# 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:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15605 "2018-10-19T20:39:46Z")

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I just wanted to take another look at you.

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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:** [October 19, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15606 "2018-10-19T22:30:05Z")

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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest one of all?

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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:** [October 19, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15607 "2018-10-19T23:38:36Z")

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Hey Handsome, let me take you for a walk down memory lane.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15608 "2018-10-20T03:07:48Z")

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Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15609 "2018-10-20T14:59:27Z")

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- throws bone in ecstatic triumph skyward in slow motion \*

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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:** [October 20, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15610 "2018-10-20T17:06:14Z")

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No more dark. No more hiding. No more caves. What’s the point of all this? To follow the light. I can’t change. I don’t have ideas. But I have my strength. And right now, that’s all you need.

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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:** [October 20, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15611 "2018-10-20T17:35:29Z")

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If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15612 "2018-10-20T19:09:54Z")

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Hold it! Do you know what a flash fire _is_? Well, mister, I’m not going to let you _kill_ us.

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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:** [October 20, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15613 "2018-10-20T22:20:27Z")

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He’d kill us if he got the chance.

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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:** [October 21, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15614 "2018-10-21T21:06:35Z")

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Did you ever have to find a way to survive and you knew your choices were bad, _but_ you had to survive?

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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:** [October 23, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15615 "2018-10-23T12:12:21Z")

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As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe… keep breathing.

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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:** [October 23, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15616 "2018-10-23T12:40:31Z")

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You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed… walk it off.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15617 "2018-10-23T15:06:54Z")

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When the dead walk, señores, we must stop the killing… or lose the war.

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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:** [October 23, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15618 "2018-10-23T18:44:15Z")

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Take car. Go to Mum’s. Kill Phil - “Sorry.” - grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. How’s that for a slice of fried gold?

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15619 "2018-10-23T19:48:44Z")

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We’re going to the mall.

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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:** [October 23, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15620 "2018-10-23T20:37:52Z")

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I remember when this was all farmland as far the eye could see. Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding pine trees.

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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:** [October 23, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15621 "2018-10-23T21:00:47Z")

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Children aren’t machines, Peabody. I know, I tried to build one.

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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:** [October 23, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15622 "2018-10-23T21:04:26Z")

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Mr. Peabody, you are a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. An advisor to heads of state. A captain of industry. Why would you want to adopt a boy?

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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:** [October 24, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15623 "2018-10-24T13:17:13Z")

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I am a kingmaker.

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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:** [October 24, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15624 "2018-10-24T14:40:23Z")

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I’m the king of the world!

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