# Speak to me only in Movie Quotes **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 413
**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 30, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8244 "2014-09-30T13:27:38Z")
I’m sorry, I don’t have the time… ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8245 "2014-09-30T13:29:27Z")
But we don’t reckon time the same way, do we, Clarice? This is all the time you’ll ever have. ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8246 "2014-09-30T13:52:31Z")
My name is H.G. Wells. I came here in a time machine of my own construction. I am pursuing Jack the Ripper, who escaped into the future in my machine. ---
**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 30, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8247 "2014-09-30T14:23:33Z")
Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Doc. Ah… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean? ---
**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 30, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8248 "2014-09-30T16:16:42Z")
You know, I’ll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him… the things he’d say to me. ---
**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 30, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8249 "2014-09-30T16:34:37Z")
Your daddy’s a dead man. ---
**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 30, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8250 "2014-09-30T16:41:40Z")
I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill! ---
**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:** [October 1, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8251 "2014-10-01T01:52:01Z")
Thank you. But in all honesty, the last three I backed over with my car. Luckily, they turned out to be drug dealers. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8252 "2014-10-01T18:22:17Z")
Don Corleone: It makes no difference, it don’t make any difference to me what a man does for a living, you understand. But your business is a little dangerous. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8253 "2014-10-01T18:36:14Z")
Lesson number one: Don’t underestimate the other guy’s greed! ---
**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:** [October 1, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8254 "2014-10-01T19:23:06Z")
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed - for lack of a better word - is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8255 "2014-10-01T21:29:59Z")
Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8256 "2014-10-02T00:02:00Z")
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8257 "2014-10-02T00:41:04Z")
Are you sure about that five minutes? Are you sure about that five minutes? ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THOSE FIVE MINTUES? ---
**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:** [October 2, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8258 "2014-10-02T01:15:58Z")
Missed it by that much. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8259 "2014-10-03T03:04:25Z")
Yeah. But the sight’s not right yet. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8260 "2014-10-03T17:17:46Z")
Maybe you should drink a little. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8261 "2014-10-03T20:50:30Z")
Five years ago, I met you in a saloon; now I find you in one. I don’t see much change. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8262 "2014-10-04T00:30:43Z")
You’d like a drink better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stub, wouldn’t you? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8263 "2014-10-04T00:43:22Z")
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