# NEW! Speak to me in Movie quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 7, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614 "2020-07-07T13:50:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 94
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1861 "2021-09-17T13:40:18Z")
It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright laws - it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1862 "2021-09-17T13:42:20Z")
They call me MISTER Tibbs! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1863 "2021-09-17T15:24:38Z")
Mister Cogburn, in your four years as US Marshal, how many men have you shot? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1864 "2021-09-17T16:06:59Z")
An easy way to remember it is to imagine a Miss Plebeian wishing to marry a Mr. Patrician, and Mr. Patrician saying he can’t. She could then reply “Oh yes, you can, you liar.” ---
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1865 "2021-09-17T21:13:50Z")
Why does a girl have to be so silly to catch a husband? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1866 "2021-09-18T12:25:23Z")
You can’t catch a man with a gun. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1867 "2021-09-18T12:39:34Z")
Harry: When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard on I figure he’s not out collecting for the Red Cross. Mayor: I think he’s got a point. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1868 "2021-09-18T16:09:30Z")
We’ve got nothing but Reds around here. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1869 "2021-09-18T17:33:13Z")
Retired. Extremely Dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1870 "2021-09-18T18:01:08Z")
“Retirement is an ongoing, relentless effort in creativity. You can try yoga, like to cook, bought some plants, took classes in Mandarin. Believe me, I’ve tried everything. I just know there’s a hole in my life and I need to fill it… soon.” Ben narrates why he left retirement to start working again ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1871 "2021-09-18T20:53:53Z")
How to apply for a job… How to advance from the mail room… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1872 "2021-09-19T02:33:27Z")
I know you are young and that is the most obvious solution, but jobs are not always easy to find. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1873 "2021-09-19T16:17:22Z")
Harvard undergraduates believe that inventing a job is better than finding a job. ---
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1874 "2021-09-19T17:01:25Z")
I dropped by the Bixby School. And what do I find? I find he isn’t even registered there, he never has been. So I’ve been hunting through every low, crockpot school in this town, and I finally found him in the lowest of them all. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1875 "2021-09-19T17:12:50Z")
You have eight more years of grammar school, four more years of high school, plus four more years of college. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1876 "2021-09-19T17:14:19Z")
[ **Marian Paroo:** Professor Harold Hill. Gary Conservatory of Music, class of '05. Harold, there wasn’t any Gary Conservatory of Music in '05. **Harold Hill:** Why, there most certainly w… **Marian Paroo:** Because the town wasn’t even built until '06. I tore this page out of an Indiana Journal. I was going to use it against you, but now I give to you with my love. ](https://www.quotes.net/mquote/65367) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1877 "2021-09-19T21:40:54Z")
“It is your duty to change the world, if you can. Not by violence—peacefully, individually, not as a mob.” - To Sir, With Love ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1878 "2021-09-20T02:16:07Z")
I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they’ll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they’ll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it’s the sand of the coliseum. He’ll bring them death… and they will love him for it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1879 "2021-09-20T02:22:31Z")
Keep them yelling their devotion But add a touch of hate at Rome You will rise to a greater power We will win ourselves a home ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/1880 "2021-09-20T02:45:21Z")
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