"if life is going to exist in a universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."
- HHGTG
guy: we're having verbal intercourse right now.
dave atell: oh, we are?
guy: yes.
dave: are you on top?
maura: you're quite the jokester.
chris: yes i am.
maura: the king of follery. a regular tom foolery.
chris: so? you're the earl..of sandwhich!
maura: and you're the duke..of hazard.
"the earl of sanwhich. earl sandwhich was his name. a brilliant man,
who would go on to call his contraption 'the sandwhich.'"
- chris
the knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- HHGTG
whayaknow? we're wah-heeni-wanna-nini! [female newcomers]
- one of elvis's girls
budda budda buddda!
- siren
"i said yummy..yummy! paul walker: i had to pay six bucks to see him. he should be priceless!"
- liz t.
sic trans et gloria [glory fades]
- max fisher [jason schwartzman], of rushmore
"i will go in, and i will face the peril."
"no, it's too perilous."
"...can't i have just a little peril?"
- sir lancelot? of mounty python and the holy grail
squidward: how many of you here have played a musical instrument, before?
plankton: do instruments of torture count?
- sponge bob square pants
"which do you prefer: this all-toasted sub, from quiznos, or this untoasted sub, with lots of 'lettuce'?"
- quiznos commercial
maurinsky: in cyberspace, no one can hear you scream.
TheLizardChick: yes, but you can. ARRGGGHH!
"o-edipus."
- jamie
"you'll be walking the streets late at night one day, and someone'll mug you, and you'll just be laughing, saying, 'stop, haha stop it, please haha..!'"
- chris
"can i woo you?"
- phuong
"icebox!"
"but how can i have s'more if i haven't had any?"..."you're killin' me, smalls!"
- john h., quoting the sandlot & little giants
"you're killing independent george! a george, divided against itself, cannot stand!"
- george castanza [jason alexander], of seinfield
"i will always be with you...looking down, from above...oh yeah"
- macho man randy savage
"it doesn't matter what the people think, man, it's what you think."
- general sherman [john wayne], of how the west was won
"it's better to be thought stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt of it."
- anonymous
"give me a sane man, and i'll cure him."
- carl jung
"life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."
- anonymous
"the road to success is always under construction."
- richard palmer
mr. mckinley: who was president when theodore rosevelt was vise president?
zach: mckinley!!
mr. mckinley: correct!
"you call that a soccer riot? come on, boys, let's take 'em to school!"
- willie the janitor, of the simpsons
zukovsky: my leg aches every day; twice as much when it is cold out.
do you know how long winters last, here? tell him, dmitri.
dmitri: it depends -
zukovsky: silence!
"it's something known as the process of klenefication.
you'll hate it, only to find one day that you cannot go without it."
- grif
"you know you're a fat little kid when you dream about food and wake up, drooling."
- venessa
howie: i'd like to dip you in cheez wiz and spread you all over a ritz cracker, if i'm not being too subtle.
charlene: boy, you some kinda freaky!
howie: oh, you have no idea. you got me straight trippin, boo.
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peter: i got a message for you. howie says, 'the cool points are out the window and you got him all twisted up in the game.'
charlene: that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.
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