Posted on 11/24/2004 8:47:38 AM PST by churchillbuff
The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced that AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Movie Quotes will be the theme for AFI's eighth annual celebration of 100 years of American movies. AFI'S 100 Years . . . 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases will count down America's 100 greatest lines of dialogue spoken in the movies, as chosen by experts of the motion picture community, in a three-hour television event on the CBS Television Network in June 2005.
Well, Ted, he's won a rare copy of that 1946 classic, Land of the Pharaohs. With a screenplay by Nobel Prize Winner, William Faulkner, this Warner Bros. movie is the only known instance where Egyptians actually utter the phrase, "Sure'nuff..."
Ghostbusters
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
"Where are all the white women at?"
Its HEDLEY! you idiot!"
Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles
It's more than a single line but it is still one of my favorite scenes in any movie.
"Every man here knows his duty!
They would make this charge even without an officer to lead them. They know the gravity of the situation, and the metal of their foe! They know, that this days work will be desperate and deadly. They know, that for many of them, this will be their last charge. But not one of them, needs to be told, what is expected of him! They're all willing to make the supreme sacrifice. To achieve victory, here, the crowning victory, and the end of this war.
We're all hear, Colonel. You may tell them, when you return to your country, that all Virginia was here this day."
From the movie "Gettysburg"
I think that was Moses.
So many great lines. The rich kook stole the show.
--- Tuco Ramirez (Eli Wallach), in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
1. "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Outlaw Josey Wales
2. "Shut up you hard on" - Joe Dirt
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
The Wizard of Oz
"Wed Woses, how Womantic!"
"There's a herd of killer rabbits coming this way "
"They convicted Oglethorpe!"
"Heineken?!?! F that s! … PABST BLUE RIBBON!"
Many lines from "Time Bandits", including,
"An invisible barrier? I've never seen one of those before!"
"................" from 'Birth of a Nation'
Jamie Lee and Ah-nold in "True Lies":
"You mean you've killed people?"
"Yeah, but dey were all bad!"
Moe: So, do you have worms for the fishing trip?
Larry: Yeah, but I'm going anyway.
"Now It's Dark"
"You Talkin' to Me?"
"I've Got a Bad Feeling About This"
"I am here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum"
"The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls."
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