Quotes by our favorite fictional charcters

[OSCSSW]

Words of wisdom by John Corey
If it smells like shit, looks like shit and feels like shit you don't have to taste it

[jemhouston]

"I don't believe in the no-win scenarios" and "I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space." James T. Kirk

[Wolfman]

“For a brick, he flew pretty good!” Sgt. Maj. AJ Johnson

[Poohbah]

"You need to know why things work on a starship." -- Admiral James T. Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[Johnnie Lyle]

"You need to know why things work on a starship." -- Admiral James T. Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

I’ve used his “I'm sorry. I'm going to have to ask you to grow up a little bit sooner than you expected” quite a bit the last few years. Spock’s “Best we can do in two hours” as well.

[MikeKozlowski]

"You need to know why things work on a starship." -- Admiral James T. Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

I’ve used his “I'm sorry. I'm going to have to ask you to grow up a little bit sooner than you expected” quite a bit the last few years. Spock’s “Best we can do in two hours” as well.

Also from TWOK:

LT Saavik: "You lied."

CAPT Spock: "I exaggerated."

Mike

[Craiglxviii]

"You need to know why things work on a starship." -- Admiral James T. Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

This one for me, every day for two years!

[OSCSSW]

I’ve used his “I'm sorry. I'm going to have to ask you to grow up a little bit sooner than you expected” quite a bit the last few years.

Teen age son Johnnie?

[Johnnie Lyle]

I’ve used his “I'm sorry. I'm going to have to ask you to grow up a little bit sooner than you expected” quite a bit the last few years.

Teen age son Johnnie?

Nope, no kids. Only a seven year old niece and a three year old nephew. He’s smart, he wants to stay little forever.

I use it with students and new to the field employees, especially when they’re being asked to do new, unexpected tasks. Especially at the start of the COVID pandemic, when we knew a lot less and were building the plane as we flew it a lot more.

[OSCSSW]

These are selected by Nelson DeMille and I agree with him; their great. How many times have I told you folks Nelson and I were at Hue back in '68 at the same time during Tet? Never actually met but I'm sure we heard each other's voices on the tactical Net; mine was rather high pitched for some reason.

Enjoy

“There are seven major theories. You want to hear about the underwater methane gas bubble theory?” I had this disturbing image of whales in an underwater locker room lighting farts. I said, “Maybe later.”

“To Parker’s right, near Koenig, was Captain Henry Wydrzynski, Deputy Chief of Detectives with the Port Authority police. I’d met this guy a few times when I was an NYPD detective, and he seemed like an okay guy, except for his name, which looked like the third line of an eye chart. I mean, somebody should buy this guy a vowel.”

“The Irish are beautiful bullshitters. I mean, you know they’re lying, they know you know they’re lying, but they do it with so much charm, conviction, and energy that everyone feels kind of good about it.” That fits my very Irish shipmate OSC USN (Ret.) to a T. What pisses me off is that it works so well on women!

[Beastro]

https://youtu.be/10XXtoCjk5c


After fighting and saving the village in Seven Samurai the surviving ronin having nothing left but to leave and wander off somewhere else:

So. Again we are defeated. The farmers have won. Not us.
Kambei Shimada

“It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden,' answered Éowyn. 'And those who have not swords can still die upon them.”

[OSCSSW]

https://youtu.be/10XXtoCjk5c


After fighting and saving the village in Seven Samurai the surviving ronin having nothing left but to leave and wander off somewhere else:

So. Again we are defeated. The farmers have won. Not us.
Kambei Shimada

“It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden,' answered Éowyn. 'And those who have not swords can still die upon them.”

I saw Seven Samurai while in Yokuska, in the original Japanese, along with a delightful young lady that was teaching me Japanese in the most efficient manner, at night in bed. Even after a few months of her excellent instruction I had to watch it about a half dozen times at the local movie houses (pre VCR Days) to get the full impact. The Nipponese speak very fast. It was hard for me to follow the more emotional scenes with my limited, but diligent study of the language.

IMO, FWIW, Toshirô Mifune as Kikuchiyo The Bandid Chief was my favorite character. Same with the great Eli Wallach the El Jeffe Pistolero in the original US remake with Yul Brenner, Steve Mc Queen and almost every other young bad ass, including Charles Bronson, in Hollywood at the time.

