Greatest Line In Media

[Lt._nefarious]

"The Bees, they sting Juuustin..."

If you've not watched that Harry Partridge animation you should fix that...

Edit: No, wait! I change my mind best quote is:

"You're a ****, you've always been a **** and the only thing that's gonna change is you're gonna be an even bigger ****, maybe have a couple more **** kids..."

From In Bruges...

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Some of my absolute favourite lines come from the same place:

"There was once talk of a wind farm out here, away from the rage and intolerance of the masses. The sea, they said, is too rough for the turbines to stand. They clearly never came here to experience the becalming for themselves. Personally I would have supported it, turbines would be a fitting contemporary refuge for a hermit; the revolution and the permanence."

"All night the buoy has kept me lucid. I sat, when I was at the very edge of despair, when I thought I would never unlock the secret of the island, I sat at the edge and I watched the idiot buoy blink through the night. He is mute and he is retarded and he has no thought in his metal head but to blink each wave and each minute aside until the morning comes and renders him blind as well as deaf mute. In many ways we have much in common."

"What charnel house lies at the foot of this abyss? How many dead shepherds would fill this hole?"

Easy to guess if you've played it.

Max Payne is another favourite:

"The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels."

"The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free."

 

[Swyftstar]

For some reason this line always sticks with me when people ask to explain Granny Weatherwax.
"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well known fact. But I don't hold with encouraging in it!"


And here's one that was actually uttered in real life.
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all."
?James Mattis

 

[LG Jargon]

Some pretty good ones in here. Damn, no really good lines really come to mind for me right now...

However, I think that some of the best lines said (in media and out) are the last words spoken by that person. For reference, I give you a little gift from Nerdfighteria:


I especially like Dylan Thomas' last words: "I've had 18 straight whiskies; I believe that's the record."

If I think of any more, I'll edit my post. I swear, there's one from Gurren Lagann I just can't think of...

 

[RADIALTHRONE1]

Bang.

Just who the hell do you think i am?

When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

Spaaaaaaaaaace.

 

[Winthrop]

" And as for you, River, there will be a day when you will flow with blood more than water. And dead bodies will be stacked higher than the dams. And he who is dead will not be mourned as much as he who is alive." From the Nag Hammadi Library. Something about it just really grips me.

 

[Rory Gallagher]

http://youtu.be/1-WBjJ1MliU

http://youtu.be/AuEzVfWXk20

Don't need much more than that.

 

[KingCrInuYasha]

"Everyone in this room is wearing a uniform and don't kid yourself." - Frank Zappa

 

[Terrible Opinions]

Film: "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!"
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Spoiler

Walter, The Big Lebowski, while beating the shit out of a car with a gooseneck.

Television: "Omar comin', y'all!"
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Spoiler

Assorted children, The Wire, warning the neighbourhood that stick-up man Omar wass on the hunt.

Game: "What can change the nature of a man?"
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Spoiler

Ravel Puzzlewell, Planescape Torment, reciting the riddle that damned a thousand men.

Song: "On hire from Swiss or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen, the Devil to the sabre I shall put."
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Spoiler

Corb Lund, Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!

Book: "The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it."
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Spoiler

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, as the main character is about to be executed for an imagined crime.

Play: "A curse shall light upon the limbs of men."
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Spoiler

Marc Antony, Julius Caesar, from his monologue over Caesar's corpse.

Poem: "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die."
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Spoiler

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade

 

[Easton Dark]

It's a pretty good one.

 

[shrimpcel]

"Il faut manger pour vivre et non vivre pour manger" from Molière's "L'avare". It translates to "One should eat to live, and not live to eat".

"Fat people always lie."
You get massive Internet points if you can tell from which video game this one comes.

 

[krodux]

"If God had wanted you to live, he would not have created ME!"

"Lost? Not lost. Forgotten, perhaps, but still very much alive."

"Get off my lawn."

"Ha-HA! The fun has been doubled!"

 

[Dango]

"I saw God the other day, by the river on a rainy afternoon. He helped a kitten that was left all alone. It's a God that only I can see. A black winged angel that came down from the heavens just for me."

-Mamimi, from Fooly Cooly.

Normally I'd quote Clannad, but I felt like doing something original.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

"NO!"

Spoken by Caesar in 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'. Seriously, one word, one single, heartfelt, furious outburst of defiance, was all it took for me to go completely slack-jawed at the screen in wonder. There was more feeling in that one word than all the long-winded, overcooked, faux-philosophizing monologues that you usually get in movies where the writers desperately want you to love their dialogue.

