Lines that get you.

"Let me tell you something. I've had to watch a lot of kids be put into body bags. They're covered with flags and they float out that airlock. You think I don't understand [Adama's] feelings towards his men? Sometimes terrible things have to be done. Inevitably, each and every one of us will have to face a moment where we have to commit that horrible sin. And if we flinch in that moment, if we hesitate for one second, if we let our conscience get in the way, you know what happens? There are more kids in those body bags. More kids floating out that airlock. I don't know why, but I have a lot of faith in you. And I want you to promise me that when that moment comes you won't flinch. Do not flinch. -Admiral Helena Cain, to Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, Resurrection Ship Pt2, Battlestar Galactica.

(If you can, I suggest you watch that moment. The speech is almost chilling, and Starbuck's discomfort throughout the whole thing makes it all the more dramatic).

 

Algren: "There was once a battle at a place called Thermopylae. Three hundred brave Greeks held off a Persian army of a million men.... A million.... You understand this number?"

Katsumoto: "I understand this number."

Algren: For two days the Greeks made them pay so dearly...the Persian army lost all taste for battle and were defeated soon after.

Katsumoto: What happened to the warriors at Thermopylae?

Algren: ...Dead to the last man.


- The Last Samurai

 

This part gets me every time, Sean Astin was brilliant in this scene and delivered it perfectly.


Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, directed by Peter Jackson

 

My sig line, of course...

Others, let's see...

42. (That profound line is from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.)


A unique waitress I used to know: "Have a strange day."

Just about everything George Carlin ever said, but for now, I'll go with this:

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."

and this

"Weather forecast for tonight: dark."

 

"What will it take to get through to you, precious?"

The Outsider by A Perfect Circle

 

The whole Post-It Meredith/Derek wedding scene in Grey's Anatomy really got to me. Also, when George wrote "007" into Meredith's hand, I knew he was gone.

I cried a lot at that finale episode.

 

Hollow Ichigo: "What’s the difference between a king and his horse? If their form, ability and power were exactly the same. Why is that, one becomes the king and controls the battle, while the other becomes the horse and carries the king?! There’s only one answer.
INSTINCT!
In order for identical beings to get stronger and gain the power they need to become the king, they must search for more battles and power! But you don’t have that! You don’t have those pure, base instincts! You fight with your brain. You try to defeat your enemies with logic. And it doesn’t work! You’re trying to cut them with sheathed sword! That’s why you’re weaker than me!"

- Bleach by Kubo Tite

This one is my all time favorite, too bad it doesn't fit in my signature

 

"You who are with out mercy now plead for it? I thought you were made of sterner stuff." Optimus Prime Transformers animated movie (I am a big geek)

 

I just thought of something...

"Lines that get you."

Get you... makes me think of a horror movie.

"They're coming to get you, Barbara! Look, there's one of them now..." (Night of the Living Dead)

"Well, Clarise, have the lambs stopped screaming?" (Silence of the Lambs)

"I see dead people." (Sixth sense.)

"Did you ever have the feeling you was being watched?" (Bugs Bunny, to the "monster" Gossamer, before he reveals, that out in the audience are... PEOPLE!")

 

"How many wishes do I still have left to fix the way it ends,
How many princes do you it takes to put a girl like this back together again,
How many instances can you point out when I was less than kind,
How many happy endings do you need to change your ****ing mind,
And how much time do we have left before it's midnight and,
You see that I was never the right size?" -- Glass Slipper by The Dresden Dolls.

 

my new sig from the Wheel of Time

"We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is a darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her." -- al'Lan Mandragoran

 

"Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mothers and yours. I dare you to do better." Christopher Pike, Star Trek movie 2009.

Just the way that was spoken was very empowering.

 

For song lyrics my list could go on and on, but these two I have always found powerful and affecting:

"Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses?"
Tori Amos - Cooling

"I slam against the wall of permanence"
My Brightest Diamond (Shara Worden) - To Pluto's Moon

 

"Seeing isn't believing, believing is seeing." from The Santa Clause

That quote has always struck me ever since I was little

 

This is from the movie Street Fighter. Stupid movie, but really brilliant line:

I have to set it up for you first:

Chun Li: My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away. A hero at a thousand paces!

