# 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:** 687
**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 3, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13724 "2017-09-03T02:30:30Z")
Well, I… I don’t know how to answer you, except to say that I teach you truths. My truths. Yeah, and it is kinda scary, dealing with the truth. Scary, and dangerous… ---
**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 3, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13725 "2017-09-03T04:12:36Z")
Archaeology is the search for FACT, not TRUTH. If it’s truth you’re interested in, Dr. Tyree’s philosophy class is right down the hall. ---
**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 3, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13726 "2017-09-03T15:26:06Z")
Professor Harris. I should’ve known he was evil. He gave me an A-minus. ---
**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 3, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13727 "2017-09-03T18:19:34Z")
So, I violated section 34 Double-D? That’s what you’re telling me? ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13728 "2017-09-03T20:50:36Z")
Don’t fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating. ---
**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 4, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13729 "2017-09-04T15:22:43Z")
My partner and I witnessed that little torchlight picnic you threw last night, we’re gonna put you where your kind always ends up - in a seven by seven foot grey-green metal cage in the fifteenth floor of some hundred-year-old penitentiary, with damp, stinking walls and a wooden plank for a bed. ---
**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 4, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13730 "2017-09-04T15:35:03Z")
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? ---
**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 4, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13731 "2017-09-04T22:42:48Z")
This ain’t the good ol’ USA! This is Turkey, man! It’s a fuckin’ accident here if you’re innocent! There ain’t nobody here that is innocent! ---
**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:** [September 5, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13732 "2017-09-05T00:06:54Z")
As The Turks sent us away as Greeks, The Greeks received us as Turks. ---
**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 5, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13733 "2017-09-05T17:55:59Z")
He didn’t have anything to spend it on, did he? Stuck out in Greece. Lowest standard of living in Europe. ---
**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 5, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13734 "2017-09-05T18:05:22Z")
We’ll always have Paris. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13735 "2017-09-05T18:17:58Z")
Look, I admit I came to Paris to escape American Provincial, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready for French Traditional. ---
**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 5, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13736 "2017-09-05T19:14:27Z")
I don’t know what they taught you in France, but rude and interesting are not the same things. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13737 "2017-09-05T19:23:54Z")
You Americans are dumb. You admire Lafayette and Maurice Chevalier. They’re the dumbest of all Frenchmen. ---
**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 5, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13738 "2017-09-05T23:58:05Z")
I could give you my word as a Spaniard. ---
**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 6, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13739 "2017-09-06T15:02:16Z")
No good, I’ve known too many Spaniards. ---
**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 6, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13740 "2017-09-06T19:24:13Z")
Can’t push him too hard; he might break. You gotta remember who you’re dealing with. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13741 "2017-09-06T20:43:59Z")
What was it that you used to say to your kids at Hillsdale High? That character is tested when you’re up against 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:** [September 6, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13742 "2017-09-06T21:53:22Z")
Of course you don’t know. You don’t know because only _I_ know. If you knew and I didn’t know, then you’d be teaching me instead of me teaching you - and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude. Do I make myself clear? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13743 "2017-09-07T22:03:29Z")
But you’re like the classic school principal! I mean you’re scary and bad with people… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=686) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=688)