Friday, April 14, 2006

Movies: By the Numbers

This is a project I've been working off and on all week. It should entertain the passers-by until I get around to posting again later next week. So allow me to present: 100 Movie Quotes.



"Rolls-Royce Phantom two. 4.3 liter, 30 horsepower, six cylinder engine, with Stromberg downdraft carburetor, can go from zero to 100 kilometers an hour in 12.5 seconds. And I even like the color."

"Being the One is like being love. No one can tell you you're in love, you just know it. Through and through. Balls to bones."

"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."

"Two coffins... No, maybe three."

"I can't fire them. I hired these guys for three days a week and they just started showing up every day. That was four years ago."

"Consigliere, arrange a meeting with the heads of the five families ... this war stops now."

"Rolo was a purse snatcher. My father ran into him off duty, and he shot my father six times and got away clean."

"Fields in front. The village is wide open to horsemen... until the fields are flooded. One guard for each direction takes four. Two more as a reserve. You'll need at least ... seven, including me."

"Six hours of sleep is enough for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool."

"Your brother, Harry Bailey, broke through the ice and was drowned at the age of nine."

"The Lord, the Lord Jehovah has given unto you these fifteen ... Oy! Ten! Ten commandments for all to obey!"

"These go to eleven."

"Hardware aisle twelve, shop smart, shop S-Mart!"

"You have thirteen hours in which to solve the labyrinth, before your baby brother becomes one of us ... forever."

"Fourteen years ago I was forced to make a commitment to an eight by nine cell, now you are going to be forced to make a commitment."

"You see the world through John Malkovich's eyes, then, after about fifteen minutes, you're spit out into a ditch on the side of The New Jersey Turnpike."

"Red, it took me sixteen years to get here. You play me, and I'll give ya the best I got."

"Seventeen years I've wanted that little item and I've been trying to get it."

"Eighteen months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried 40 feet below the lunar surface near the crater Tycho."

"I'm responsible for nineteen of the twenty top-grossing films of all time."

"Very well, we'll give them shorter hours. We'll start by cutting their lunch hour to twenty minutes."

"Honestly, Boon, you're twenty-one years old. In six months you're going to graduate, and tomorrow night you're going to wrap yourself in a bed sheet and pour grain alcohol all over your head."

"That's some catch, that Catch-twenty-two."

"For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!"

"You go in, find the President, bring him out in less than twenty-four hours, and you're a free man."

"There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five."

"Twenty-six months? For murder? I must meet your lawyer."

"This old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a twenty-seven B stroke six."

"I've been thinking. Tomorrow it will be twenty-eight years to the day that I've been in the service. Twenty-eight years in peace and war."

"In fact, I'd make a bet that except possibly for an afro, you look exactly the same as you did at twenty-nine."

"No one has to die at thirty!"

"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at Thirty-One Flavors last night."

"Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men."

"The last time that bear ate a lawyer, he had the runs for thirty-three days."

"Thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five thousand zulaks."

"Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. "

"I have no idea. But I'm suppose to kill him in less than thirty-six hours."

"The twins keep us on Centaurian time, standard thirty-seven hour day. Give it a few months. You'll get used to it ... or you'll have a psychotic episode."

"Thirty eight ... simulated."

"What are the thirty-nine Steps?"

"I haven't lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed... and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth."

"Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one."

"You want a question that goes with the answer for forty-two?"

"In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?"

"But being as this is a forty-four Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky?"

"How can you discuss his stock when the man has just leapt forty-five floors?"

"We got a banana boat at forty-six tomorra. If we pull a walkout it might be a few bucks from the shippers. Them bananas go bad in a hurry."

"I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? Fear."

"For example, I use forty-eight percent of my brain. Do you know how much you use?"

"It is 2:24, Lieutenant, you've got forty-nine minutes."

"I can eat fifty eggs."

"What was it, Roswell? You had the space ship, the bodies, everything locked up in a bunker, the what is it, Area fifty-one."

"Exactly one minute, fifty-two seconds. That's excellent."

