Fictional characters

"I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air — or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought"

"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive"

"Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him; but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night."

"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it."

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that this little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it, there comes a time when for any addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested. "What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."

"The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical — so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."

"It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment."

"They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work."

"You know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

"One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."

"When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."

"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?"

"I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically."

"There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps."

"I had no idea that such individuals exist outside of stories."

"Which is it to-day," I asked, "morphine or cocaine?" He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?"

"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world"

"He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge."

"I have been guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one 'Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos'. In it I enumerate a hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco, with coloured plates illustrating the difference in the ash."

"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."

"I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty."

"Hence the cocaine. I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth."

"He smiled gently. "It is of the first importance," he cried, "not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.""

"I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."

"Holmes," I said in a whisper, "a child has done this horrid thing!"

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

"You know my methods. Apply them."

"What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure? How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside."

"It is the unofficial force — the Baker Street irregulars."

"Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician."

"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory."

"...but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you, until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right."

"I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life."

"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be."

"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."

"I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see."

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable."

"There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

"Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details."

"[Sherlock Holmes quoting:] "There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.""

"Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home."

"Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different."

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

"You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles."

"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."

"It is not so impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this, I have endeavoured in my case to do."

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."

"It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles."

"It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes’ requests, for they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with such a quiet air of mastery."

"On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know."

""You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled. "Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Holmes chuckled heartily."

"When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge."

"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."

"The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."

"I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they seem to you to be relevant or not."

"Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there."

"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."

"It is more than possible; it is probable."

"That is the case as it appears to the police, and improbable as it is, all other explanations are more improbable still."

""Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes."

"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."

"I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain. Results without causes are much more impressive."

"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated."

""I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom." "Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he."

"Watson here will tell you that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic."

"Out of my last 53 cases 49 have been given full credit to the police and the rest to me."

"If I were assured of your eventual destruction I would, in the interests of the public, cheerfully accept my own."

"He is the Napoleon of crime."

"Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill."

"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"

"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination."

"There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you."

"Bear in mind, Sir Henry, one of the phrases in that queer old legend which Dr. Mortimer has read to us, and avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted."

"You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious."

"I had little doubt that I had come to the end of my career when I perceived the somewhat sinister figure of the late Professor Moriarty standing upon the narrow pathway which led to safety. I read an inexorable purpose in his gray eyes. I exchanged some remarks with him, therefore, and obtained his courteous permission to write the short note which you afterwards received. I left it with my cigarette-box and my stick, and I walked along the pathway, Moriarty still at my heels. When I reached the end I stood at bay. He drew no weapon, but he rushed at me and threw his long arms around me. He knew that his own game was up, and was only anxious to revenge himself upon me. We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds, and clawed the air with both his hands. But for all his efforts he could not get his balance, and over he went. With my face over the brink, I saw him fall for a long way. Then he struck a rock, bounded off, and splashed into the water."

"Work is the best antidote to sorrow."

"There is no prospect of danger, or I should not dream of stirring out without you."

"What one man can invent another can discover."

"It was vain to urge that his time was already fully occupied, for the young lady had come with the determination to tell her story, and it was evident that nothing short of force could get her out of the room until she had done so. With a resigned air and a somewhat weary smile, Holmes begged the beautiful intruder to take a seat and to inform us what it was that was troubling her."

"We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the tap-room and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous. He ended a string of abuse by a vicious back-hander, which I failed to entirely avoid. The next few minutes were delicious. It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian. I emerged as you see me. Mr. Woodley went home in a cart. So ended my country trip, and it must be confessed that, however enjoyable, my day on the Surrey border has not been much more profitable than your own."

"I have never been in Africa in my life, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Busybody Holmes!"

"It is impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong."

"We're not jealous of you down at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow there's not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand."

"There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast."

"One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation."

"Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs."

"For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise."

"There is so much red tape in these matters."

"Dr Leslie Armstrong "I have heard your name, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and I am aware of your profession — one of which I by no means approve."Holmes "In that, Doctor, you will find yourself in agreement with every criminal in the country.""

"A draghound will follow aniseed from here to John o' Groat's, and our friend, Armstrong, would have to drive through the Cam before he would shake Pompey off his trail."

"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. "The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!"

"Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand."

"What I know is unofficial; what he knows is official."

"Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department."

"Only one important thing has happened in the last three days, and that is that nothing has happened."

"It is a capital mistake to theorise in advance of the facts."

""I am inclined to think -- " said I."

"What do you make of it, Holmes?" "It is obviously an attempt to convey secret information." "But what is the use of a cipher message without the cipher?"

"The vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited."

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."

"Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her."

"There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation."

"Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards!"

"There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible."

"There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear."

"Education never ends Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last."

""Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets."

"We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"Think of Mycroft's note, of the Admiralty, the Cabinet, the exalted person who waits for news. We are bound to go." My answer was to rise from the table. "You are right, Holmes. We are bound to go."

"Holmes, you are not yourself. A sick man is but a child."

"You fidget me beyond endurance. You, a doctor — you are enough to drive a patient into an asylum."

"Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem."

"You and I, Watson, we have done our part. Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters? No, no; horrible!"

"But I have reasons to suppose that this opinion would be very much more frank and valuable if he imagines that we are alone."

"I give you my word that for three days I have tasted neither food nor drink until you were good enough to pour me out that glass of water. But it is the tobacco which I find most irksome."

"Three days of absolute fast does not improve one's beauty, Watson."

"Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph."

"I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity it is certainly beyond me. Yet we must exhaust all natural explanations before we fall back upon such a theory as this."

"I think, Watson, that I shall resume that course of tobacco-poisoning which you have so often and so justly condemned."

"To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces."

"We are devil-ridden, Mr. Holmes! My poor parish is devil-ridden! Satan himself is loose in it! We are given over into his hands!"

"It is not for me, my dear Watson, to stand in the way of the official police force."

"I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry."

"Surely the clearest proof of it is that, knowing what I know, I have sent for you and not for the police."

"I have heard your reasons and regard them as unconvincing and inadequate. We will pass that."

"I followed you.""I saw no one.""That is what you may expect to see when I follow you."

"Some fumes which are not poisonous would be a welcome change."

"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared."

"It may be some fussy, self-important fool; it may be a matter of life or death."

"I should say that there is no more dangerous man in Europe." "I have had several opponents to whom that flattering term has been applied."

"I am sorry. I am accustomed to have mystery at one end of my cases, but to have it at both ends is too confusing. I fear, Sir James, that I must decline to act."

"A complex mind. All great criminals have that."

"I have my plans. The first thing is to exaggerate my injuries. They'll come to you for news. Put it on thick, Watson. Lucky if I live the week out — concussion — delirium — what you like! You can't overdo it."

"I have found out who our client is," I cried, bursting with my great news. "Why, Holmes, it is —""It is a loyal friend and a chivalrous gentleman," said Holmes, holding up a restraining hand. "Let that now and forever be enough for us."

"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go."

"Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson," said Holmes in a reminiscent voice. "It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared."

"This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply."

"Of course I remembered him," said I as I laid down the letter. "Big Bob Ferguson, the finest three-quarter Richmond ever had. He was always a good-natured chap. It's like him to be so concerned over a friend's case." Holmes looked at me thoughtfully and shook his head. "I never get your limits, Watson," said he. "There are unexplored possibilities about you. Take a wire down, like a good fellow. 'Will examine your case with pleasure.'" --"Your case!" --"We must not let him think that this agency is a home for the weak-minded."

"It is simpler to deal direct."

"In my profession all sorts of odd knowledge comes useful, and this room of yours is a storehouse of it."

"Well, Watson, we can but possess our souls in patience and see what the hour may bring."

"It was worth a wound; it was worth many wounds; to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation."

"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception."

"We can but try."

"Come at once if convenient — if inconvenient come all the same."

"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny."

"That the dog should die was after the beautiful, faithful nature of dogs."

"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles."

"Dogs don't make mistakes."

"Cut out the poetry, Watson."

"Things must be done decently and in order."

"Elementary, my dear Watson."

"Quick Watson, the needle."

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."

"Into exile I must go. Failed I have."

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship."

"Twilight is upon me and soon night must fall. That is the way of things; the way of The Force."

"[strains to speak as voice gradually grows softer] Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware: Anger, fear, aggression - the dark side, are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. [Whispering now] Luke... Luke... do not... [struggles to speak] Do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor... or suffer your father's fate, you will. Luke... [Luke leans in close] ...when gone, am I, the last of the Jedi, will you be. Luke... the Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned. Luke... [with great effort] ...There... is... another... Sk... Sky... walker... [Yoda dies, then disappears into thin air]"

"Heeded my words not, did you? Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery, hmm... but weakness, folly, failure, also. Yes, failure, most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke... We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters."

"(Castor Oyl: Hey there, are you a sailor?) "Ja' think I'm a cowboy?""

"I yam what I yam and tha's all what I yam.""

"Well blow me down!"

"That's all I can stands, cuz I can't stands n'more!"

"I'm strong to the finach, 'cause I eats me Spinach, I'm Popeye the sailor man! (toot, toot)"

"Olive Oyl says that she don't want to be with no unedumacated ignoramousk. So I'll be an EDUMACATED ignoramousk! (and he enrolls)"

"I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

"Let's you and him fight."

"Help, Popeye! Save me!"

"You keep your hands to you, that's what you are!"

"Don't you DARE 'reproach' me!"

"Oh, Popeye!"

"I'll take you all on one at a time!"

"Where's the entrance to the exit?"

"Oh yeah? WHAM!"

"A-gah-gah-gah-gah-gah-gah!"

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."

"Ah, music! A magic beyond all we do here!"

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."

"After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure."

"What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows."

"The Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."

"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself."

"I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you."

"I will only have truly left the school when none here are loyal to me."

"It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices."

"You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble."

"Fat lady, who did this to you?"

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light."

"I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure."

"If your determination to shut your eyes will carry you so far, Cornelius, then we have reached a parting of the ways. You must act as you see fit and I must act as I see fit."

"Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed."

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

"You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"

"It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies."

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."

"No spell can reawaken the dead, Harry. I trust you know that."

"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good and kind and brave because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort."

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young..."

"There is a room in the Department of Mysteries,... that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that resides there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could close your mind. It was your heart that saved you."

""By all means continue destroying my possessions,"

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

"No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines . . . I do love knitting patterns."

"I am not worried, Harry... I am with you."

"It's good that children's literature includes the reality of gay people, since we exist in every society. But many are disappointed that she did not make Dumbledore's sexuality explicit in the Harry Potter book. Many also agree that Making it obvious would have sent a much more powerful message of understanding and acceptance."

"[Richard] Harris's portrayal of Dumbledore showcased a gentle demeanour, complete with flowing locks of golden-white hair. However, when Gambon assumed the role, he brought his unique touch, donning distinct capes and infusing the character with an Irish flair, presenting Dumbledore as a figure of wisdom rather than just kindness."

"Make it so."

"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

"Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life, Data, ...learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes courage to try, Data. Courage can be an emotion too."

"It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence."

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal."

"Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated."

"The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity."

"The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"

"Jean-Luc Picard: It's not too late. Locutus could still be with you, just in the way you wanted. An equal. Let Data go and I will take my place at your side, willingly without any resistance."

"Borg Queen: Such a noble creature. A quality we sometimes lack. We will add your distinctiveness to our own. Welcome home, Locutus. Data, you are free to go."

"Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Data, lay in a course for the 24th century. I suspect our future is there waiting for us."

"Lieutenant Commander Data: Course laid in, sir."

"Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Make it so."

"How many people does it take, admiral, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people DOES IT TAKE, admiral?'"

"Patience. Diplomacy is a very exacting occupation. We will wait."

"If there is one ideal that the Federation holds most dear, it is that all men, all races can be united."

"[voiceover] Captain's Personal Log. The crew has responded with the dedication I've come to expect of them. And like a thousand other commanders on a thousand other battlefields, I wait for the dawn."

"Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. Oh, yes — I know you. There was a time you looked at the stars and dreamed of what might be."

"Never, never! You still have a choice. Make the right one now."

"I came here to finde safety. But one is never safe from the past."

"The past is written, but we are left to write the future."

"Let's see what this galaxy class starship can do."

"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are."

"Let's see what's out there. Engage."

"Sometimes, Riker, the best way to win a fight is not to be there."

"There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions."

":[Picard has just been released from Bok's mind control device]"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Bok! Where is Bok?!"

":William Riker: Removed from command, sir. And placed under guard for his act of personal vengeance. Seems there was no profit in it."

":Jean-Luc Picard: In revenge, there never is. Let the dead rest... and the past, remain the past. Enterprise, lock on. Beam me home, Riker."

"I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction. „What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!“"

"Things are only impossible until they're not!"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Good. The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself."

":Wesley Crusher: Then you're not disappointed?"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Wesley, you have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything I or anyone else might think."

"The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy ... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous."

"You say you are true evil? Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity instead of defying you."

"The challenge, Mister Offenhouse, is to improve yourself. To enrich yourself. Enjoy it."

"Our mission is to go forward, and it's just begun. […] There's still much to do. There's still so much to learn."

":[An alien is impersonating Data.]"

":Alien (as Data): What is death?"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, is that all. Data, you're asking probably the most difficult of all questions. Some see it as a changing into an indestructible form, forever unchanging. They believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to then maintain that form in an Earth-like garden which will give delight and pleasure through all eternity. On the other hand there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness with all of our experiences and hopes and dreams merely a delusion."

":Alien (as Data): Which do you believe sir?"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that... matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies. That what we are goes beyond euclidean or other 'practical' measuring systems... and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality."

"He is different, yes. But that does not make him expendable, or any less significant. No being is so important that he can usurp the rights of another."

"Your Honour, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth for all time."

"Are you prepared to condemn him and all who come after him to servitude and slavery?"

"Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits! Waiting. You wanted a chance to make law. Well, here it is. Make a good one."

"Wesley: It's the Yamato, Captain. I can't stop thinking about her. All those people dead. I don't know how you and Commander Riker and Geordi, how you handle it so easily."

"Mr. La Forge, time is one thing we do not have in abundance."

"These officers are here to assist you. Not judge, help you. You should make use of them. They are a valuable resource. And by the way, I respect an officer who is prepared to admit ignorance and ask a question, rather than one who out of pride will blunder blindly forward."

"There is a loneliness inherent in that whisper from the darkness."

"Remembrance and regrets, they too are a part of friendship."

":Q: What justifies that smugness?"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Not smugness, not arrogance. But we are resolute, we are determined, and your help is not required."

"Well, perhaps what we most needed was a kick in our complacency, to prepare us ready for what lies ahead."

"I'm pleased to report that Ensign Crusher's Starfleet exam results permit him to continue his studies on board the Enterprise. Furthermore, any rumours of my brush with death are greatly exaggerated."

"Sometimes, Number One, you just have to bow to the absurd."

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."

":Beverly Crusher: Data, telling us why you're going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise."

":Data: But is not honesty always the preferred choice?"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander."

":Data: Indeed?"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader."

":William Riker: You enjoyed that."

":Jean-Luc Picard: You're damned right."

"Brinksmanship is a dangerous game."

"We're not qualified to be your judges. We have no law to fit your crime."

"We leave behind a being of extraordinary power and conscience. I am not certain if he should be praised or condemned. Only that he should be left alone."

":Tomalak: I urge you, Captain Picard, surrender. Consider the men and women you would lead into a lost cause."

":Jean-Luc Picard: If the cause is just and honourable, they are prepared to give their lives. Are you prepared to die today, Tomalak?"

"'A matter of internal security.' The age-old cry of the oppressor."

"History has shown us that strength may be useless when faced with terrorism."

":Lt Cmdr. Data: But if that is so, Captain, why are their methods so often successful? I've been reviewing the history of armed rebellion, and it appears that terrorism is an effective way to promote political change."

":Capt. Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, it can be. But I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows from the barrel of a gun."

"Being first at any cost is not always the point."

"Let's make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise."

"There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but ignore their personal liberties and freedom. Order a man to turn his child over to the state? Not while I'm his captain."

"You may test that assumption at your convenience."

"Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it."

"Picard: It's something of a tradition, Guinan - Captain touring the ship before a battle."

"The Borg: Captain Jean-Luc Picard. You lead the strongest ship of the Federation Starfleet. You speak for your people."

"I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been… is over. From this time forward, you will service… us."

"The knowledge and experience of the human Picard is part of us now. It has prepared us for all possible courses of action. Your resistance is hopeless... Number One."

"Jean-Luc Picard: They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy and I couldn't stop them. I should have been able to stop them. I tried. I tried so hard. But I wasn't strong enough. I wasn't good enough! I should have been able to stop them. I should... I should..."

"Captain Benjamin Maxwell: You're a fool, Picard. History will look at you and say this man was a fool."

"I think when one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like old leather. And, finally, it becomes so familiar that one can't ever remember feeling any other way."

"Trust requires time and experience."

"I am deeply concerned by what is happening here. It began when we apprehended a spy, a man who admitted his guilt and who will answer for his crime. But the hunt didn't end there. Another man, Mister Simon Tarses, was brought to trial and it was a trial, no matter what others choose to call it. A trial based on insinuation and innuendo. Nothing substantive offered against Mister Tarses, much less proven. Mister Tarses' grandfather is Romulan, and for that reason his career now stands in ruins. Have we become so fearful? Have we become so cowardly that we must extinguish a man because he carries the blood of a current enemy? Admiral, let us not condemn Simon Tarses, or anyone else, because of their bloodlines, or investigate others for their innocent associations."

"You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy. "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."

"The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think."

"Jean-Luc Picard: We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, is all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly, it threatens to start all over again."

"I'd be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know."

"In my experience, communication is a matter of patience, imagination. I would like to believe these are qualities we have in sufficient measure."

"You hoped this would happen, didn't you? You knew there was a dangerous creature on this planet and you knew from the tale of Darmok that a danger shared might sometimes bring two people together. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. You and me, here, at El-Adrel."

":Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, the Homeric Hymns. One of the root metaphors of our own culture."

":William Riker: For the next time we encounter the Tamarians?"

":Jean-Luc Picard: More familiarity with our own mythology might help us to relate to theirs. The Tamarian was willing to risk all of us just for the hope of communication, connection. Now the door is open between our peoples. That commitment meant more to him than his own life."

"We know from our own experience that our shields will protect us. So long as we're in no danger, I will make every effort to communicate."

"Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future. Do I ask Adrienne or Suzanne to the spring dance? Do I take my holiday on Corsica or on Risa? A person's life, their future, hinges on each of a thousand choices. Living is making choices. Now you ask me to believe that if I make a choice other than the one found in your history books, then your past will be irrevocably altered. Well, you know, Professor, perhaps I don't give a damn about your past, because your past is my future and as far as I'm concerned, it hasn't been written yet."

"They've given away their humanity with this genetic manipulation. Many of the qualities that they breed out, the uncertainty, the self-discovery, the unknown, those are many of the qualities that make life worth living. Well, at least to me. I wouldn't want to live knowing that my future was written, that my boundaries had been already set, would you?"

"And that's human. We make mistakes. Genetic manipulation or not, nobody's perfect."

"You told the truth up to a point. But a lie of omission is still a lie."

"The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!"

"Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."

"You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think it is connected to some higher purpose."

"There are four lights!"

"No, I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed!"

"I would rather die as the man I was than live the life I just saw."

"There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of. There were loose threads, untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads it unraveled the tapestry of my life."

"There was no opportunity. There was no pause. (mock Teutonic) He just kept talking in one long, incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt. It was really quite hypnotic."

"There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it's just a matter of finding it. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "Captain Picard: The Role Model We Need" (16.06.2021) by user "Ryan's Edits"."

"I prefer to look on the future as something which is not written in stone. A lot of things can happen in 25 years."

"We are what we are, and we're doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we should be judged!"

"Now, this will put the ship at risk. Quite frankly, we may not survive. But I want you to believe that I am doing this for a greater purpose, and that what is at stake here is more than any of you can possibly imagine. I know you have your doubts about me, about each other, about this ship. All I can say is that although we have only been together for a short time, I know that you are the finest crew in the fleet. And I would trust each of you with my life. So, I am asking you for a leap of faith — and to trust me."

"So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit."

"Sitting here, all these years, nursing my offended dignity, writing books of history people prefer to forget. I never asked anything of myself at all. [...] I haven’t been living. I’ve been waiting to die."

"I'm not in the habit of consulting lawyers before I do what needs to be done."

"But murder is not justice. There is no solace in revenge. You have had your humanity restored to you. Don't squander it now."

"Changed? The Borg? They coolly assimilate entire civilizations, entire systems, in a matter of hours. They don't change! They metastasize."

"You have a past. You have a story, just waiting to be claimed."

"The past is written, but the future is left for us to write, and we have powerful tools, Rios: openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy, and fear, and fear is the great destroyer, Rios."

"Data's capacity for expressing and processing emotion was limited. I suppose we had that in common."

"There's a difference between killing an attacking enemy and watching a wounded one die."

