Just for fun
Our Girl in Chicago at About Last Night passes along an amusing little exercise. What are the first five movie quotes that pop into your head? You can't use the same movie twice.
Here are mine:
"Where are the red ants?" -- Barcelona
"That's you all over, Tom -- a lie and no heart." -- Miller's Crossing
"Your mission is to go upriver and terminate the Colonel's command. Terminate with extreme prejudice." -- Apocalypse Now
"Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." -- Star Wars
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." -- All About Eve
I've decided to add the first five lines of poetry that pop into my head. I ruled out dramatic verse, so if you want to play, you can use Shakespeare's sonnets, but not his plays.
"For Fergus rules the brazen cars/ And rules the shadows of the wood/ And the white breast of the dim sea/ And all dishevelled wandering stars." -- Who Goes With Fergus? (Yeats)
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree." -- Kubla Khan (Coleridge)
"And now, good morrow to our waking souls/ Which watch not one another out of fear" -- The Good Morrow (Donne)
"Because the Holy Ghost over the bent/ World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings." -- God's Grandeur (Hopkins)
"The world was all before them, where to choose/ Their place of rest and Providence their guide. / They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, / Through Eden took their solitary way." -- Paradise Lost
Here are mine:
"Where are the red ants?" -- Barcelona
"That's you all over, Tom -- a lie and no heart." -- Miller's Crossing
"Your mission is to go upriver and terminate the Colonel's command. Terminate with extreme prejudice." -- Apocalypse Now
"Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." -- Star Wars
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." -- All About Eve
I've decided to add the first five lines of poetry that pop into my head. I ruled out dramatic verse, so if you want to play, you can use Shakespeare's sonnets, but not his plays.
"For Fergus rules the brazen cars/ And rules the shadows of the wood/ And the white breast of the dim sea/ And all dishevelled wandering stars." -- Who Goes With Fergus? (Yeats)
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree." -- Kubla Khan (Coleridge)
"And now, good morrow to our waking souls/ Which watch not one another out of fear" -- The Good Morrow (Donne)
"Because the Holy Ghost over the bent/ World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings." -- God's Grandeur (Hopkins)
"The world was all before them, where to choose/ Their place of rest and Providence their guide. / They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, / Through Eden took their solitary way." -- Paradise Lost
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1. "They can take away our lives, but they can't. . take away. . our FREEDOM". ---Braveheart.
2. "You want me to hold the chicken?. . Yeah. . Hold it between your knees".
-----Five Easy Pieces
3. "I arrived in New York, fresh off a destroyer, with only a dance belt and a tube of chapstick to call my own."
-----Waiting for Guffman
4. "You're Abe Froman? The sausage king of Chicago?"
---Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. "I'm drinking some wine, eating some cheese, and catching some rays, you know..."
-----Kelly's Heros
Mind you, I played the game fairly and these may not be particular favorites but they were the first ones to come to mind.
Movies
"We're going to need a bigger boat"
-- Chief Brody in Jaws
"Pick me out a winner, Bobby"
-- Roy Hobbs in The Natural
"It was a pleasure meeting you. Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature."
--Hobson in Arthur
"I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!"
--Alan Swann in My Favorite Year
"Seein as how this is a 44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and could blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question, 'do I feel lucky?' Well...do ya? Punk?!"
--Dirty Harry
Poems:
"The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
-- Yeats (Second Coming)
"I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
-- Eliot (Proofrock)
"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men gang aft agley."
-- Burns (To a Mouse)
"A man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?"
-- Browning (Andrea del Sarto)
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep."
-- Frost (Stopping by Woods)
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