"One day I caught her stealing my lavender eye shadow and she smashed my face in with a shovel. I had fifty-three operations."

"Nailed it. And fifty-four is forty-five more than what is the answer, Marta?"

"Car fifty-five. Ah, we're in a truck!"

"Fifty-six men ... If I'd known it was going to be like this, I'd never have started."

"There are exactly fifty-seven card-carrying members of the Communist party in the Department of Defense at this time."

"Did Christy ever tell you 'bout the two kids murdered in fifty-eight?"

"I don't need no radar, I can tell! I just listen to the wind; it said, 'Fifty-nine, nail 'im!'"

"Sixty! We dropped at least sixty, wouldn't you say?"

"Linda Powell? Steve Dunne. Hey, yeah, I met you ... sixty-one hours ago. Yeah, that was me."

"Oh you ignorant, arrogant, ambitious... keeping sixty-two men in prison 'cause you got a palm tree for the work they did."

"We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be."

"We're now a quarter of an inch tall, and sixty-four feet from the house. That's an equivalent of three-point-two miles. That's a long way. Even for a man of science."

"That is a noble cause. Give me the sixty-five, I'm on the job."

"The time has come. Execute Order Sixty-Six."

"Sixty-seven years of life, forty-six years of marriage, you mean to tell me you never one time suffered from piles?"

"This is the worst fake I.D. I've ever seen. You realize you made yourself sixty-eight."

"Bitch, hang the phone up and star sixty-nine his ass!"

"Relax, would you? We have seventy dollars and a pair of girls underpants. We're safe as kittens."

"I love that you get cold when it's seventy-one degrees out."

"Gleemonex makes it feel like it seventy-two degrees in your head... all... the... time!"

"Page seventy three! Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now!"

"Not bad for a seventy-four year old. Simon Phoenix knows he has some competition."

"In her first year, Welton Academy graduated five students. Last year we graduated fifty-one. And more than seventy-five percent of those went on to the Ivy League."

"Seventy-six trombones led the big parade!"

"Fifty-two and twenty-five -- that's seventy-seven - spades is double - a hundred and fifty-four - and four boxes - you're blitzed in two games."

"He told me this morning when I examined him. He's seventy-eight."

"You see a black leather jacket, fingertip length, like the one Pacino wore in Serpico? You don't, you owe me three seventy-nine."

"'Shot in the back by Buford Tannen, over a matter of eighty dollars.' What kind of future do you call that? "

"Because I died ... in episode eighty-one!"

"There's a lot more than eighty-two toothpicks, Ray."

"I'll come straight to the point, General Kramer: Eighty-three Force Reconnaissance Marines have died under my various commands."

"With my added time for the escape, I don't get out now 'til 1987 ... I'll be eighty-four years old."

"His pulse never got over eighty-five, even when he ate her tongue."

"Eighty-six carats."

"Eighty-seven hours is an eternity. The cosmos was created in less time."

"When this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour ... you're gonna see some serious sh*t."

"How can you be so selfish? We owe back rent - we're in four eighty-nine bucks to Moe's Delicatessen."

"Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes."

"Yes, but of course he didn't choose to attempt it in a ninety-one foot chamber pot. In any event, his was the only ship to do it and I believe he lost fifty percent of his crew."

"All right, there's a thousand things that have to happen in order. We are on number eight. You're talking about number six hundred and ninety-two."

"Cobalt thorium G has a radioactive halflife of ninety-three years."

"Ninety-four. But that means I've saved the lives of ten times that many, doesn't it? Maybe even 20, right? Twenty times as many? And that's how simple it is."

"There's a ninety-five pound Chinese man with a hundred sixty million dollars behind this door."

"Listen up, sportsfans. Word is, this particular broken arrow has broken up. Our ETA Utah is ninety-six minutes."

"Deckard, ninety-seven."

"The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered."

"Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer. If one of those ... What happened to you back in Chicago?"

1 comment:

Reel Fanatic said...

Fascinating project ... can't say I would have the patience to accomplish that, but loved reading it!