Quotes from fictional characters that made you stop and think or have stuck with you.

[Yeager942]

"Not all who wander are lost."

I forgot who said it but it's from LOTR

"If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I?ve seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me."

-The Nameless One at the end of PS:T

 

[MagmaMan]

"One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall" - Optimus Prime (Every Transformers Thing Ever) Anyone who even gives the slightest fuck about Transformers knows this one.

"We're on Tsavo Highway about -fizzle- east of Voy. Someone, anyone, respond!" - Sgt. Stacker (Halo 3) Had to listen to that again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and a-EFFING-GAIN when played through Tsavo Highway on Legendary.

"You thought you could destroy me!? You thought you could destroy Trypticon!? Hah! Pathetic!" - Trypticon (Transformers: War for Cybertron) You are a huge Transformer, and you have to fight something so big you are the size of his finger. Difficult, terrifying, exciting, fun, and well made this is one of the most memorable boss battles I've ever played through.

...That's about it. They are just memorable, never made me stop and think.

 

[RaffB]

Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.

This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than all of ours put together.

Molly: "Wrote the Laws of Magic, founded the White Council, was custodian of one of the Swords and established a stronghold for the Council, too," Molly said. "He must have been something else."
Harry: "He must have been a real bastard," I said. "Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders."
Molly: "You're such a cynic," Molly said.
Harry: "I think cynics are playful and cute."

Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.


There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.


Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men?s auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.


All from the Dresden Files Series....Books that ooze class out of every orifice..

 

[massaffect123]

'Flesh wound? Flesh wound? They're all flesh wounds! No one ever says "Ooh, look! I've just been shot in the bones, but it missed my flesh completely!" It's a load of old nonsense, is what it is. It's a phrase you heroic warrior types trot out so you can sound manly and stoic. "Bah, it's just a flesh wound! Only a flesh wound! I can carry on!" Nonsense!'- Father Zweil; Dan Abnett, His Last Command

 

[JCD2k4]

"Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without."
-The Merovingian (Matrix Reloaded)

 

[DarkCrescendo]

"It isn't a question of can or can't... some things in life, you just do."

-Lightning, Final Fantasy XIII


"Well, that's the only kinda gift worth given'."

-Dante, Devil May Cry 4 (In response to Nero's "I thought this thing meant a lot to you")

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" No idea, read it in several different different places.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad-hoc plot device -David Langford

 

[Rock-nerd]

"The world is better off without snakes"

Big Boss, Metal Gear Solid 4

 

[Moth_Monk]

I don't know if this has been said already but in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Adam Jensen's commentaries on the different endings to the game were thought provoking for me. It highlighted, for me, some of the ethics that would revolve around a "trans-human" society.

Spoiler

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

"And you, a Stormcloak? I thought better of you."

Jarl Balgruuf of Whiterun.


I don't think I've ever felt so... guilty in a game as when I helped overthrow a good ruler and all round friendly guy. I made sure to make a no-kills run of the mission, but my god, finishing up I just felt... bad.

If it makes you feel any better apparently not siding with the stormcloaks kills all of humanity (i don't really know, something to do with the empire banning the worship of talos wich the elves demanded for that very purpouse).

It was a really nice moral dilemma in an otherwise rather shallow game up until I found about that online. Of course it would be nice if there were an option to figure that out in the game and unite the empire and the stormcloaks against the thalmor.

 

[Jake the Snake]

"We're all dying, a little bit every day."
A character named Dulcie from the novel Going Bovine. It's a great book, about a kid who contracts mad cow. Really bizarre and insightful.

 

[Moth_Monk]

"And you, a Stormcloak? I thought better of you."

Jarl Balgruuf of Whiterun.


I don't think I've ever felt so... guilty in a game as when I helped overthrow a good ruler and all round friendly guy. I made sure to make a no-kills run of the mission, but my god, finishing up I just felt... bad.

If it makes you feel any better apparently not siding with the stormcloaks kills all of humanity (i don't really know, something to do with the empire banning the worship of talos wich the elves demanded for that very purpouse).

It was a really nice moral dilemma in an otherwise rather shallow game up until I found about that online. Of course it would be nice if there were an option to figure that out in the game and unite the empire and the stormcloaks against the thalmor.

Actually....

Spoiler

Ulfric Stormcloak is a Thalmor sleeper agent.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Thalmor_Dossier:_Ulfric_Stormcloak

 

[guidance]

...
-Gordon Freeman

That mant speaks to me.

 

[TheMann]

"I say we dust off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
-Ellen Ripley
Truly words to live by.

"Do you know what your sin is?"
"Ah hell, I'm a fan of all seven."
Had to get one from good old Capt. Mal.

This is a gaming website, so I should probably get at least one from a game. This is one that made me laugh pretty hard:

"Hey again. So I just got a birthday card from the Admiral. It has a picture of a dragon on it and it says 'To my special friend on his birthday, flame on!' And the dragon is lighting the candles on a cake with his fire breath. Ha ha. Ugh. That doesn't even make sense to me. It's like mowing your lawn with a nuclear weapon- and it's not even my birthday. I need to kill you so I can leave. Maybe just kill yourself and save me the trouble, mate?"
-General Knoxx, Borderlands DLC

 

[NicoDK]

"Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away... forever."


"I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else!
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.
That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."

Both said by The Joker in The killing joke.

 

[That One Six]

"You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles"

I am 100% positive that line is taken directly from The Princess Bride.

OT - Just about everything from Planescape: Torment, the most prominent being the oft-repeated "What can change the nature of man?" I've asked many people that question, and I've gotten almost as many different answers.

 

[UFriday]

Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.

This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than all of ours put together.

Molly: "Wrote the Laws of Magic, founded the White Council, was custodian of one of the Swords and established a stronghold for the Council, too," Molly said. "He must have been something else."
Harry: "He must have been a real bastard," I said. "Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders."
Molly: "You're such a cynic," Molly said.
Harry: "I think cynics are playful and cute."

Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.


There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.


Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men?s auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.


All from the Dresden Files Series....Books that ooze class out of every orifice..

God bless you, man. The Dresden Files would have to be the most quotable and fantastic series of books I have ever had the pleasure reading.

- "Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help."

- "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault."

On a more serious note:
-"It isn't about what's right, it's about what's fair!"

-"My name is Ezio Auditore Da Firenze. When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it, I had time but I did not know it, and I had love, but I did not feel it. I knew I would not have enough time to do everything, but now I worry I will not have enough time to do anything."

-"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

- "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Fuck subtle."

 

[orangeban]

"Time is an illusion to them, while we are contrainted by it, they know their purpose, while we search endlessly for ours"
-Jarvik ME3

Not quite as good as "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so" - Wowbagger, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[mooncalf]

It sucks when you hear a line, think "that's neat!" and then find out they lifted it straight out of some previous work of film or literature...

 

[Matthew Kjonaas]

"Do not flatter Fate. It did not guide you into my clutches tonight. That was all my doing."
Magic the Gathering Crossway Vampire

"The first step to peace is to learn how to forget"
Magic the Gathering Curse of Oblivion

"Pick not the rotten fruit, but neither touch the best. Leave those as an offering for our unseen guests."
-Radwick, farmer of Gatstaf
Magic the Gathering


"My faith is stronger than fang, claw, or mindles hunger."
Moment of Heroism
Magic the Gathering

"The spoils of war are not measured only in gold and silver."
Liflink
Magic the Gathering