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"'Cause you know I love the players, and you love the game."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"A guy like you should wear a warning."Source: "Toxic" | Speaker: Britney Spears

"A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face."Source: Pinocchio | Speaker: The Blue Fairy

"A little less conversation, a little more action please."Source: A Little Less Conversation | Speaker: Elvis Presley


"A Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere."Source: Red River | Speaker: Cherry Valance

"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley

"And in the morning...I'm making waffles!"Source: Shrek | Speaker: Donkey


"And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet.""Source: Love Story | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"And now for something completely different."Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: The Announcer

"And she shaved his head, and his strength went from him."Source: Judges 16:17, 19 | Author: Author of Judges

"And that's how you play "Get the Guests.""Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Speaker: George

"And that's the way it is."Source: CBS Evening News | Speaker: Walter Cronkite

"And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."Source: Genesis 3:3 | Speaker: Eve

"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."Source: Catch-22 | Author: Joseph Heller

"Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"Source: Reservoir Dogs | Speaker: Mr. Blonde


"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger

"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."Source: Inauguration Address, January 20, 1961 | Speaker: John F. Kennedy

"Attica! Attica!"Source: Dog Day Afternoon | Speaker: Sonny Wortzik

"Baby, you're the greatest."Source: The Honeymooners | Speaker: Ralph Kramden

"Bam!"Source: Emeril Live | Speaker: Emeril Lagasse

"Bazinga!"Source: The Big Bang Theory | Speaker: Sheldon Cooper

"Be afraid. Be very afraid."Source: The Fly | Speaker: Veronica Quaife

"Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"Because I was afraid of worms, Roxanne! Worms!"Source: Roxanne | Speaker: Chris McConnell

"Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun."Source: Digging | Author: Seamus Heaney


"Bread makes you fat?"Source: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Speaker: Scott Pilgrim

"But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it."Source: Introduction to Poetry | Author: Billy Collins

"But rumour has it he's the one I'm leaving you for."Source: "Rumour Has It" | Speaker: Adele

"But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore."Source: Slaughterhouse-Five | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

"Bye, Felicia."Source: Friday | Speaker: Craig Jones

"Can we all get along?"Source: Press Conference | Speaker: Rodney King



"Come out, come out, wherever you are."Source: Cape Fear | Speaker: Max Cady

"Come to me in the silence of the night."Source: Echo | Author: Christina Rossetti

"Come up and see me sometime."Source: She Done Him Wrong | Speaker: Lady Lou

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."Source: Henry Ford's Marketing Team | Speaker: Henry Ford

"Consume mass quantities."Source: SNL sketch "The Coneheads" | Speaker: The Coneheads

"D'oh!"Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Homer Simpson

"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000

"De plane! De plane!"Source: Fantasy Island | Speaker: Tattoo

"Does your dog bite?"Source: The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Speaker: Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau


"E.T. phone home."Source: E.T. | Speaker: E.T.

"Earn this. Earn it."Source: Saving Private Ryan | Speaker: Captain James Miller

"Eat my shorts!"Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Bart Simpson

"Eddie, you're a born loser."Source: The Hustler | Speaker: Bert Gordon


"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera."Source: The King and I | Speaker: King Mongkut of Siam

"Every day I'm shuffling."Source: Party Rock Anthem | Speaker: LMFAO

"Everybody lies."Source: House M.D. | Speaker: Dr. Gregory House



"First rule of Fight Club is... you do not talk about Fight Club."Source: Fight Club | Speaker: Tyler Durden


"Frak!"Source: Battlestar Galactica | Speaker: Various characters

"Gee, Mrs. Cleaver..."Source: Leave It to Beaver | Speaker: Eddie Haskell


"Get out of my chair, Meathead."Source: All in the Family | Speaker: Archie Bunker

"Giggity giggity"Source: Family Guy | Speaker: Glen Quagmire

"Go home, Roger"Source: Sister Sister | Speaker: Tia and Tamera

"Go, shawty. It's your birthday."Source: "In Da Club" | Speaker: 50 Cent

"God speed your love to me."Source: "Unchained Melody" | Speaker: The Righteous Brothers

"Good grief!"Source: A Charlie Brown Christmas | Speaker: Charlie Brown



"Got a long list of ex-lovers; they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: "Blank Space" | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"Have fun storming the castle!"Source: The Princess Bride | Speaker: Miracle Max

