Some of my favorite quotes
gakked from gryphonrhi
A Dozen References You Expect Your Nearest and Dearest To Get --
1. This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend someone! -- John Adams in "1776"
2. Pick out something black and sexy and prepare to do some funky poaching. -- Mulder to the Lone Gunmen in "X-Files"
3. An American without ice in his drink is unthinkable, if not unconstitutional! -- Isobel in "Hopscotch"
4. We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918. -- Capt. Renault in "Casablanca"
5. Insanity runs in my family ... It practically gallops. -- Mortimer Brewster in "Arsenic and Old Lace"
6. What family doesn't have its ups and downs? -- Eleanor of Acquitaine in "Lion in Winter" (one of the classic understatements delivered perfectly by Katherine Hepburn)
7. We few, we happy few ... we band of buggered. -- Giles and Spike in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
8. I've been out of the abbey two days. I've beaten a lawman senseless. I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong. -- Shepherd Book in "Firefly"
9. I am proud of what I am ... I am a librarian! -- Evie in "The Mummy"
10. He is the only man I know who will probably be presented the Navy Cross at his court-martial. -- Captain Sherman in "Operation Petticoat"
11. One must be careful of what one writes and to whom one gives it. -- Cardinal Richlieu in "Four Musketeers" (definitely, the best version of this classic role)
12. This can't be good. -- Jack (frequently) in "Eureka"
ETA the titles and who said it
A Dozen References You Expect Your Nearest and Dearest To Get --
1. This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend someone! -- John Adams in "1776"
2. Pick out something black and sexy and prepare to do some funky poaching. -- Mulder to the Lone Gunmen in "X-Files"
3. An American without ice in his drink is unthinkable, if not unconstitutional! -- Isobel in "Hopscotch"
4. We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918. -- Capt. Renault in "Casablanca"
5. Insanity runs in my family ... It practically gallops. -- Mortimer Brewster in "Arsenic and Old Lace"
6. What family doesn't have its ups and downs? -- Eleanor of Acquitaine in "Lion in Winter" (one of the classic understatements delivered perfectly by Katherine Hepburn)
7. We few, we happy few ... we band of buggered. -- Giles and Spike in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
8. I've been out of the abbey two days. I've beaten a lawman senseless. I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong. -- Shepherd Book in "Firefly"
9. I am proud of what I am ... I am a librarian! -- Evie in "The Mummy"
10. He is the only man I know who will probably be presented the Navy Cross at his court-martial. -- Captain Sherman in "Operation Petticoat"
11. One must be careful of what one writes and to whom one gives it. -- Cardinal Richlieu in "Four Musketeers" (definitely, the best version of this classic role)
12. This can't be good. -- Jack (frequently) in "Eureka"
ETA the titles and who said it