# 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:** 76
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1501 "2012-09-12T17:11:34Z")
Play the “Marseillaise.”… Play it! ---
**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 12, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1502 "2012-09-12T19:17:44Z")
If she can stand it, I can! Play it! ---
**Author:** ![Molesworth\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Molesworth\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molesworth_2)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1503 "2012-09-12T20:03:00Z")
Take her to the zoo. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1504 "2012-09-12T20:10:40Z")
I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can’t stand it any longer. It’s the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I’ve somehow been infected by it ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1505 "2012-09-12T20:20:02Z")
“What he means Mr. Mayor, is real wrath of God type stuff - forty years of darkness…” “Earthquakes, volcanoes…” “The dead rising from their graves…” “Dogs and cats, living together, Mass Hysteria!” ---
**Author:** ![Molesworth\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Molesworth\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molesworth_2)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1506 "2012-09-12T20:21:53Z")
Two points! There’s your goddamn score! Cats crawling on trees, five time five is twenty-five. Fuck this place! Fuck it! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1507 "2012-09-12T20:23:07Z")
You see this desk? This desk belonged to Fiorello La Guardia, “the Little Flower”. He was about 5 foot tall, used to read the funny papers to his constituents’ children over the radio, and was about the best goddamned mayor this city ever had. You know what La Guardia said? “Why is it, every time you can do some good, the nice people come in and mess you up?” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1508 "2012-09-12T20:30:46Z")
Why would anyone want to be President of the United States when he can be Mayor of New York? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1509 "2012-09-12T20:37:33Z")
It’s good to be the king. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1510 "2012-09-12T20:44:07Z")
What family doesn’t have its little ups and downs? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1511 "2012-09-12T21:08:47Z")
“'Ohana” means “family.” Family means “no one gets left behind.” But if you want to leave, you can. I’ll remember you though. I remember everyone that leaves. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1512 "2012-09-13T00:08:47Z")
You think you’ve been getting away with it all this time, standing by. Well, son … your bystanding days are over! You’re in it now, up to your neck! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1513 "2012-09-13T01:21:40Z")
Can you believe dad bought me this dress? He can be so childishly sentimental sometimes. Isn’t this ridiculous? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1514 "2012-09-13T02:14:13Z")
Which reminds me, where’s your report card? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1515 "2012-09-13T09:04:38Z")
No questions. No answers. That’s the business we’re in. You just accept it and move on. Maybe that’s lesson number three. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1516 "2012-09-13T11:02:51Z")
I used to be in love with answers, but since I’ve known you I’m just as astounded by questions. Answers make you wise, questions make you human. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1517 "2012-09-13T12:12:52Z")
And Leo’s getting larger! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1518 "2012-09-13T12:15:12Z")
Get the fuck off of my obstacle! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1519 "2012-09-13T14:15:58Z")
Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1520 "2012-09-13T16:50:23Z")
And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=77)