Ford: If we’re lucky, it’s just the Vogons come to throw us in to space.
Arthur: And if we’re unlucky?
Ford: If we’re unlucky, the captain might be serious in his threat that he’s going to read us some of his poetry first…
– The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“We are not in the Boy Scouts. If we had wanted to be Boy Scouts we would have joined the Boy Scouts.”
–CIA Director Richard Helms on the mission of the CIA
“It has been so long,” the Jones sighed wistfully, “since we had a decent war!”
Babylon 5
The Searchers Ethan Edwards
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Nately died a wealthy man, Yossarian. He had over sixty shares in the syndicate.
Yossarian: What difference does that make? He’s dead.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Then his family will get it.
Yossarian: He didn’t have time to have a family.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Then his parents will get it.
Yossarian: They don’t need it, they’re rich.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Then they’ll understand.
What makes this quote for me, of course, is the way the light and shadows hit Minderbinder’s face. When I watched the movie, I didn’t realize he was a young Jon Voight until then.
He looked fixedly at the rat for a long time before letting the mattress fall back, mercifully hiding it from sight. “Just in case,” Lloyd Henreid whispered into the silence. “Just in case, is all.”’ - The Stand
II. Pursuit
I held the book beneath my coat, at pains
To hide the thing from sight in such a place;
Hurrying through the ancient harbor lanes
With often-turning head and nervous pace.
Dull, furtive windows in old tottering brick
Peered at me oddly as I hastened by,
And thinking what they sheltered, I grew sick
For a redeeming glimpse of clean blue sky.
No one had seen me take the thing - but still
A blank laugh echoed in my whirling head,
And I could guess what nighted worlds of ill
Lurked in that volume I had coveted.
The way grew strange - the walls alike and madding -
And far behind me, unseen feet were padding.
– H.P. Lovecraft
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should venture far.”
–H. P. Lovecraft
“The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.”
–Hamlet
“We’ll be up around the ice about eleven o’ clock, I suppose.”
-Charles Lightoller, second officer of RMS Titanic.
(Titanic hit the iceberg that sank it at around 11:40 PM.)
Some of these are rather more than ominous. The high volume of 1984 quotes reminds me of what an astonishingly good - and horrifying - book it is.
“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
“Noone would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space…”
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
(Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagava Gita at the Trinity nuclear test.)
“That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons even death may die.” - H. P. Lovecraft
This one needs context. From ZBS Media’s ‘The Fourth Tower of Inverness’, Jack Flanders, metaphysician and explorer, is traversing a hedge-maze full of ghastly creatures. Half-way through, Jack realizes that the creatures only exist if you can hear a certain frequency of sound. In the background, the listeners to the series can hear Art, who has, up until now, been a kindly old caretaker, narrating what he is remotely viewing of Jack’s progress.
Jack: “I’ll have to remember ear plugs next time!”
Art: (insane cackle) “He think there’ll be a next time!”
Conan was quoting Genghis Khan.
I suspect that “embrace” may not be a literal translation.
From Human Target…
Background, the character Guerro is a small, bespectacled, geeky looking guy in his late 40s who looks for all the world like a disheveled college prof. Two guys who work for a bank he’s investigating are threatening him and have suggested they talk further in the alley out back.
His response: “Okay. But you should know this. I’ll take the beating, because that’s all you’re authorized to give me, and then I’ll break into your houses and kill you while you sleep.”
The delivery is just so bored and matter of fact you have no doubt he’s absolutely serious.
“Not without incident.” from Equilibrium comes to mind. The movie as a whole was so-so, but that one scene was perfect.
I think this is a paraphrase of the Tolkein quote, “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.” and first appeared in Dilbert:
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Fun variation on that one:
“Do not meddle in the affairs of scientists, for you are carbon-based and will dissolve.” 
Another quote:
“We cannot get out…we cannot get out…they are coming.”
-Gandalf, reading from the dwarves’ book in Moria. From Fellowship of the Ring, the movie version. That part always creeps me out whenever I watch it.
“Huh. It has not made that noise before.” -any server room or mechanic’s shop
“Looks like we’re home free!” - both movies in real life
“What is the worst that can happen?” - both movies in real life
“Oh, by the way, your mother called.” - real life