"Have mercy."Source: Full House | Speaker: Uncle Jesse

"He ain't mean," said Slim. "I can tell a mean guy from a mile off."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"He's a sweet talkin', sugar-coated candy man."Source: "Candy Man" | Speaker: Christina Aguilera


"Hello, gorgeous."Source: Funny Girl | Speaker: Fanny Brice

"Hello, Newman."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Jerry Seinfeld

"Here's Johnny! (Tonight Show)"Source: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Speaker: Ed McMahon

"Hey now!"Source: The Larry Sanders Show | Speaker: Hank Kingsley

"Hey, brother."Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Buster Bluth

"Hey, HEY, hey!"Source: What's Happening!! | Speaker: Dwayne Nelson

"Hey, lady!"Source: The Ladies Man | Speaker: Herbert H. Heebert


"Hi, my name is George. I'm unemployed, and I live with my parents."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: George Costanza

"Hi-di-ho, neighbor!"Source: Home Improvement | Speaker: Wilson W. Wilson, Jr.

"Hi-yo, Silver!"Source: The Lone Ranger | Speaker: The Lone Ranger

"Hoke, you're my best friend."Source: Driving Miss Daisy | Speaker: Miss Daisy

"Homey don't play that."Source: In Living Color | Speaker: Homey D. Clown

"Houston, we have a problem."Source: Apollo 13 | Speaker: Commander Jim Lovell


"How do you like them apples?"Source: Good Will Hunting | Speaker: Will Hunting

"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain

"Hurry up and bring your jukebox money!"Source: "Love Shack" | Speaker: The B-52's

"I ain't no hollaback girl."Source: Hollaback Girl | Speaker: Gwen Stefani


"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."Source: The Remarkable Rocket | Author: Oscar Wilde


"I am your number one fan."Source: Misery | Speaker: Annie Wilkes


"I could dance with you 'til the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows 'til you came home."Source: Duck Soup | Speaker: Rufus T. Firefly

"I do not like them in a box. I do not like them with a fox."Source: Green Eggs and Ham | Author: Dr. Seuss

"I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Angela Hayes


"I feel so close to you right now, it's a force field."Source: Feel So Close | Speaker: Calvin Harris

"I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Taylor Swift."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman


"I hope you don't mind that I put down in words…"Source: Your Song | Speaker: Elton John


"I love lamp."Source: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Speaker: Brick Tamland


"I need to know that I'm being heard."Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish

"I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it."Source: "Work It" | Speaker: Missy Elliot

"I said you wanna be startin' somethin', you gotta be startin' something."Source: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" | Speaker: Michael Jackson

"I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys."Source: A Supermarket in California | Author: Allen Ginsberg

"I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"I want to play a game."Source: Saw | Speaker: Jigsaw


"I won't be ignored, Dan!"Source: Fatal Attraction | Speaker: Alex Forrest

"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"I'll be back."Source: The Terminator | Speaker: The Terminator

"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."Source: Raising Arizona | Speaker: H.I. McDunnough

"I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time."Source: Broadcast News | Speaker: Aaron Altman

"I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away."Source: Hud | Speaker: Hud Bannon

"I'm a genie in a bottle, baby."Source: "Genie in a Bottle" | Speaker: Christina Aguilera

"I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her."Source: Notting Hill | Speaker: Anna Scott

"I'm as mad as hell!"Source: Network | Speaker: Howard Beale

"I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown?"Source: Goodfellas | Speaker: Tommy DeVito


"I'm listening."Source: Frasier | Speaker: Frasier Crane

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?Source: I'm Nobody! Who are you? | Author: Emily Dickinson
Are you — Nobody — too?"

