Your Favorite Lines In All Of Entertainment

Pick from movies, video, music, video games, literature. Any verbal medium is fair game. Dazzle us with immortal words.

“MOTHER is the name for GOD on the lips and hearts of every child.”
⁃ Eric Draven, The Crow

“Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss!”
⁃ The Who, We Won’t Get Fooled Again

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
- Conan, Conan the Barbarian

“All the gods, they cannot sever us. If I were dead, and you still fighting for life, I’d come back from the dark, from the pit of Hell, to fight by your side.”
- Valaria, Queen of Thieves, Conan the Barbarian

“Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright/In the forests of the night/What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
- The Tyger, the one and only William Blake, from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Now the whole world’s gonna know that you died scratching my balls!”
- James Bond to Le Chiffre, Casino Royale

“I need no soft lights to enchant me/If you’ll only grant me the right/To hold you ever so tight/And to feel in the night/The nearness of you”
⁃ Hoagy Charmichael, The Nearness of You
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“Pain don’t hurt.”
- Dalton, Road House

“Well, I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer.”
- The Doors, Roadhouse Blues

“We’re Nothing, and Nothing can save us/We can be heroes, just for one day.”
- Bowie, Heroes

“We’re putting out the fire—WITH GASOLINE!”
- Bowie, Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline (Theme from Cat People)

“AhhhhHHHA . . . Wham, Bam, THANK YOU Ma’am!”
- Bowie, Suffragette City

“That girl has entirely too much brains to have an ass like that.”
- Wade Garrett speaking about Doc, Road House

“Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!”
- Hotspur, Richard III, William Shakespeare

“I will die as willingly as any bridegroom.”
- Lear, King Lear, William Shakespeare, and, yes, it is a double entendre, Elizabethan style

“I can’t get no, satisfaction/I can’t get no, girl reACTion/‘Cause I’ve tried, and I’ve tried/And I’ve tried, and I’ve tried/I can’t GET NO, I can’t GET NO, I can’t GET NO/
Satisfaction . . . No satisfactON/NO SATISFACTION! I can’t get noooo . . .”
- The Rolling Stones, Satisfaction

“Fly, you fools!”
⁃ Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring, book and film, both. (The only line in all of literature that has made me gasp out loud, because, in the novel, it is followed by the sentence, “Then he was gone.”)

“General, do you care to step outside?”
- Superman, Superman II

“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
- Chief Brody, Jaws

“How’d you like to have your balls in your ears?”
“Then I could hear myself coming!”
- Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems, respectively

“No. Our Germans are better zan zer Germans.”
- Werner von Braun replying to Lyndon Johnson’s concern that the Soviet space program has better engineers than the US, The Right Stuff

“I reign with my left hand, I rule with my right/I’m Lord of All Darkness, and I’m
Queen of the Night”
- Queen, The March of the Black Queen

“I want to know that your love/Is a love I can be sure of/So tell me now, and I won’t ask again/Will you still love me tomorrow?”
⁃ Will You Love Me Tomorrow?, Carole King
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“Squeeze my lemon/Till the juice run down my leg”
- Led  Zeppelin, The Lemon Song
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“What do you kill with that [hand knife]?”
“Name it.”
⁃ Sheriff’s deputy and John Rambo, respectively, First Blood

“Luke, I AM your father.”
- Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back

“It’s a COOKBOOK!”
- Episode, To Serve Man, The Twilight Zone, no idea who said it

“Do you win every fight?”
“NOBODY . . . ever wins a fight.”
⁃ Doc and Dalton, respectively, Road House
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“i have no idea what it is about you that opens me and closes/only something in me understands/ that the language of your eyes is louder than all roses/ nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands”
- e.e. cummings, somewhere I have never been, gladly beyond (which, to me, is the greatest love poem in English of the 20th century)

“I’d rather have two girls at 21 each, than one girl at 42.”
- W. C. Fields

“Get away from her you BITCH!!!”
⁃ Ellen Ripley, Aliens

“Good SHOOTing, Mr. Sulu!”
- Captain Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn

“Our last kiss, I will keep
“YOU VISIT ME IN MY SLEEP!
“In memories, my darling, who knew?
“”Who knew?
“My darling, I miss you
“Who knew?”
- Pink, Who Knew?

“The killer awoke before dawn
“He put his clothes on
“He took a face from the ancient gallery
“And he walked on down the hall
He came to the room where his sister lived
“And then he
“Paid a visit to the room where his brother lived
“And then he
“He walked on down the hall!
“And he came to a door
“And he walked inside
“‘Father, I want to KILL you
“‘Mother . . . I want to, OOEEOHHEOOOEE
“‘YEAH! CUM ON BABY!’”
⁃ The Doors, The End

Have fun.