"One more thing. Uh, I have a brain abnormality. I've known for years. Uh, I never had any symptoms, so I never thought much about it. However, just before we left the Earth, I learned that my condition was more acute. The prognosis was terminal, and there is no effective treatment. There will be no further discussion. Anyone who treats me like a dying man will run the risk of pissing me off."

"Well, hope and the odds make poor bedfellows."

"To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination."

"If we wanted to destroy you, Soji, we would've joined forces with the Romulans. We would be training our phasers on you right now. We aren't. We won't! You know why? Because we trust you to make the right choice. I trust you, Soji. I know you. I believe in you. That's why I saved your lives. So that you could save ours in return. That's the whole point. That's why we're here. To save each other."

"It says a great deal about the mind of Commander Data that, looking at the human race with all its violence and corruption, willful ignorance, he could still see kindness, the immense curiosity, and greatness of spirit. And he wanted, more than anything else, to be part of that, to be part of the human family. We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"Seize today for we know nothing of tomorrow."

"We often refer to space as the final frontier. But the older I get, the more I come to believe that the true final frontier is time. In command, as in life, what we do in crisis often weighs upon us less heavily than what we wish we had done, what could have been. Time offers many opportunities, but it rarely offers second chances. And as steps forward go I would like to acknowledge your classmate the first fully Romulan cadet at Starfleet Academy: Elnor. May you all go boldly into a future freed from the shackles of the past. I stand before you the last Picard. My ancestor captained the second ship, behind Jacques Cartier. A great-great cousin Renee Picard was instrumental in early exploration of this solar system. Yet I choose to leave you with the words of my mother, who was no explorer at all. When I was a boy she would point to the night sky and say, "Look up, Jean-Luc, and let's see what's out there"."

"We cannot live in this reality. If we want to save the future, then we have to repair the past."

"Distance offers no protection from time."

"History’s darkest moments can be a tipping point for change."

"Guinan! Don't leave the Earth just yet. I know you're done with listening, but you're not done with humanity. Change always comes later than we think it should."

"Or the promise of legacy revealed the rot that is hidden underneath it."

"There are moments in time we wish we could travel back to. Memories. Pieces of life better lived in reverse. In those moments, tragic endings might rewind into joyful beginnings. Moments of loss into those of gains. I remember now, in a cloudy moment of extreme melancholy, my mother hung herself here in this place. And for all I've lived, all I've seen and done, I suppose this is the moment I've kept myself from remembering, this moment I am so powerless to reverse. My mother was ill, I'm told, but I only ever thought she was inspired. That night, my father had locked her into her room for her own safety. Perhaps for mine, as well. But she begged me to help her, told me how much she needed me, how much she needed my help. And this is the part I've spent my whole life trying not to remember. I thought I was saving her. So, after he fell asleep, I let her out, you see. If only I had left that door closed, she might have become an old woman. I used to imagine seeing her older, offering me a cup of tea and asking for a chat. This skeleton key migrated all over the house. I wish, that day, it hadn't ended up in my hand. I loved her. Desperately."

"I refuse to accept an outcome that has not yet occurred. Come. We have work to do."

"Make a good future."

"There are moments in our lives we fear to relive and others we long to repeat. While time cannot give us second chances, maybe people can."

"Y’know, there will be a time when you will need to remember that no matter how bleak or unwinnable a situation, as long as you and your crew remain steadfast in your dedication, one to another, you are never ever without hope."

"I think we all need connection. Don't we?"

"[to Beverly Crusher] Look, I know that time is precious, but do you think you could give me a moment or two with Jack?"

"You’re only ever really as good as those around you. Your crew become a part of you. Complete you. They lift you up to accomplish the things you never could do alone."

"Fate has a way of surprising us."

"You don't leave the doors open if you want to keep the wolves out."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures."

"Jean-Luc Picard taught me how to speak. I’m pretty sure that I already knew how to say words by the time that I was watching ‘’Star Trek: The Next Generation’’ with my parents, but Patrick Stewart’s captain is how I remember learning that words and communication are noble and important. That you can be strong without imposing yourself physically on others. That making an effort to unite yourself with other people is powerful as well as merely desirable."

"Captain Picard, is the exact opposite of a Hollywood action-hero."

"Jean-Luc Picard! Chief contact with the Q Continuum. Arbiter of succession for the Klingon Empire. Savior of Earth from Borg invasion. Captain of the Enterprises D and E. The man even worked alongside the great Spock."

"Captain Picard is the hero we need right now. He exemplifies in some ways even more then James Kirk—and I’m not gonna get into the Kirk vs Picard argument because I love Captain Kirk, he was my first captain—but Picard is even more of an exemplar of everything that is best about Star Trek’s vision for the future."

":K'mpec: After I die, you will act in my name to arbitrate the struggle for power."

":Jean-Luc Picard: I will?"

":K'mpec: No one on the Council can be trusted, and I have my reasons for wanting an outsider."

":Jean-Luc Picard: K'mpec, you cannot possibly be serious. A Federation officer has no business in ..."

":K'mpec: Nonsense. You are an accomplished mediator. This is no different than any other dispute requiring your services."

"Picard stands as the bearer of Starfleet's conscience and an exemplar of moral autonomy."

"Captain Picard is perceived to be a gentler soul than Captain Kirk."

"When I was in middle school and watching “Star Trek” I imagined we were moving closer toward the show’s version of the future: egalitarian, democratic, creative. Now when I watch the show, I vacillate between hope and escapism. I want to believe that “Star Trek” is predictive of how things will turn out for humanity. I want us to wander the universe in brightly colored uniforms, listening to operas sung by sentient robots. I hope we will find our way to peace. But if that’s not what the future holds, if it’s more war and injustice and greed that we’re headed for, then all I want is to watch Captain Picard hold court on the bridge one more time."

"Seven of Nine: The USS Voyager. She made her name farther out than... any of those other relics had ever gone. I was reborn there. She was my home. Her crew were my family. And now..."

"Seven of Nine: Oh, you are definitely your father's son. He, too, has a knack for the, um, poetic drive-by observation. Can be very annoying. But it can also make a person feel seen."

"The new captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, is the wise man. He rules the Enterprise with a sagely wisdom."

"As shown in his speech and actions, Picard is a man of intelligence, courage, integrity, compassion, courtesy."

"Patrick Stewart's identification with Jean-Luc Picard is a prime exemplar of the extreme entanglement between actor and character produced by cult television programs, yet in Stewart's case this entanglement has not precluded a very active and successful post-Star Trek career."

":Jean-Luc Picard: [waking up after the operation] What the hell are *you* doing here?"

":Kate Pulaski: Saving your life."

":Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, come on. This is a routine procedure - quite commonplace."

":Kate Pulaski: True. But you are not a commonplace man."

"Those ... who are familiar with the character Captain Picard, already know him to be the leader that we all wish we worked for, whose leadership gives us confidence and comfort in meeting the challenges we face each and every day, and the type of leader that we should strive to become."

"Picard and his crew were all human carbon copies of Spock—even-keeled, rational, and almost impossibly ethical. (Spock himself says so of Picard in “Unification,” the one “Next Generation” episode in which he appears.) That left little room for identification. You could aspire to be more like Picard, the very model of compassion and culture, but you could never truly understand his moral universe. He was nothing like us twenty-first-century humans. He was too alien."

":William T. Riker: Wes, responsibility and authority go hand in hand. I know you're responsible, now we've got to teach you a little bit of authority. One of the reasons you've been given command is so you can make a few right decisions, that will establish a pattern of success and help build self-confidence. If you don't trust your own judgment, you don't belong in the command chair."

":Wesley Crusher: But what if I'm wrong?"

":William T. Riker: Then you're wrong. It's arrogant to think you'll never make a mistake."

":Wesley Crusher: But what if it's something really important. I mean, not just a mineral survey. What if someone dies because I made a mistake?"

":William T. Riker: In your position, it's important to ask yourself one question. What would Picard do?"

":Wesley Crusher: He'd listen to everyone's opinion, then make his own decision. But he's Captain Picard."

"He intrigues me, this Picard. Remarkably analytical and dispassionate, for a human. I understand why my father chose to mind-meld with him. There's almost a Vulcan quality to the man."

"The bridge of the Enterprise, under the moderate and controlled command of Captain Picard, is a locus of "enlightened understanding.""

"The new captain, Jean-Luc Picard, was French and enjoyed reading, classical music, William Shakespeare, archaeology, and theatre."

"Captain Picard is not the swashbuckler that Captain Kirk was."

"Only question I Ever thought was hard Was do I like Kirk, Or do I like Picard?"

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

"Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man."

"Only a fool fights in a burning house."

"A fool and his head are soon parted."

"The wind does not respect a fool."

"Destroying an Empire to win a war is no victory. And ending a battle to save an Empire is no defeat."

"A leader is judged not by the length of his reign but by the decisions he makes."

"Great men do not seek power; it is thrust upon them."

"If you cannot control yourself, you cannot command others"

"Death is an experience best shared."

"Pity the warrior who slays all his foes."

"A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye."

"Brute strength is not the most important asset in a fight."

"Yet if my line should die, It dies with its teeth in the enemy's throat, It dies with its name on the enemy's tongue. For just as mere life is not victory, Mere death is not defeat; And in the next world I shall kill the foe a thousand times, Laughing, Undefeated."

"Perhaps today is a good day to die."

"If winning is not important, why keep score?"

"Own the day."

"Negotiation may cost far less than war, or infinitely more: for war cannot cost more than one's life."

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die."

"Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)"

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)"

"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)"

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)"

"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)"

"The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992–1993, 1995–1996, 1999)"

"Indiana Jones and the Great Circle"

"Lucas: A bounty hunter of antiquities."

""I'm a person, and my name is Anakin!" (to Padmé when she asks if he's a slave)"

""Mom, you said that the biggest problem in the universe is that no one helps each other." (trying to convince his mother to help Qui-Gon Jinn)"

"Anakin (to Padmé): "From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you- I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating... hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do? I will do anything you ask." [uncomfortable pause] Anakin: "If you are suffering as much as I am, please, tell me.""

""I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women, and the children, too! They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I hate them!" (after slaughtering the Sand People that captured/killed his mother)"

""It's all Obi-Wan's fault! He's jealous! He's holding me back! (to Padmé)"

"Padmé: "You're not all-powerful, Ani." Anakin: "Well, I should be! Some day I will be... I will be the most powerful Jedi ever. I promise you. I will even learn to stop people from dying.""

"(Padme falls from the ship) Anakin: "Padmé!! Put the ship down!" Obi-Wan: "Anakin! Don't let your personal feelings get in the way. Follow that speeder. Anakin: "Lower the ship!" Obi-Wan: "I can't take Dooku alone, I need you. If we catch him, we can end this war right now. We have a job to do!" Anakin: "I don't care, put the ship down." Obi-Wan: "You will be expelled from the Jedi Order!" Anakin: "I can't leave her!" Obi-Wan: "Come to your senses! What do you think Padmé would do were she in your position?" Anakin: "She would do her duty.""

"(Anakin ignites his lightsaber, shouts, and leaps to Count Dooku, but blocks his lightsaber, and carries the blow before it hits Obi-Wan, who is injured, and losing his lightsaber, and not knowing his apprentice has survived, hoping to save his injured master) Dooku: "Brave of you, boy. I would have thought you had learned your lesson." Anakin: "I am a slow learner.""

""He was an unarmed prisoner." (about Count Dooku after Anakin chopped his head off)"

""Something is happening. I'm not the Jedi I should be. I want more, but I know I shouldn't." (to Padmé)"

"You're the Sith Lord!"

"Palpatine: "Are you going to kill me?" Anakin: "I would certainly like to." Palpatine: "I know you would. I can feel your anger. It gives you focus, makes you stronger." Anakin: "I'm going to turn you over to the Jedi Council." Palpatine: "Of course, you should. But you're not so sure of their intentions, are you?" Anakin: "I will quickly discover the truth of all this." Palpatine: "You have great wisdom, Anakin. Know the power of the Dark Side. The power to save Padmé.""

"Anakin: "Master Windu." Windu: "Skywalker, we've just received word that Obi-Wan has destroyed General Grievous. We're on our way now to make sure the Chancellor returns emergency power back to the Senate." Anakin: "He won't give up his power. I just learned a terrible truth. I think Chancellor Palpatine is a Sith Lord." Windu: "A Sith Lord?" Anakin: "Yes, the one we've been looking for." Windu: "How do you know this?" Anakin: "He knows the ways of the Force. He's been trained to use the Dark Side." Windu: "Are you sure?" Anakin: "Absolutely." Windu: "Then our worst fears have been realized. We must move quickly if the Jedi Order is to survive." Anakin: "Master, the Chancellor is very powerful. You'll need my help if you're going to arrest him." Windu: "For your own good, stay out of this affair. I sense a great deal of confusion in you, young Skywalker. There is much fear that clouds your judgment." Anakin: "I must go, Master." Windu: "No. If what you told me is true, you will have gained my trust. But for now, stay here. Wait in the Council Chamber until we return." Anakin: "Yes, Master.""

"Mace Windu: "I am going to end this, once and for all!" Anakin: "You cant! he must stand trial." Windu: "He has control of the Senate and the Courts! He's too dangerous to be left alive!" Anakin: "It's not the Jedi way. He must live. (Windu raises his saber to kill Palpatine) "I need him!" (Windu still tries to kill Palpatine) "NOOOOO!" (activates lightsaber and severs Windu's lightsaber hand)"

"Anakin: "What have I done?!" (after assisting Palpatine in killing Mace Windu) Palpatine: "You're fulfilling your destiny, Anakin. Become my apprentice. Learn to use the Dark Side of the Force." Anakin: "I will do whatever you... ask." Palpatine: "Good." Anakin: "Just help me save Padmé's life. I can't live without her." Palpatine: "To cheat death is a power only one has achieved. But if we work together, I know we can discover the secret." Anakin: "I pledge myself to your teachings." Palpatine: "Good... good. The Force is strong with you. A powerful Sith, you will become. Henceforth, you shall be known as Darth... Vader.""

"Anakin: "Luke, help me take... this mask off." Luke: But you'll die. Anakin: "Nothing... can stop that now... Just for once... let me... look on you, with my own eyes." [Luke removes Vader's mask and looks at the aged Jedi] Now... go, my son. Leave me." Luke: "No, you're coming with me. I'll not leave you here, I've got to save you!" Anakin: "You already have, Luke. You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister, you were right." (Before dying in Luke's arms)"

"Thank you... my master."

"I agree, the Council's next move will be against the Senate."

"What about the other Jedi spread across the Galaxy?"

"The Separatists have been 'taken care of', my Master."

"Darth Vader: "I saw your ship. What are you doing out here?" Padmé: "I was worried. Obi-Wan told me terrible things." Vader: "What things?" Padmé: "He said you turned to the Dark Side, that you killed younglings." Vader: "Obi-Wan is trying to turn you against me." Padmé: "He cares about us." Vader: "Us?" Padmé: "He knows, he wants to help you. Anakin, all I want is your love." Vader: "Love won't save you, Padmé, only my new powers can do that." Padmé: "But at what cost? You're a good person, Anakin, don't do this." Vader: "I won't lose you the way I lost my mother. I am becoming more powerful than any Jedi has ever dreamed of. And I'm doing it for you, to protect you." Padmé: "Come away with me, help me raise our child. Leave everything else behind while we still can!" Vader: "Don't you see, we don't have to run away anymore. I have brought peace to the Republic. I am more powerful than the Chancellor, I can overthrow him. Then together, you and I can rule the Galaxy, make things the way we want them to be." Padmé: "I don't believe what I'm hearing. Obi-Wan was right, you've changed." Vader: "I don't want to hear anymore about Obi-Wan. The Jedi turned against me. Don't you turn against me!" Padmé: "I don't know you anymore. Anakin, you're breaking my heart. You're going down a path I can't follow." Vader: "Because of Obi-Wan?" Padmé: "Because of what you've done, what you plan to do. Stop! Stop now! Come back! I love you!" Vader: (discovers Obi-Wan) "Liar!" Padmé: "No!" Vader: "You're with him! You brought him here to kill me!" (force-chokes Padmé) Obi-Wan: "Let her go, Anakin!" Padmé: (weakly) "Anakin..." Obi-Wan: "Let her go!""

"Darth Vader: "You turned her against me!!!" Obi-Wan Kenobi: "You have done that yourself!" Vader: "You will not take her from me!" Obi-Wan: "Your anger and your lust for power have already done that!""

"Obi-Wan Kenobi: "You have allowed this Dark Lord to twist your mind, until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy." Darth Vader: "Don't lecture me, Obi-Wan. I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the Dark Side as you do. I have brought peace, freedom, justice and security to my new empire!" Obi-Wan: "Your new empire?" Vader: "Don't make me kill you." Obi-Wan: "Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, TO DEMOCRACY!!" Vader: "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy!" Obi-Wan: "Only a Sith deals in absolutes. I will do what I must." Vader: "You will try.""

"Obi-Wan: "I have failed you, Anakin. I have failed you." Vader: "I should've known the Jedi were plotting to take over!" Obi-Wan: "Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil!" Vader: "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!" Obi-Wan: "Well, then you are lost!" Vader: "This is the end for you, my master.""

"Obi-Wan: "It's over, Anakin! I have the high-ground!" Vader: "You underestimate my power!" Obi-Wan: "Don't try it.""

"Obi-Wan: "You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!" Vader (screaming): "I hate you!" Obi-Wan: "You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you.""

"Palpatine: "Lord Vader, can you hear me?" Vader: "Yes, Master. Where is Padmé? Is she safe? Is she alright?" Palpatine:"It seems, in your anger, you killed her." Vader: "I... I couldn't have. She was alive! I felt it!" (screams violently and destroys many medical droids) "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!""

"Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, Director."

"Where are those transmissions you intercepted? What have you done with those plans?"

""If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?" (while holding an officer serving under Captain Antilles and choking the officer to death)"

"Commander, tear this ship apart until you've found those plans, and bring me the passengers, I want them alive!"

""You are a part of the Rebel Alliance, and a traitor. Take her away!" (first sentence to Leia, second sentence to the Stormtroopers)"

""Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force." (to Admiral Motti)"

""I find your lack of faith disturbing." (while Force-choking Admiral Motti)"

"Tarkin: "Vader, release him!" Vader: "As you wish..." (Vader releases Motti)"

""Escape is not his plan. I must face him, alone." (to Grand Moff Tarkin)"

""Your powers are weak, old man." (to Obi-Wan Kenobi)"

""When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the master." (to Obi-Wan Kenobi)"

"This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the Rebellion."

""The Force is strong with this one." (about Luke Skywalker)"

""I have you now!" (attempting to shoot down Luke Skywalker)"

""Apology accepted, Captain Needa." (after Force-choking him to death)"

"Vader: "There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millennium Falcon. You are free to use any methods necessary, but I want them alive. No disintegrations." Boba Fett: "As you wish.""

"I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further."

"The Force is with you young Skywalker... but you are not a Jedi yet."

"All too easy."

"Perhaps you are not as strong as the Emperor thought."

"Impressive... Most impressive."

"Vader: "Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict, and bring order to the galaxy." Luke: "I'll never join you!" Vader: "If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father..." Luke: "He told me enough... he told me you killed him." Vader: "No... I am your father.""

"Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son!"

"What is thy bidding, my master?"

"You have failed me for the last time, Admiral."

"Obi-Wan has taught you well."

"Don't make me destroy you."

"Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that ship, not excuses."

"Vader: "What is thy bidding, my Master?" Palpatine: "There is a great disturbance in the Force." Vader: "I have felt it." Palpatine: "We have a new enemy: Luke Skywalker." Vader: "Yes, my Master." Palpatine: "He could destroy us." Vader: "He's just a boy, Obi-Wan can no longer help him". Palpatine: "The Force is strong with him. The son of Skywalker must not become a Jedi." Vader: "If he could be turned, he would become a powerful ally..." Palpatine: "Yes. Yes. He would be a great asset. Can it be done?" Vader: "He will join us, or die, Master.""

"Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival."

"Vader: (through the Force) "Luke." Luke: (lying in the Millennium Falcon's med bay) "Father?" Vader: "Son, come with me.""

"You may dispense with the pleasantries, Commander. I am here to put you back on schedule."

"He is most displeased with your apparent lack of progress."

"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am."

"He will come to me?"

"Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong."

"What of the reports of the rebel fleet massing near Sullust?"

"I see you have constructed a new lightsaber. Your skills are complete."

"Indeed you are powerful, as the Emperor has forseen."

"Vader: "So, you have accepted the truth?" Luke: "I've accepted the truth that you were once Anakin Skywalker, my father." Vader: "That name no longer has any meaning for me.""

"It is too late for me, my son."

"You don't know the power of the Dark Side. I must obey my master."

"You are unwise to lower your defenses!"

"Luke: "Your thoughts betray you, father. I feel the good in you, the conflict." Vader: "There is no conflict." Luke: "You couldn't bring yourself to kill me before, and I don't believe you'll destroy me now." Vader: "You under estimate the power of the dark side. If you will not fight, then you will meet your destiny!""

