It's too late at night for this.
Because for all my pretensions of actually having interesting things in my blog, I am actually very selfish and obsessed with memes! ::glares at self::
A. Pick 17 of your favorite movies
B. Then pick one of your favorite quotes from each movie.
C. Post the quotes in your journal.
D. Have those on your friends list guess what the movie is. (Bonus points if they guess the character(s) who said it.)
E. Either strike out the quote once it has been correctly identified, or place the guesser's user name directly after the quote.
1. "Jesus Christ, you disintegrated Einstein!"
2. "Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a little plastic rocket..." hoppytoad79, Captain Mal from Serenity.
3. "When a country has five percent of the world's population but spends fifty percent of the world's military spending, that country's persuasive power is on the decline."
4. "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." morgulq, The Matrix.
5. "Now which doll shall we give Daisy's little friend Emily? The one that looks like a transvestite or the one that looks like a dominatrix?" ekwy, Love Actually.
6. "Canadians are always dreaming up a lotta ways to ruin our lives. The metric system, for the love of God! Celsius! Neil Young!" spotts1701, Canadian Bacon
7. "I think you ought to know that I'm feeling very depressed...." ekwy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8. "Look, I understand you have experienced a loss, but this relationship just can't work. I mean, you're a cat, I'm black, and I'm not going to be hurt again."
9. "And I'll get to sleep at night: the deep slumber of a father whose daughters aren't out being impregnated." attack_bunny, 10 Things I Hate About You
10. "You're having a panic attack. Do you know what that means?"
"It sounds pretty self-explanatory."
11. "Well, in that case, let's keep it. I always wanted a pet that could kill me." elfie_samurai, Monsters, Inc.
12. "You fight almost as well as a man."
"Funny, I was going to say the same thing about you." ekwy, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
13. "Timeline? This is no time to talk about time. We don't have the time!" spotts1701, Star Trek: First Contact
14. "I hope you appreciate the sacrifice I'm making."
"You have no choice."
"I know. That's why I'm making it." ramblin_rosie, The Sound of Music
15. "Asshole!"
"Who? Because in this crowd you're going to have to be a bit more specific."
16. "I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do - by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include." ekwy, Chocolat
17. "Any more at home like you?"
"Uh, not really, no."
Bonus Round (because, like runonmoonlight, I couldn't decide!)
a) "Who needs affection when I have blind hatred?" ekwy, 10 Things I Hate About You
b) "I thought you were dead."
"Technically I was never alive, but I appreciate your concern." veronica_bud, I, Robot
c) "Candlelight, privacy, romantic music. Can't think of a more perfect setting for hand-to-hand combat." grey_ships, Phoebus from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
d) "You hear that? That is the sound of inevitability." elfie_samurai, The Matrix
e) "Invite him out for a drink and then after about twenty minutes casually drop into the conversation the fact that you'd like to marry him and have lots of sex and babies." ekwy, Love Actually
f) "It is my professional opinion that now it's the time to panic!"
g) "Is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you intend on leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?" ramblin_rosie, The Sound of Music
h) "No, now that she's a killer woman, we ought to be bringing her tea and dumplings." morgulq, Serenity
i) "Last night Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take [name] to the dance, he'd melt my brain!" kippurbird, George McFly from Back to the Future
j) "All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world."
"No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that." ramblin_rosie, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
k)"No, I would never--um, bust a cap in your ass."
l) "You sold control of American missiles to a foreign country?"
"If you can call Canada foreign."
"Or a country." spotts1701, Canadian Bacon
m) "Your husband will be made to repent for this."
"Tell him to repent on someone else's head." ekwy, Chocolat
n) "Do you always talk this much?"
"Not always--but often." spotts1701, Star Trek: First Contact
o) "Hey, that guy is an ass-wipe!"
"Natalie!"
"Sorry, I meant 'ass-guy'."
ETA: nenya_kanadka, who shares my video shelves--keep quiet, you. :D
A. Pick 17 of your favorite movies
B. Then pick one of your favorite quotes from each movie.
C. Post the quotes in your journal.
D. Have those on your friends list guess what the movie is. (Bonus points if they guess the character(s) who said it.)
E. Either strike out the quote once it has been correctly identified, or place the guesser's user name directly after the quote.
1. "Jesus Christ, you disintegrated Einstein!"
2. "Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a little plastic rocket..." hoppytoad79, Captain Mal from Serenity.
3. "When a country has five percent of the world's population but spends fifty percent of the world's military spending, that country's persuasive power is on the decline."
4. "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." morgulq, The Matrix.
5. "Now which doll shall we give Daisy's little friend Emily? The one that looks like a transvestite or the one that looks like a dominatrix?" ekwy, Love Actually.
6. "Canadians are always dreaming up a lotta ways to ruin our lives. The metric system, for the love of God! Celsius! Neil Young!" spotts1701, Canadian Bacon
7. "I think you ought to know that I'm feeling very depressed...." ekwy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8. "Look, I understand you have experienced a loss, but this relationship just can't work. I mean, you're a cat, I'm black, and I'm not going to be hurt again."
9. "And I'll get to sleep at night: the deep slumber of a father whose daughters aren't out being impregnated." attack_bunny, 10 Things I Hate About You
10. "You're having a panic attack. Do you know what that means?"
"It sounds pretty self-explanatory."
11. "Well, in that case, let's keep it. I always wanted a pet that could kill me." elfie_samurai, Monsters, Inc.
12. "You fight almost as well as a man."
"Funny, I was going to say the same thing about you." ekwy, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
13. "Timeline? This is no time to talk about time. We don't have the time!" spotts1701, Star Trek: First Contact
14. "I hope you appreciate the sacrifice I'm making."
"You have no choice."
"I know. That's why I'm making it." ramblin_rosie, The Sound of Music
15. "Asshole!"
"Who? Because in this crowd you're going to have to be a bit more specific."
16. "I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do - by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include." ekwy, Chocolat
17. "Any more at home like you?"
"Uh, not really, no."
Bonus Round (because, like runonmoonlight, I couldn't decide!)
a) "Who needs affection when I have blind hatred?" ekwy, 10 Things I Hate About You
b) "I thought you were dead."
"Technically I was never alive, but I appreciate your concern." veronica_bud, I, Robot
c) "Candlelight, privacy, romantic music. Can't think of a more perfect setting for hand-to-hand combat." grey_ships, Phoebus from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
d) "You hear that? That is the sound of inevitability." elfie_samurai, The Matrix
e) "Invite him out for a drink and then after about twenty minutes casually drop into the conversation the fact that you'd like to marry him and have lots of sex and babies." ekwy, Love Actually
f) "It is my professional opinion that now it's the time to panic!"
g) "Is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you intend on leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?" ramblin_rosie, The Sound of Music
h) "No, now that she's a killer woman, we ought to be bringing her tea and dumplings." morgulq, Serenity
i) "Last night Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take [name] to the dance, he'd melt my brain!" kippurbird, George McFly from Back to the Future
j) "All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world."
"No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that." ramblin_rosie, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
k)"No, I would never--um, bust a cap in your ass."
l) "You sold control of American missiles to a foreign country?"
"If you can call Canada foreign."
"Or a country." spotts1701, Canadian Bacon
m) "Your husband will be made to repent for this."
"Tell him to repent on someone else's head." ekwy, Chocolat
n) "Do you always talk this much?"
"Not always--but often." spotts1701, Star Trek: First Contact
o) "Hey, that guy is an ass-wipe!"
"Natalie!"
"Sorry, I meant 'ass-guy'."
ETA: nenya_kanadka, who shares my video shelves--keep quiet, you. :D