# Speak to me only in Movie Quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [July 20, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882 "2012-07-20T20:16:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2963 "2013-04-25T02:11:05Z")

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I chose you because you were the most pathetic little bug in the joint.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2964 "2013-04-25T05:13:04Z")

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YOU are a bug bite squared.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2965 "2013-04-25T06:13:38Z")

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I love this place at night, the stars. There’s no right or wrong in them. They’re just there.

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**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:** [April 25, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2966 "2013-04-25T12:06:36Z")

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Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2967 "2013-04-25T12:14:31Z")

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You’re gonna need a bigger boat.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2968 "2013-04-25T13:09:53Z")

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You can be blasé about some things, Rose, but not about Titanic. It’s over a hundred feet longer than the Mauritania and far more luxurious.

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**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:** [April 25, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2969 "2013-04-25T13:12:47Z")

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It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

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**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2970 "2013-04-25T15:06:24Z")

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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2971 "2013-04-25T18:41:45Z")

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AAAAAhhhhh! He said it again!!!

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2972 "2013-04-25T20:11:01Z")

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_ **Inconceivable!!!** _

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**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:** [April 25, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2973 "2013-04-25T20:17:31Z")

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your  
philosophy.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2974 "2013-04-25T20:44:57Z")

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Whether or not what we experienced was an According to Hoyle miracle is insignificant. What is significant is that I felt the touch of God. God got involved.

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2975 "2013-04-25T22:42:16Z")

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May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?

(Clifton Webb’s character to his daughter character (Audrey Dalton?) in \*Titanic, \*1953 version)

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2976 "2013-04-26T02:13:05Z")

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My job is to make sure that you do your job. I’m Special Counsel for Internal Affairs, so my jurisdiction’s pretty much in your face.

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**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:** [April 26, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2977 "2013-04-26T12:03:24Z")

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You’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training. Now please step this way, as we provide you with our final test: an eye exam…

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2978 "2013-04-26T16:53:48Z")

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Chief, you ever question the ethics of the neurosurgeons who monkey around inside your brain?

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2979 "2013-04-26T19:14:38Z")

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Y’know, I seen me a mermaid once. I even seen me a shark eat an octopus. But I ain’t never seen no phantom Russian submarine.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2980 "2013-04-26T19:21:33Z")

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But I’d be done see’n about everything when I see an elephant fly.

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**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:** [April 26, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2981 "2013-04-26T19:24:25Z")

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I could stand the sight of worms, and look at microscopic germs. But technicolor pachyderms is really too much for me …

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2982 "2013-04-27T00:09:34Z")

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You know that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats.

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