# Most memorable line **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 19, 1999, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079 "1999-10-19T13:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/21 "1999-10-20T05:32:00Z")
“Shitter’s full.” -Christmas Vacation “Bueller…Bueller…Bueller” -Ferris Bueller’s Day Off “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” - Apocalypse Now ---
**Author:** ![AuraSeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/22 "1999-10-20T05:33:00Z")
Elwood: “It’s a hundred and six miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses.” Jake: “Hit it!” –_The Blues Brothers_ ---
**Author:** ![AuraSeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/23 "1999-10-20T05:34:00Z")
“We’re on a mission from God.” ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/24 "1999-10-20T05:55:00Z")
“There’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but not all of them will bring you lasagna at work… most just cheat on you.” - Silent Bob ---
**Author:** ![BuddyG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BuddyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyG)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/25 "1999-10-20T05:58:00Z")
“Put zee candle… back!!” M.Kahn - Young Frankenstein ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/26 "1999-10-19T18:18:00Z")
“Would you mind not firing at the thermonuclear devices?” John Travolta in some John Travolta action flick “Look what you did!” Sean Connery to “son” Harrison Ford in the 3rd (?) Indiana Jones ---
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/27 "1999-10-19T18:32:00Z")
“It puts the lotion in the basket”- The Silence of the Lambs “Excuse me while I whip this thing out.”- Blazing Saddles “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K”- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/28 "1999-10-19T19:06:00Z")
“The name is Bond… James Bond.” first spoken in Dr. No. by Sean Connery. “Who ARE those guys?” Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. “I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer!” First of many Dr. McCoy protests. “You’re right, I will lose a million dollars this year and I will lose a million next year. At that rate, I will have to close this place in… sixty years.” Orson Welles in Citizen Kane ## “Elvis has left the building!” Will Smith in Independence Day. Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to relive it. Georges Santayana ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/29 "1999-10-19T19:19:00Z")
“Come on down here Hammerhead and I’ll _show_ it to you!” “Well, the Hindus say (and the Beatniks, too…)” “Provide the wrong voucher…AND THEY DOCK YA!” All from _The Hudsucker Proxy_, which I realize has to be seen to fully appreciate the above. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/30 "1999-10-19T20:14:00Z")
And how could I forget: “To infinity… and beyond!” Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story * * * Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to relive it. Georges Santayana ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/31 "1999-10-19T20:25:00Z")
“I have to go to work like a schnook” – Goodfellas Granted, there’s a lot of other great lines from that movie, but that’s the line I say daily when leaving for work. * * * “I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/32 "1999-10-19T20:27:00Z")
“guys like us… if they find oil in our backyard, all we’d get was dead tomatoes.” Eddie and the Cruisers “It’s the stuff dreams are made of…” Maltese Falcon * * * The reason gentlemen prefer blondes is that there are not enough redheads to go around. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/33 "1999-10-19T20:46:00Z")
“Can I have my lighter back, Reggie?” - 48 hours ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/34 "1999-10-19T20:59:00Z")
Jab, Toy Story has a million of them. One of my favorites: “You are a sad, strange little man. You have my pity.” ---
**Author:** ![ravenous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4491bb/32.png) [@ravenous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ravenous)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/35 "1999-10-19T21:26:00Z")
What, no Tarantino? “check out the brain on Brad!” … “I’m just going to walk the Earth, like Kane in Kung Fu.” … “the one that says bad mutha f\_\_er” … … “What’s the problem?” “Problem? Problem!? I don’t have a problem. It’s problems. That’s plural!” Pulp Fiction x3, Four Rooms ---
**Author:** ![jcgmoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/36 "1999-10-19T21:29:00Z")
“Make that two hard-boiled eggs.” A Night at the Opera (Misquoted)–“Is that the German artillery, or just the beating of my heart?” Casablanca * * * ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079/37 "1999-10-19T21:45:00Z")
## And, like the movie ending thread, please continue the thread in MPSIMS. This forum is for questions of a generally factual nature. Nickrz GQ Mod [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-line/4079.md?page=1)