""So... you have a twin sister? Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me; now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the dark side, then perhaps she will." (referring to Luke's sister, Leia)"

""Twisted by the Dark Side, young Skywalker has become. The boy you trained... gone he is... consumed by Darth Vader." —Yoda (to Obi-Wan)"

""You will not stop me, Darth Vader will become more powerful than either of us!" - Darth Sidious (to Yoda)"

""Your father was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker, and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man that was your father was destroyed." - Obi-Wan Kenobi (to Luke Skywalker)"

""He's more machine now, than man. Twisted and evil." - Obi-Wan Kenobi (to Luke Skywalker)"

""... the person who you thought was the villain, is really the victim." - George Lucas in the documentary, The Chosen One"

""Hot Dogs! Hot Dogs!" - First spoken words, in The Karnival Kid, first released on May 23, 1929."

"Once upon a time, in a cabin in the snow, two cousins who didn't trust each other were trying to steal the bag of money sitting on the floor in front of me. So neither one of them went to sleep because neither one of them could be trusted. The end!"

"I gotta get me an agent..."

"(trying to go up a chimney) "I wonder if Santa ever had this much trouble.""

"Mickey: Come on, Goofy, it's a beautiful day! Let's go out and shoot some golf! Goofy: Golf? Are they in season? Mickey: That's just an expression! You don't really shoot anything! You use clubs! Goofy: And beat thuh little rascals to death? That's not fair! Mickey: Never mind! I'll explain it when we get there! Goofy: Where are we goin'? Mickey: We'll go out to Seaside Golf Course! There won't be many people out there today! Goofy: That's good! I'd hate tuh have anybody see me hittin' those poor little golfs!"

"Mickey: Goofy, are you all right? Goofy: I'm all right, but muh chewin' gum got all salty!"

""Who me? Oh, no! I've got a belly ache!" - first words, The Wise Little Hen (1934)"

""So you jackass, I'm gonna knock you good! Uh Oh." - Don Donald (1937)"

""I'm flying high, up in the sky, watching the world go by." - Window Cleaners (1940)"

"Doggone it! I might as well be in a concentration camp! - Timber (1941)"

"Maybe I'm just a duck, but I'm human! - Early to Bed (1941)"

"Am I glad to be a citizen of the United States of America! Oooh! - Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)"

"Four dollars is very little money when you got 'em; but a heck of a lot of money when you ain't got 'em. - "A Christmas for Shacktown" (1952)"

"Mathematics? That's for eggheads! - Donald in Mathmagicland (1959)"

"Oh boy oh boy oh boy!"

"Aw, phooey!"

"Hiya, toots!"

"What's the big idea?"

""Here I sit in this big lonely dump, waiting for Christmas to pass! Bah! That silly season when everybody loves everybody else! A Curse on it! Me - I'm different! Everybody hates me, and I hate everybody!" - First line, in Christmas on Bear Mountain (1947)"

"That's the trouble with you young scallawags of today... You expect to start in at the top instead of working up from the bottom, like I did!"

"I can't go on like this - losing a billion dollars a minute! I'll be broke in 600 years!"

"I made [my money] on the seas, and in the mines, and in the cattle wars of the old frontier! I made it by being tougher than the toughies, and smarter than the smarties! And I made it square!"

""No man is poor who can do what he likes to do once in a while! And I like to dive around in my money like a porpoise! And burrow through it like a gopher! And toss it up and let it hit me on the head!" Only a poor old man by Carl Barks."

"HD&L: We missed you, Unca Scrooge! Scrooge: Missed me?! What'd you throw at me?"

"Scrooge: Excuse me, my good man, we need some transportation to-- Shop owner: No! All out! Go! Monsapi soon! Scrooge: Monsapi? Must be some sort of local festival."

"Louie: UNCLE SCROOGE!! YOU'RE IN QUICKSAND!! Scrooge: Oh, good, I thought I was getting weak. QUICKSAND?!"

"Dewey: Are you all right? Scrooge: Fortunately, I landed on my wallet."

"Robbers! Thieves! Politicians!"

"You'd make a great sailor, Flintheart - on a submarine!"

"Scrooge: Why don't I show you my study? You can tell a lot about a man by his study. Meticulous study, meticulous business, I always say. (opens door, but hears an explosion and sees safe dropping into study) Bigtime (as Dewey): Uh-oh... Scrooge: (slams door shut) Forget the study! You can never tell a thing about a man by his study, I always say."

""You! There'll be no whistling while you work!" - A reference to the song "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

"Oh no, you don't! Not unless you've got eighteen quadrillion bucks! And FIFTY CENTS!"

"This'll make a nice cover photo for Duckweek - Scrooge and his nephews... (Burger turns back to normal) ...playing Beagle Boys and Indians. BEAGLE BOYS??!"

"I didn't get rich by being stupid."

"Scrooge: A deal this sweet should be against the law. Police Officer: Scrooge McDuck, you're under arrest! Scrooge: Good joke, officer. I guess it is against the law."

"A sea monster ate my ice creeeeeeeam!!!"

"Fair official: Scrooge McDuck, you didn't pay for your rides on the ferris wheel, airplane, or water slide. You owe us two dollars and fifty-nine cents! Scrooge: Just for three little rides? (sigh) I could've bought seven new hats for the price of this one! (double sigh!!)"

"Scrooge: Donald! You can't be serious about this crazy idea; there's no profit in it! Donald: But I've already enlisted, Uncle Scrooge! I wanna see the world! Scrooge: So I'll buy you a globe!"

"A day without looking at me Money Bin is like a day without sunshine!"

"You haven't seen the last of me, you purse snatchers from space!"

"Well, you get an A in home wreckonomics."

"Bubba: Skooge home? Scrooge: No, Bubba, no home. Och, I'm starting to talk like him. Launchpad, how soon can we get back in the air? Launchpad: [The Millennium Shortcut is] in pretty deep, Mr. McDee. We're gonna need help. Bubba: Bubba help. Scrooge: You've helped enough already. Boys, you stay here. Bubba: Bubba come? Scrooge: No, Bubba stay. Launchpad come."

"Scrooge: Gyro was right; Bubba's already costing me money! I've got to get him away from here. I know - you can take care of him! Louie: But we gotta go to school! Scrooge: Fine! Take 'im to school. Take 'im to the zoo. Take 'im to the cleaners! But just take 'im away from me!"

"Hold still, Magica! I get extra points for evil sorceress in this game!"

"Why, oh why couldn't that woman have a fetish for rutabagas, or something?"

"Launchpad! Can't you even ride a camel without crashing it?"

"D'oh! I knew that rat's prices were too good to be true!"

"Scrooge: I cannot work like this, Mrs. Featherby. I'm going home! Mrs. Featherby: But what about your lunch? Scrooge: Sell it!"

"Mrs. Beakley, is this a ploy to get some vacation time?"

"Nephews and Webby: Hellooooooo, Unca Scrooge. Scrooge: Don't you "Hellooooooo" me!"

"Scrooge: I told you, I'm not going to the ball! Duckworth: But sir, I've already arranged for Launchpad to take you to the society's mountain lodge. Scrooge: So cancel Launchpad! I'll not only save face, but my life as well."

"Duckworth: Oh dear, Launchpad isn't answering. He must be on his way. Won't you go, sir? Scrooge: Aye, to work! Tell Launchpad he can take you to the ball."

"Since when does a hat have a mind of its own?"

"Heavenly heather! The genie in the magic lamp! The fortunes I could own! I could have the world's biggest diamond! No! The world's biggest diamond mine! No-no! All the diamond mines! No! The entire mining industry! Yes yes yes! I can see that this is going to take some careful thought."

"Genie: I don't hear anything; I think they're gone. Scrooge: Where are we? Genie: Well, it's not exactly the Ritz. Scrooge: Not the lamp? Genie: "Sorry about the smell. You get used to it after a coupla hundred years. Could you move your elbow, please?" Scrooge: GET ME OUT OF HERE!! Genie: (does so) Do you have to yell at me all the time? Scrooge: Hmph. I wouldn't be in this mess if it weren't for you. Thanks to you, I've got a crazy animal act on my tail."

"Scrooge: I've got to get you to my vault; it's the only safe place. Time to go back! Genie: B-b-but you saw what a dump it is. Scrooge: Sorry Genie, but the party's over."

"Well, you can forget about this year's Christmas bonus!"

"You let us go right now or I'm going to buy this place and tear it down to build hamburger stands."

"Bless me bagpipes! Rawr"

"Well, I’ll be tougher than the toughies, and sharper than the sharpies — and I’ll make my money square!"

"You ain't never had a friend like me!"

"You know, I used to have a little cat once. And when it was left all alone, it'd cry... [with his face looking like a real cat] MEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!"

"Live long and prosper."

"Nothing that is is unimportant."

"Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you."

"Infinite diversity in infinite combination."

"Your mind to my mind... your thoughts to my thoughts..."

"Only Nixon can go to China."

"May your journey be free of incident."

"In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace."

"Nothing unreal exists."

"Logic is the cement of our civilization, with which we ascend from chaos, using reason as our guide."

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

"We are here to serve."

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one."

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end."

"A Vulcan never bluffs."

"One man can summon the future."

"One man cannot summon the future."

"Kaiidth. ("What is, is.")"

"Logic dictates that to race a prized stallion one must first break it."

"A thousand pardons. Assault and battery not permitted without license from boxing commission."

"Mind like parachute - only function when open."

"Case still wide open like swinging gate."

"Husband is like toupe, both used to cover up"

"Daffy: Don't let it worry ya, Skipper. I'm just a crazy, darn fool duck. Hoo-hoo Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo... - Porky's Duck Hunt"

"...because I'm a SPLIT PERSONALITY, that's why not! I'm two people in one! A schit - a schit - a SCHITZOPHRENIAC!! - The Prize Pest"

"A SMASHING FRONTAL ATTACK ON ENEMY REAR?! - Draftee Daffy"

"A Methersthmidt. A whole Meth of Mthersthmidts...a METH of METHERSTHMIDTS! - Daffy The Commando"

"ALACAZAM! ALACAZAM! ALACAZAM!"

"Hankerin' for trouble, eh?! Well I would like - [to the audience] I would like? I would like a trip to Europe. (Back to Canasta) - I would like to introduce myself: Drip-Along Daffy's the name! [pushes hat forward over brow] Drip-Along Daffy"

"Aw, buck up, BB Eyes. Here, have a swig o' swampwater!"

"Oh ho ho ho, duck hunters is da cwaziest peoples! Ha ha ha. -- Daffy Duck Hunt"

"I'm not crazy, I just don't give a darn! WOO HOO! WOO HOO!"

"I'm so crazy I don't know this isn't possible."

"[Daffy has blown himself up for a grand finale; the audience cheers] Bugs Bunny: That's terrific, Daffy! They loved it! They want more! Daffy Duck: [as a ghost rising to heaven] I know, I know, but I can only do it once. - Show Biz Bugs"

"[After not being fooled by a fake female duck] 'Taint funny, McGee!"

"Awww! But, Honeybunch! Sittin' on eggs is sissy-stuff! - Quackodile Tears"

"Can you imagine anything so ridiculous as majority rule? - Daffy Duck for President"

"Come on!! Challenge ME!!"

"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich. - Ali Baba Bunny"

"Daffy Duck he had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on this farm he had an igloo, E I...E...I...O? - Duck Amuck"

"Don't beat me, massah! Don't whip dis poor ol' body! No!"

"Don't shush me!! I'LL MAKE ALL THE NOISE I WANNA!!! -- Daffy Duck Hunt"

"Don't stir yourself, sir! I'll muzzle that inebriated canary! - A Pest in the House"

"Drip-Along Daffy's 'ma name! [men quietly play cards, unaware of Daffy's pronoucements] Anybody care to shoot it out? Man to man? Under western skies? West of the Pecos? Tumbleweeds at ten paces? [starting to realize no one is caring] Ten thousand head the cattle? [with less and less conviction] Cut 'em off at the pass? Prairies? Lariats? [after a pause] Anyone for tennis? [no reaction] Anybody? [changing to personal enjoyment] Well, reckon I'll have me a little bracer! - Drip-Along Daffy"

"Gad! This comic's a real page turner. It's thlopping over with gripping suspense."

"Gee! Thanks, chum. How'd ya know I like lollipops?"

"Get me a proctologist right away!"

"Gruesome, isn't it?"

"I got him now, I got him now! HEY, BUB, YOU NEED A HOUSE TO GO WITH THIS DOOR-KNOB!! -- The Stupor Salesman"

"HEY! What's the matter with me? I'M DUCK TWACY!!! Now to find the gangsters' hideout! - The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"

"Ha ha, it's me again! WOO HOO WOO HOO! - Daffy Duck in Hollywood"

"HO! HA HA! GUARD! TURN! PARRY! DODGE! SPIN! HA! THRUST! [WHACK! His bill bends upwards] - Robin Hood Daffy"

"Hocus pocus. Flippety flam. A razzamatazz and ALACAZAM!!"

"Hoo-Hoo, Hoo-Hoo!"

"H-Y-M-I-E! H-Y-M-I-E! H-Y-M-I-E!! H-Y-M-I-E!! H-Y-M-I-E!! HYMIE!!! - Daffy Duck Slept Here"

"I am a duck bent on self-preservation. -- Duck! Rabbit! Duck!"

"I can't stand pain, it hurts me! -- The Abominable Snow Rabbit"

"I'm allergic to pain, save me!"

"It's mine, ya understand? Mine, MINE, all MINE!, get back in there!, down down down!, go go go!, mine mine mine! MWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! -- Ali Baba Bunny"

"I'm rich! I'm a happy miser! -- Ali Baba Bunny"

"I can't help it. I'm a greedy slob. It's my hobby. Save me! -- Ali Baba Bunny"

"I may be a craven little coward, but I'm a greedy craven little coward. - Ducking The Devil"

"I think you're pretty tough, don't I?!"

"[film sticks between frames NOW what? [from the upper frame] What are you doing down there? "Down here? What are you doing up there? [mockingly motioning to the audience] DOWN here." [upper Daffy pulls up lower Daffy and the frames align properly] Listen, bub, if you wasn't me, I'd smack you right in the puss! Don't let that bother ya, Jack! Okay, buddy! You asked for it! -- Duck Amuck"

"I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible. WOO HOO!"

"I've worked with a lot of wise-quackers, but you are dethpsicable! -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

"[When Daffy Duck of warner Brothers engages in a musical piano duel with Donald Duck of Walt Disney] This is the last time I work with someone with a speech impediment! -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

"Obviously I'm dealing with inferior mentalities. -- What Makes Daffy Duck?"

"Of course you realize, this means war."

"Oh, a hunter doesn't worry me, Woo Hoo Hoo, Woo Hoo Hoo! A Hunter doesn't worry me because I'm Daffy Duck When a hunter shoots his gun at me, A BANG BANG BANG [tap tap tap] When a hunter shoots his gun at me, he's just out of luck!"

"Oh brother, I'm a buzzboy! -- Duck Amuck"

"Oh, ooh, I'm just shivering to destruction"

"Oh, the little man from the draa-aaa-ft board he is coming to see me. Oh, the little man from the dee-de-du-DRAFTBOARD!?! -- Draftee Daffy"

"Oh, people call me Daffy, they say that I am gooney. Just because I'm happy is no sign I'm Looney Tuney. When they call me nutsy, that sure gives me a pain. Please pass the ketchup, I think it's going to rain. Oh, you can't bounce a meatball, though try with all your might. Turn on the radio, I want to fly a kite! Good evening, frieeeeeeeends... -- Boobs in the Woods"

"One for the money, two for the show, three to make ready, and four to GEROOOOONIMOOOOOOOO!!"

"Only a dirty rat would do that, or a dirty duck! So that's the way he wants to play?"

"OOOOOOH NOOOOOO! OOOOOOOOOOH NOOOOOOOOOO! Sittin' on eggs is out! O-W-T Out!""

"Shoot me again! I enjoy it! I love the smell of burnt feathers, and gun powder, and cordite. I'm an elk! Shoot me! Go on!! It's elk season! I'm a fiddler crab. Why don't you shoot me?! It's fiddler crab season! [to himself] What have I done? When did I take the wrong turn? -- Duck! Rabbit! Duck!"

"Silence is Foo!"

"Starting from where we are we go 33,600 turbo miles due up. Then west in an arc-deviation to here. Then following the Great Circle several radiolubes south by down-east. By astro-astroble to here, here, and here, then by space navigal compass to here, here and then to here, and here. By thirteen point strato-cumulus going four million light years and THUS to our destination. - Duck Dodgers In The 24 1/2th Century"

"[on a distant island] Hey, come here, come here! Gimme a closeup! A closeup! [frame closes around him, still distant] This is a closeup? [pause] A closeup, ya jerk! A closeup! [camera zooms to Daffy's eyes; walking away from the camera] Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin. -- Duck Amuck"

"There's going to be a sneak preview, and the sneaks aren't going to like it! -- Drip-Along Daffy"

""Is that all"?! There was nothing for the Scarlet Pumpernickel to do...but blow his brains out, which he did. [BANG!!] It's getting so you have to kill yourself to sell a story around here! -- The Scarlet Pumpernickel"

"Very sporting of the little black duck -- Daffy Doodles"

"WATCH IT, BUB!!"

"Well, I guess I'm the goat. -- Duck! Rabbit! Duck!"

"Well what'y'a know! He's colder than a foundered flounder!"

"Well, where's the rest of me?! -- Duck Amuck"

"Why the copious flow of lacrimal fluid, my querulous canine? -- Daffy Duck Hunt"

"Woo Hoo Hoo, they'll never catch this little duck! But I'd surely get some buck shot, right in some vital duck spot, if it wasn't that I'm shot so full of luck!"

"Ya to be drawn and quartered!"

"Yes, it had to be me! Poor me! It couldn't be him! It couldn't be you! It had to be me!!! AH HA HA HA HA!!!""

"Yoiks, and Away! [crash; more wearily] Yoiks, and Away! [crash; his weariness growing with each blow] Yoiks, and Away... [crash] Yoiks...and Away... [crash] Yoiks and away... [crash) Yoiks... [crash] ...and away... [crash; finally at the base of the tree] Why You! [chops all the trees down] Now then, yoiks and away! [flies past the chopped trees, but crashes into a boulder] -- Robin Hood Daffy"

"You have insulted me! We meet on the field of onion!"

"You smug son of a- [to Bugs Bunny on his 50th anniversary]"

"You're deth-picable!"

"Going down! Woo-hoo-hoo! [Michael Jordan screams] So, what do you say we go for the little SPIN?!! [spins around Michael Jordan] -- Space Jam"

"[first lines] YOU'RE KILLING ME! I'M BEING MURDERED!!! I can't stand this torture anymore, I'M DYIN'! YOU'RE KILLING ME!!! I'm tellin' ya J.L., you're typecasting me to death. Comedy! always Comedy! ha-ha, WOO-HOO WOO-HOO, Yuck yuck! Honest J.L., you just gotta give me a dramatic part! -- The Scarlet Pumpernickel"

"[After being let out of Porky Pig's deep freezer] What a trip! What a trip! Blizzards all the way! Snow 20 feet deep! But we had to get that serum through! It was mush, mush, mush all night! [grabbing the dog and pushing him like a sled dog] Come on, mush, mush, mush, mush, mush! Suddenly, the glacier cracks! There's a roar! Tons of ice! No escape! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! How things been with you? -- Daffy Duck Hunt"

"Ah-ha! Now I've got the drop on you with MY disintegrating pistol! And brother, when it disintegrates, it disintegrates! [pulls trigger; the pistol disintegrates] Heh, what do you know...It disintegrated. [Marvin shoots at him] -- Duck Dodgers In The 24 1/2th Century"

"Yeah. Cute like a stomach pump!"

