lot and you can hit me with your car." ~Clark Kent to Lex Luthor
  86. "Monkey, I like your style." ~Lex Luthor to Gorilla Grodd
  87. "You're backing me up in ways that I never would." ~Stephen Colbert
  88. "Hate to interrupt this special live performance of The Thing with Two Heads, but it's time to go to jail, now." ~The Flash
  89. "Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them, especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings, sincerity, good humor, and all social affections, and generous sentiments amount the people." ~John Adams, "The Encouragement of Literature, Etc."
  90. "So if John Calvin doubts he's a good enough Calvinist--which is of course the most Calvinist thought he could have--imagine the jangling nerves of John Q. Puritan." ~Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
  91. "Let's get out of here before Mama punches a Pilgrim." ~Amy Vowell
  92. "Later on, Endecott will send Governor Winthrop a letter complaining about how it's frowned upon for a justice of the peace to hit someone. Because Endecott, a justice of the peace, has just punched a defendant--in court." ~Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
  93. "If Nancy Drew were trying to get to the bottom of Winthrop's petty rivalry with Deputy Governor Thomas Dudley, the book might be titled The Mystery of the Pretentious Wainscoting." ~Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
  94. "Unfortunately, in 1877, Slate Rock itself was mistakenly blown up, by city workers trying to uncover more of the rock and preserve the symbol of Williams' arrival." ~Providence Parks Department official
  95. "Williams, like Melville, is a tad too excited, too lonely, too longwinded, too strange. At one point Melville even dreams of installing a paper mill in his house so as to provide him an endless supply of paper on which 'I should write a thousand--a million--billion thoughts, all under the form of a letter to you.' That sort of talk must have terrified Hawthorne." ~Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
  96. "Williams claimed one of the court's assistants confided in him--in tears--that the court never would have issued the verdict of banishment 'had not Mr. Cotton in private given them advice.' His point? Ministers in general are too influential in civil justice, and John Cotton in particular makes grown men cry." ~Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
  97. "After the Mystic massacre movie ends, Amy and Owen and I leave the museum and repair to our nearby hotel, the Mohegan Sun Casino, operated by the Mohegan tribe. It looks like it was designed by Ralph Lauren, Bugsy Siegel, and Willy Wonka after a night of peyote. Which is to say that I kind of like it." ~Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
  98. "That was me eating a low-flying pterodactyl." ~Iliza Schlesinger
  99. "Oh, Buffy, it's like we're sisters! With really different hair!" ~Cordelia Chase
  100. "Angel, how do you shave?" ~Willow Rosenberg

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