Bison: I'm sorry... I don't remember any of it.

Chun Li: You don't remember?

Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday.

 

How could he remember it was Tuesday, then?

Sorry, haven't seen the film

 

May sound stupid to some people but I don't really care. I used to be a huge Xena fan (duh) and you can really learn alot from that show. Many lines have been said that grabs me and to quote a few:

"She knows I'm not perfect. She loves me anyway. That's what friendship is about." ~ Gabrielle

"Goliath, I know you can hear my thoughts and I hope you're with your family. When I think of you I'll remember Goliath the great warrior, the loving husband, and my friend." ~Xena about Goliath the giant.

"It's easier to believe in yourself after someone else has believed in you first." ~Gabrielle

I have loads more lol. Oh and this last one isn't from the show, it's from one of the creators of Xena and Hercules.

"Hercules is the hero you hope is out there. Xena is the hero you hope is inside you." ~ Rob Tapert

 

Lol, well, you get the point he was making, right? For her it was an all-important day, but for him it was simply a normal day, a Tuesday.

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One of the many brilliant lines from Mad Men:

"...in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. ... It goes backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again... to a place where we know we are loved."

 

the last linme of the book Animal Farm has always had quite the effect on me

"They looked from man to pig, and back again, but already they couldn't tell which was which"

 

From a song. . .

"We've woven hearts
A thorn arbour
Left tear-streaked reason
Upon the shore
And bereft of compass, star, or more
Set out for this world's end

Few at the prow
Most slave below
Painting coal a perfect gold
But for all it's worth
The engines slow
Dead on the brine again . . .

(skipping to the end)

. . . Our ship of fools
All boards handmade
Sinks, dashed by seismic waves"

-Cradle of Filth, Death Magic for Adepts

And from the same song. . .

"Locked in a waltz
Of ever more frantic steps
Spells of regret
Death magic for adepts"

The vocalist's writing is usually very obtuse, but some verses and songs were simply brilliant, nonetheless. Some of it has stayed with me for years, and probably always will. The imagery just explodes in your mind, and the wording is, sometimes, nothing short of genius.

 

Since we're reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, (and I LOVE IT!!!!) the whole play, especially the part where Romeo says "A thousand times worse, to live without thy light!" (or an approximation of that, I don't have the book with me) That whole exchange just melts my heart.


I'm such a hopeless romantic.

 

Don't worry so am I

and Romeo and Juliet is absolutely fantastic!
Well anything Shakespeare is fantastic actually

There's a line in the movie Hitch that I've always liked as well

"Maybe it's like you said, we'll both go our seperate ways and be just fine?'
'What if fine isn't good enough? What if I want extraordinary?'
'No such thing."

 

Favorite line that always seems to 'get' me

I am a very procrastic individual, and I am always fighting an inner war between great ambitions, and extreme laziness. It's what happens when a workaholic mates with a lazy person. So, I am not quite sure where I heard the line, I believe it is a lyric from Linkin Park. I admit, not the best band in the world, but not bad in my opinion. Anyway, the phrase," What better place than here, what better time than now?" Always seems to strike me as actually very motivational, making me feel as if I should just suck it up and do whatever it is that I have to at the moment. Probably not as good as most of yours but, it means a little something to me.

 

From The Sixth Sense by M. Night. Shyamalan:

The car scene between Cole and his mother went something like this:

"Grandma said you went to the place where they burried her, and asked her a question? She said the answer is: 'Everyday'. What did you ask?"

(crying) "Do I make her proud?"

"Oh mamma!"

(they hug)

It's so sweet, and just...perfect. I cry my eyes out every time.

 

From Tobias Wolff's short story, "Say Yes"

“Well?” she said, and stepped closer to him. Her eyes were even brighter. “Will you marry me?”

“I’m thinking,” he said.