"SO, A FINE KETTLE OF FISH! HERE I WORK MYSELF DOWN TO THE SKIN AND BONES TRYING TO KEEP THIS GUY ASLEEP! AND WHAT DO YOU DO?! BLOW WHISTLES! JUST WHEN I GOT THINGS SO QUIET, YOU CAN HEAR A PIN DROP! YOU BUST IN HERE AND YOU BUST OUT WITH A WHISTLE AND YOU SNAFU THE WHOLE WORKS! HOW IN THE NAME OF ALL THINGS REASONABLE DO YOU EXPECT A GUY TO GET HIS SLUMBER WHEN A GOOF LIKE YOU GOES AROUND MAKING NOISES LIKE A ONE MAN FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION?! HE NEEDS PEACE AND QUIET!!! IT'S POSITIVELY OUTRAGEOUS! -- A Pest in the House"

"Oh, boy, hunting season again. This year, I'll bag me a four-point grizzly bear or my name's not Fearless Daffy Duck greatest of the present-day hunters. -- Suppressed Duck"

"Shhh! I’m forming a Secret Alliance! Like I said, we vote off everyone else until we're the only ones left! Secret alliance for eternity. Then, I'll dump these losers. I'm winning the whole thing. --Toon Marooned: Survival of the Dimmest"

""Does anybody understand what this duck is saying?" - Who Framed Roger Rabbit"

"Bugs: Eh, what gives, doc? We made thirty-five pictures togetha'. Elmer: Well, as it turns out, I'm secwetwy evil. Daffy: That's showbiz for ya! - Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

""It's supply and demand! They supply the ghost, and I demand the money!" - Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"

"Daffy: You wasted a wish! I wish that burrito was stuck on your big dumb nose! Speedy Gonzales: (the burrito appears on his nose) Help! Get it off. I can't breathe nothing but burrito! Daffy: Well Sam, it looks like we'll have to use your wish to get the burrito off his nose. It's the only humane thing to do. Sam? Sam? Yosemite Sam: Too late, Duck, I already wished for a pirate ship. After I sinks a certain pesky rabbit, I'll come back and pick you up! Daffy: Oooooh! You're despicable! - Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island"

""Too bad you can't practice getting taller, boys!" - Space Jam"

""It just goes to show you, you gotta kill yourself to win an Oswald in this town!" - The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie"

""Sell my Warner Brothers stock! I got an inside tip that Bugs Bunny's about to die!" - Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

""Oh, fear clutches my breast!" - Space Jam"

""What a hypocrite! What a jip! Community service, eh? I'll give 'em community service! I'll see that ingrate ghosts get whiped off the face of the earth! I'll rid the world of disgusting echtoplasmic slime, like J.P. Cubish... (loud thunder) ...er, I mean, NICE echtoplasmic slime, like J.P. Cubish!" - Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"

"(as Bugs fights Marvin outside) "What am I gonna do? What would Damian Drake do? What would Duck Dodgers do?... Wait a minute, I am Duck Dodgers! ("spins" into his Duck Dodgers outfit) Yes! I'm going to be the hero of this picture! (straps one of five rockets on) Duck Dodgers to the rescue! (the rocket blows up; Daffy straps on the second rocket) Duck Dodgers to the... (the rocket blows up; Daffy straps on the third rocket) Duck Dodge... (the rocket blows up; Daffy looks at the fourth rocket) Duck... (the rocket blows up; Daffy suddenly appears outside the ship with the last rocket strapped on, working) It's You-Know-Who to the rescue! It helps if you don't say the name." - Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

""That's the last time I work with somebody with a speech impediment!" - Who Framed Roger Rabbit"

"Daffy: Say, that's the stuff from my office. Mr. Warner: You don't have an office. Mr. Warner's Brother: Not any more. Daffy: Symbolically, this is bad. Please, Brother? Other Brother? Icy she-wolf? Help me, please. I'm too moist and tender to retire. Kate: Let me escort you out. Daffy: Wait! I haven't tried toadying, kowtowing and butt-kissing yet! I'm still begging here! - Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

"DJ Drake: Cool it, duck. This could be dangerous. Daffy: Right, we find Dusty Tails, save your dad, get the diamond, apply kung-fu liberally as needed. - Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

""We've got to get a new agent. We're getting screwed!" - Space Jam"

""Going down! Woo-hoo-hoo! (Michael Jordan shrieking was fall into the ground really fast with a crash, but wasn't hurt.) So...What do you say WE go for a little SPIN?! (Spins around like Michael Jordan, stopped, and brother's ear.)" - Space Jam"

"Daffy: Relax, sister. I don't know the meaning of the word fear! Yosemite Sam: SAY YOUR PRAYERS, DUCK! Daffy: Fear: Noun. A state of terror. Yaaaaah! - Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

"Bugs: Now it's my turn to do an act. Daffy: Go ahead! I'd love to see the audience boo you off the stage! - The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie"

""Hmf! Well, if I'm not going to star in this cartoon, we might as well start the movie." - Gremlins 2: The New Batch"

"NO, FORGET IT! I AM COMING THERE, AND I WILL KILL THE LITTLE WRETCH MYSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELF!!! - Gremlins 2: The New Batch"

"That Cadet buys the worst Christmas presents." - "The Queen is Wild"

"Idios, Muchaca! We will always have Paris..." - "To Love A Duck"

"Well whataya know, she loves me! That's just the advantage I need." - "The Queen is Wild"

"And it hasn't been the same without you. Although it's been eerily similar." - "Duck Departure"

"Yahoo! The grand brassiere is back in business, baby!" - "Pig Planet"

"Daffy: Don't blame me - the Martian gets one solo cartoon per season. Porky: Your milk and Cappuccino, Captain! Daffy: You forgot my Frescatti! - "K-9 Quarry""

"Maybe if I stare at this piece of paper long enough, people will think I can read." - "The Fudd"

"(while trying to lift Porky) "I knew I should've cast Speedy Gonzales as my sidekick!" - "Invictus Interruptus""

"I.Q. Hi: This is I.Q. Hi, calling Duck Dodgers. Daffy: Yeah, I recognize you by now. - "Diva Delivery""

"Daffy: So, what do you think? Could today end our mutual hatred? Marvin: Highly unlikely, Dodgers. Whether at war or peace, I shall always loathe you! Daffy: You shall always love me?! Eeeew! Marvin: I said loathe, you idiot! Daffy: Did not! Marvin: Did too! Daffy: You love a duck! Marvin: I do not! Daffy: Do too!- "Of Course You Know This Means War and Peace Part 1""

"General Z-9: Dodgers, I loathe you! Daffy: You love me? Yuck! What is it with you Martians? - "Of Course You Know This Means War and Peace Part 2""

"Cadet! You're all right... I mean, besides the fact that you seemed to have completely lost your mind." "Of Course You Know This Means War and Peace Part 2"

"Wow! You're brighter than Las Vegas at Christmastime!" - "Pet Peeved"

"So, this is how it ends. Up to my armpits in filth, about to be devoured by a creature I thought would love me forever. Reminds me of my first marriage." - "Pet Peeved"

"Porky: Uh, Captain? Since you're in charge, shouldn't you be in front? Daffy: Nope, that's the first thing they teach you in Protectorate academy. Protect the important people, disposable drones to the front. It's kinda like the pawns in checkers."

"Daffy: I don't believe it! We kill ourselves to pull off an impossible assignment just so some glory hound can swoop in and take all the credit! - "Invictus Interruptus""

"Daffy: Well, kids, don't let anyone tell you this show isn't realistic! - "Invictus Interruptus""

"Porky: But you don't know anything about Martian technology. Daffy: No, but I am good at breaking things. - Duck Dodgers, "Invictus Interruptus""

"Daffy: Greetings Captain, looks like you could use a hand. Captain Star Johnson: Actually no, we can handle... Daffy: My pleasure, Dodgers Out!" Clean Bill of Health""

"Captain Star Johnson: Dodgers, nothing can stop you from being a washout on your time. But wen you're forced to share a seat IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU WOULD ATTEMPT TO ACT LIKE AN OFFICER! Daffy: You know, if I didn't know better...I'd say you had some doubts about my captaining abilities. Captain Star Johnson: I think you are completely devoid of merit. Daffy:Just too bad you don't have the courage to speak your mind... Captain Star Johnson: YOU'RE A DANGER TO YOURSELF AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU! Daffy: Why don't you tell me what you really think Johnson, or ARE YOU TOO SCARED?! Captain Star Johnson: A DISGRACE to all who wear the uniform. A Biological mistake! Daffy: Oh, don't try to sweet-talk me now! Its too late! "Clean Bill of Health""

"Did I miss the Great Pumpkin?! Did he leave us any toys?!" - "Pet Peeved"

"Cutesy wutesy sugar plum? No! Hideous, terrifying monster? Yes!" - "Pet Peeved"

"Ooooooo-eeeee! Sorry to cut off the tunes, fellow vagrants, but I'm Patch Scartissue, and I want you all to see that I ain't afraid of nothin', not even paper cuts! [slits his finger with an envelope] Aaaaaaah!!" [faints] - "Boar to be Riled"

"I tell ya J.F, it'll be a smash! Honey, I Shrunk the Laundry, starring Daffy Duck! Whaddaya think? (is kicked out) Philistines!" - Tiny Toon Adventures, "The Looney Beginning"

"Loud Kiddington: DUCK! Daffy: Will you please knock that off!? Sheesh! A bird could develop a complex around here! - Histeria!, "Hooray for Presidents""

"The Warners'] first cartoon was the most bizarre thing I'd ever seen. If I remember it correctly, eh, they had flypaper stuck on their fannies. [their 1931 cartoon short "Flies in the Ointment" shows that the Warners were having a sticky situation with the flypapers onto their fannies] It was an okay cartoon for a short, but this thing went on for eight hours! Eight hours!" - Animaniacs, "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special"

"Even though you're kind of little, I'll teach you how to spray your spittle!" - Tiny Toon Adventures, "The Looney Beginning"

"Daffy: Plotz!! Mr. Plotz: Daffy, what can I do for you? Daffy: It's this Cat & Birdy show! Mr. Plotz: What about it? Daffy: I demand it be changed to The Duck & Daffy Duckeroonie Daffy Ducky Duck Cartoonie Show! Mr. Plotz: But-- Daffy: No "but"s, Plotz! Change it or I'm walking! Yakko: I've got dibs on his parking space. -Kids' WB! promo"

"This dressing room is so small I have to step outside to change my mind!"

"portable television: The TV is currently showing a baseball game. Looks like a doubleheader."

"sandwich: It's a double-decker. Too bad it wasn't kept refrigerated."

"ledger: Nothing there but lots of double-entry bookkeeping."

"shotgun: It's double-barreled."

"I'll say this once, we're not the same. You took an oath to uphold the law. You help people. I gave that up a long time ago. You don't do what I do. Nobody does. You boys need a role model? His name's Captain America, and he'd be happy to have you.... If I find out you are trying to do what I do, I'll come for you next."

"I was fascinated by the Don Pendleton Executioner character, which was fairly popular at the time, and I wanted to do something that was inspired by that, although not to my mind a copy of it. And while I was doing the Jackal storyline, the opportunity came for a character who would be used by the Jackal to make Spider-Man's life miserable. The Punisher seemed to fit."

"To me, it's disturbing whenever I see authority figures embracing Punisher iconography because the Punisher represents a failure of the Justice system. ... The vigilante anti-hero is fundamentally a critique of the justice system, an example of social failure, so when cops put Punisher skulls on their cars or members of the military wear Punisher skull patches, they're basically sided with an enemy of the system."

"Heidegger, who took Kierkegaard's philosophy further, comes even closer to describing the Punisher: 'Since we can never hope to understand why we're here, if there's even anything to understand, the individual should choose a goal and pursue it wholeheartedly, despite the certainty of death and the meaninglessness of action.' That's sure the Punisher as I conceived him: a man who knows he's going to die and who knows in the big picture his actions will count for nothing, but who pursues his course because this is what he has chosen to do."

"Frank Castle has spent years exacting vengeance for the deaths of his family by punishing criminals everywhere. His skull insignia inspires fear throughout the underworld. But Punisher's appeal rests on more than his ability to do what the rest of Marvel's heroes won't. He's a tragic figure – even a profoundly selfish one in some ways. The sad truth is that Frank Castle can't survive without killing, and his new job fulfills him in ways his family never could."

"Gerry Conway was writing a script and he wanted a character that would turn out to be a hero later on, and he came up with the name the Assassin. And I mentioned that I didn't think we could ever have a comic book where the hero would be called the Assassin, because there's just too much of a negative connotation to that word. And I remembered that, some time ago, I had had a relatively unimportant character ... [who] was one of [the cosmic antagonist] Galactus' robots, and I had called him the Punisher, and it seemed to me that that was a good name for the character Gerry wanted to write—so I said, 'Why not call him the Punisher?' And, since I was the editor [sic; Lee had been named publisher in 1972], Gerry said, 'Okay.'"

"Like Batman, he's motivated by direct personal tragedy, but unlike Batman (most of the time), the men that destroyed his family are alive, known and active criminals. Like Daredevil, Frank Castle looking to clean up the streets of Hell's Kitchen. But unlike Matt Murdock, Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent, Frank doesn't have the skills, influence or education needed to interact with the legal system in any substantive way. Instead, he's just very, very good at killing people, and very, very motivated to do so."

"Thursday is a bad day. Wednesday is quite a good day. Friday is an even better one. But Thursday, whatever the reason, is a day on which my spirit and my resolution, are at their lowest ebb. Yet even worse is any day of the week upon which, after a period of blessed idleness, I come face to face with the prospect of a premature return to my labours."

"For coping with even one quarter of that running course known as 'Marathon'—for coping without frequent halts for refreshment or periodic bouts of vomiting—a man has to dedicate one half of his youthful years to quite intolerable training and endurance. Such dedication is not for me."

"Be it ever so humble there's no place like home for sending one slowly crackers."

"Almost all modern architecture is farce."

"Yet always it is those fictional addenda which will effect the true alchemy."

"Pension: generally understood to mean monies grudgingly bestowed on aging hirelings after a lifetime of occasional devotion to duty"

"Thanatophobia (n): a morbid dread of death, or (sometimes) of the sight of death: a poignant sense of human mortality, almost universal except amongst those living on Olympus."

"Examination: trial; test of knowledge and, as also may be hoped, capacity; close inspection (especially med.)"

"Prosnōpagnoia (n.): the failure of any person to recognize the face of any other person, howsoever recently the aforementioned persons may have mingled in each other's company."

"Hypoglycaemia (n): abnormal reduction of sugar content of the blood — for Diabetes sufferers a condition more difficult to spell than to spot"

"Character (n.) handwriting, style of writing: Shakes. Meas. for M. Here is the hand and seal of the Duke. You know the character, I doubt not"

"Alibi (adv.): in another place, elsewhere"

"Darth Vader—only you can be so bold."

"[via hologram] Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."

"Governor Tarkin! I only expected you to be holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board."

"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"

"Into the garbage chute, flyboy!"

"Will somebody get this walking carpet out of my way?!"

"[referring to the Millenium Falcon] You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"

"[referring to Han Solo] He certainly has courage!"

"This is SOME rescue!"

"I would just as soon kiss a Wookiee!"

"[to Solo] I don't know where you get your delusions, laserbrain."

"Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking, nerf herder!"

"I guess you don't know all about women yet."

"Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited!"

"I happen to like nice men."

"[to Solo, just before he is frozen in carbonite] I love you."

"[to Solo, after thawing him from the carbonite] Someone who loves you."

"We have powerful friends. You're gonna regret this!""

"I know. Somehow…I've always known."

"Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady."

"(commenting on random clips of football/soccer matches in a build up to the upcoming 1994 FIFA World Cup): Shit! Did you see that!? He must have a foot like a traction engine. Striker! And that, was a gooooooal! The proof is in the pudding and in this case the pudding, is a football..."

"Remember, lives matter."

"Could someone clear that shit away, please? It's just, it's in my picture. People may associate it with me."

"Let me tell you something about the Titanic, people forget, people forget that on the Titanic's maiden voyage there were over 1000 miles of uneventful, very pleasurable cruising before it hit the iceberg!"

"Well at this stage of the show, some of my viewers maybe thinking "Alan, You're a liar! You promised that this show would be hot and now you're chatting to three senior citizens." But if I said I am now going to jump into a TARDIS, go back in time and recreate the Berlin Olympics with these three old women, you'd say "Alan, that is hot, we were wrong earlier.""

"You join us live at the Berlin Olympics on "Grandstand" in 1936 on this pleasant summer morning in Nazi Germany. Everyone's here. Hitler's in his box, Jesse Owens just waved to him. He doesn't like that."

"You're not ordinary, you're French!"

"You're sacked! You are sacked, I'm sacking you. In fact, it's happened, it's over, it's already happened, you are a sacked man. You've been sacked. You're the subject of a sacking, I want you off these premises in 10 minutes. Knowing me, Alan Partridge, sacking you, Glenn Ponder. A-ha!"

"Throughout the questions I will be remaining impartial at all times. I will remain Pontius Partridge."

"My face was designed as a leisure accessory."

"You know what this room says to me? Aqua. Which is French for water. It's like being inside an enormous Fox's Glacier Mint, which again, to me, is a bonus."

"Would you like me to lap dance for you?"

"A detective series based in Norwich called "Swallow". Swallow is a detective who tackles vandalism. Bit of a maverick, not afraid to break the law if he thinks it's necessary. He's not a criminal, you know, but he will, perhaps, travel 80mph on the motorway if, for example, he wants to get somewhere quickly...Think about it. No one had heard of Oxford before Inspector Morse."

"Monkey Tennis?"

"mmmmm Ladyboys."

"Smell my cheese, you mother!"

"That was Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, a song in which Joni complains they 'Paved paradise to put up a parking lot', a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song."

"Let battle commence!"

"(talking to representative of a farming union): If you see a lovely field with a family having a picnic, and there's a nice pond in it, you fill in the pond with concrete, you plough the family into the field, you blow up the tree, and use the leaves to make a dress for your wife who's also your brother."

"Jurassic Park!"

"I’m 47, my girlfriend's 33; she's 14 years younger than me: Back of the net!"

"I've got a girlfriend, she's only 33. Cashback!"

"Britain has some of the safest roads in Europe. But this isn't Britain...This is der Autobahn!"

"Right, I'll tell you an anecdote. In 1974 I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded; I found myself in a last-minute rush for the one remaining seat beside a tall, good-looking man with collar-length hair, it was the seventies; buckaroo! I looked up and saw it was none other than Peter Purves, it was the height of his Blue Peter career. He said, "You jammy bastard" and quick as a flash, I replied, "Don't be blue, Peter!" Needless to say, I had the last laugh, now fuck off!"

"Not my words Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine!"

"I can read you like a book, and not a very good book. Especially no Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNabb, which actually improves with every read."

"Lynn! I've pierced my foot on a spike!"

"I realised I had nothing to worry about. The man was a perfect gentleman. But if you told me 25 years ago that I would be talking about rigid inflatable hulls with Dale Winton I would probably have spat at you."

"But not too informal; it's not Nigel Pinsent's "In Depth", but neither is it Wally Banter's Junk-Box"

"Kids like to go to the zoo but the beasts I like to look at are made of zinc galvanised steel - they're cars."

"I would've taken it off sooner but I was having a fascinating conversation with the proud father of Norfolk's most sun-tanned child. Just passed his details on to the Social Services."

"Later we'll be taking dedications for anyone wrongly turned down for planning permission. Also, I'll be asking: Which is the worst monger? Fish, iron, rumour or war?"

"Never, never criticise Muslims. Only Christians. And Jews a little bit."

"That was soft rock cocaine enthusiasts, Fleetwood Mac."

"Lynn, get rid of her. She's a drunk racist. I'll tolerate one, but not both."

"Do I look like I suffer from panic attacks? I've had one panic attack in a car wash. It was a perfect storm of no sleep, no wife, and angry brushes whirring towards me. By the time the giant hair dryer came on, I was in the footwell."

"Let's not get into who hit who or, you know, who may have deserved it."

"I'm not retreating, Pat's tugging me off."

"As far as I'm concerned, Neil Diamond will always be King of the Jews."

"It is difficult to classify the characteristics of the Goof into columns of the physical and mental, because they interweave, reflect and enhance one another. Therefore, it will probably be best to mention everything all at once. Think of the Goof as a composite of an everlasting optimist, a gullible Good Samaritan, a halfwit and a shiftless, good-natured hick."

"All three "King Kongs"--the classic 1933 version starring Fay Wray, the campy 1976 version starring Jessica Lange and the current epic by "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson--feature a big, black ape who falls in love with a willowy white woman. The unspoken fear about black-white sexual relations has been remarked on by film historians and cultural critics ever since. The 1933 original stoked anxieties about black male hypersexuality. Kong snatches Ann Darrow up and makes off with her as she screams in horror. And the film's supposedly African natives--who offer the heroine up to the giant ape--came from what some critics called the ooga-booga(ph) school of thespian arts. Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton says the 2005 "Kong", starring a dewy, blond Naomi Watts, shows the story line hasn't evolved all that much."

"Intellectuals have attempted to read certain symbolisms into King Kong. Kong represents a Depression-stricken people lashing out against society; Kong is a Christ figure crucified on a stage before an audience of spectators; Kong symbolizes the black man and his conflict against his white oppressors; Kong on the Empire State Building depicts the most spectacular phallic symbol ever captured by film; and so on. Cooper has disavowed these "insights" into his film; he was not the kind of person to consider injecting messages into his productions. … Whatever messages might lurk beneath the film's surface were entirely coincidental on Cooper's part or, at best, subliminal."

"The Ymir and Kong before him are both creatures wrenched from their natural environment against their will and finally killed by man. Although these creatures must always die, they should go out with a touch of pathos."

"Remember: KING KONG Died for your Sins."

"King Kong (1933 film)"

"Son of Kong"

"King Kong vs. Godzilla"

"King Kong Escapes"

"King Kong (1976 film)"

"King Kong Lives"

"The Mighty Kong"

"King Kong (2005 film)"

"Kong: Skull Island"

"Godzilla vs. Kong"

"Mighty Mouse: (sung) Here I come to save the day! (recurring catchphrase)"

"Sharky: (to Harry) Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!"

"While talking to a pregnant fan:"

"To a fan in a Darth Vader costume (on the chestbar):"

"First encounter with Blackwolf the Dragonmaster, self-proclaimed Unofficial Wizard of New York City:"

"From that same encounter:"

"Addressing the crowd at the premiere for Attack Of The Clones:"

"When looking at a wedding organized in the waiting queue, Triumph notices the Jedi create a tunnel with their light sabers, while quickly repeatedly hitting the opposite person's tool. His description:"

"Later at the same premiere"

"Hurled at an overweight man:"

"Addressing a French person who could not speak English:"

"Triumph interviews fans, the band, and sings on stage with the band. To Bon Jovi:"

"Triumph guest stars on the show and interviews celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker, and hurls insults at Kathie Lee Gifford. When asked on the show which breed of dog is the heaviest:"

"He returned after the re-design of the set"

"Triumph: "The poopy stench of media scum is neutralized by the sweet and pungent aroma of lunacy that is the Michael Jackson fan.""

