# 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 20, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8124 "2014-09-20T21:19:06Z")

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Well, that was very brief. Just like all the men in my life.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8125 "2014-09-20T21:20:51Z")

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They’re always coming and going, and going and coming; and always too soon!

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8126 "2014-09-21T02:42:22Z")

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We were enroute from Memphis, for eleven and a half hours, for 175 miles an hour, so they think that we’re right here. But, we went out of radio contact, then flew around that storm for about an hour, so that’s a distance of what, 400 miles? Four hundred miles squared, that’s 160,000 times pi, 3.14… 502,400. That’s a search area of 500,000 square miles. That’s twice the size of Texas.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8127 "2014-09-21T03:10:27Z")

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As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls.

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8128 "2014-09-21T03:16:13Z")

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Oh. It’s nice to get a bit of time to yourself, isn’t it?

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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 21, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8129 "2014-09-21T03:16:38Z")

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C’mon Matt, talk to me. Tell me where you are, give me your position. Where are you? Give me a visual, tell me what you see. C’mon, you’ve been yammering since we left Cape Canaveral, _now_ you decide to shut up? Talk to me! Just say something, say anything, I don’t care!

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8130 "2014-09-21T13:51:37Z")

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Space: the final frontier.

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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 21, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8131 "2014-09-21T14:03:57Z")

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I changed my mind. I wanna go back.

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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 21, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8132 "2014-09-21T15:14:16Z")

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Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8133 "2014-09-21T15:41:30Z")

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I had to live with that squealing, corpulent little toad all these years. God, I hate that woman. I - I - I hate the way she licks stamps! I hate her furniture! And I hate that little sound she makes when she sleeps.

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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 21, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8134 "2014-09-21T15:45:30Z")

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I know you all think I killed my parents.

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8135 "2014-09-21T22:53:02Z")

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You’ve done nothing but study swordplay?

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8136 "2014-09-22T01:33:07Z")

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That’s not a knife; this. . .is a knife.

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8137 "2014-09-22T01:37:48Z")

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Yeah, you got a weapon. Clark got a weapon, Clark got a knife! We all got weapons! Anybody can blow anybody away, any second. Which is the way it ought to be. Always.

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**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8138 "2014-09-22T01:37:57Z")

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I like to keep this handy… for close encounters.

(surely we have included the entire Aliens movie script by now)

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8139 "2014-09-22T02:07:25Z")

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Are we talking little space friends here?

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**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 22, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8140 "2014-09-22T02:10:46Z")

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The man’s psychic!

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**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8141 "2014-09-22T02:34:18Z")

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Are you the male of your species, or…  
[strokes Bernard’s leg] the female?

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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 22, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8142 "2014-09-22T02:46:18Z")

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Let go of him you motherfucker.

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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 22, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8143 "2014-09-22T02:51:19Z")

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You must spank her well, and after you are done with her, you may deal with her as you like… and then… spank me.

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