This was before I married Shanghai. Get it BEFORE, ISA BEFORE.

[1Big Rich]

In the novelization of Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt tells Luke

"I was killing your kind when being a Jedi meant something."

The book can be read online

https://archive.org/details/return-of-t ... n/mode/2up

See page 34 of the pdf for the quote.

Regards,

[jemhouston]

"I aim to misbehave," Malcolm Renyolds, "Firefly"

"Never tell me the odd," Hans Solo "Empire Strikes Back"

It's not a quote but

[Wolfman]

“Men, we led those dumb bugs out to the middle of nowhere to keep 'em from gettin' their filthy claws on Earth. But, we stumbled onto somethin' they're so hot for, that they're scramblin' over each other to get it. Well, I don't care if it's God's own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine, or a giant hula hoop, we're not gonna let 'em have it! What we will let 'em have is a belly full of lead, and a pool of their own blood to drown in! Am I right, Marines?” - Sgt. Maj. AJ Johnson, Halo: Combat Evolved, Legendary difficulty intro

[OSCSSW]

LCDR Virgil Cole to Court Martial board "Actually Sir, I think we’re gonna lose this one….But I do love the work."
"I've used up all my goodbyes"

CMDR Campanelli "I’ll keel haul your ass, and thats serious on an aircraft carrier."
"Your running with known sycopths now….Who am I Razor? (2) Your third generation Mafia Sir. (1) WRONG!!! You rodent….. I AM A WEAPON SYSTEM I WAS BUILT WITH THIS SHIP AND THERE WAS A COST OVER-RUN!! LEUTENANT RAZOR DISSSSSMISSED!
"Movie officer whats the movie tonight?.
Uh They shoot horses dont they. sir3. It’s jane Fonda sir.
Any skin in it?
No sir
Cancel it."

[Ionic]

“He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way.”

Jim Malone, Chicago PD

[Calder]

“He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way.”

Jim Malone, Chicago PD

Personally, my favorite quote from that movie is
"Isn't that just like a wop, he brings a knife to a gun fight."
Jim Malone, Chicago PD.

[Calder]

“He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way.”

Jim Malone, Chicago PD

Personally, my favorite quote from that movie is
"Isn't that just like a wop, he brings a knife to a gun fight."
Jim Malone, Chicago PD.

[OSCSSW]

Lonseome Dove

“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” – Gus McCrae

“I guess this’ll teach me to be careful about what I promise in the future.” – Woodrow Call

Conagher:
Conn Conagher Any man who kills when he could do otherwise is crazy. Just plumb crazy. Some men take to a side of killing, Johnny. Just make sure when the killing time comes, you're standing on the right side.”

“- Young Cowboy: You're a hard man, Conagher.
- Conn Conagher: It's a hard country, kid.”

Red River
Thomas Dunson: Get a shovel and my Bible. I'll read over him.
Thomas Dunson: Some day you’ll turn around and I’ll be there…I’m gonna kill ya, Matt.

Open Range
Charley Waite : Men are gonna get killed here today, Sue, and I'm gonna kill 'em.
Boss Spearman : I ain't wasting a good bullet to ease your pain, you son of a bitch.

Fort Apache The wisdom of Sgt. Festus Mulcahy (Victor McLaglen)

1. Lt. Col. Thursday : Sergeant, you a judge of whiskey?
First Sgt. Festus Mulcahy : Uh, well, sir, some people say I am and some say I'm not, sir.
Lt. Col. Thursday : Tell me what you make of this.
First Sgt. Festus Mulcahy : Well, uh, it's better than no whiskey at all, sir.

2. Lt. Col. Thursday : "Destroy the whiskey,"
First Sgt. Festus Mulcahy picking up a mug: "Well, boys, we've a man's work ahead of us this day.

3. RSM : "Now boys, you know I'm not a drinking man, but if the Suttler's Store is still open...
First Sgt. Mulcahy : If it isn't , Michael darlin', I'll kick the door in with me bare fists.

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon The wisdom of Top Sergeant
1. Quincannon : Well, I'm the best swimmer in the world. Once I swam the English Channel... with an anvil on me chest.

2. Top Sergeant Quincannon to a six year old boy : It's time for me to take me medicine.
Quincannon drinks from his small whiskey flask, glances at the boy, then makes a pained face "It tastes horrible!"