Alfred: New rules? Bruce: We're criminals, Alfred. We've always been criminals. Nothings changed. Alfred: Everything has changed. Men fall from the sky. Gods hurl thunderbolts. That's how it starts... The fever, the rage... The feeling of powerlessness... That turns good men cruel.
You know what Lenin said about Beethoven's Appassionata, 'If I keep listening to it, I won't finish the revolution.' Can anyone who has heard this music, I mean truly heard it, really be a bad person?
"Chance favors the prepared mind", from a Steven Segal movie is one of my favorites, because it puzzled me for decades as to what it might imply. "Chance favors only the mind prepared to be open to chance" is a better interpretation, along the lines of Sun Tzu and the Art of War.
Clark Kent: Mr. Wayne! Mr. Wayne! Clark Kent, Daily Planet. Bruce Wayne: Oh, my foundation has already issued a statement in support of … books. Clark Kent: Sir? Bruce Wayne: [gazing at Diana Prince] Wow! Pretty girl – bad habit. Don't quote me, alright? Clark Kent: What's your position on the bat vigilante in Gotham? Bruce Wayne: "Daily Planet" … Wait, do I own this one? Or was that the other guy? Clark Kent: Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city; good people living in fear. Bruce Wayne: Don't believe everything you hear, son. Clark Kent: I've seen it, Mr. Wayne. He thinks he's above the law. Bruce Wayne: The Daily Planet criticizing those who think they're above the law is a little hypocritical, wouldn't you say? Considering every time your hero saves a cat out of a tree, you write a puff-piece editorial about an alien who – if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down. There wouldn't be a damn thing we can do to stop it. Clark Kent: Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne. Bruce Wayne: Maybe it's that Gotham City in me – or maybe we just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns. Lex Luthor: Boys! Mmm, Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent. Ah, I love it! I love bringing people together! How are we? [shakes Bruce's hand] Hi, hello. Bruce Wayne: Lex. Lex Luthor: [shakes Clark's hand] Lex. It is a pleasure... Ow! Wow! That is a good grip! You should not pick a fight with this person!
Ellie Arroway: Is it possible that it didn't happen? Yes. As a scientist, I must concede that, I must volunteer that. Michael Kitz: Wait a minute, let me get this straight. You admit that you have absolutely no physical evidence to back up your story. Ellie Arroway: Yes. Michael Kitz: You admit that you very well may have hallucinated this whole thing. Ellie Arroway: Yes. Michael Kitz: You admit that if you were in our position, you would respond with exactly the same degree of incredulity and skepticism! Ellie Arroway: Yes! Michael Kitz: [standing, angrily] Then why don't you simply withdraw your testimony, and concede that this "journey to the center of the galaxy," in fact, never took place! Ellie Arroway: Because I can't. I... had an experience... I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision... of the universe, that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater then ourselves, that we are *not*, that none of us are alone! I wish... I... could share that... I wish, that everyone, if only for one... moment, could feel... that awe, and humility, and hope. But... That continues to be my wish. Contact
Thirteeth Warrior quote Buliwyf: Luck often enough, will save a man, if his courage hold. Often seen in competitive sport.
Giosué Orefice: [slowly reading signage on confectionery shopfront] "No Jews or dogs allowed". [turning to Guido] Giosué Orefice: Why aren't Jews or dogs allowed to go in? Guido: They just don't want Jews or dogs to go in. Everybody does what they want to, Joshua. [pointing at store ahead] Guido: There's a hardware store there. They don't let Spanish people or horses into his store. [pointing at another store] Guido: Further ahead, there's a drugstore. Yesterday, I was with a Chinese friend who had a kangaroo. I said, "May we?" "No, we don't want any Chinese or kangaroos here." They don't like them. What can I tell you? Giosué Orefice: We let everybody into our bookshop. Guido: No. From now on, we'll write it too. Is there anybody you don't like? Giosué Orefice: Spiders. What about you? Guido: I don't like Visigoths. Starting tomorrow we'll write: "No spiders and Visigoths allowed." I'm sick and tired of these Visigoths.
Most recently was "meet the blacks" Mike Tyson plays a character breaking in to Mike Epps house. As they are fighting Mike Epps says "you got an ear stuck in your teeth"