“I don’t WANT to cure CANCER. I WANT to turn people into DINOSAURS.”
I had a PRETTY MIND!
“You don’t fuck with the Jesus!”
(The Big Lebowski, if anybody wonders)
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”
“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
― Jim Harrison, The Road Home
Or anything by Hunter S. Thompson
Is K-K-K-Kevin going to k-k-k-kill me?
A line that kills me, in context:
“A walk for peace A long-necked waddle for peace.”
Fish Called Wanda???
Isn’t it “Ken”?
Yes to the first question, and you’re probably right about the second point. It has been years since I saw it.
“Hang on, lads - I’ve got an idea”
I assume that’s from the end of the original The Italian Job. A great movie, but I really don’t like the ending.
I recently watched Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman, and this line just clobbered me:
I’m not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman!
There it is in 10 words – the irony of living the entirety of your existence as one utterly unique person, and yet having the rest of civilization consider you an interchangeable, disposable cog.
And that is exactly the problem with working for a huge corporation.
Not really – it’s the problem with living in civilization. Very few people in any society do anything to distinguish themselves to anyone but their family and closest friends. Look around any time you’re in a crowd, and everyone you see is a dime a dozen. (Sure, they all look different, but for as much as you know about them they can be replaced by a thousand interchangeable people.) Yet each person is 100% unique and special to themselves. That’s the irony.
Which just made my mind hyperlink to a different movie:
"That’s Capricorn, is it?
We even teach them they are unique and special to themselves: “You’re the best you anyone can be!”
Right? And it’s true! Kids should be taught to value themselves in all their uniqueness. But then they get out into the real world and eventually realize the real world doesn’t give a shit about them. Both “you are unique” and “you’re a dime a dozen” are equally true, even though they’re diametrically opposed. It’s the ultimate irony.
I’m lookin’ for the guy who’s supplyin’ the dimes.
We’ve got a senior pastor; old, grey and distinguished. He slips a Lebowski line into every sermon.
He said he’d love to have Don’t Fuck with The Jesus on the “Today’s Sermon” display out in front of the church… but we’ve never had one of those.
“Because if I kill you now and find you’re lying to me I won’t get to kill you then.”