The Quotes Thread

[SiHart]

"I'm overwhelmed."

[Si Hunt]

Such superior diagnostic talents!

Si.

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

I was going to marry him. I hope to God he knew!

Annie Desmond in Titanic

[Rob McCow]

They also claim "there were no LGBT characters in any of the Star Wars movies". I don't know which wacky re-cut version of Star Wars they've been watching, but I saw the original when I was about six years old and even then I was struck by how outrageously camp C3PO is. He was a gilded John Inman in space. And what about Luke Skywalker? Apart from briefly kissing his own sister, he shows no interest in women whatsoever. The first film is a tender gay parable in which Luke falls in love with Alec Guinness and gradually "comes out" as a Jedi. The final scene oozes symbolism: having penetrated the Death Star's trench in his phallic spacecraft, he closes his eyes, submits to his true inner instinct and triumphantly blasts his X-Wing's seed into an anus-like aperture, causing an orgasmic eruption that changes his universe for ever. It's hard to see how they could make Star Wars any gayer, unless they gave the Millennium Falcon a handlebar moustache.

Charlie Brooker, being amusing.

[Stuart Wallis]

Maybe not the word some people might use...

[Rob McCow]

Well, I liked the line about the handlebar moustache on the Millenium Falcon anyway.

[SiHart]

Everything will be all right in the end. If things are not all right, then we haven't reached the end.

[Si Hunt]

But if you get killed by a falling tree, that's the end and things are not really alright.

Si.

[Rob McCow]

Ah, but if no-one hears the tree falling, did it really happen?

[SiHart]

It might be a very beautiful tree and a gorgeous death

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand;
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.

Shakespeare - Richard III Act II Scene 3

[SiHart]

"These Day-leks..." "Darr Leks!"

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that
this knight and I have seen! Ha, Sir John, said I well?

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.

Shakespeare - Henry IV Part II Act 3 Scene 2

[Rob McCow]

"As beautiful as you and as deadly as the plague. If only she were real, I'd marry her!"

Count Grendel, 1978.

[Andrew Curnow]

"Reggie behaves like he's the main character in a book. It's about time I had a chapter of my own."