"To a fan videotaping:"

"Triumph: "Of course, until the trial's over, none of us can really know whether Michael Jackson is innocent or guilty. But there's one thing we do know -- he's guilty.""

"When a Jackson fan dressed as a clown declines to be interviewed by Triumph:"

"Curious to know what a fellow reporter thinks of the trial hearings to date, Triumph asks:"

"Commenting on the television show American Idol"

"Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible..."

"I believe in Jim Gordon. I believe in Harvey Dent. I believe in Gotham City."

"[To Superman] I want you to remember Clark, In all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember my hand at your throat, I want you to remember the one man who beat you."

"[To Mutant Leader] You don't get it, boy... this isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon."

"Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are."

"Criminals are a terror. Hearts of the night. I must disguise my terror. Criminals are cowardly. A superstitious terrible omen. A cowardly lot. My disguise must strike terror. I must be black. Terrible. Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. I must be a creature. I must be a creature of the night. Mommy's dead. Daddy's dead. Brucie's dead. I shall become a bat."

"That vase was from the Ming Dynasty. Alfred will forgive me... eventually."

"Batman: (to the Joker) Hello. I came to talk. I've been thinking lately. About you and me. About what's going to happen to us in the end. We're going to kill each other, aren't we? Perhaps you'll kill me. Perhaps I'll kill you. Perhaps sooner. Perhaps later."

"Batman: (to the Joker) Don't you understand? I don't want to hurt you. I don't want either of us to end up killing the other. But we're both running out of alternatives, and we both know it. Maybe it all hinges on tonight. Maybe this is our last chance to sort this whole bloody mess out. If you don't take it, then we're both locked onto a suicide course. Both of us. To the death. It doesn't have to end like that. I don't know what it was that bent your life out of shape, but who knows? Maybe I've been there too. Maybe I can help. We could work together. I could rehabilitate you. You needn't be out there on the edge anymore. You needn't be alone. We don't have to kill each other. What do you say?"

"Without warning, it comes...crashing through the window of your study, and mine...I have seen it before...somewhere. It frightened me as a boy... frightened me. Yes, father. I shall become a bat."

"Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on -- none of you are safe."

"I made a promise on the grave of my parents that I would rid this city of the evil that took their lives. By day, I am Bruce Wayne, billionaire philanthropist. At night, criminals, a cowardly and superstitious lot, call me... Batman."

"Criminals, by nature, are a cowardly and superstitious lot. To instill fear into their hearts, I became a bat. A monster in the night. And in doing so, have I become the very thing that all monsters become - alone?"

"Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person... and deep down, I'm not."

"They say that when you kill a man you not only take away what he was, but all he will ever be."

"I have been to too many funerals."

"by Jeph Loeb with art by Jim Lee"

"People think it's an obsession. A compulsion. As if there were an irresistible impulse to act. It's never been like that. I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either."

"(to Superman) Everyone looks up to you. They listen to you. If you tell them to fight, they'll fight. But they need to be inspired. And let's face it "Superman"... the last time you really inspired anyone -- was when you were dead."

"(to the Joker) And when you're sitting here alone in the middle of the night, unsleeping in the dark, remember -- every breath you take you owe to me."

"And as the sun, that had been too afraid to show its face in this city, started to turn the black into grey, I smiled. Not out of happiness. But because I knew... that one day, I wouldn't have to do this anymore. One day, I could stop fighting. Because one day... I would win. One day, there will be no pain, no loss, no crime. Because of me, because I fight. For you. One day, I will win."

"Did I finally reach the limits of reason? And find the Devil waiting? And was that fear in his eye?"

"[referring to Tatooine] Well, if there's a bright center in the universe, you're on the planet it's farthest from."

"[seeing Leia for the first time, but via hologram] Who is she? She's beautiful!"

"My father didn't fight in the Clone Wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter."

"[to Obi-Wan Kenobi] It looks like the Sandpeople did it. Look, here are Gaffi sticks, Bantha tracks. It's just, I never heard of them hitting anything this big before."

"[to Obi-Wan Kenobi] I want to come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing here for me now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father!"

"10,000?!? We could almost buy our own ship for that!"

"[seeing the Millennium Falcon for the first time] What a piece of junk!"

"You know, I could almost see something for a moment. I could almost see the remote!"

"[to Han Solo and Chewbacca] You know, between his howling and your blasting, it's a wonder the whole station doesn't know we're here!"

"[meeting Leia] I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you!"

"[about firing a missile into the Death Star's one weakness] It's not impossible. I used to bulls-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they're not much bigger than two meters!"

"[Upon witnessing the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi] Nooo!"

"Whoah, whoah! Steady! Hey! Steady, girl! Hey, whatsa matter? You smell something? [before being attacked by a wampa]"

"[about Dagobah] This place gives me the creeps! Still... there's something familiar about this place."

"[To Yoda, during Jedi training] You want the impossible!"

"[promising Obi-Wan and Yoda he'll complete his training as he leaves to confront Vader] I will, and I'll return! I promise!"

"[Dueling with Vader] I think you'll find I'm full of surprises!"

"[Upon learning that Vader is his father] Nooo!"

"[employing a Jedi mind trick on Jabba's guards] You will take me to Jabba now."

"I must be allowed to speak."

"Nevertheless, I am taking Captain Solo, and his friends. You can either profit from this, or be destroyed. It's your choice, but I warn you not to underestimate my powers."

"You should've bargained with me, Jabba. This'll be the last mistake you'll ever make!"

"There's a promise I have to keep... to an old friend."

"Leia! Leia is my sister!"

"[the Ewoks think C-3PO is a god] Threepio, tell them that if they don't do as you wish, you will become angry and use your magic. Just tell them!"

"[After Leia tells him her memory of their mother] I have no memory of my mother; I never knew her..."

"I've accepted the truth that you were once Anakin Skywalker, my father."

"[when Vader refuses to renounce the dark side] Then my father is truly dead."

"[to the Emperor] You're wrong. Soon, I'll be dead, and you with me."

"You've failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

"Up, up, and away!"

"If I go crazy then will you still Call me Superman If I’m alive and well, will you be There a-holding my hand I’ll keep you by my side With my superhuman might Kryptonite."

"Well I know what I've been told You've to break free to break the mold But I can't do this all on my own No, I can't do this all on my own I know, that I'm no Superman."

"I didn't bother getting into it with Tarantino about the Superman thing, because it's not really true," chuckles Carradine. "It's not unique. The idea that Superman's analysis, whatever you want to call it, his image of the human race is Clark Kent, weak, a coward, fumbling, wearing glasses, uncertain of himself, not able to get a girl, all those kinds of things. That's his idea about us and that's the point that Tarantino was trying to make. But the idea of Superman being unique in that he was born Superman, which is another point that Tarantino's trying to make, that that's what these people [Bill, etc.] are, these people are born warriors and they can't help it, but there's also the Silver Surfer, right? And there's Sub-Mariner..."

"None of us really have a choice. The warrior does not have a choice. It's pre-destined, you can't help it. Superman didn't... well, he did have a choice. You know, he could have been a bad guy. And the other thing about Superman that I don't think Quentin pointed out and that isn't part of this movie and maybe isn't part of Quentin, is that even though Superman sees us as weak jellyfish, he loves us. And he wants to take care of us. That's really the big essence of Superman. I prefer Batman. I like the meanness of him, the darkness of him."

"I think Superman's a loner. Without a doubt. I think he recognizes that he has this responsibility, because of the power that he has, and that he has to bear it by himself. And to make sure that he is using it for good and not for evil. He has to keep in check his human emotions, though he's not really a human – because those are the things about living on Earth that can get us in trouble. Greed, power, love -- all those things that take us off the tracks."

"I think Superman likes Batman. In his own private way, he gets a kick out of the fact that he can count on Batman being cynical and pessimistic, and that he sort of relies on that probably in the way you rely on certain friends or family members to do certain things that you shake your head and go, “Oh, jeez.”"

"Villains are really what give comic stories their flavor. Honestly, I think Superman would be quite dull without a really great villain. Batman, maybe not so much, because he's such a twisted character himself. He's struggling with a lot of inner demons. But Superman is the kind of guy who's impossible to hate, because he's a guy's guy, and he's straightforward. He can be a little sarcastic and he has a wryness about him. But he doesn't have a lot of dark corners. So I think that contrasting him with someone like Darkseid, who's a real badass villain, absolutely makes the script more interesting."

"You know, I feel badly that I did not realize how important Superman was to a lot of people. I had a really good time doing it. I didn’t take it as seriously as I perhaps should have because—I mean, I thought I was doing something for kids, right? I didn’t realize that there was this whole Comic-Con thing going on, that people really took that seriously."

"Superman has a lot of power and he doesn’t have to be showy, rather he carries that confidence quietly. He knows what he can do. I certainly am not capable of pulling that off in my own life. But knowing that, I can fake that attitude to help me out now and then."

"Superman has always defended vulnerable communities and he’s always been political, says Joseph Darowski, a professor at Brigham Young University. Darowski is also a comic historian and the editor of “The Ages of Superman: Essays on the Man of Steel in Changing Times.” “It’s an inevitable part of the comic book industry that politics is going to seep in,” Darowski says. “There’s always some reflection of what’s going on on the world stage.” In the 1940s, Superman tried to stop World War II. He’s taken on corrupt politicians and got political during the Cold War, too. “As America gets engaged in the space race, suddenly Superman’s enemies are coming from the stars more frequently,” Darowski says. “Kryptonite and other forms of radiation creeps into the stories after the dropping of the atomic bomb. During the Cold War and the nuclear arms race, Kryptonite becomes much more commonly used in Super-man stories, and villains who get their power through radiation also become much more common. These geopolitical events end up being adapted in fantastic ways into the Superman comics.”"

"If I had to differentiate between [Batman and Superman], I'd say Superman is sort of about hope. You've got this guy who's an alien and not truly human, but he personifies all the best qualities of humanity. He's sort of an example of what it would be nice to be like. We would all like to be like Superman. We would all like to have power, compassion, the ability to settle problems in a good way, and maybe [be able to] wink to ourselves about how nobody else besides us knows we really have this secret power and we keep it ourselves. There's not a lot of angst with Superman. If there is, it's more like, "I wish I could tell Lois who I really was." Batman is how you'd like to be if you [could] break someone's neck: "I'm pissed off, and I want to go out and do something about it." Superman waits for trouble to happen, and then he goes off and stops the problem. Batman's looking for trouble; he doesn't really start it, but he's out there looking. And if he sees something going on, he just jumps into the middle of it."

"He (Reeve) was put on this Earth for... a lot of reasons. He wasn't just here to be an actor. He was Superman."

"[Jews needed] a hero who could protect us against an almost invincible force. So [Siegel and Shuster] created an invincible hero."

"You see all these super hero movies, and super heroes have a moral code that they live by and it seemed like in Kick-Ass, that wasn’t the case. It was survival on the streets and still try to fight crime. I think that’s a more realistic version of what vigilantes would be. I don’t think we’ll see a Superman ever flying in the sky or anything like that, and if that does happen, I don’t think the outcome that we watch in the movies is gonna be the outcome in real life. I think we’d send the army after this person, and the navy, and the air force, and the marines, after this person."

"Christopher Reeve is Superman, right here, right now... Reeve shows us the power, the possibilities and the results of a fierce and persistent commitment to growth and development. With God's help, Reeve is Superman because: 1. He survived the horse riding accident and challenged himself physically during countless months of painful physical therapy. 2. Because he remained committed to his role as a loving husband and doting father 3. Because he kept hope alive in the face of injury and paralysis that can destroy all hope-in the face of having to depend on his wife and many others to feed, wash, change, move and carry him to the doctor. 4. Because he came to the conclusion that God still had something for him to do... Christopher Reeve turned his focus away from his paralysis and began figuring out how he could live afresh. Reeve decided that a lot of people might like to hear his story. Instead of limiting the communication of his story to letters, books and videos subject to edit, Reeve chose the lecture circuit. That meant showing up in public, allowing the public to gawk at his incapacity, talking about his condition and sharing lessons learned. Thus, Christopher Reeve has become Superman for real."

"Jerry Siegel, an intellectually and physically circumcised chap who has his headquarters in New York. . . The inventive Israelite named this pleasant guy with an overdeveloped body and underdeveloped mind “Superman..”"

"I was enamored with Superman because I thought, being Canadian and from Toronto, that the original series was based around Toronto. I remember as a kid being told that. That the Daily Planet was the Star Newspaper and the whole idea was based around that kind of small cosmopolitan city so that caught my attention."

"Everyone’s like, ‘He’s so powerful, I can’t relate to him.’ Are you kidding me? He’s the most relatable character ever. He grew up on a farm, he doesn’t have a lot of friends, feels isolated, he can’t tell everybody what his secrets are. He’s a great character. He feels overlooked — who hasn’t felt overlooked, or wanted to connect with people? All social media is, is people wanting to connect with other people. That’s all it is. Because people long to connect with other people. And Superman is the embodiment of that. He’s more relevant now than ever."

"When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It’s just part of the American scene. Superman is going to live forever. They’ll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt in that respect I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn’t going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly."

"A very young person can come up with an idea— well, Superman is the classic example, see? All these businessmen are at the top of the pyramid, but the entire pyramid is resting on two little stones, and the pyramid denies the existence of these stones because it’s so big. It’s loaded with officials, but the little stones are the ones that are holding it up because that’s where the support is coming from, and I was in the same position."

"Superman has, despite the fact that he is a super-being, emotions just like everyone else. He's not a robot. If I were a super-being, I'd just be a human being with super-powers, which is the way I see Superman. He's a human being with super-powers and he can be lonely; he has emotions, he can be in love, he can hate people. He hates evil."

"Superman is invincible, and Superman is the first super-being to come into literary life. There he is alone. That's the way I see him. If I were a Superman among two billion people, despite the fact that I was a super-being, I'd feel pretty insecure. For instance, say I was a white hunter in Africa and I were to walk into a cannibal village. Despite the fact that I had a gun and they didn't, despite the fact that I had ammunition and they didn't, I'd feel pretty insecure, despite the fact that I could probably shoot my way out. Superman is alone in our world."

"Superman obeys the Talmudic injunction to do good for its own sake and heal the world where he can."

"Superman is arguably the most powerful person on the planet, but how long can he sit at his desk with someone breathing down his neck and treating him like the least important person in the world?"

"Rather than Clark be this clownish suit that Superman puts on, we're going to really see Clark come into his own in the next few years as far as being a guy who takes to the Internet and to the airwaves and starts speaking an unvarnished truth."

"[S]cholarship frequently appears to pay little attention to the tendency and credibility of sec-ondary sources that confirm their hypothesis. This is nowhere clearer or more troubling than in the instances where Nazi propaganda is cited by popular and academic writers as “recognition” of Superman’s “Jewish roots” and as “highlighting” his creators’ Jewish heritage (Weinstein 25–26; Tye 66; “Surnames”). Less dramatically, popular “Judeocentric” (Fingeroth 25) books are problematic only to the extent that they are uncritically used in academic work. The works of writers like Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, Danny Fingeroth, and Arie Kaplan are not tested for schol-arly rigor or quality and, most importantly, do not aspire to academic rigor. When these generic differences are ignored and they are cited as authoritative sources (e. g. Malcolm 159n18; Royal 1n2), parochial cultural myths can be disseminated into comics scholarship. With repetition, they can become naturalized, possibly muddling the historical record and making new insights into historical connections between comics and identity increasingly inaccessible."

"I am a fan of anybody who can make a living in his underwear."

"The 2 wishes behind Superman are certainly the soundest of all; they are, in fact, our national aspirations at the moment--to develop unbeatable national might, and to use this great power, when we get it, to protect innocent, peace-loving people from destructive, ruthless evil. You don’t think for a minute that it is wrong to imagine the fulfillment of those two aspirations for the United States of America do you? Then why do should it be wrong or harmful for children to imagine the same things for themselves, personally when they read ‘Superman’?"

"A man who can see across the planet and wring diamonds from its anthracite."

"Mark Waid had him as a vegetarian, he sort of ratified it and then people were really angry because they used to say in the 70s his favourite food was beef bourguignon. But I kind of think of course he would be a vegetarian, I mean he would find it hard not to be. He's a super kid who grew up with animals and I'm sure he'd empathise with them pretty early on and just not be. ` Mark Waid had him as a vegetarian, he sort of ratified it and then people were really angry because they used to say in the 70s his favourite food was beef bourguignon. But I kind of think of course he would be a vegetarian, I mean he would find it hard not to be. He's a super kid who grew up with animals and I'm sure he'd empathise with them pretty early on and just not be."

"When Superman was created during the Great Depression, he was the champion of the oppressed and fought on the side of the working man. He was lawless. If you were a wife beater, he’d throw you out the window. If you were a corrupt congressman, he’d swing you from the rooftops until you confessed. I think it appealed to people who were losing their jobs to machines: Suddenly you had Superman wrecking machines and punching robots. But his popularity has declined—nobody wants to be the son of a farmer now. American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he’s too powerful; you can’t give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman’s relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it’s still a story about your relatives visiting."

"As an outsider, Superman had a unique view of the forces of good and evil shaping his new world. Although he gained a new identity and built a successful career in America, he isn't cele-brated for being an assimilated refugee; he’s beloved because he used his abilities to improve and protect the society that gave him refuge."

"Superman is more than just an American, but he is no longer Kryptonian either. His identity is shaped both by where he came from and the strong morals and American values instilled in him by his adoptive parents. He inherited his abilities from Krypton ... but it was the Kents who in-spired him to become a hero. Superman was something new and special ... and not just be-cause he had superpowers. Apart from his normal crime-fighting activity, he spoke out against issues including social injustice, corruption, domestic violence and racial inequality. During World War II, he went to Europe to fight the Nazis and fascists. Then he returned the U.S. to take on white supremacists. Superman’s story is the ultimate example of an immigrant who makes his new home better. America's favorite superhero is an immigrant, and that's only fitting because America is a nation made up of people from all over the world—people blending their contributions and creating something new in the process."

"Contrary to the rumours that you've heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth."

"When Superman and Batman came to Japan, it was right after the war, right? Together with the G.I.s. In other words, our height and theirs was completely different. We were totally overwhelmed physically, and got this complex about being unable to compete with White people. It was just then that Superman arrived, the White man’s representative, and I thought who the hell does he think he is? And then Lois Lane, the classic American beauty. Even her outfit and her makeup were like a foreign woman’s. Of course today Japanese make themselves up more like foreigners than foreigners do. Ha ha ha."

"Ha ha ha. But at the time, everyone in Superman looked like an alien from another planet. Compared with that, Mickey Mouse was just an animal, and so was easier to use. That’s the side I got consumed with. So just maybe, had I felt more in common with Superman, my drawing style would have been different."

"When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend. So this is the next best thing. I get to pretend to be Superman’s girlfriend. Although the older I’ve become, I’ve sort of decided that I would rather be Superman myself. So I’m trying (she snickers). But even my first memory of a super hero was of Superman, because I had a crush on him. Well, it was on Clark Kent, Superman and Christopher Reeve, all rolled into one."

"Superman, a native of the fictional planet of “Krypton,” landed on Earth as an infant and some suggest that he would therefore be eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, DACA. President Trump recently announced that he would end the program, though he called on Congress to provide a new path for DACA holders."

"The key word for me on him is "inspiration." He is a leader by inspiration. He sets an example. It's quite important that people realize that I don't see him as a glad-handing show-off, a one-man vigilante force who rights every wrong. Basically, he's a pacifist, a man who comes along and says, 'What can I do to help?' He stands on the sidelines until there is real trouble. He does not want to get involved unless it's absolutely necessary because he thinks people should learn to make their own decisions."

"Superman is nothing more than a popular retelling of the Christ story, or Greek mythology. It's an archetype, watered down and made in vivid colors for twelve-year-old's mentality. It's pop mythology, which extends to the actor, then seeps over to a demand that that actor reflect the needs of the worshipers. The worship doesn't only go on in the temples — it goes on in the streets, and restaurants, in magazines. But, you know, I'm from New Jersey, I'm not from Olympus or Krypton, so back off 'cause I can't take the responsibility."

"What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely."

"He's a fairy, I do suppose, flying through the air in pantyhose. He may be sexy, or even cute, but he looks like a sucka in a blue and red suit."

"To me, now and forever, Superman is the guy. If there's only one guy, this is the guy. There's no other guys, there's no better guys, there's nobody competing with this guy. I don't care if he's dead, alive, quadrupled, under a red sun, yellow sun, he's Superman and that's it, case closed."

"If only I could fly..."

