In reply to ginny (msg # 188):

PLEASE tell me that was after seeing a film that quoted such...

I wish, GamerHandle :P  lol

"This sounds like a spin on the old 'good-news, bad-news' ploy"

"In that format, the good news is 'I found the bad news', and the bad news is 'I found worse news'."

Ennesby and Bristlecone, from Schlock Mercenary.

"I can't imagine an emergency in which exiting to hard vacuum would help."

"You either suffer from an insufficient imagination, or insufficient emergencies."

Bristlecone and Elf, still from Schlock Mercenary.

That comic really is a quotes goldmine.

“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.”

David Levithan, Every Day

“You all know the mission, and what is at stake.
I have come to trust each of you with my life -- but I have also heard murmurs of discontent. I share your concerns.
We are trained for espionage; we would be legends, but the records are sealed. Glory in battle is not our way.
Think of our heroes; the Silent Step, who defeated a nation with a single shot. Or the Ever Alert, who kept armies at bay with hidden facts.
These giants do not seem to give us solace here, but they are not all that we are.
Before the network, there was the fleet. Before diplomacy, there were soldiers!
Our influence stopped the rachni, but before that we held the line!
Our influence stopped the krogan, but before that, we held the line!
Our influence will stop Saren; in the battle today, we will hold the line!”
-Captain Kirrahe, Mass Effect

Bad-apple number 1

Anyone slower than me is Rear Guard
               -Axly

Think of them as Future Sausages, because they're gonna Die Like Pigs!
               -Axly

When you pull the pin from Mister Grenade, he is no longer your friend.
               - Axly

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Kill people. Fruit bitches. Save galaxy.
-Commander Brofist Shepard

A man, by working 24 hours a day, could multiply himself 3 times. To multiply himself more than 3 time the only recourse is to train others to take over some of his work.

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point you finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

  -Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

"Raspberry. Only one man would DARE give me raspberry..... LONE-STAR!"
Dark Helmet

Learn from the mistakes of others. You don't have the time to make them all yourself.

  -Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

dragonrider, you are a cruel person, bringing that evil here, brilliant though he may have been ;p



The Rickover Center? Basically, you can think of it as a BFG: Big Fruiting Ginger. It's three stories of red brick, and it sucks out the soul of every student to pass through its doors.

several months later

You know, I think I've changed my mind.  The Rickover is more like a gaping maw, because prototype is the belly of the beast. You're lured into a false sense of security because you no longer see the gnashing fangs. Then you realise you never see the light of day, which is bad enough on its own. Only once you get to crew work do you realise you're succumbing to a slower and more painful death as the acid burns you away.

-Me, explaining nuke school to my fiancée

Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears! It ceases to exist without me. No, you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!

-Walter White (Making my way through Breaking Bad now)

Allow me to impress upon you the severe mistake you have made, for years my conduct has been largely benign and yet without provocation you have severed our détente and forced me to unleash upon you the vengeful flame of a thousand suns. You shall curse your mothers for the day of your birth. So go now... go and begin your life of fear, knowing, that when you least expect it, the looming sword of Damocles will crush down upon you, cleaving you in twain and as you gaze upon the smoking wreckage that was once your life, you will regret the day you crossed the wrong fish!

-Klaus Heisler, American Dad

“And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.”

-Bartimaeus

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."

-Mark Twain

In reply to jaberwok (msg # 204):

"'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud."
- Lady Gaga

"The Avatar state is not to be used as a booster rocket" - Tensin

Avatar, Legend of Korra season 2

"So many fishies left in the sea,
So many fishies just Londo and me"
Babylon 5 G'Kar

"...They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!"

-Tigger the Only, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too.
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"A Smith and Wesson beats four aces"

Canada Bill Jones

Act 3, Scene 3 William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
   by Ian Doescher

C-3PO: I prithee, lockest thou the door anon!
                 (they hide behind the door)
Storm Trooper #5: This door is lock'd. And as my father oft
                  Hath said, a locked door no mischief makes.
                  So sure am I that, thus, behind this door
                  Cannot be found the droids for which we search.
                  And thus may we move on with conscience clear.

"A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 wasted 30 years of his life"

-Muhammad Ali

"People who boast about their IQs are losers"

-Stephen Hawking

(Edit: Sorry, some of these are really good.  I have to add)

"Stop sending people to kill me.  We've already captured 5, one with a bomb and another with a rifle.  If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow.  And I won't have to send another."

Tito, dictator of Yugoslavia, to Stalin
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From The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin

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Erast Fandorin: If you live in a state, you should either cherish it or leave it.  Anything else is parasitism or mere lackeys gossip.

Varvara Suvarova: There is a third possibility.  An unjust state can be demolished and a new one built in it's place.

Erast Fandorin: Unfortunately, a state is not a house. It is more like a tree. It is not built, it grows of its own accord following the laws of nature and it is a long business. It is not a stonemason that is needed but a gardener.

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Anwar Affendi: (having killed many people in the service of a greater cause) Do you know who I am? I am the midwife. I help the child to enter the world. And my arms are covered in blood and mucus.