# 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:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4244 "2013-09-02T14:07:53Z")

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I guess that means I won’t get to see you go through puberty.

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**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 2, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4245 "2013-09-02T17:49:24Z")

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Do you dare complain about what you can see?

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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:** [September 2, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4246 "2013-09-02T19:19:23Z")

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No. I’ve come to tell you what I see. There are great darknesses. Farther than time itself. And beyond the darkness… a light that glows, changes… and in the center of the universe… the eye that sees us all.

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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:** [September 2, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4247 "2013-09-02T20:08:13Z")

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The Eye of Sauron now turns to Gondor, the last free kingdom of men. His war on this country will come swiftly. He senses the Ring is close.

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**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 2, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4248 "2013-09-02T21:23:49Z")

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If I were any closer, I’d be in back of you.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4249 "2013-09-02T23:43:35Z")

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You’re standing awful close Gus. I can’t tell whether it’s your toes I’m feeling or mine.

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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:** [September 3, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4250 "2013-09-03T00:13:20Z")

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Hmm, we seem to have mutual control over our body.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4251 "2013-09-03T01:25:38Z")

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And what are you grinning at you big creep?

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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:** [September 3, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4252 "2013-09-03T02:37:23Z")

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It’s a low neighborhood, full of rumpots. They’re used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4253 "2013-09-03T14:32:16Z")

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They asked me if I’d seen any strangers in the neighborhood.

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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:** [September 3, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4254 "2013-09-03T14:36:21Z")

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The T-1000 can’t form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals in them. Moving parts. It doesn’t work that way, but it can form solid metal shapes.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4255 "2013-09-03T14:57:40Z")

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We have some carving knives in the abattoir, a few more in the mess hall. Some fire axes scattered about the place - nothing terribly formidable.

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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:** [September 3, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4256 "2013-09-03T15:00:59Z")

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The saw is family.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4257 "2013-09-03T15:09:15Z")

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Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.

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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:** [September 3, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4258 "2013-09-03T15:25:24Z")

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I made a promise, Mr Frodo. A promise. “Don’t you leave him Samwise Gamgee.” And I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4259 "2013-09-03T15:39:12Z")

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I don’t think there will be a return journey, Mr. Frodo.

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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:** [September 3, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4260 "2013-09-03T15:43:39Z")

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Where are Terabithian warriors when you need 'em?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4261 "2013-09-03T15:48:18Z")

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This is all yours. You’re the owner of this world. Everything you see is yours. Oh, except that hole over there, that’s Ira’s. The tree’s yours, but the hole is Ira’s. But everything else is yours. Except for that rock over there, that’s not yours. That little rock next to the big rock. But everything else in the kingdom… except for that stick. That little stick right there, that’s not yours.

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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:** [September 3, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4262 "2013-09-03T15:48:49Z")

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When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his men were well motivated.

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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:** [September 3, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4263 "2013-09-03T15:51:47Z")

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Yonda lies the castle of my fodda.

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