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Favorite Lines from Books and Movies
moremojo:
Dr. Frank-N-Furter (played marvellously by Tim Curry) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975): "It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache."
moremojo:
Mrs. Gert Hammond (played superbly by Marion Eaton) in Thundercrack! (1975): "The thing he loved most in life was crushed by the weight of his own testicles."
delalluvia:
From The Tokaido Road by Lucia St. Clair Robson:
"A line of women balanced wood tubs on their heads as they walked along the shoreline. They wore their sashes brashly tied in front. The well-side gossip was that men who bought their flatfish, mollusks, and seaweed could also rent their clams."
From the brilliant brilliant Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, chapter "Fecundity":
"...Edwin Way Teale reports that a lone aphid, without a partner, breeding 'unmolested' for one year, would produce so many living aphids that, although they are only a tenth of an inch long, together they would extend into space 25,000 light years. Even the average goldfish lays 5000 eggs, which she will eat as fast as she lays if permitted. The sales manager at Ozark Fisheries which raises commercial goldfish for the likes of me said, 'We produce, measure and sell our product by the ton.'...[life] multiplied mindlessly into tons and lightyears is more than extravagance, it is holocaust, parody, glut....a glob of tar [found in the middle of the Atlantic] was overgrown with gooseneck barnacles...how many...larva must be out there in the middle of the vast oceans for every one that finds a glob of tar to fasten to? If I gathered a cup of ocean water would I be holding scores of dead and dying barnacle larva? Should I throw them a chip? What kind of world is this, anyway? Why not make fewer barnacle larva and give them a decent chance? Are we dealing in life, or in death?"
injest:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on January 12, 2007, 09:08:52 pm ---From The Tokaido Road by Lucia St. Clair Robson:
"A line of women balanced wood tubs on their heads as they walked along the shoreline. They wore their sashes brashly tied in front. The well-side gossip was that men who bought their flatfish, mollusks, and seaweed could also rent their clams."
From the brilliant brilliant Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, chapter "Fecundity":
"...Edwin Way Teale reports that a lone aphid, without a partner, breeding 'unmolested' for one year, would produce so many living aphids that, although they are only a tenth of an inch long, together they would extend into space 25,000 light years. Even the average goldfish lays 5000 eggs, which she will eat as fast as she lays if permitted. The sales manager at Ozark Fisheries which raises commercial goldfish for the likes of me said, 'We produce, measure and sell our product by the ton.'...[life] multiplied mindlessly into tons and lightyears is more than extravagance, it is holocaust, parody, glut....a glob of tar [found in the middle of the Atlantic] was overgrown with gooseneck barnacles...how many...larva must be out there in the middle of the vast oceans for every one that finds a glob of tar to fasten to? If I gathered a cup of ocean water would I be holding scores of dead and dying barnacle larva? Should I throw them a chip? What kind of world is this, anyway? Why not make fewer barnacle larva and give them a decent chance? Are we dealing in life, or in death?"
--- End quote ---
really nice, Delalluvia :)
delalluvia:
From The Princess Bride:
Vizzini: INCONCEIVABLE!
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
From Archangel by Sharon Shinn:
"I am not one man. I am the heir of hundreds of other men and women who shaped the world according to Jovah's plan. What you have made of Samaria is not what they intended."
"But the world changes."
"And it will change again."
From Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn:
'Thank you Jovah," she whispered,"You are very good."
"I exist to do your will," he said.
She smiled a little, "...the world is not at all as I had believed it."
"Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see with new eyes."
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