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Title: What is your favorite line from a story?
Post by: Cabbages and kings on July 30, 2021, 02:55:00 PM: Hi everyone. :)

What is your favorite line from a story?
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: Maggie Ann on July 30, 2021, 11:20:38 PM: I already answered that in another thread of yours.

"I was in London when I first heard of Dinah Slade. She was broke and looking for a millionaire, while I was rich and looking for a mistress. From the start, we were deeply compatible." The Rich Are Different by Susan Howatch.

"You have your head in the armhole" the movie A New Leaf. You have to watch the whole scene. "Carbon on the valves." "You have no money." Okay, pretty much the whole movie.

Anything from the Princess Bride.
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: R. C. on July 30, 2021, 11:30:01 PM: "We plan ahead, that way we don't do anything right now, Earl explained it to me." - Val, in Tremors.

R.C.
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: Maggie Ann on July 30, 2021, 11:35:39 PM: Quote from: R. C. on July 30, 2021, 11:30:01 PM
"We plan ahead, that way we don't do anything right now, Earl explained it to me." - Val, in Tremors.

R.C.

I like that philosophy. :tup3b
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: PJ Post on July 30, 2021, 11:43:54 PM: This one goes to eleven.

___

Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

The whole scene really.
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: Vijaya on July 31, 2021, 04:25:27 AM: "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both." from the ending of Charlotte's Web by EB White. Posted on the poll thread.
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: Jeff Tanyard on July 31, 2021, 08:21:01 AM: "You go inside the cage... cage goes in the water... you go in the water... shark's in the water. Our shark. Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies..."
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: Eric Thomson on July 31, 2021, 08:31:45 AM: "Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end."
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: cecilia_writer on July 31, 2021, 06:24:11 PM: 'I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend' (The Day After Tomorrow).
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: Paul Gr on August 05, 2021, 02:10:35 AM: 'He was a man of infinite resource and sagacity.'
(Robinson Crusoe.)
On the other hand...
'Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn' is pretty close.
(Gone with the wind)
Thanks for the Spinal Tap clip, love it.
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: Gerri Attrick on August 05, 2021, 02:50:16 AM: "By Grabthar's Hammer, what bargains." Delived as only Alan Rickman could, in Galaxy Quest.

"There were no gods. There was only hard work" - Nation by Terry Pratchett.
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: Maggie Ann on August 05, 2021, 02:57:29 AM: Quote from: Gerri Attrick on August 05, 2021, 02:50:16 AM
"By Grabthar's Hammer, what bargains." Delived as only Alan Rickman could, in Galaxy Quest.

"There were no gods. There was only hard work" - Nation by Terry Pratchett.

Love GQ and Alan Rickman (you broke the bloody ship). RIP
Title: Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
Post by: Lorri Moulton on August 11, 2021, 11:04:54 AM: "Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!" ~Watership Down