# 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:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8644 "2015-01-06T22:38:20Z")

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There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

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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:** [January 6, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8645 "2015-01-06T23:15:41Z")

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Now look, I once stood exposed to the Dragon’s Breath so that a man could lie one night with a woman. It took me nine moons to recover. And all for this lunacy called, “love”, this mad distemper that strikes down both beggar and king. Never again. Never.

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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:** [January 7, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8646 "2015-01-07T00:21:52Z")

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Hellooooo, Nurse!

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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:** [January 7, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8647 "2015-01-07T16:44:26Z")

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Yeah get that nurse in there. She don’t look like the type to keep you awake all night prayin’.

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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:** [January 7, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8648 "2015-01-07T19:13:34Z")

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You know, it’d be much better to block the neuro-muscular junction with succinylcholine. Now that’s a nice murder.

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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:** [January 7, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8649 "2015-01-07T21:38:41Z")

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Sure, it’s perfect. Anesthetist feeds the patient some carbon monoxide instead of oxygen. It’s colorless and makes the blood very red so the surgeon doesn’t notice anything funny. But the brain dies from lack of oxygen. End of operation - the patient doesn’t wake up.

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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:** [January 8, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8650 "2015-01-08T23:31:04Z")

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You know why they put oxygen masks on planes? Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you’re taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate.

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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:** [January 9, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8651 "2015-01-09T03:47:31Z")

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I ac-ceeeeeeeept!

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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:** [January 9, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8652 "2015-01-09T21:12:19Z")

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To the last, I will grapple with thee… from Hell’s heart, I stab at thee! For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!

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**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8653 "2015-01-10T18:29:51Z")

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All that hate’s gonna burn you up kid.

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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:** [January 10, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8654 "2015-01-10T18:34:12Z")

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You see that flash of light in the corner of your eye? That’s your career dissipation light. It just went into high gear.

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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:** [January 10, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8655 "2015-01-10T20:40:12Z")

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The last glimpse of sunset, a green flash shoots up into the sky. Some go their whole lives  
without ever seeing it. Some claim to have seen it who ain’t. And some say…  
It signals when a soul comes back to this world from the dead.

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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:** [January 10, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8656 "2015-01-10T21:55:55Z")

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There are families who live out their entire lives without a single thing of interest happening to them. I’ve always envied those families.

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**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8657 "2015-01-10T22:31:35Z")

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We’re both part of the same hypocrisy, senator, but don’t ever think it applies to my family.

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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:** [January 11, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8658 "2015-01-11T00:10:29Z")

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But the saw, the saw is family.

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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:** [January 12, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8659 "2015-01-12T02:24:14Z")

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I’m gonna need a hacksaw.

(technically cheating since it’s TV, but whatever)

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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:** [January 12, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8660 "2015-01-12T02:31:40Z")

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I need Japanese steel.

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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:** [January 13, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8661 "2015-01-13T01:22:31Z")

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The Japanese: they’re short. So their eyes are closer to the electronic components than many other nationalities. Caucasians are too tall and gangly. Look how far away the caucasian worker’s eyes are from the integrated circuitry. That’s why Sony products are better.

SONY: Because caucasians are just too damn tall.

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**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8662 "2015-01-13T01:37:08Z")

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Did he just call me Shorty?

Yes. Because you’re small. S M 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:** [January 13, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8663 "2015-01-13T03:57:09Z")

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Honey, I shrunk the kids!

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