# 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:** ![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:** [March 30, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11284 "2016-03-30T13:28:46Z")

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A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.

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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:** [March 30, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11285 "2016-03-30T13:41:16Z")

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Tomorrow is another day.

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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:** [March 30, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11286 "2016-03-30T13:45:05Z")

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The sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun.

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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:** [March 30, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11287 "2016-03-30T23:29:38Z")

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Our sun is dying. Mankind faces extinction. Seven years ago the Icarus project sent a mission to restart the sun but that mission was lost before it reached the star. Sixteen months ago, I, Robert Capa, and a crew of seven left earth frozen in a solar winter. Our payload a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to Manhattan Island. Our purpose to create a star within a star.

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11288 "2016-03-31T00:09:19Z")

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I am a star. I’m a star, I’m a star, I’m a star. I am a big, bright, shining star. That’s right.

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11289 "2016-03-31T00:17:04Z")

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My God! It’s full of stars!

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11290 "2016-03-31T00:49:23Z")

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Keep it to yourself.

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11291 "2016-03-31T11:10:38Z")

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Is a bird showing off when it flies?

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11292 "2016-03-31T11:43:14Z")

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Listen, everybody! There’s no limit to how high we can fly! We can dive for fish and never have to live on garbage again!

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11293 "2016-03-31T11:50:14Z")

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Henry, am I the widow of a man or the wife of a fish?

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11294 "2016-03-31T19:26:48Z")

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I don’t understand. All my life I’ve been waiting for someone and when I find her, she’s… she’s a fish.

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11295 "2016-03-31T21:17:49Z")

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On Wednesday we’ll eat Gill… on Thursday we’ll eat Bob! Ha ha ha… no no no, that’s going too far.

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11296 "2016-03-31T21:28:50Z")

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That’s Silent Bob.

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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:** [March 31, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11297 "2016-03-31T23:08:36Z")

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What’s your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?

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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 1, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11298 "2016-04-01T00:09:43Z")

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I used to be a heroin addict. Now I’m a methadone addict.

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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:** [April 1, 2016, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11299 "2016-04-01T11:06:33Z")

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Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

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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 1, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11300 "2016-04-01T12:06:03Z")

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It hasn’t rained in 11 years. Now 20 people gotta squeeze inside the same bathtub - so it ain’t all bad.

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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:** [April 1, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11301 "2016-04-01T19:38:19Z")

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A great flood is coming. The waters of the heavens will meet the waters of earth. We build a vessel to survive the storm. We build an ark.

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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:** [April 2, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11302 "2016-04-02T20:47:08Z")

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For the animals that didn’t have a dad to put them in a boat, the end of the world already happened.

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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:** [April 2, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11303 "2016-04-02T21:51:01Z")

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It’s the end of the world, and he’s upset about a dead pig.

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