Quotes of Created Characters
I won't be wronged, I won't be
insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other
people, and I require the same from them.
John Bernard Books (John Wayne), The Shootist
"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich."
Colonel Potter from M*A*S*H
"I love Saturday morning cartoons, what classic humor! This is what entertainment is all about ... Idiots,
explosives and falling anvils."
Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
"Quiet you kids. If I hear one more word, Bart doesn't get to watch cartoons, and Lisa doesn't get to go to college."
Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
"Sometimes the only
way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone
else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good
about themselves."
Homer Simpson
"Yesterday I was a
dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog.
Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
Snoopy
The only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey...and the
only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.
Winnie the Pooh
"Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success.
Do not hesitate to step on them."
"Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #211" ("Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine")
"I
just love the French. They taste like chicken!"
Hannibal Lecter
"The Silence of the Lambs"
"The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money."
IRS auditor
"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to
say you're prejudiced against all races."
Homer Simpson
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
Calvin (from Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)
"Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real,
and you're just a reflection of him?"
Calvin (from Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)
"If you have to write your ethical rules down,
it's already too late"
Jack Ryan, (Tom Clancy 'The Bear and the Dragon, 2000")
"I just don't know why they're
shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread.
Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence.
Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary
sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back."
Hawkeye from *M*A*S*H*
"The
distance between insanity and genius is measured only by
success."
Bond, James Bond: in the film "Tomorrow Never Dies,"
"If you really want to hear
about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born
and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and
all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I
don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
Sound familiar? Just like people today? It's from J. D. Salinger's book
"Catcher in the Rye," which written in 1950. The words
are spoken by narrator Holden Caulfield.
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