"The story would begin with you as a child on far-off planet Krypton. Like the others of that world, you had super-powers. The child’s scientist-father was mocked and denounced by the Science Council. They did not believe his claim that Krypton would soon explode from internal stresses. Convinced that his prediction was valid, the boy’s father had been constructing a model rocket ship. As the planet began to perish, the baby’s parents knew its end was close. There was not space enough for three people in the small model craft. They put the baby into it. The mother chose to remain on the doomed planet with the man she loved, and die with him. Tearfully, hoping that their baby boy would survive, they launched the craft toward the planet Earth. Shortly, Krypton exploded and its millions of inhabitants were destroyed."

"What led me into creating Superman in the early thirties? … Hearing and reading of the oppression and slaughter of helpless, oppressed Jews in Nazi Germany … seeing movies depicting the horrors of privation suffered by the downtrodden … I had the great urge to help… help the downtrodden masses, somehow. How could I help them when I could barely help myself? Superman was the answer. ~ Jerry Siegel"

"The interesting thing about the Man of Steel was that regardless of how extraordinary the mortals of Earth thought him to be, the Kryptonians didn’t think of themselves as super at all when they were together on their home planet. Why? Because on Krypton, everyone was strong. Gilbert and Sullivan said it best in their operetta, The Gondoliers, when the Grand Inquisitor proclaimed, “If everybody’s somebody, then no-one’s anybody.” But when a Kryptonian left the home planet and came to live with the mortals of Earth, the difference was striking."

"Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he is Superman. His alter ego Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak. He's unsure of himself. He's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race."

"The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman — who is only a mere superhero."

"Superman represents an instinctive problem that we are all born and grown up with, that we can fly ─ after all, we can fly now; we couldn't before ─ and that we can carry on all kinds of scientific investigations, that we can stop crime, which Superman does, and that we can have a good influence on the world, and that we can be protected by the powerful influences in the world which may be our own parents, or may be the authorities, or what not."

"So I advised them that in my experience children throughout the ages, long before Superman existed, tried, to fly, and also it has been my specific experience, since I have been at Bellevue Hospital, that certain children with certain emotional problems are particularly preoccupied with the problem of flying, both fascinated by it, and fearful of it. And we frequently have on our ward at Bellevue the problem of making Superman capes in occupational therapy and then the children wearing them and fighting over them and one thing or another ─ and only about 3 months ago we had such, what we call epidemic, and a number of children were hurt because they tried to fly off the top of radiators or off the top of bookcases or what not and got bumps."

"There is another reason why Superman has had good influence. That is the years of continuity of the Superman character. The children know that Superman will always come out on the right side. On that, I can give you another story about what they wanted to do. At the end of the Second World War we bad the problem of a certain number of soldiers coming home as amputees. One of the script writers got the bright idea that we ought to prepare children for their fathers coming home as amputees by having one of the characters─ I don’t think it was Superman ─ one of the others ─ have an accident and lose his leg. They wanted to know what I thought about that idea. I said I thought it was absolutely terrible because I felt that the children loved this character and, after all, how many children were going to have to face the question of an amputee father? Certainly there are far better ways of preparing such children for such a father than to have to shock the whole comic reading children public. So I disapproved of it."

"Jerry and Joe’s story of the Super-Man-that diabolical scientist who conducted gruesome experiments on unsuspecting homeless men-was still incubating in their minds. Then, according to Superman lore, late one night in the summer of 1934, the answer hit Jerry like a lightning bolt. They had it backward. The world had no need for an evil superman. The world needed a good superman-a trustworthy and powerful ally who would come to the rescue of regular people by protecting them from ruthless criminals, cheating businessmen, and corrupt politicians. With millions of people out of work, the streets full of crime, the stock market in ruins, and a war brewing in Europe, readers were starved for hope, inspiration, and a sense of power. A good superman could provide all of that. ACCORDING TO THE LORE, the essence of the character-the one the world would come to know-flashed into Jerry’s mind that restless night with the force of one of those sci-fi meteors crashing to Earth. In point of fact, the epiphany of the good superman sparked a long collaboration that would lead to the iteration of the character known today."

"The few publishers who considered the proposal rejected it. Frustrated with the failure, Joe went into a rage and began destroying the manuscript, Jerry intervened but managed to save only the cover. The cover, showing the Superman leaping at a gun-wielding thug, was eerily reminiscent of Mitchell Siegel’s death. Still not quite right. The work continued. As the writer, Jerry took the lead in developing the now-classic story line that finally emerged. Superman is born on the planet Krypton. His scientist father places him in a small rocket ship and launches him toward Earth just moments before Krypton erupts in devastating earthquakes and explosions that kill all the inhabitants. The spacecraft lands on earth, where people discover the baby and take him to an orphanage in a small Midwestern town. A family named Kent adopts him, gives him the name of Clark, and raises him on a farm. After realizing the possibilities of his superhuman powers, Clark moves to the big city of Metropolis and becomes a reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper. In times of trouble Clark sheds his street clothes and peels off his glasses to become Superman. He uses his powers to leap great heights, to hoist huge weights, to deflect bullets, to soar into the sky, and to subdue criminals. His only motives are to protect the innocent, to bring the guilty to justice, ad to crusade for a better world. After saving the day, Superman returns to his guise as the mild-mannered Clark, who works at the newspaper with a gutsy “girl reporter” named Lois Lane. But Lois has little time for bespectacled, nerdy Clark. She only has eyes for Superman. Sensing that the character was special, the two creators worked feverishly to fill in the details of his persona. Before long the full picture was on the page. Superman had his rugged good looks, his shock of blue-black hair, his muscular physique, his flowing red cape, and the bold S insignia on his chest. Joe designed his uniform as a cross between a spaceman suit and a classic circus performer outfit-down to the blue tights, red shorts, and cape. He skillfully captured each of Superman’s actions in single comic panels: the caped crusader raising his arms toward the heavens, leaping off the ground with incredible strength, soaring upward at supersonic speed, and landing with both feet firmly planted on the ground. The Man of Steel-also called the Man of Tomorrow in those early days-stands tall, hands on his hips, bullets bouncing off his chest, as befuddled, gun-packing gangsters fire shot after harmless shot. In time the classic image would evolve: The handsome, smiling superhero would save Lois Lane from all kinds of danger, hoist her in his arms, soar over the flickering lights o Metropolis, and deliver her safely home."

"To breathe life into the Superman character, Jerry and Joe drew upon their love of science fiction, their passion for movies, their fascination for books, and their experienced growing up Jewish during the Great Depression. The Greek and Roman myths they learned at school featured heroes with superhuman strength. Strange visitors from distant planets were common in the science fiction stories they devoured night and day. Daredevil heroes clad in masks and capes were all the rage in the movies they watched at the Crown and the Uptown. Even heroes with dual identities were commonplace on the screen and in print. The silent screen character Zorro was the alter ego of Don Diego de la Vega, a sissified aristocrat who ate, drank and dressed the dandy to throw off suspicion of his role as the night-riding avenger. The Shadow, a pulp magazine character, was the alter ego off Kent Allard, a famed pilot who fought for the French during World War I. Just as the name Clark Kent was a cross between actors Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, the name of the mythical city of Metropolis came from the 1927 silent film of the same name. For Superman, the magic was in the mix. Jerry and Joe’s Jewish heritage deeply influenced the makeup of Superman too. The all-American superhero reflected many of the beliefs and values of Jewish immigrants of the day. Like them, Superman had come to America from a foreign world. Like them, he longed to fit in to his strange new surroundings. Superman also seemed to embody the Jewish principle of tzedakah-a command to serve the less fortunate and to stand up for the weak and exploited-and the concept of “tikkun olam”, the mandate to do good works (literally, to “repair a broken world”). Before Superman is blasted off the dying planet of Krypton, Superman’s father, Joe-El, names his son Kal-El In ancient Hebrew, the suffix ”El” means “all that is God.” Then there is the Moses connection. Just before Krypton explodes Superman’s parents place him in a crib-size rocket and launch him toward Earth to be raised by loving strangers. In the Old Testament, after Pharoh decrees that all newborn Jewish males must be killed, Moses’s mother places him in a crib-size basket and launches him down the Nile River to be raised by others. Just as Pharaoh’s daughter rescues the infant Moses from the bulrushes and nurtures him as her own, the Kents find and raise Superman on Earth. The Superman story also resembles the tale of Rabbi Maharal of Prague, who created his own superman, called the Golem, to protect the people of the Jewish ghetto from hostile Christians."

"While Superman was a complex conglomeration of influences, Jerry and Joe left plenty to reader’s imaginations. What Superman “wasn’t” was just as important as what he was. The character had no clear ethnic background, no hint of an accent or dialect, no stated religious preference, and no political affiliation. The Superman character offered a little bit to everyone. Coming from a distant planet, he was the ultimate foreigner. Raised in the Midwestern heartland, he was the quintessential American. Growing up in a small town, he was rural at heart. Moving to a big city, he became more sophisticated and worldly. He was both weak and strong. Hi meek, mild alter ego, Clark Kent, was a sheepish bumbler, but he was always ready to transform himself into the all-powerful superhero. So Superman was relevant to the prairie farmer, the urban factory worker, the white-collar insurance salesman, the hardworking waitress, and the struggling immigrant. Millions or ordinary people struggling through the Depression could imagine themselves shedding their plain, run-of-the mill exteriors to reveal their real power within. True, Superman had descended from the heavens with the power of a god. His intention was godly too-to protect humanity from its own worst instincts. But Superman had characteristics the masses could relate to. He could beam with a smile, burst into anger, and form lasting friendships. Beneath it all Superman seemed like a regular guy. Superman was also a creation of his times. To keep up with those times, Jerry and Joe often spent Saturdays flipping through out-of-town newspapers and national newsmagazines for ideas at the Cleveland Public Library. The headlines described crisis after crisis. The New York Stock Exchange had lost 90 percent of its value Millions of Americans were out of work, a Midwestern drought had engulfed prairie farms in the Dust Bowl, and desperate farmers had to pack up their starving families and head to California to start anew. The international news was no more comforting. Headlines warned of economic collapse in global markets, the rise of fascist regimes in Europe, and the new communist experiment in the Soviet Union. The whole world seemed to be heading toward an explosion."

"In his popular fireside chats, broadcast on all the major radio networks in an era before the invention of television, Roosevelt spoke in plain language that resonated with common men and women. As children of the Depression, Jerry and Joe saw hope in FDR’s pledge to help the average person cope with the “hazards and vicissitudes of life,” to provide some measure of protection “to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.” Superman could get behind goals like that."

"So Jerry and Joe plucked elements from the world around them to stir into their Superman stew. For the most part however, Superman’s millions of fans would ignore his origins. For them the Man of Steel would simply be the defender of the little man and woman-and a big problem for the forces of evil in the world."

"SUPERMAN was introduced to the world in 1938 as the Champion of the Oppressed. In time his moniker morphed into the defender of Truth, Justice, and the American Way. In his journey through comic books, comic strips, radio and TV programs, movies, and more, the character has kept a careful watch over the less fortunate and the downtrodden. From defending coal miners against unsafe working conditions (1938) to supporting protestors opposing the oppressive regime in Iran (2011), Superman has maintained a social conscience that is as strong as steel."

"Despite their success, Jerry and Joe had a beef with the world. Back in 1938 they had signed away the Superman copyright to Harry Donenfeld for $130-$10 for each of the 13 pages of “Action Comics” No. 1. True, they were not making well above the standard industry rate and had a ten-year contract that assured them steady work and a good income. But they knew that millions were flowing in from the merchandise sales and media ventures, and most of it was ending up in the pockets of other people. And why should Harry Donenfeld get rich off Superman? He hadn’t envisioned the character and spent years perfecting it. As the Cleveland collaborators churned out page after page, week after week, month after month, Donenfeld continued to build the Superman empire, even as he added new superheroes and comic books to his stable. Before long, friends would greet the party-loving publisher in fancy restaurants with the line “Hiya, Superman,” at which point he would tear open his shirt and throw out his chest to expose his blue T-shirt with the big red S on the front."

"As a former pulp writer himself, Maxwell knew he had to make sure that the writers wove liberal doses of good old-fashioned “blood and thunder” into each story arc. At the same time he walked a delicate line as he balanced Superman’s thirst for action with his good intentions. Maxwell knew that the show’s young listeners-and their parents-prized the wholesome qualities of honesty and fair play. So Superman-by now referred to as the Big Blue Boy Scout by other, edgier comic book superheroes-remained squeaky-clean on the radio."

"The radio show was no more immune to criticism than the comic books were. Some critics claimed that Superman reflected the concept of “der Ubermensch”, a German term that could be translated into “the Superman.” The term was coined by 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who argued that certain people could transcend the influences of religion, culture, and conformity to become enlightened supermen. According to Nietzsche, the person could reach this pinnacle by rising above the pestering of the masses, who buzz like “flies in the marketplace.” After Nietzsches death, the German Nazis twisted his words to mean that their ideal of the blond, blue-eyed German (what they called Aryan) could rise above all “inferiors” to create a dominant race of supermen. The criticism that Superman manifested a Nazi concept showed a complete lack of understanding of the character. While striving to create a popular superhero who would attract a mass audience Jerry and Joe had forged Superman to embody the best parts of the American way of life and to raise awareness of un-American” attitudes. The notion of un-American behavior applied not only to gangsters who broke the law, crooked politicians who violated the public trust, and wealthy industrialists who exploited workers, but also to foreign powers that threatened democracy. So Superman’s creators-too busy to be sidetracked by the critics-aimed their superhero at the looming Nazi threat in Europe."

"THE CREATORS of the superman character had been firing their initial salvos at the then undeclared enemy even before the United States entered the war. At first the creators kept their attacks subtle-by comic book standards. Superman writers never mentioned German chancellor Adolf Hitler, Japanese emperor Hirohito, and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini by name, even though it was clear that the jabs and barbs were aimed at these Axis leaders, as well as their ruthless lieutenants, devious spies, and formidable combat troops. Furthermore, Superman’s team sought to hammer home to their readers that the foreign dictators followed a philosophy of racial and religious superiority and that their quest for world domination included plans to conquer America. At about that time, nationally circulated “Look” magazine commissioned Siegal and Shuster to create a strip entitled “How Superman Would End the War.” For that special assignment, the collaborators took off their gloves and actually named Hitler as the target. So in the pages of “Look” the caped crusader grabbed the Fuhrer by the scruff of the neck and growled, “I’d like to land a strictly non-Aryan sock on your jaw.” Instead of taking justice into his own hands, however, Superman delivers Hitler to a tribunal of world leaders to face justice. In another direct challenge in a Superman strip the caped crusader demolishes part of the German Westwall with France. That’s when Superman’s fictionalized triumphs over the Nazis came to the attention of the German ministerial bureau that tracked foreign press commentary. The German propagandists did not respond well to the Superman stories, and the U.S. press covered their response. U.S. news paper reports that infamous minister Joseph Goebbels exploded ina meeting over the Superman anti-Nazi crusades were almost certainly exaggerated if not outright false. But it is true that “Das Shwarze Korps”, the weekly newspaper of the infamous Nazi Secret Service, denounced Superman. In April 1940 the paper ran the proclamation, “Superman “ist ein Jude”! (“Superman is a Jew!”) The sarcastic, mocking piece referred to Superman’s primary creator as Jerry “Israel” Siegel and accused him of sowing “hate, suspicion, evil, laziness, and criminality in young hearts”: Jerry Siegel, an intellectually and physically circumcised chap who has hid headquarters in New York, is the inventor of a colorful figure with an impressive appearance, a powerful body, and a red swim suit who enjoys the ability to fly through the ether. The inventive Israelite named this pleasant guy with an overdeveloped body and underdeveloped mind “Superman.” He advertised widely Superman’s sense of justice, well-suited for imitation by the American youth. As you can see, there is nothing the Sadduccees [an ancient Jewish sect] won’t do for money! Jerry Siegellack stinks. Woe to the American youth who must live in such a poisonous environment and don’t even notice the poison they are swallowing daily. Superman “did” reflect the culture of his Jewish creators. The Jewish American story was baked into the personality of his character and his exploits. Superman also seemed to reflect the more modern-and frightening-Jewish realities of the time. The story of baby Superman’s journey from Krypton seemed to foreshadow the saga of the Kindertransports-the emergency evacuations of hundreds of Jewish children, without their parents, from Nazi Germany to safety in Great Britain prior to the war."

"Like most Americans, the Superman creative team foresaw the long road ahead and knew that victory hinged on the effectiveness of the nation’s leadership and the bravery and blood of its fighting men. The creators wanted to use Superman to support the war effort, but there was a problem, which “Time” dubbed “Superman’s Dilemma.” Given the character’s power to soar to the sky, to change the course of mighty rivers, to turn back tidal waves, and to survive massive explosions without a scratch, it only stood to reason that he could single-handedly defeat the enemy in short order. More specifically, Superman ought to be able to drop thousand-pound bombs from the sky on German troops, flick Japanese Zeros out of the air, and drag battleships to the bottom of the ocean. In the end the editors decided against publishing what would certainly be several years of highly implausible Superman combat adventures. Instead Superman would be stationed at home in Metropolis and would make only periodic visits to the front lines to support the troops or to handle delicate, secret missions for the top brass. In Metropolis he would serve as a model for life on the home front, and his encounters with villains like Lex Luthor, the Prankster, the Toyman, and the Insect Master would provide readers with an escape from the weighty issues of the war. Once the home-front strategy was set, the writers needed a plot device to explain why the Man of Steel was not joining the Army, Navy, or Marines and going off to war with the rest of the troops. The solution appeared in the “Superman” newspaper strips that ran from February 15 to February 19, 1942. The story begins with Clark Kent arriving at his recruitment center to sign up for duty. The bumbling reporter is so excited about joining the armed forces that he inadvertently botches his eye exam. The reason: His x-ray vision kicks in, and he accidenatly reads the eye chart in an adjacent room. The doctors declare him 4-F (undraftable) and send him packing. As a result, in the pages of “Superman” comics, Kent does not don a military uniform for the duration, and Superman is free to influence the war as an outsider."

"The homebound Superman encourages Americans to buy war bonds, to ration scarce supplies, and to donate to organizations like the Red Cross and the United States Services Organization (USO). In his adventures, Superman travels outside Metropolis to military training centers to lift the spirits of the troops and to prepare them for the action ahead. In one comic book adventure he travels to a fictional U.S. military training center, where he takes part in a mock war game by taking the side of the blue army in a simulated battle with the red army. Superman ferries blue troops across rivers, bombs red airfields with sandbags, locates red snipers with his x-ray vision, and finally tunnels through a mountain to lead blue troops into the red camp. Facing defeat, the red general implores his men to fight on. “What if they were Japs or Nazis?” he asks, “Would you let down the folks who are counting on your to save your country and the world?” At this point the red army summons the strength to repel the blues and win the game. Superman, happily experiencing a rare defeat, concludes that American soldiers are the real superheroes and congratulates the men for being “Super-Soldiers.” Still, from 1941 to 1945 there were stories of Superman’s periodic trips to the front lines, Siegel clearly designed one newspaper strip to draw the attention of American children to the evil of the enemy. In this strip, Hitler Mussolini, and Tojo (Japan’s prime minister) kidnap Santa Claus as part of their plan for world domination. Superman is forced to rescue Old Saint Nick and save Christmas. In addition to these occasional war stories, a number of powerful “Superman” magazine covers trumpeted the war effort, even though there were usually no corresponding stories inside to back up the symbolic cover art; Superman, seen through the periscope of a German U-boat, swimming furiously toward the submarine in the wake of the Allied ship that the sub just sank; Superman holding an eagle on his arm, standing proudly in front of the Stars and Stripes; Superman delivering supplies to an American machine-gun squad fighting in the jungles; Lois Lane, with an Army soldier, a Navy sailor, and a Marine, telling them with a wink, “You’re my Supermen.”"

"[P]erhaps Superman’s most important war contribution was his direct connection to the troops. The scene of a soldier or sailor passing time with a comic book in hand was common overseas, and Superman was the superhero of choice for most of the servicemen and women. In fact, one of four magazines shipped to troops overseas was a comic book, and 35,000 copies of “Superman” alone went abroad each month. The U.S. War Department and USO made sure that copies of “Superman” magazine were distributed to soldiers, sailors, and marines throughout the war. Military leaders hoped to provide a little entertainment and escape until the troops could come back home for good. As “Time” reported, “Superman got a high priority rating last week: the Navy Department ruled that the Superman comic books should be included among essential supplies destined for the marine garrison at Midway Islands. For the tough Marines, as for all U.S. Armed Forces, the Man of Steel is still super-favorite reading.”"

"What if they used Superman to teach children the values of tolerance and fair play and the importance of accepting other kids regardless of race, religion, or national origin? What if Superman could teach a generation of children to reject those who preached prejudice and hate? After all, the entire country had banded together to win the war. Now most everyone was banding together to build a peaceful and prosperous future. Those grim photographs and films of mass graves and starving concentration camp prisoners had made an indelible mark on the public mind. Could Superman lead the way?"

"QUESTION: As different as they are, what is it that you think creates the dynamic for Batman and Superman to essentially be each other’s best friend?"

"QUESTION: Where do you start as an actor when trying to create a voice for Superman?"

"QUESTION: Are there any specific characteristics you believe are essential to the voice?"

"Q: What do you think has made Superman so popular for over 40 years?"

"Shuster: I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women."