I fucking love that movie.

 

[Evil Smurf]

"Are you dense? Are you retarded? I'm the godman Batman!" - Batman

 

[Nekron_X]

"Swords are not enough to win this battle? What you face now is an unlimited number of them:
peerless weapons, wielded by heroes and villains, the great and the small alike.
An unlimited armory of blades stands before you."

"I will kill. I will let live. I will harm and heal. None will escape me. None will escape my sight.
Be crushed.
I welcome those who have grown old and those who have lost.
Devote yourself to me, learn from me, and obey me.
Rest. Do not forget song, do not forget prayer, and do not forget me.
I am light and relieve you of all your burdens.
Do not pretend. Retribution for forgiveness, betrayal for trust, despair for hope, darkness for light,
dark death for the living.
Relief is in my hands. I will add oil to your sins and leave a mark.
Eternal life is given through death.
Ask for forgiveness here. I, the incarnation, will swear,
Kyrie eleison".

"i am the bone of my sword.
steel is my body, fire is my blood.
i have created over a thousand blades.
unkown to death, nor known to life.
i have withstood pain to create many weapons.
yet, these hands will never hold anything.
and so as i pray, unlimited blade works!"

and lastly:
"I'll show you. This is what it means to kill something."

oh! one more:
"It's not cheating. It's creative problem solving."

 

[an annoyed writer]

"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here. Welcome to the edge."
-Eliza Kassan, Deus Ex: Human Revolution

One of my favorite lines because it's got utility and can give gravitas and weight to a good conversation, provided it's properly used.

 

[Dfskelleton]

*I thought that O'Brien and Winston's dialogue swapping from 1984 led to some great lines:
"Does Big Brother exist?"
"Of course he does, next question."
"No, I mean... does he exist in the same way that you and I exist?"
"You do not exist."

*I would list some lines from Andrew Ryan and SHODAN, but they both have such great lines and amazing voice actors/actresses that I couldn't pick just a few.

*Kurtz's last lines from Heart of Darkness (or, if you prefer, Apocalypse Now). Simple, but very powerful.
"The horror... the horror..."

*AM's speech from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. I could actually type it from memory because of how many times I've read that speech, but I don't really feel like typing the whole thing out right now.

*"You see this? This... is my BOOMSTICK!"

 

[ultrachicken]

Some of my absolute favourite lines come from the same place:

"There was once talk of a wind farm out here, away from the rage and intolerance of the masses. The sea, they said, is too rough for the turbines to stand. They clearly never came here to experience the becalming for themselves. Personally I would have supported it, turbines would be a fitting contemporary refuge for a hermit; the revolution and the permanence."

"All night the buoy has kept me lucid. I sat, when I was at the very edge of despair, when I thought I would never unlock the secret of the island, I sat at the edge and I watched the idiot buoy blink through the night. He is mute and he is retarded and he has no thought in his metal head but to blink each wave and each minute aside until the morning comes and renders him blind as well as deaf mute. In many ways we have much in common."

"What charnel house lies at the foot of this abyss? How many dead shepherds would fill this hole?"

Easy to guess if you've played it.

Is that Dear Esther?
That particular dialogue didn't play when I watched a playthrough, but I hear it changes every time, and the talk of hermits, the ocean, and the general writing style definitely fits that game.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Some of my absolute favourite lines come from the same place:

"There was once talk of a wind farm out here, away from the rage and intolerance of the masses. The sea, they said, is too rough for the turbines to stand. They clearly never came here to experience the becalming for themselves. Personally I would have supported it, turbines would be a fitting contemporary refuge for a hermit; the revolution and the permanence."

"All night the buoy has kept me lucid. I sat, when I was at the very edge of despair, when I thought I would never unlock the secret of the island, I sat at the edge and I watched the idiot buoy blink through the night. He is mute and he is retarded and he has no thought in his metal head but to blink each wave and each minute aside until the morning comes and renders him blind as well as deaf mute. In many ways we have much in common."

"What charnel house lies at the foot of this abyss? How many dead shepherds would fill this hole?"

Easy to guess if you've played it.

Is that Dear Esther?
That particular dialogue didn't play when I watched a playthrough, but I hear it changes every time, and the talk of hermits, the ocean, and the general writing style definitely fits that game.

Bingo.

If you haven't played it, it's well worth a playthrough. Sometimes I don't get these lines either, or a combination of some of these and others. The more you hear the more you think you have a handle on the story, until another line comes along and throws that theory out the window.