A plan is just a list of things that don’t happen.
What kind of Supreme Being would condone such irony?
Almost.
The correct quote doesn’t have “a” in it, and it’s phrased a little differently. It should be
As I’ve said before, one of my favorites is Orson Welles as Harry Line in The Third Man:
“It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It’s worse than Detroit.”
“Hi Curly. Kill anyone today?”
“Day’s not over yet.”
That’s thirty minutes away. I’ll be there in ten. ~ The Wolf
“We can’t stop here. This is bat country.”
“When the fuck did we get ice cream?”- The Ringer.
Makes me laugh everytime,I watch the movie just for that line…and
“Did you know Christ was a Jew?” from the same movie.
Mildred: Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?
Johnny: Whadda you got?
Kathie: Well, what d’ya do? I mean, do you just ride around or do you go on some sort of a picnic or something?
Johnny: A picnic? Man, you are too square. I’m… I… I’ll have to straighten you out. Now, listen, you don’t go any one special place. That’s cornball style. You just go.
“Blucher!” ::whinny:: - Young Frankenstein
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” -Treasure of the Sierra Madre
“Shitter’s Full!” - Christmas Vacation
“God hates me.” “Hate him back; it works for me.”
I like the next two lines, too.
Dukey, if this thing blows up, the Feds will be the least of our problems ~ The Sting
What was I supposed to do - call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others? ~ Ditto
“Where were you last night?”
“It’s so long ago I don’t remember.”
“What are you doing tonight?”
“I never plan that far ahead.”
Two of, perhaps, the lesser quoted lines of probably the most quoted great movie of all time, “Casablanca”.
“What can I say? You fucked up! You trusted us.” ~ Eric “Damn glad to meet you” Stratton
Loach: What happened to your nose, Gittes? Somebody slammed a bedroom window on it?
Jake Gittes: Nope. Your wife got excited. She crossed her legs a little too quick. You understand what I mean, pal?
Jake Gittes: Do you accept people of the Jewish persuasion?
Mr. Palmer: I’m sorry, we do not.
Jake Gittes: Don’t apologize - neither does Dad.
Gittes: Mulvihill! What are you doing here?
Mulvihill: They shut my water off. What’s it to you?
Gittes: How’d you find out about it? You don’t drink it; you don’t take a bath in it… They wrote you a letter. But then you have to be able to read.
Gittes: When Mulvihill here was Sheriff of Ventura County, the rum-runners landed hundreds of tons of booze on the beach and never lost a drop. (To Yelburton) He ought to be able to hold onto your water for ya.
Dyin’ ain’t much of living, boy.
“My name is Pussy…Pussy Galore”
“that’s OK, we can walk to the curb from here.” from Annie Hall
“Son, you got a panty on your head.” from Raising Arizona
to add to Colibri, “deserves got nothing to do with it”
*I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? *