Pseudo-Feud

The Game Room
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No rules, and I’m not scoring it, but I will collate (but not form the duplicates.) I just thought it would be fun thing to read!

(I’m also gonna cross-post this at the Raff Boards, FYI.)

Name a famous (or your favorite) quote from:

  1. A book
  2. A comedy movie
  3. A dramatic movie
  4. A celebrity (actor)
  5. Politician
  6. Sports figure (athlete or coach or whatever)
  7. A proverb
  8. Musician (or lyric)
  9. A poet or poem
  10. Your favorite of all time! (It can be one posted in your list already.)
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  1. " ‘That is well said,’ replied Candide, ‘but we must cultivate our garden.’ ”
  2. “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.”
  3. “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
  4. “Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
  5. “Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
  6. “Nobody goes there anymore…it’s too crowded.”
  7. “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”
  8. “Still a man hears what he wants to hear / And disregards the rest.”
  9. “I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
  10. “No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
  11. Voltaire, Candide
  12. Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding, Animal Crackers
  13. Joe Mantell as Walsh, Chinatown
  14. Cary Grant
  15. John F. Kennedy
  16. Attributed to Yogi Berra
  17. Parodied as “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.”
  18. Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer
  19. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
  20. H.L. Mencken (often paraphrased as “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people” or “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”)
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  1. So long, and thanks for the fish!
  2. “I’m not dead!”
  3. “Go ahead, make my day.”
  4. “Na noo na noo.”
  5. “I am not a crook.”
  6. “People die every day.” (OJ Simpson)
  7. It takes two to tango
  8. “All you need is love.”
  9. Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”
  10. “Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries.”
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  1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  2. Month Python’s Search For the Holy Grail
  3. Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry
  4. Mork from Ork (Robin Williams)
  5. Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon
  6. From an interview he gave while on his “If I Did It” book tour.
  7. More of a saying than a true proverb :slight_smile:
  8. The Beatles, All You Need Is Love
  9. The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Again, Monty Python

I felt these answers were very obvious but if someone wanted the sources.

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  1. “For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you’re taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.”

  2. “One gay beer for my gay friend, one normal beer for me because I am normal.”

  3. “I pardon you.”

  4. “Beyonce made one of the best videos ever!”

  5. “Ah, but in the morning, I will be sober. You however, will still be ugly.”

  6. “What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”

  7. “Better to lose a minute in your life than your life in a minute.”

  8. “Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I’m bored and old.”

  9. For the moon never beams without bringing me beams of the beautiful Annabel Lee. And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

  10. I’m not even supposed to be here today!

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Maybe this should be moved to cafe society…

:frowning:

I thought this would be popular! Hmm.

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  1. “It’s not just a tissue of lies; it’s an industrial broadloom carpet of lies.” The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley
  2. “And we’re just the ones to do it! Eggnog?” Trading Places
  3. “Shoot straight, you bastards, don’t make a mess of it!” Breaker Morant
  4. “I haven’t seen Jaws 2, but I’ve seen the house it built, and it’s beautiful.” Michael Caine
  5. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
  6. “He must’ve made that movie before he died.” Yogi Berra, to his son, while watching a Steve McQueen movie
  7. “This, too, shall pass.”
  8. “In my daughter’s eyes, everyone is equal; darkness turns to light, and the world is at peace.” Martina McBride, “In My Daughter’s Eyes”
  9. “Washington’s Monument, February 1885” by Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman: Washington's Monument February, 1885
  10. Too many to list, but Sullivan Ballou’s letter to his wife always gets me: http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/ballou_letter.html
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Except it is Jaws 4.

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  1. A book - “Never neglect ego. It separates us from the saints” The Perfect Murder Donald E. Westlake, et al