# 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:** 672
**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:** [June 10, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13424 "2017-06-10T15:36:05Z")
Here’s some stamps. Learn how to write a letter or something. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13425 "2017-06-10T18:28:10Z")
To Sir, with love. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13426 "2017-06-10T23:32:34Z")
Sir, I don’t - I don’t know how to tell this story. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13427 "2017-06-12T20:20:23Z")
Maybe you should drink a little. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13428 "2017-06-12T20:21:35Z")
Let’s start at the very beginning - a very fine place to start. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13429 "2017-06-12T23:01:25Z")
I have an alternate version of the first chapter. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13430 "2017-06-13T01:22:57Z")
The night was hot. Wait, no. The night… The night was… humid! The night was humid. No, wait. Hot. Hot! The night was hot. The night was hot and wet. Wet and hot. The night was wet and hot… hot and wet… that’s humid. The night was humid. Maybe the night isn’t humid. Maybe… the night isn’t humid. Maybe it was humid in the morning and at night it was cold. That gives you fog. Ha! The night was foggy! The night… The night was… The night was… The night… The night was dry, yet it was raining. The… The… The… The streets were wet,… but the night… was as bright… as… the… earrings in Margaret Donner’s ears! My God! I’m goin’ outta my mind! Fuck it! ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13431 "2017-06-13T16:14:10Z")
You know, the only thing that matters is the ending. It’s the most important part of the story, the ending. And this one… is very good. This one’s perfect. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13432 "2017-06-13T20:35:53Z")
I know books, I have 186 of them at home. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13433 "2017-06-13T23:58:43Z")
I need that book, I want that book, I want you to stay but if you make me have to choose I’ll kill you and take that book ---
**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:** [June 14, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13434 "2017-06-14T01:12:40Z")
When I was your age, television was called books. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13435 "2017-06-14T13:23:42Z")
She and those books of hers. All they want is one thing: smash and destroy. Smash everything we’ve ever built up in this country. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13436 "2017-06-14T13:30:23Z")
Well, it’s a job just like any other. Good work with lots of variety. Monday, we burn Miller; Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman; Friday, Faulkner; and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That’s our official motto. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13437 "2017-06-14T19:23:58Z")
Killing is my business, and business is GOOOOOOOD! ---
**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:** [June 15, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13438 "2017-06-15T20:53:52Z")
We invented the free enterprise system, where anybody, no matter who he was, where he came from, what class he belonged to, if he came up with a better idea, about anything, there’s no limit to how far he could go. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13439 "2017-06-15T21:46:19Z")
I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man! ---
**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:** [June 15, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13440 "2017-06-15T22:32:44Z")
What squinky eye? ---
**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:** [June 16, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13441 "2017-06-16T20:02:58Z")
He’s blind. That’s all. That doesn’t make him good or bad! That just makes him blind. And now, he’s blind with a purpose. Because he’s looking out for the sick and the hungry of his own ward. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13442 "2017-06-16T20:11:29Z")
Well, well, well! Mr. Blind Man, you’re positively an incredible human being. You’re a walking advertisement for hiring the handicapped! ---
**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:** [June 17, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13443 "2017-06-17T14:24:59Z")
I wanted to teacher her what language is. I know without it to do nothing but obey is no gift. Obedience without understanding is a blindness too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=671) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=673)