"Siegel: You see, Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe's. As a high school student, I thought that some day I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed. As a matter of fact, some of them looked like they hoped I didn't exist. It occurred to me: What if I was real terrific? What if I had something special going for me, like jumping over buildings or throwing cars around or something like that? Then maybe they would notice me. That night when all the thoughts were coming to me, the concept came to me that Superman could have a dual identity, and that in one of his identities he could be meek and mild, as I was, and wear glasses, the way I do. The heroine, who I figured would be a girl reporter, would think he was some sort of a worm; yet she would be crazy about this Superman character who could do all sorts of fabulous things. In fact, she was real wild about him, and a big inside joke was that the fellow she was crazy about was also the fellow whom she loathed. By coincidence, Joe was a carbon copy (of me)."

"Siegel: I figured that the character would be so advanced that he would be invulnerable in other ways than physically. Secretly, I kind of enjoyed the thought that women, who just didn't care at all about somebody like Clark Kent, would go ape over somebody like Superman. I enjoyed the fact that he wasn't that affected by all their admiration. When you come down to it, some of the greatest lovers of all time simply aren't that crazy about women: It's the women who are crazy about them. Clark Gable was hard to get, and so were some of the other romantic heroes."

"Q: Were you influenced by the Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars stories?"

""A new stormtrooper that can take out a Rebel base that quickly? I shoulda kept working for the Empire." (briefing for the Dark Trooper project)"

""I'm not interested in petty political struggles." (to 8t88, Nar Shaddaa)"

""The dark side? I've been there. Do your worst." (to 8t88, Nar Shaddaa)"

""Leaving so soon?" (to 8t88 who is striding up its shuttle's loading ramp and ready to flee before Kyle whips out his Bryar blaster, Nar Shaddaa)"

""Whenever I need to find you, you're always in some sort of trouble." "Jan! What a pleasant surprise." "What would you do without me, Kyle?" "I'd be a content old man." (rescued by Jan Ors on Nar Shaddaa)"

""This has got to be bad for my health." (navigating across the acid pools of a power station, Sulon)"

""Let's see what this saber can do..." (obtaining his first lightsaber)"

""Well, you look like an overgrown Kowakian monkey-lizard, so I guess looks don't count for much." (to Desann after being told he looks more like a bantha herder)"

""Why can't you Jedi ever do things the simple way?" (to Luke Skywalker)"

""I'm no Jedi. I'm just a guy with a lightsaber and a few questions." (to the Chiss bartender, Nar Shaddaa)"

""Never trust a bartender with bad grammar." (after the bartender proves to be a crook)"

""You should have known that it would take a failed Jedi to take out another failed Jedi." (to Luke Skywalker, during the war with Desann)"

""Kyle Katarn, at your service." (first meeting with Jaden Korr, Yavin 4)"

""I sense a disturbance in the Force." "You always sense a disturbance in the Force...but yeah, I sense it too." (Luke and Kyle, after the incident with cultists on Yavin 4)"

""Five thousand years, are you serious...?! Wait, you're always serious." (to Luke Skywalker, on learning of the Sith cult)"

""They always lock the door. You’d think they’d have learned by now. Doesn’t look like there’s a key – that would be too easy. The console to unlock the door is probably hidden in some room twelve floors up or something...how does that make sense?" (to Jaden, attempting to enter Bast Castle on Vjun)"

""Ugh! Of course, it has to be a garbage pit, doesn't it? Well, let's go…no one ever said being a Jedi was glamorous." (to Jaden, entering Bast Castle on Vjun)"

"Auron: (at the end of a battle) That's how it's done."

"Auron: (at the end of a battle): Enough."

"Auron: (at the end of a battle) No time to waste, let's go!"

"Yuna: (Early after receiving Auron as a party member) Sir Auron, it's an honour! Auron:Thanks."

"Auron: (to Tidus) We called it "Sin.""

"Auron: (When activating overdrive) Pray-now!"

"Auron: (to Tidus) This is it. This is your story. It all begins here."

"Auron: Once Lady Yuna fixes her hair, we leave!"

"Auron: Many stories ended here today. But...yours goes on, I see."

"Auron: Searching the past to find the future... This is all that is there (referring to the Farplane). I need it not."

"Seymour Guado: (looking at Auron) Why are you still here, sir? We Guado are keen to the scent of the Farplane (sensing that Auron is an unsent)"

"Rikku: Are you having fun doing this to me? Auron: Fine, we rest. She's worse than the storm."

"Auron: Yuna's easy to read. Tidus: Yeah, she is. Auron: But hard to guard. Stand by her, always."

"Rikku: What is that? Lulu: The guardian wyrm, Evrae. The great sacred beast-protector of Bevelle! Auron: The red carpet has teeth."

"Auron: A fayth. They join with a summoner, and together receive the aeon. They are human souls, imprisoned in stone by ancient Yevon rites. The dead should be allowed to rest."

"Yuna: I won't leave Kimahri behind! Auron: He is a guardian. Protecting you is everything!"

"Auron: Running around in a panic is not going to help. Right now, you have to keep cool and search. Barthello: But- Auron: Guard your emotions, then guard your summoner."

"Wakka: Huh, never would've figured. Legendary guardians choke sometimes too, ya? Auron: Legendary guardian? I was just a boy. A boy about your age, actually. I wanted to change the world, too. But I changed nothing. That is my story."

"Auron: Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!"

"Tidus: Auron... Auron: Don't make that face. Being dead has its advantages."

"Auron: (to Tidus) Once this is over, I will leave. I have played at life for too long."

"Auron: (to Tidus) Outside the dream world, life can be harsh, even cruel. But it is life. Jecht wanted you to have a shot at life. I saw it in Sin's eyes. That's why I brought you here, to Spira."

"Jecht: You're late, Auron. Auron: ...I know."

"(Yuna performs her sending. Auron begins to fade away.) Auron: Don't stop. Yuna: But I... Auron: It's all right. It's been long enough... (Auron gives each party member a glance, before tapping Kimahri on the chest. He walks next to Tidus, but doesn't look at him. He walks to the front and turns to face them one last time.) Auron: This is your world now. (fades into pyreflies)"

"Auron: (to Tidus) Sin is Jecht."

"Auron: (regarding Via Purifico) I hate this place."

"Auron: (To Seymour Natus) Although he was not the man I once knew, Kinoc was still my friend, Seymour! You will pay for his death!"

"Auron: (To Tidus about the mechanism on the side of the road) That! Knock it down! (after Tidus says "What?") Trust me, you'll see."

"Auron: Some can't wait to die!"

"Auron: Yuna! Rikku! Paine! This is your time, you must defend it! (During the battle with vegnagun)"

"Hades: Let's cut to the chase. Here's the deal I'm gonna offer you. I let you out of the slammer-no strings-you'll be free as a bird. And all for one little job. Fight Hercules, in the Coliseum...to the death! Auron: This is my story. And you're not part of it. Hades: Did you forget who you're talking to? I am the Lord of the Dead! Auron: Heh... No wonder nobody wants to die. Hades: YOU ARE FIRED!!!"

"Auron: (To Sora, Donald, and Goofy) Thanks for meddling."

"Auron: (To Sora, Donald, and Goofy) It seems we were fated to meet. Maybe you need a guardian?"

"Hawkman: Foolish? Kendra, I'm a guy who wears wings, an Edgar Rice Burroughs body harness, and a hawk's head. Everything I do is foolish. Don't follow my lead."

"It's a good name and it seems a shame to let it go to waste. We're hoping that fans will figure 'For God's sake, let's just call him Hawkman and get him in the Justice League as Hawkman,' and the editors will relent. We're hoping to start a campaign."

"The Evil Dead"

"Evil Dead 2"

"Army of Darkness"

"Ash vs. Evil Dead"

"Ash also is a guest character in the video game Poker Night 2."

""With you guys, it seems like I'm hot stuff … a know-it-all … but I've been back with The Batman again, and next to him I feel like I'm a stupid kid repeating fifth grade … for the third time." (New Teen Titans #20, 1982; by Marv Wolfman)."

"Batman: You lead the Titans well, Robin -- I guess even the teacher can learn from his pupil... his former pupil."

"Robin: Thanks, Batman! But you know what they say... a pupil is only as good as his teacher... and I had the best there is. (Batman & The Outsiders (first series) #5, 1984, by Mike W Barr)."

"I grew up surrounded by a sea of faces awash with the myriad emotions of all mankind. The rapturous joy of circus-goers, the panicky fright of fleeing felons, the warm tenderness of fast and good friends. So many faces. Good. Bad. Indifferent. All drawing me to them like some swirling tide about to suck me under. Sometimes I have to come here, simply to be alone before my mind fairly explodes with confusion. But most of the time I can't escape." (The New Teen Titans (first series) #38, 1984; dialogue by Marv Wolfman"

"Donna Troy: You didn't have to do this, Dick, I would've understood."

"Dick: And ruin my reputation as the teenage Ellery Queen? M'lady, when Deadeye Dick takes on a case, he doesn't give up. (The New Teen Titans (first series) #38, 1984; dialogue by Marv Wolfman"

"So is it me... or are the crooks getting lamer as we go? (Robin: Year One, 2001; by Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon)."

"Two-Face: You were the only choice for a comrade-in-arms?"

"Robin: I was the best choice. (Robin: Year One, 2001; by Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon)."

"Dear, Bruce... I guess it's time for me to move on. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do if I'm not allowed to help you anymore. Alfred doesn't need to worry about entertaining me and taking care of you, too. You don't want a partner. And you don't need a son. I'm sorry I failed you. I won't forget everything you've given me. Thanks for teaching me how to be strong. - Dick. (Robin: Year One, 2001; by Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon)."

"Robin: Hey, Batman, what're we gonna do once we finally get rid of all the criminals and everything? Move to another city?"

"Batman: I don't think that's something you have to worry about, Robin"

"Robin: Okay,so, then we'll just stay in Gotham and keep doing this, right? Forever and ever?"

"Batman: We'll do this as long as it's effective. And feasible."

"Robin: Right. Like I said. Forever... (Nightwing #75, 2003; by Devin Grayson)"

"Batman: "It's not that I don't think of you as an adult, Dick. It's … ""

"Robin: "That's just what it is, Bruce. You can't get over thinking of me as a kid, as Robin, the Boy Wonder. Well, I'm not a boy wonder anymore, Bruce. I'm a full-grown man, a detective, just like you." (Batman #331, 1980; dialogue by Michael Fleisher)."

"Dick: So...I'm going to be in the Justice League someday?"

"Bruce: No. (turns and walks away) You're going to lead it."

""The Batman taught me, guided me, trained me. What I am I owe to him. What more can I say? And Superman. I grew up in your shadow, too. You taught me honor, selflessness, and the true meaning of the word 'hero.' … I'm the sum of so many people who have influenced me, shaped my thinking, and given me love. Mom and Dad, you were the first … what you gave me will never leave. It's forever locked in my heart and in my soul. Batman, you took in a young, frightened boy. And you showed him how to become a good man. Kory, it's so funny. I spent the better part of last year fighting to forget what made me me. I almost alienated everyone, but you stuck by me and I love you for that. I gave up being Robin because that tied me to Batman. But now I become someone new who commemorates all those who made me someone special." (Tales of the Teen Titans #44, 1984; by Marv Wolfman)."

""Hard to imagine me without the Titans, either. I think the Titans helped define me. I was always the bottom half of Batman and … Now I'm Nightwing, myself. No junior partner. Whatever I do from now on is my choice. It's scary sometimes. But it's always a lot easier to let others tell you what to do. Don't quite feel like an adult yet, but I think I've grown up … I certainly don't make decisions rashly anymore. And I wouldn't quit college today just to rebel against Bruce. Fortunately, some mistakes can be fixed… Yeah, I'm grown up, but I still don't know what I'm going to do when I'm really grown up…. Doctor, lawyer, indian chief? They all sound good to me. What do I do when I take off my costume? If I were Batman, I'd become Bruce Wayne, professional cypher. I think he'd give up being Bruce in a second if he thought Batman could go out during the day. I can't. I need my normal life. Bats need the night. Robins need light." (The New Titans #71, 1990; by Marv Wolfman)."

""You molded me and taught me, Bruce. For years, I lived under the shadow of The Batman. I wanted to get away, to be my own man. Yet, when I chose a costume and a name, they reflected you. You're a part of me, Bruce. I can't deny it. And I don't want to any longer. I just wanted you to know that. That, and one other thing -- I'm proud to have been Robin." (Teen Titans Spotlight # 14, 1987; dialogue by Michael Reaves)."

""I just want to get married. That'll make everything fine. Y'know, Donna's wedding went so smooth. Bruce isn't coming, and I can tell everyone thinks I'm doing the wrong thing. I just don't get it, Roy. Things used to be so simple, so clear … so black and white. When did the world become so gray?" (The New Titans # 100, 1993, dialogue by Marv Wolfman)."

""Parents, friends and lovers, you taught me, helped me, nursed me and cared for me…. Nightwing's got his act together. He's still going to do what he can to keep the world from spinning into chaos … but Dick Grayson needs some time to figure out what he wants. I want you to be proud of me, but even more importantly -- I want to be proud of myself. It may be a couple of days or weeks or even months, but I'll see you guys soon. Till then -- I love you." (The New Titans # 114, 1994; dialogue by Marv Wolfman)."

""Try to understand our position here, Batman. You began training to be a hero as a young adult. For me and a lot of the other Titans -- like Vic -- that training shaped and influenced most of our childhood. Unlike the JLA, the Titans aren't just about a promise to the world -- it's also about a promise to each other … to ourselves. We swore on our childhood nightmares that we'd be there for one another. If I don't honor that I don't honor who I am." (JLA/Titans # 2, 1998; dialogue by Devin Grayson)."

"And I'm unique in this family, a talker among writers. Alfred's got his journal. You've got your files. Babs keeps an account of everything. While I've only ever recorded a message like this once before... the first time."

"[Alfred] always had faith that the dynamic duo could survive anything. Except maybe each other."

"Sometimes I'm surprised I can even stand on a high ledge after what happened to the Flying Graysons. Boss Zucco could have sabatoged Haly's Circus any number of ways to drive down business and get his protection money. Instead he gave the crowd that night a show they'll never forget. I know I won't. When my mom and dad died, attendance actually went up."

""What I've gotten is the realization that you did the best you could with what you had. You weren't a perfect father but that's okay because -- probably nobody's a perfect father. No family's perfect, either. I was lucky. I was privileged. Not because of the big house and the money, but because you gave me a lot of yourself. You taught me, you showed me, you encouraged me -- you never lied to me and you never demanded that I be anything I'm not. I didn't imitate you because you insisted that I do so, but because I wanted to. Of all the men I knew, you were most worthy of imitation." (Nightwing Vol 1 4, 1995; by Dennis O'Neil)"

""I've got one more thing to say. You and Alfred gave me a home and you gave me what we don't mention. The L word. You were the best family I could have had. Thanks." (Nightwing Vol 1 4, 1995; by Dennis O'Neil)"

""I've always taken it for granted that I'm fighting the good fight, I guess mostly due to my faith in Batman. But I have to admit, up here on the urban highwire, I take a lot of liberties. I tell myself they're all justified, but isn't that what everybody tells themselves? Does anybody wake up thinking, 'Today, I'm going to cross the line'?" (Nightwing Vol 2 5, 2003; by Devin Grayson)"

""I'm the protector of this city. I know how arrogant that sounds, and I know that I operate outside of the law sometimes -- but I also know that I've trained hard to do this work, and that I fully understand the complexities of the job. I have experience, I have motive, and I have backup. So as insane as it is to be out here at all, I'm the closest you'll get to the real thing. And I am asking you 'Tarantula,' who do you think you are?" (Nightwing Vol 2 75, 2003; by Devin Grayson)"

""My first thought is for this new Tarantula's safety -- the assumption that she is a potential casualty. That's a Batman thought. My second thought is for my safety -- the possibility that she's a potential enemy. That's a Batman thought too. It's not until she's actually doing it that I allow myself to hope that she might be helpful -- a potential ally. Thats a Robin/Nightwing/Dick Grayson kinda thought. My thought. Two and a half seconds in. But better than nothing."(Nightwing Vol 2 75, 2003; by Devin Grayson)"

""Who do I think I am? Good question, really, and I'll answer like this: I've seen too much to be Robin, but I'm still too optimistic to be Batman. I'm Nightwing. I'm Officer Dick Grayson. I'm Barbara's boyfriend, Bruce Wayne's adopted son, and the last living member of the Amazing Flying Graysons. I'm happy." (Nightwing #75, 2003; by Devin Grayson)"

""Every now and then I have the feeling I've totally lost my mind. It's a great feeling." (Nightwing #86, 2003; by Devin Grayson)"

""What are we doing, Bruce? When I was growing up with you, I always knew exactly where the line was... exactly what we did, exactly what we didn't do and why. But Jason didn't know what the hell he was doing or why, and Tim spends half his time trying to decide if it's even worth doing, and Stephanie... [whisper] Stephanie went up against odds so bad that even I would have to say it couldn't be done. [regular volume] Do you still know? Do you still know what we're doing? Because you seem murky to me, Bruce, you seem closer and closer to the line every time I look at you, and that line keeps moving, and me... Bruce, I'm lost." (Nightwing #99, 2004; by Devin Grayson)"

""The effect Bruce has had on my life is profound. There's no question that knowing him had changed me, changed my relationship to the world, profoundly. I'll admit that there were times when I felt restrained somehow... bridled. There were times when the mission seemed like alot to carry... Times, even, when I wondered if the whole thing didn't go against my essential nature. More often though, though, this work that I've done with Bruce has felt like an advocation, a perfect expression of everything I've ever been capable of becoming."(Nightwing #100, 2005; by Devin Grayson)"

""My father and Bruce both taught me similar moral codes, for vastly different reasons. Both considered their codes immutable, but somehow my dad's always expanded enough to let me grow into it. Whereas Batman's was, of course, completely inflexible, and every bit as inspiring as it was impossible. Who's son will I turn out to be?" (Nightwing #100, 2005; by Devin Grayson)"

"I may not be your partner anymore. But I'm just as committed to your crusade as the night you made me swear the oath. I wanted you to know that. And something else... You were the best father you could be. Given the circumstances. (Nightwing #100, 2005; by Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon)"

""No killing. As you just saw, I'll happily beat anyone you point me at so badly that your mark won't move a single muscle independently over eight months. But I do not kill. No cops. No capes. And no kids. Ever." (Nightwing #107, 2005; by Devin Grayson)"

"[Talking about what Rose Wilson said earlier] It wasn't just a thought, it was a wish. A wish for family. It pervades this place. Rose wants to know the dead half-brothers she probably never met and every girl in this facility wants someone they can count on and call their own. We all want something that will last forever. But what we get is love. Batman would say that morals are the bottom lines, the thing that lasts. I've heard him say that no matter what depend on yourself to respond with predetermined ethical integrity. I know that's true for him, but I'm not so sure I agree with the principle in general. I think most of us surprise ourselves a lot. Most of us run on the fly. Maybe what matters most is the person we're hoping to impress. For years and years, I tried to evaluate every move I made through Batman's eyes. I was morally reliable, almost predictable. Whether or not he actually held me accountable to standard I set for myself in his name was irrelevant. I was inspired. When I finally let go of that. I was lost. I could still operate on habit, but everything felt empty. I didn't belong to anyone. I had nothing to live up to. For a short, wonderful while I had Barbara, and that worked, that was more than enough. She was a friend an intimate and an inspiration. And she was smart enough to know I still had some growing up to do. Suddenly, I have a whole new appreciation for Batman. Having someone count on you for their physical and emotional safely is intense. It's another another set of expectations you have to live up to. And maybe they're even more demanding than the ones you set up yourself. Ultimately, I'm sure we have to frow to become our own judges, and mentors, and charges. And I'm also sure that that's going to be the hardest goal of all to live up to." (Nightwing #112, 2005; by Devin Grayson)"

""Babs, I know we've been through a lot together, and I haven't always been the man I've wanted to be for you. And I realize now that I still have a long way to go, but... but I'll never get there without you. Barbara, I have to leave in a few hours to try and save the universe and I don't even know if I'll be alive tomorrow, but if I am -- will you marry me?" (Nightwing #117, 2006; by Devin Grayson)."

""We're a nation of somnambulists. And where there are people awake, there's money to be made... There were lots of theories on why we don't sleep enough-- everything from stress at the office to too much caffeine... But I got my own, simpler theory... I think a lot of people just lead lonely lives... And there's something comforting knowing there are a lot of other lonely people out there too, watching the same crappy movie you're watching at two in the morning... Yeah... it's about being alone... in a city of millions... I can relate." (Nightwing #123, 2006; by Bruce Jones)."

