Mine are, in no particular order,
“Your strength, my brains, and his steel? against 60 men? and you think a little head jiggle is supposed to make me happy?? hmmm???”
“There’s a special level of hell reserved for child molesters and people who talk during movies”
“Chemistry is just like witchcraft, only less newt”
just about anything Karen or Jack (Will & Grace) says
“Some people blur the line between fantasy and reality. I jump rope with it.”
If that’s Book from from Firefly, it’s ‘at the theatre’, not ‘during movies’.
In my opinion, the funniest line ever uttered on television is:
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
thwartme
I thought his name was Shepherd (or is that like calling a preist “Father” all the time?)
and Thanks (I’ve only seen it once - SciFi was running a marathon Tuesday - I’d never seen Firefly before and I’m planning on seeing Serenity this weekend, so I watched a bunch of episodes while I was sick in bed)
Yes, it’s just like that. Shepard is his title, and Book his is name. So he is Shepard Book. But, like with priests and Father, many will just call him Shepard.
Took a bit of pruning, but here are five from my sig file:
"And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. "
“Son,” my daddy says to me, “I am sorry I am not able to bankroll you to a large start, but not having the necessary lettuce to get you rolling, instead I’m going to stake you to some very valuable advice. One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you’re going to wind up with an ear full of cider.”
“Anyone can say he’s a writer. But when someone else says you’re a writer, then you’re a writer.”
“Do you know a man by the name of LaFong? Carl LaFong? Capital L, small a, Capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong. Carl LaFong.”
“It’s no trick to make a lot of money if all you want to do is make a lot of money.”
My favorites, off the top of my head, for various reasons.
“When I graduated from the Academy, my father gave me one piece of advice. He said always… no, he said never… well, actually he gave me two pieces of advice but I’ve forgotten the other one but the important one is, never chase a man over a cliff.” --Constable Benton Frasier, Due South
“Bugs Bunny screws his mother!” --Kilrathi pilot, Wing Commander: End Run by William Forstchen
“Oops.” --Shannon Forraker, Ashes of Victory by David Weber
“I’d like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. [waves] Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?” --Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
“In times of war we must all make peace with our maker.”
“Well, I don’t think our maker wants to hear from me right now. Because he know I’m going to go out in this plane and I’m going to remove one of His creations from His universe. And when I get back, I’m going to drink a bottle of scotch as if it was Chiggy Von Richtofen’s blood and celebrate his death.”
“Amen.” --The Chaplain and Colonel T.C. McQueen, Space: Above and Beyond
“No, I don’t know anybody named Carl LaFong. Capital L, small a, Capital F, small o, small n, small g. And if I did know anybody named Carl LaFong, I wouldn’t admit to it.”
“Father, this is Ogg Oggelby. Ogg, this is my father.”
“Ogg Oggelby, eh? It sounds like a bubble in the bathtub.”
“Do you know any games?”
“No. The only game I’ve every played is bean bag.”
“Oh, yes. Bean bag. It can be very exciting. I was at the world championships in Paris…several people were killed.”
“I’m going to go outside and milk the elk.”