"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."Source: Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Speaker: Jessica Rabbit

"I'm pretty fly for a white guy."Source: "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" | Speaker: The Offspring

"I'm the Dude, man."Source: The Big Lebowski | Speaker: The Dude

"I'm walkin' here!"Source: Midnight Cowboy | Speaker: Ratso

"I've found my friends. They're in my head."Source: "Lithium" | Speaker: Nirvana

"I've got a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë

"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature."Source: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians | Author: Paul of Tarsus

"If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"If I'm not back in five minutes… just wait longer."Source: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Speaker: Ace Ventura



"If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."Source: Rabbit, Run | Author: John Updike

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."Source: Misquote | Speaker: Joseph Goebbels

"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."Source: Matthew 28:19 | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth

"It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels."Source: Mrs. Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf

"It keeps going and going and going..."Source: Energizer Commercials | Speaker: Commercial Narrator

"It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring."Source: Matthew 16:2-3 | Author: Matthew

"It's a dog eat dog world, Sammy, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear."Source: Cheers | Speaker: Norm Peterson

"It's amazing. You look like a normal person, but actually you are the angel of death."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Sally Albright

"Jane. Tarzan."Source: Tarzan the Ape Man | Speaker: Tarzan

"Just one more thing..."Source: Columbo | Speaker: Lieutenant Columbo

"Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's go someplace like Bolivia."Source: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Speaker: Butch Cassidy

"Killing me softly…"Source: "Killing Me Softly With His Song" | Speaker: Roberta Flack

"Kiss my grits!"Source: Alice | Speaker: Flo

"Kiss my hot lips."Source: M*A*S*H | Speaker: "Hot Lips" Houlihan

"La-di-da."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Annie Hall

"Ladies and gentlemen…The Beatles!"Source: The Ed Sullivan Show | Speaker: Ed Sullivan

"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Peter Clemenza

"Legen—wait for it—dary!"Source: How I Met Your Mother | Speaker: Barney Stinson

"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."Source: Matthew 15:14 | Author: Matthew

"Life is pain. Anybody that says different is selling something."Source: The Princess Bride | Author: William Goldman


"Live from New York; it's Saturday Night!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Various Saturday Night Live Cast Members

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."Source: Love Story | Speaker: Jenny

"Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Peter Clemenza

"Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do."Source: I Love Lucy | Speaker: Ricky Ricardo


"Madness… madness."Source: The Bridge on the River Kwai | Speaker: Major Clipton

"Make it so."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does.""Source: Forrest Gump | Speaker: Forrest Gump


"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"Source: The Brady Bunch | Speaker: Jan Brady

"Match me, Sidney."Source: Sweet Smell of Success | Speaker: J.J. Hunsecker

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about…"Source: Mysticism and Logic | Author: Bertrand Russell

"May the Force be with you."Source: Star Wars | Speaker: Han Solo

"Me, Tarzan. You, Jane."Source: Tarzan the Ape Man | Speaker: Tarzan


"More cowbell."Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: The Bruce Dickinson

"Mr. Christian!"Source: Mutiny on the Bounty | Speaker: Captain Bligh


"My biological clock is ticking like this."Source: My Cousin Vinny | Speaker: Mona Lisa Vito


"Nanu nanu."Source: Mork & Mindy | Speaker: Mork

"No prisoners! No prisoners!"Source: Lawrence of Arabia | Speaker: T.E. Lawrence

"No touching!"Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Various Prison Guards

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: Cardinal Ximénez

"Non!"Source: Silent Movie | Speaker: Marcel Marceau

"Note to self: After a long day at work, I don't need to see that!"Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish as Aunt Sassy

"Now cut that out!"Source: The Jack Benny Program | Speaker: Jack Benny

"Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white."Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Gretchen Wieners


"One, two, Freddy's coming for you..."Source: A Nightmare on Elm Street | Speaker: Creepy children


"POW, right in the kisser!"Source: The Honeymooners | Speaker: Ralph Kramden

"Put the lime in the coconut."Source: "Coconut" | Speaker: Harry Nilsson


"Rosebud."Source: Citizen Kane | Speaker: Charles Foster Kane



"Say goodnight, Gracie."Source: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | Speaker: George Burns


"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."Source: 1988 Vice Presidential Debate | Speaker: Lloyd Bentsen



"Shut up and deal."Source: The Apartment | Speaker: Fran Kubelik

"Snap out of it!"Source: Moonstruck | Speaker: Loretta Castorini



"Sookie."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Bill Compton

"Stifle."Source: All in the Family | Speaker: Archie Bunker

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography | Author: Booker T. Washington

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"Source: Tell all the truth but tell it slant— | Author: Emily Dickinson

"That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain

"That'll do pig. That'll do."Source: Babe | Speaker: Farmer Hoggett

"That's what she said."Source: The Office | Speaker: Michael Scott et al

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart."Source: The Story of My Life | Author: Helen Keller


