h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

the fundamental particle of toast is the crouton.
the fundamental particle of children's art is the crayon.
the fundamental particle of good! evil fantasy villians is, of course, the sauron.

from a website called downMOO

"what are you drinking?"
or
"what'll you have?"
possibly not said by anyone famous, but it gives me a warm happy feeling everytime i hear it.
CF

Sorry, I don't remember the character names.

Barman: "You wouldn't kill me for $10,000!" (laughs and walks off)
Johnny Depp: (mouths) "Yes I would."

'Once Upon a Time in Mexico' (not a particularly good film but, as always, Johnny Depp was good in it)

"I feel we've reached a very special place, spiritually, ecumenically ... gramatically..."
Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp again, this time worth an Oscar nomination), 'Pirates of the Caribbean'

For the most consecutive, semantically independent, uses of the word 'Onions' I rather like Anthony Burgess:

'...he had breathed on Hogg-Enderby, bafflingly (for no banquet would serve, because of the known redolance of onions, onions) onions. "Onions", said Hogg...'

Can anyone do five Onions?

Being a Whovian at heart I find this quote from the series one of the most touching....

"There are worlds out there where the sky's burning. Where the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger. Somewhere there's injustice. And somewhere else the tea's getting cold. C'mon, Ace. We've got work to do."

Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor)

Psst new who in 2005 yay!

Two I picked up from H2 and have probably mentioned before.

Bruce Lee "If I say I'm good you call me big headed. If I said I'm not good, you'd know I'm lying"

Interviewer (to Beatles): Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?
John Lennon: Ringo isn't the best drummer in the Beatles!

"What's with today, today?" (Empire records)

and

"Good thing we're hot chicks with superpowers!" (Buffy)

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes

CF

By popular request, this thread is about to be moved somewhere...

Oh, and 'What are the chances of that happening?'

Jimster

Editorial Note: This conversation has been moved from 'Ask the h2g2 Community' to 'Random Quotes Guild--Come in, Have a drink, and leave a quote!'.

As requested in January 2003 (!), we've given in. Welcome to your new home, guys 'n' gals.

holy crap! I didn't really think all of my little club's members' badgering would actually work! sweeeet!

oh, and "The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who do not have it." ~George Bernard Shaw

Darth Z.

no comets are seen when beggars die, but the hevens themselves are a blaze for the death of princes
~shakespeare

"The only person you can get away with making a joke or a remark about these days is a WHITE / HETEROSEXUAL / MALE!" Billy Connolly

i'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest, honestly. its the honest ones you have watch out for, because you never know when they'll do something incredibly stupid.
~again johnny Depp

"I hate quotations. Tell me what YOU know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

that has actually just tickled my little sense of humour bone

"It is the age of the ostrich. We are excited by what we cannot know. We are proud to leave things to the invisible hand. We make the hand invisible simply by looking the other way. " Lawrence Lessig

Math

Liberace, to the audience after slipping into yet another outrageous outfit:

'I'm glad you like it. You paid for it'

Yeah! The thread moved!

"Time is the longest distance between two places"


From the final monologue of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The whole monologue is my favorite actually.

I came across this one the other day and quite liked it:


"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."

-Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician,
Nobel laureate (1875-1965)