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Cabbages and kings

What is your favorite line from a story?
« on: July 30, 2021, 02:55:00 PM »
Hi everyone.  :)

What is your favorite line from a story?
« Last Edit: July 16, 2022, 01:04:39 AM by Cabbages and kings »
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"The time has come," the walrus said,
"to talk of many things:
of shoes and ships,
and sealing wax,
of cabbages and kings."
 

Maggie Ann

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #2 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.

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Maggie Ann

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #3 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
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PJ Post

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2021, 11:43:54 PM »
This one goes to eleven.



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



The whole scene really.
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Vijaya

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #5 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.
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Jeff Tanyard

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #6 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..."
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Eric Thomson

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #7 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."
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cecilia_writer

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2021, 06:24:11 PM »
'I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend' (The Day After Tomorrow).
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Paul Gr

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #9 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.
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Gerri Attrick

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #10 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.
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Maggie Ann

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #11 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
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Lorri Moulton

Re: What is your favorite line or lines from a story? (book, movie, show, etc.)
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2021, 11:04:54 AM »
"Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel!  Think of that, and tremble!"  ~Watership Down
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