Quotes Meme
Mar. 14th, 2006 12:13 pmPick 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.
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.
2.
basement. I haven't slept in four days."
3.
way to be sure."
4.
5.
6. "Key phrases: Hexapodia as the key insight"
7.
8.
9.
10.
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.