Favorite quotes

Did Frankenstein’s monster have a name though?
When speaking to its creator it did say "I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed," but Shelley never specified a name for it.
 
When speaking to its creator it did say "I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed," but Shelley never specified a name for it.
Milton? Hermann?
 

"What are you doing?"


- Question to MacGyver asked in bewilderment, shock, consternation, surprise, irritation, or similar emotion by one or another of the other characters in various episodes.
MacGyver TV Series.
 
James - "Quite frankly everyone else has an interest to sent you to the electric chair."
Rudolf - "Alright."
"..."
James - "You don't seem alarmed."
"..."
Rudolf - "Would it help?"

Bridge of Spies

 
James - "Quite frankly everyone else has an interest to sent you to the electric chair."
Rudolf - "Alright."
"..."
James - "You don't seem alarmed."
"..."
Rudolf - "Would it help?"

Bridge of Spies


Rudolf has a very good point 👍
 
"I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of not living"

Not sure where it came from. I like to believe I made it up (circa 2005) as I don't remember reading it anywhere but I'm just as sure it was coined long before my time.

Left of Mel's face.

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When you're pointing the finger at someone, you're only pointing three back at yourself.
 
Saw this on Faceache today and liked it:

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Winston Churchill
 
“Let me get this right: The ice caps are melting, a movie where a girl goes all the way with a fish wins Best Picture, and that damn fool idjit from The Apprentice is president… And you call where we come from Apocalypse World?”

- Bobby, Supernatural S13E23
 
Now that I have finished Nineteen Eighty-Four, I do particularly love the scene in the book with the simple:

We are the dead

It speaks volumes about the hopelessness demonstrated by the two main protagonists; that whatever they try to do to buck the system and pursue their independence, they will only end up dead... or worse.
 
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