Quotes Meme

[newnumber6]

Pick 10 of your favorite movie, book and other quotes and post them in your journal
As people guess them, cross them off and credit who guessed them.
Tag 5 people to do the meme. (I'm not tagging, do it if you want)

And if you know lots, don't guess all of them until after others have had a go.


1. "Go then, there are other worlds than these." woot - Jake, The Dark Tower series, by Stephen King
2. "I saw my parents kill a girl, and then I found a dinosaur in my
basement. I haven't slept in four days." lyssachan - Gert Yorkes, Runaways comic Open Bonus Question: Which issue?
3. I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only
way to be sure." angelophile with the full guess, tadiera with a partial - Ripley, Aliens
4. "She understands. She doesn't comprehend." lyssachan - River Tam, Firefly, "Objects in Space"
5. "Fear is the mind-killer." tadiera - Dune Open Bonus Question: What is the name of the speech it's from, and what character first uses it? (It's from The Litany Against Fear, guessed by tadiera).
6. "Key phrases: Hexapodia as the key insight"
7. "Being blowed up isn't walking around and drinking with your buddies dead. It's little bits being swept up by a janitor dead, and I don't think you're ready for that." angelophile - Xander, from Buffy The Vampire Slayer (tv series) Open Bonus Question: What episode? The Zeppo (angelophile)
8. "Remember, the enemy's gate is down." anomilygrace - Ender Wiggin (among other characters), Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
9. "Questions are a burden to others, answers a prison for oneself." angelophile - Sign in The Prisoner tv series
10. "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." anomilygrace - Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, Open Bonus Question: Which character?

Yeah, I know, most of mine are really easy (and I've probably used many on previous quote-guessing memes). Oh well. I tried to choose some of the less obvious phrases from my obvious sources.

Hints: More than half are from print, but some of the print ones are also movies.

Comments

[woot.livejournal.com]

1. Jake from the Dark Tower books

I have no clue what the rest are. None whatsoever - and you said this was easy?

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, most of the others on my friends list are a lot more into geeky stuff than you, so it's probably a lot easier for them. ;)

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Oh, and correct!

[lyssachan.livejournal.com]

2. Gert Yorkes, "Runaways"
4. River Tam, "Objects in Space" (Firefly episode)

And that's all I got.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Both correct!

Bonus question: What issue number of Runaways? ;)

[lyssachan.livejournal.com]

Bah, I want to say 7 or 8... One of the ones with the vampire, 'cause I the payoff for this reference came in issue (I think) 8 when Gert had FINALLY drifted off only to be woken up by Niko. But I could be wrong. I can't narrow it down further without digging up my issues. *hangs head in fandom shame*

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

8. is from Ender's Game
and 10 is from Orwell, 1984

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

Oops, Ender says the first, and I think the main character's lover says #10.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Both sources of the quotes are correct, although the wrong character in #10. Unless I'm completely misremembering, but I don't think so.

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

I wasn't too sure of it myself so I'm certain you're right. It's been a long time since I read 1984 as Orwell's essays and non-fictions are SO MUCH better. ;)

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

5. Dune
3. Alien (or is that Aliens?)

... I forget which characters... >.>

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Correct on 5, with #3 is was Alien_s_. Call it a partial. Open bonus questions to others are edited in. :)

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

XD

I knew it was one of the two, but I'm always interposing the movies. Damn.

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

The litany against fear, btw.

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

3. Aliens. Ripley.

7. Xander in Buffy.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Both correct

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

And the episode was The Zeppo.

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

Oh, and 9 - The Prisoner. I can't remember it being quoted, but it was on a sign.