"The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back."Source: On Golden Pond | Speaker: Ethel Thayer

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."Source: The New Yorker | Author: Hannah Arendt

"The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."Source: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish | Author: Bertrand Russell

"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."Source: What is Called Thinking? | Author: Martin Heidegger

"The neighbors' dog will not stop barking."Source: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House | Author: Billy Collins

"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle."Source: The Court Jester | Speaker: Hubert Hawkins

"The San Francisco Treat!"Source: Rice-A-Roni commercial | Speaker: Rice-A-Roni


"The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry."Source: The Trouble with Poetry | Author: Billy Collins

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."Source: The Importance of Being Earnest | Author: Oscar Wilde

"There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen

"There are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition."Source: Pillow Talk | Speaker: Jan Morrow


"There's always hope tomorrow will be taco night."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Nicky Nichols

"There's no crying in baseball!"Source: A League of Their Own | Speaker: Jimmy Duggan

"These pretzels are making me thirsty!"Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Seinfeld Cast


"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar

"Those stories (and Andy Rooney) tonight, on 60 Minutes."Source: 60 Minutes | Speaker: Reporter


"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig

"Toga! Toga!"Source: Animal House | Speaker: John "Bluto" Blutarsky

"Troy and Abed in the morning!"Source: Community | Speaker: Troy Barnes and Abed Nadir

"Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you."Source: "Maggie May" | Speaker: Rod Stewart

"Wassup?"Source: 2000 Budweiser commercial | Speaker: Various Budweiser mascots

"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."Source: The Thing from Another World | Speaker: Ned "Scotty" Scott


"We are never ever ever getting back together."Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."Source: Strength to Love | Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We are the world."Source: We Are the World | Speaker: Every Famous Singer Ever

"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson


"Well, isn't that special?"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: The Church Lady


"What a dump!"Source: Beyond the Forest | Speaker: Rosa Moline

"What an excellent day for an exorcism."Source: The Exorcist | Speaker: Pazuzu-Regan


"What is your major malfunction?"Source: Full Metal Jacket | Speaker: Sgt. Hartman

"What we've got here…is failure to communicate."Source: Cool Hand Luke | Speaker: Captain

"What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?"Source: Diff'rent Strokes | Speaker: Arnold Jackson

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee

"When you control the mail...you control information."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Newman

"Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up."Source: A Word to Husbands | Author: Ogden Nash

"Where are you going in those Keds?"Source: Girls | Speaker: Charlie Dattolo and Ray Ploshansky

"Who loves ya, baby?"Source: Kojak | Speaker: Theo Kojak

"Who's on first."Source: The Naughty Nineties | Speaker: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

"Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"Source: She Done Him Wrong | Speaker: Lady Lou


"Will you accept this rose?"Source: The Bachelor | Speaker: Bachelors

"Win just one for the Gipper."Source: Knute Rockne All American | Speaker: George Gipp

"Words can be like X-Rays if you use them properly – they'll go through anything."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley

"Would ya do me a favor, Harry? Drop dead."Source: Born Yesterday | Speaker: Billie Dawn

"Would you believe…?"Source: Get Smart | Speaker: Maxwell Smart

"Yabba dabba doo!"Source: The Flintstones | Speaker: Fred Flintstone



"You complete me."Source: Jerry Maguire | Speaker: Jerry Maguire

"You eediot!"Source: Ren & Stimpy | Speaker: Ren Höek

"You just put your lips together and blow."Source: To Have and Have Not | Speaker: Slim

"You know my hips don't lie."Source: Hips Don't Lie | Speaker: Shakira

"You look like my next mistake."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift


"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."Source: No Country for Old Men | Author: Cormac McCarthy

"You rang?"Source: The Addams Family | Speaker: Lurch

"You talkin' to me?"Source: Taxi Driver | Speaker: Travis Bickle

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"You very bad man, Jerry."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Babu

"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."Source: The Incredible Hulk | Speaker: Dr. David Banner

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."Source: Body Heat | Speaker: Matty Walker

"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May

"You've got spunk. I hate spunk!"Source: The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Speaker: Lou Grant

"Zoinks!"Source: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Speaker: Shaggy