# 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:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12464 "2016-11-19T19:08:44Z")

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Come here! You better watch your MOUTH!

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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:** [November 19, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12465 "2016-11-19T23:26:22Z")

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Language is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.

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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:** [November 20, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12466 "2016-11-20T01:14:29Z")

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The first man to raise a fist is the man who’s run out of ideas.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12467 "2016-11-20T05:50:29Z")

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Glad you decided to join the conversation.

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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:** [November 20, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12468 "2016-11-20T17:40:37Z")

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Don, it’ll be a sensation! “Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!”

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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:** [November 20, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12469 "2016-11-20T23:19:30Z")

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But I’m not a rat, Agent Kujan

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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:** [November 22, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12470 "2016-11-22T00:08:33Z")

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We can no longer live as rats. We know too much.

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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:** [November 22, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12471 "2016-11-22T01:33:41Z")

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A man… a statesman… is to be killed… assassinated in London. Soon… very soon. Tell them in London… tell them to try Ambrose Chapel…

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12472 "2016-11-22T01:38:54Z")

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I know I’m human. And I know some of you are still human. If you were all these things, you would just attack me right now.

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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:** [November 22, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12473 "2016-11-22T01:53:52Z")

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Ack! Ack ack! Ack ack ack ack! Ack ack!

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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:** [November 22, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12474 "2016-11-22T15:50:23Z")

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Yes, thousands of paratroopers have landed in Nijmegen… right on top of Field Marshal Model.

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12475 "2016-11-23T04:34:11Z")

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You better do something you idiot, because in ten minutes; you’re going to have 200 tons of locomotive smashing into Central Station on it’s way to Marshall Fields!

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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:** [November 23, 2016, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12476 "2016-11-23T05:49:32Z")

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Well, I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna get me a bath. Then I’m gonna get drunk. Then I’m gonna catch me a whore with great big tits. Then I’m gonna get drunk again. Then I’m gonna rob that Wells Fargo office and get me my money back, you dumb-ass Jew!

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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:** [November 23, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12477 "2016-11-23T17:40:04Z")

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I’m going into town to get my money from Jack Colby and then get shed of the bunch of ya! I’ve been shot five times, knifed twice, bit on the ass by a pig, stomped on by a horse and sat on by a mule and once, in the winter of '91, a grizzly chewed off my big toe. And I’ve survived two avalanches, three blizzards, five Indian uprisings and seven Presidential elections, but I’ve never been owned by no woman nor dog…and I’ve come too far down the road to let it happen to me now.

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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:** [November 23, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12478 "2016-11-23T22:15:58Z")

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The only thing that makes me truly happy is mathematics. Snow, ice, and numbers.

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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:** [November 23, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12479 "2016-11-23T22:33:31Z")

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You and your arithmetic, you’ll probably go far.

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12480 "2016-11-24T13:03:56Z")

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But can you blow the shofar?

“Feast of Trumpets” is the quote

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN5OSKXI65I)

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12481 "2016-11-24T20:59:00Z")

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So he was human? That makes you a murderer, don’t it?

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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:** [November 24, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12482 "2016-11-24T22:28:00Z")

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Ever since you walked into this room, you’ve been acting like a self-appointed public avenger.

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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:** [November 24, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12483 "2016-11-24T23:02:57Z")

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The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll whisper “no.”

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