Quote of the Day (2008-06-29)

Sir Humphrey: "How are things at the Campaign for the Freedom of Information, by the way?"
Sir Arnold: "Sorry, I cannot talk about that."

Source: Yes, Minister

Quote of the Day (2008-06-28)

Zathras: Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life... probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry.

Source: Babylon 5

Quote of the Day (2008-06-27)

Mr. Praline: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.

Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus

Quote of the Day (2008-06-26)

GALAHAD: They're doctors?!
ZOOT: Uh, they've had a basic medical training, yes.

Source: Holy Grail

Quote of the Day (2008-06-25)

Inspector Tiger: This house is surrounded. I'm afraid I must not ask anyone to leave the room. No, I must ask nobody ... no, I must ask everybody to... I must not ask anyone to leave the room. No one must be asked by me to leave the room. No, no one must ask the room to leave. I ... I ... ask the room shall by someone be left. Not. Ask nobody the room somebody leave shall I. Shall I leave the room? Everyone must leave the room... as it is... with them in it. Phew. Understand?
Colonel Picketing: You don't want anybody to leave the room.

Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus

Quote of the Day (2008-06-24)

Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!
Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.
Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!
Followers: He is! He is the Messiah!
Brian: Now, f*** off!
[silence]
Arthur: How shall we f*** off, O Lord?

Source: Life of Brian

Quote of the Day (2008-06-23)

Bart: The Constitution? I'm pretty sure the Patriot Act killed it to ensure our freedoms.

Source: The Simpsons

Quote of the Day (2008-06-22)

Nash: Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data.
Alicia: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance.

Source: A Beautiful Mind

Quote of the Day (2008-06-20)

Uncle Willie: [hung over] Awww... this is one of those days that the pages of history teach us are best spent lying in bed.

Source: The Philadelphia Story

Quote of the Day (2008-06-19)

"You know, it is so sad. All your knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons."

Source: Seinfeld

Quote of the Day (2008-06-18)

Carol: OK, we all have these terrible stories to get over, and you-...
Melvin Udall: It's not true. Some have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good.

Source: As Good As It Gets

Quote of the Day (2008-06-17)

Vizzini: I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains.
Westley: You're that smart?
Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Westley: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.

Source: The Princess Bride

New Song from Extreme

Extreme has posted their new song, Star, on their MySpace page. The chorus is a bit weak, but the rest is great.

Quote of the Day (2008-06-16)

I feel happy... I feel happy. [whop]

Source: Holy Grail

Quote of the Day (2008-06-15)

Larry Lipton: You promised you'd sit through a hockey game, and I promised I'd sit through the Wagner opera next week.
Carol Lipton: I know, I know...
Larry Lipton: I already bought the earplugs.

Source: Manhattan Murder Mystery

Quote of the Day (2008-06-14)

Must be a king. He hasn't got s*** all over him.

Source: Holy Grail

Quote of the Day (2008-06-13)

Sir Humphrey: "We must, in my view, always have the right to promote the best man for the job, regardless of sex."

Source: Yes, Minister

Quote of the Day (2008-06-12)

GALAHAD: Now look, I can handle this lot single-handed!
DINGO: Yes! Let him handle us single-handed!

Source: Holy Grail

Quote of the Day (2008-06-11)

[Marge is working at a real estate firm]
Lionel Hutz: I've been getting a lot of calls about you, Marge. People just love your no-pressure approach.
Marge: Well, you know what we say: the right house for the right person.
Lionel Hutz: I'm going to let you in on a little secret. The right house is the house that's for sale. And the right person is anyone.

Source: The Simpsons

Obama-McCain: The Early Results

Huffington Post has a good piece on the matchup between Obama and McCain. Short answer: Obama cleans McCain's clock. The reason is McCain is trapped between a rock and a hard place.

McCain spent his speech -- not laying out his own forthright agenda -- but explaining why he's not what Barack Obama says he is, a branch of George Bush. (A task made difficult with his 95% voting record in agreement.) As a result, Sen. McCain painted himself two choices, and he's sunk with both. He can continue to support George Bush, or be "about change." With the first, he's tied to a 28% president. With the second, he loses the G.O.P. base and lets Obama create the ground rules -- making the campaign be about change, the heart of Obama's candidacy.

His campaign so-follows Obama that the new McCain slogan (after messing up the first one) is a direct copy of Obama's. 'Change we can believe in.' If this was corporate product advertising, he'd be sued for copyright infringement. 'Leadership we can believe in.' How can you suggest yourself as an agent of change, when you can't even come up with your own slogan? Worse, McCain is defining himself in Obama's own terms.

I have to agree.

Quote of the Day (2008-06-10)

Sir Humphrey: "Politicians like to panic, they need activity. It's their substitute for achievement."

Source: Yes, Minister

Quote of the Day (2008-06-09)

C. K. Dexter Haven: [looking for the "hair of the dog"] Do you s'pose, sir, speaking of eye-openers...?
Uncle Willie: Oh, that's the first sane remark I've heard today. C'malong, Dexter, I know a formula that's said to pop the pennies off the eyelids of dead Irishmen.

Source: The Philadelphia Story

Quote of the Day (2008-06-08)

Sam Baldwin: Well I'm not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie!
Greg: She's, as you just saw, very emotional.
Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of "the Dirty Dozen."
Greg: Who didn't?
Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin
[Begins to cry]
Sam Baldwin: were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop!
Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez...
Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez!
Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Greg: Stop.
Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...
Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.

Source: Sleepless in Seattle

Quote of the Day (2008-06-07)

Sir Humphrey: "Minister, I have something to say to you which you may not like to hear."
Jim Hacker: "Why should today be any different?"
Sir Humphrey: "Minister, the traditional allocation of executive responsibilities has always been so determined as to liberate the ministerial incumbent from the administrative minutiae by devolving the managerial functions to those whose experience and qualifications have better formed them for the performance of such humble offices, thereby releasing their political overlords for the more onerous duties and profound deliberations which are the inevitable concomitant of their exalted position."
Jim Hacker: "I wonder what made you think I didn't want to hear that?"

Source: Yes, Minister

Quote of the Day (2008-06-06)

I'm saying, that the right man for you might be out there right now, and if you don't grab him someone else will and you'll have spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband

Source: When Harry Met Sally

Quote of the Day (2008-06-04)

Peter Joshua: Is there a Mr. Lampert?
Reggie Lampert: Yes.
Peter Joshua: Good for you.
Reggie Lampert: No it isn't, I'm getting a divorce.
Peter Joshua: Please! Not on my account.

Source: Charade

Quote of the Day (2008-06-03)

Margaret Lord: Are you one of the musicians?
Macaulay Connor: No!
Margaret Lord: Oh of course, you're Junius's friend. Only you're not. Do you have any violin strings?
Macaulay Connor: [digs in his pocket] I have an aspirin. Will that work?
Margaret Lord: I don't think so! It's for a violin. Oh well, no matter!

Source: The Philadelphia Story

Quote of the Day (2008-06-02)

Niles: I'm not without resources. My Tae-Kwan-Do instructor tells me I'm two moves away from being quite threatening.

Source: Frasier

Quote of the Day (2008-06-01)

Buttercup: We'll never survive.
Westley: Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.

Source: The Princess Bride