"Why run about your cage denying you're a squirrel?"
--Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"I don't like lollipops."
--"Artemis Fowl" Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
"Marching Band Magic: It's better than drugs"
--Mr. Shupe
"Dagh Bragh!!!!" (this one was for you, laxcordaxbond)
-- "Kyo Sohma", Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket
"'Or Affirmative? I saw that on Star Trek.' 'On the one where the thing's head explodes?' 'No, May. On the one where they couldn't find enough stuff to power the thing.''I loved that one.'" (I am a trekkie-wannabe)
--"May" and "April Deveraux", Eoin Colfer, Half-Moon Investigations
"'It's exciting, isn't it? Breaking the rules?' 'Who are you, and what have you done with Hermione?'"
"Hermione Granger" and "Ron Weasley", director David Yates, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"Don't look at the trombones - it only encourages them."
John Phillips Sousa
"My name is Inego Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
"Inego Montoya", The Princess Bride
"My god, this is like a moment from a horror movie. This is precisely the moment where the mutation or beast will attempt to kill an unlikeable side character. But, in stories where there has been no prior cursing, violence, nudity, or death, such as in a family film, the unlikeable character will escape his encounter, and be referenced later in the story, having learned valuable lessons. He may even be given a humourous moment to allow the audience to feel good about him. This is where I turn to run. You will leap for me, I will shut the door, and you will land a fraction of a second too late." *Harry turns, the beast leaps upon him, he falls and is never seen again in the movie*
"Harry Farber", Lady in the Water
"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back.
Three from the circle, three from the track.
Wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, stone,
Five shall return, and one go alone.
"Fire for the birthday, Bronze carried long.
Wood from the burning, Stone out of song.
Fire from the candle-ring, Water from the thaw,
Six signs the circle, and the grail gone before.
"Fire from the mountainside shall find the harp of gold,
Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of the old.
Power from the Greenwitch, lost beneath the sea,
All shall find the light at last, Silver on the Tree."
--The Dark is Rising
"Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
--Tyger, Tyger
"Actual reality. Act up! Fight AIDS!"
--Rent