""Sometimes there's simply nothing you can do... nothing. Batman warned me about that long ago. I nodded, but I didn't believe him... Nobody's helpless, I thought. Nobody's totally without resources. Man, I was wrong. Still am, maybe..." (Nightwing #124, 2006; by Bruce Jones)"

""Long ago we realized we can't possibly solve all the world's problems. And maybe we shouldn't even try. We understood that we needed to develop out hearts and minds and not just our fighting skills. With all the good that needs to be done, it was impossible to accept that nobody should ever do what we do 24/7. That way lies madness. Trust me, I know. If you come to believe you're a god and you fail, where does that leave you?" (Nightwing #125, 2006; by Marv Wolfman)"

""Rule of thumb: when one gets bogged down, stop thinking, get a massage from a beautiful woman and let your mind wander ..." ( Nightwing #126, 2007; by Marv Wolfman)"

""I had asked myself what I want to be when I grow up. That's assuming I'm allowed to. The voice - the one that won't go away - keeps reminding me I was supposed to have died. Not once. Twice. I think I'm living on borrowed time. But at least I'm living. So why don't I feel … I don't know … happier?" (Nightwing #128, 2007; by Marv Wolfman)"

""'When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.' And unless you're stone, it changes you. It has to. There I was. Six feet under. Buried over. And I'm not stone. Never wanted to be. Never thought I had to block out the rest of the world and never wanted to hide from it. Still, sometimes late at night, half asleep, half god knows what … it suddenly bothers me that they say the nut doesn't fall that far from the tree." (Nightwing #128, 2007; by Marv Wolfman)"

""A chapel is sitting peacefully on the hillside and I wonder if it can really help me find peace. Then I wonder, would I know what to do with all that quiet? My parents didn't much talk about God. Bruce never did. Though I'm pretty sure he believed in the devil." (Nightwing #128, 2007; by Marv Wolfman)"

""Early on, Kory asked why do I do this? [...] She asked why, when I get up in the morning, I look forward to putting on my costume and fighting the bad guys. But we got interrupted by the Fearsome Five or Deathstroke or some other nutjob super-villain. I never answered her. Always thought I was a fairly well adjusted guy who looks forward to wearing a costume. I mean I'm not out for revenge. I don't need to prove anything to myself. And I have money. More than enough to buy my own island hideaway. So why do this? Why do I do any of this? Barbara would say it's because I know it's the right thing. 'When you look into the abyss...' But no. She's wrong. It's impossible to think of anything other than the immediate moment when you're trading punches with some meta powered glandular reject. When your fist connects with flesh, you're not thinking of the past. When their fists dislodge bone, it's hard to think of some stupid thing you said to someone you love … that sent them running away. And when you are half-dead on the ground, half-blown to pieces … it's impossible to think. Period! I should find Kory. I should find her and tell her that I don't do this because it's the right thing to do. I do this because it's the only thing I dare let myself do. I do this because its easier … 'the abyss also looks into you' … easier than having to think." (Nightwing #128, 2007; by Marv Wolfman)"

""We go topside. I Ching stays to secure the Lazarus Pit. Says 'To prevent forever from happening again.' I say 'I want to party with you cowboy.' The reference is lost on him." (Nightwing #139, 2008; by Fabian Nicieza)"

""They say skydiving is for people with a death wish. I've come to learn it's for people with a life wish. A wish for things to be as amazing as jumping out of a plane on a beautiful clear day from so high up that you feel you can almost touch the stars. And thats what I am going to do soon. Make the great leap. Touch the stars. Not as Nightwing. Not as a Titan. Not as an Outsider. Just as me. Richard Grayson." (Nightwing #141, 2008; by Peter Tomasi)"

""I close my eyes now for a few moments and I can see my parents riding the air current with me. Forever young. Forever strong. Their faces wide with excitement, big smiles on their faces, enjoying the adrenaline surge even more than I do. And there is one thing I am sure of … my parents would be proud of my life." (Nightwing #141, 2008; by Peter Tomasi)"

""Whenever someone's asked what power they wish they had, flying is always at the top of the list. But I have to admit. I've learned to love falling too." (Nightwing #142, 2008; by Peter Tomasi)"

""Impressive, Doctor Pennyworth. I'm gonna call Doctor Mid-Nite and maybe you guys can team up for a new reality show: "The Brave and the Bald."" (Nightwing #148, 2008; by Peter Tomasi)"

""Life's a carnival, Barbara, believe it or not." (Nightwing #150, 2008; by Peter Tomasi)"

""Okay Mom and Dad, your 'Flying Grayson' is about to take the great leap. Or as they say in French, Le Grand Saut. Down, down, and away. I'd say I wish you could see me now, but I know you're watching me - I can feel angels on my shoulders. And probably a bat too. You said some records aren't meant to be broken, Bruce. But more than anything, I wish you were down there right now watching with Alfred and Tim as I break this one." (Nightwing #151, 2009; by Peter Tomasi)"

""I think you should look at the sword I used today, Ra's, as a reminder that I'll always be there to face down evil, wherever it goes, wherever it hides. Always. (Nightwing #152, 2009; by Peter Tomasi)"

""Commuter train's a a good way to come into Gotham. Could've taken the shuttle from JFK to Goodwin Airport - a forty minute ride instead of a six hour one. But this time it felt like steel wheels were the way to go. I wanted to be closer. So I can see the enemy … and the people I"m here to protect and serve." (Nightwing #153, 2009; by Peter Tomasi)"

""Never been one for collecting things - holding onto stuff … less is more. There's a freedom to keeping possessions down to a minimum - going a little Spartan isn't a bad way to go through life. Sounds hypocritical coming from the guy who now lives in the manor on the hill, but its not my manor and its not my - ah, who am I kidding? It's really the only home I've ever known - I have to own up to that." (Nightwing #153, 2009; by Peter Tomasi)"

""Bruce has given Tim, Alfred and me an incredibly comfortable life free from want. The Wayne family name's always been synonymous with public service. And honoring the Wayne family name is the particular way that we do every night will always be our responsibility. My responsibility." (Nightwing #153, 2009; by Peter Tomasi)"

""Thinking of Bruce kneeling here alone in the blood of his mom and dad - the cordite of the fired gun still fresh in the air … it takes everything I have to hold the tears back. So much loss. It's strange how in the end that cold, evil deed even dictated my own future. I see Bruce. I see me. And seeing those old wax spots on the cave floor a few weeks ago got me thinking about the oath I made to Bruce … and what it really means. The light from the candle didn't just help us see the words better that night … The light from this candle was a beacon for the wounded soul of a young boy … it helped me see a path of selflessness and devotion. Devotion to the common good. And this light must always shine no matter what. In those single life-altering moments … we both had to depend on the kindness of strangers. And lucky for us … they were caring and loving people … at the end of all that pain and horror. Thank you, Bruce. There will always be hope in Gotham City." (Nightwing #153, 2009; by Peter Tomasi)"

""I'm done taking any more day jobs. It's simply not necessary. Gotham needs my attention 24/7. I owe it to Bruce-- hell-- I owe it to Gotham. I grew up there, it's my hometown, it's in my bones." (Nightwing #153, 2009; by Peter Tomasi)"

"We want the same things, Mr. Wayne. And if you'll let me, I want to help you fight for them. (Nightwing Vol 3 0, 2012 by Kyle Higgins)"

"The city has thrown its worst at me. It's taken its best shot... twisted creations and all. But I'm still standing. I'm still here. Now, Gotham has nothing that can scare me. (Nightwing Vol 3 1, 2011 by Kyle Higgins and Rod Reis)"

"I want to save the soul of Gotham. (Nightwing Vol 3 10, 2012 by Kyle Higgins)"

"This is the first time I've been out here since Damian saved the city. The first time since...Robin died. Two weeks ago, Joker turned my world upside down. He burned Amusement Mile. The people I trusted -- and who trusted me-- either died or left for good. But Damian was there. He was my brother. And now...now I'm supposed to move forward. Right. Forward. (Nightwing Vol 3 18, 2013 by Kyle Higgins)"

""You know everything has just changed. Part of you thinks your life is over. The other part thinks that's just something people say. You're in shock. It does feel real. Your friends are there for you. But they don't understand. You're only sure of one thing. You want to hurt the person that hurt you... Time moves on. You start a new life. Part of it's a defense mechanism. You don't want to defined by the terrible thing that happened. You don't want to be hurt anymore. You want to be someone stronger. So you "try on" different people. Until you find the right you... Then one day, your old life comes back. It turned out different than how you imagined. You friends have changed as much as you have. You wonder if that's somehow your fault. If you're the reason things feel apart. If you should have done something different. A lot of things go through your mind. You start to question what you've become. What you could have been. What some say you should have been. You worry you haven't done enough with your life. That your parents wouldn't be proud of you. You swear you're going to do better. You're going to be better. You're going to build a legacy. But sometime you don't get the chance. Sometimes you do let people down. But not always.(Nightwing Vol 3 29, 2014 by Kyle Higgins)"

"Part of it's a defense mechanism. You don't want to be defined by the terrible thing that happened. You don't want to be hurt anymore. You want to be someone stronger. So you "try on" different people. Until you find the right you.(Nightwing Vol 3 29, 2014 by Kyle Higgins)"

""The last few years haven't been easy. But for every Court of Owls, every Amusement Mile... There's a morning like this. There's a Jen. And most days that's enough. To focus on the positive. To keep looking forward. To really give someone a chance. Because when you get down to it, my life isn't about the costumes or the bad guys. It's not about the cities or symbols. It's way simpler than that. I mean, I grew up in a circus. It's always been about catching people when they fall." (Nightwing Vol 3 29, 2014 by Kyle Higgins)"

""We fall because someone pushes us. We get up to push back." (Nightwing Vol 3 30, 2014 by Tim Seeley & Tom King)"

""I trusted someone. And people died. Just like you, Jimmy. It made me question who I trust. If I even trusted myself. But when I look in the mirror, I don't see a monster. I see a human. Someone who makes mistakes, and tries to do better. Like the Run-Offs. Like Shawn. You went looking for monsters. Because what you see in other people... it's your own reflection." (Nightwing Vol 4 14, 2017 by Tim Seeley)"

""For a second I think I'm still in the ocean of worlds. But this my world. My story. I'm the hero. And this is most definitely the villain." (Nightwing Vol 4 17, 2017 by Tim Seeley"

""I've spent so much time making sure I'm not driven by tragedy. By revenge. By anger. It's important to me. Having that pregnancy scare and everything we went through, made me realize I want my child to learn that from me." (Nightwing Vol 4 23, 2017 by Tim Seeley"

""When someone dies, their passing does something strange to everyone who knew them. It forces a reset. In the seconds, minutes, days after, you ask what life will be like without them. And you ask if you're doing the most you can...with the short amount of time you've got. Who are you? Why do you do what you do? And what do you really want?" (Nightwing Vol 4 28, 2017 by Tim Seeley"

""You were supposed to be watching out for her from the shadows. If you'd followed Zucco, you'd have seen him put acid on the line. But instead you saw the bigger get. The better hand. So you built a new brand to hide behind. You cobbled together a costume taken from a half-dozen different super-heroes to convince yourself you weren't the bad guy. You built a metal glove and named it after the Romani wizard Suyolak, chained to a rock to prevent him from destroying the world. You caged the fingers that had betrayed you and destroyed your world. You blamed Bruce Wayne. The rich. The elite. Me. Anything to avoid blaming yourself. Dealer wins." (Nightwing Vol 4 32, 2018 by Tim Seeley"

""Yeah, well...I had everyone fooled. Everything they called me back then...The young daredevil! A living hurricane! Hard-fisted little-scrapper! I was punching and kicking and joking all the time...everyone forgot what I had been through. I was still a kid who saw my parents killed. Becoming a crime-fighter wasn't a cure for my grief. It was an outlet. And sometimes, all that pain...it made me reckless" (Nightwing Vol 4 37, 2018 by Sam Humphries)"

""Yeah. I mean -- of course. They have to take responsibility for the things they did, but -- none of us are our worst moments" (Nightwing Vol 4 41, 2018 by Sam Humphries)"

""...While it's great to be a person that others can rely on, a person they need. I've learned that it's okay to need them, too. That's what friends are for, right?" (Nightwing Vol 4 43, 2018 by Michael Moreci)"

""Something happened last night. Something I can't quite make sense of. As Dick Grayson, I'm a guy who will always choose a face-to-face conversation over a phone call or an e-mail. And as Nightwing, I'm the kind of hero who prefers to crack a jaw or sweep a leg over chasing some invisible threat. But bank robbers no longer wear ski masks and carry shotguns. They hack accounts. And assassins don't position their rifles on rooftops. They program drones. How do you fight? How do you date? How do you even talk to anyone anymore. The rules keep changing. It's honestly hard to know how to be alive right now." (Nightwing Vol 4 44, 2018 by Benjamin Percy)"

""Can we please go back to the days when all you needed to be a hero was a grappling hook and a tireless supply of punches?" (Nightwing Vol 4 46, 2018 by Benjamin Percy)"

""I'm not going to pretend to be the best motorcyclist in this race. But once you get me up in the air... it's no contest. This is the equivalent of a violent trapeze. And with circus physics on my side... I can deliver the endgame." (Nightwing Vol 4 49, 2018 by Benjamin Percy)"

"You'll never know if you can fly unless you take the risk of falling"

"If you want Robin to stay dead, that's okay with me. But you've trained me too well -- made me what I am. You can't keep me from pursuing my own destiny."

"He raised me to think. But he’s no longer thinking. He taught me the importance of justice, but lately he hasn’t been just. He was like a father to me, and I loved him… and though he could never bring himself to say it, I know he loved me too. I feel like the child of an alcoholic - you know the problem isn’t yours, but it is. You want to help, but you don’t know how, so you lie awake at night in fear and confusion, and nothing gets resolved. I’m not sure, but I think Bruce is going crazy, and I’m lost not knowing what to do."

"I used to think he was more real as Batman than as Bruce Wayne...but because he can't just be some cold super-hero around me, I think Bruce is becoming more real too. Look, I know what we're doing is important, but it's not everything. Mom and dad always taught me to enjoy myself, I think maybe I'm helping Bruce to enjoy himself, too."

"Dick: You weren't the perfect father but that's okay because -- probably nobody's a perfect father. No family's perfect, either. I was lucky. I was privileged. Not because of the big house and the money, but because you gave me a lot of yourself. You taught me, you showed me, you encouraged me -- you never lied to me and you never demanded that I be anything I’m not. I didn’t imitate you because you insisted that I do so, but because I wanted to. Of all the men I knew, you were most worthy of imitation. Then I blamed you for letting me be who I was. Pretty dumb."

"Bruce: Dick, I don't --"

"Dick: Hold it. I've got one more thing to say. You and Alfred gave me a home and you gave me what we don't mention. The L word. You were the best family I could have had. Thanks."

"[Talking about Blüdhaven] It's a hopeless case. A lost cause. A town so mired in corruption and sin that it's drowning … When Batman sent me here, I thought I'd solve one case and book. But then I realized … if I could make a difference here -- well, that'd be something. This filthy old town needs me…. Surrounded by a dozen of my worst enemies. No way out. Nowhere to hide. The little brat was right. I do love it."

"Lady, every morning when I drift to sleep, I hear the screams of loved ones I didn't save. Don't you dare lecture me on what I know.”"

"[Talking to the new JLA during the Obsidian Age] The transition is going to be... difficult. The more I look at the shoes we're suppossed to walk in, the more it scares the hell out of me. But it doesn't matter. We were chosen to be here. Out of many other possible candidates...He chose us. A master of human condition. A cynic, a believer. He chose us to carry on where he fell... and we accepted. We will not mess it up. End of speech. I don't want to make another one. I hate making speeches. So... the first official roundtable of the Justice League is now in session. Let's do some good."

"I had a good teacher, except for the interpersonal skills and the ability to work with others. That was me."

"You prepare yourself for this day … well, prepare is the wrong word … Do you prepare yourself for the sun to rise, or for water to flow from a tap? No. These are knowables. These are eventualities. I knew I would never see him as an old man. No, he'd leave us in a box, with jet black hair, and the only lines on his face would be ones brought by injury. You knew it wouldn't end well. Despite all the training. All the brilliance. All the strength … under it all there was just flesh, blood and bone. And a man who never feared death. You know as well as I do he was frightened of a great many things, but his own mortality barely made the top hundred list with him. I just … I … I just wasn't ready to lose him."

"You know, maybe it's a good thing the Watchtower was destroyed. Maybe it's time you guys stopped playing God from on high and started remembering how the real world operates."

"This fight can't be won if we pull our punches."

"There are things that none of you are willing to do. Things that have to be done for the common good. I will do these things."

"I always wanted - expected to-to grow up and - and become him. And the hero bit, I'm still all in. But that thing inside of him, that thing that drives him to sacrifice everything for the sake of his mission, that's not me. I don't want to be Batman - anymore."

"I don't care who my ancestor was. Or what the Court of Owls wanted me to be, I don't. We are who we choose to be, Bruce. Not the role the past says we should play. The court of Owls is just another bad guy, Bruce. They're little grayer around the temples is all. Yes, you made a mistake and underestimated them but they're not Gotham City, Bruce. And neither are you."

"Any sheep-rattler can win with a fist, yeah? Only we can win with a story."

"He [Batman]caught me before I hit the ground. He was my net. He taught me to focus my anger. To stop myself from hating the world. From blaming everyone for the evil of a few. And then I realized how lucky I was. I realized I had to pay it back. I owed it to other people to be their net. I had to dedicate my life to being there to catch anyone who needed it."

"I was Robin. I was the first. I wore the colors you're wearing. I bled them black. That means I get the blame for what's going on here. For all of you. For what you're done. What you're going to do. You're wanted by the police. You need help. You need to become what you think you are. That's my fault. And that's my responsibility."

"I miss you. Every day, I think about you both, and I wonder... I wonder what you would say if you could see me now. Mom, dad... would you still be proud of your son if you could see what I've become? Would you cheer me on? Or would it scare you to death that your son is a vigilante?"

"Agent 37: Summer Camp"

"Agent 1: What?"

"Agent 37: When I was a kid, Bruce decided to send me away for a couple of weeks in the summer. He'd been as a kid, and figured it'd do me some good. Camp White Fawn, it was called. There were kids from all over. Jersey city. New York. Gotham Academy. A bunch of strangers lumped together in tents and cabins to build birdhouses, play tug-o-war, and swat mosquitos. And the weird thing was, all of these kids who started out was total strangers became friends, enemies or "romantically involved," like right way. It happened so fast. Something about everyone starting from the same place... Alone, excited, scared, and missing home... It made all those relationships so much more intense. That's what "being a spy" is like. Summer camp."

"They say in Spyral, the only operative you can trust is yourself. But I'm starting to think that they couldn't be more wrong. After all, there's no one better at lying to you... than you"

"Oh, Otto. You stupid, evil maniac. Always forcing yourself into places you shouldn't, thinking you're invincible. Always falling into traps. Risk is what I do. Risk is who I am. What's one more leap without a net? Tsuchigomo."

"No body to catch me this time... Let's see if I remember how to jump with no net"

"He saw that we could be better than him. That our lives didn't have to be defined by our traumas like his was. You don't understand Batman. You don't understand Robin."

"Titans. We're not kids. We're not sidekicks and wannabes. We're not children you can prey on. We're not the Teen Titans. We are the Titans."

"...So we learn. Fast. And save people. We don't kill and we don't let others kill. That's the Titans' remit. My team. My rules."

"The rational part of me, the grown-up, says we're totally screwed. The problem is too big and terrifying. But the kid in me? You know, the Teen Titan? He's fearless, and his hope is absolutely limitless. You know that feeling, Raven. It's why we all choose this life. And that's why it has to be the Titans. Together. Fearless as kids, strong as the Justice League."

"Lesson one: Improvise. Leap first. Figure it all out on the way down"

"Ignore your mentor do what you do best. Be you."

"I am in the Titans, remember. Black holes. Alternate universes. Aliens."

""If only Jason could have reached out to us. Any one of us. He could have saved himself. But you know what? Some people don't want to be saved. Because saving means changing. And changing is always harder than staying the same. It takes courage to face yourself in the mirror and look beyond the reflection. To find the you that you should have been. The you that got derailed by cruel childhood events. Events that took your life's natural trajectory and twisted it. Changing it into something unimaginable … or even incredible … giving you the courage to embrace your birthright, your destiny, and finally realize that you are Batman."

"This is it. Batman and Robin. Together again for the first time."

"Don't ever let me forget the golden rule, Alfie. The show must go on."

"Comissioner Gordon: … I allowed you access to a suspect and you dragged him screaming through the the streets? WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?"

"Dick: I'm Batman. (Batman and Robin #3, 2009; by Grant Morrison)"

"Batman is NOT dead. And I don't mean this in some spiritual pep talk sort of way. That he now "...lives on through all of us." I'm not being sentimental. What I mean is, the world cannot know he's dead. Most don't even know he was human. Vampire. Demon. Ghost. We all know the myths. But that's all we have left of him. The fear he instilled. That is his legacy. And we need to honor that. We need to honor him. To acknowledge his passing flies in the face of everything he fought for. Everything he was. The criminals, the monsters, the ones who dedicate themselves to doing wrong need to think he can't die. They need to think he's still out there. Batman lives. Always."

"I believe Bruce would have 'smoked' the place … meaning he'd drop a few flash bang grenades, and the joint would have emptied in a panic. But he'd leave a batarang in the wall to let them know he was there. Better to instill fear and be unseen. He and I are different in a lot of ways. I was born into a circus. A trapeze artist. I know that sometimes people need a show … and I'm a born entertainer."

"I've spent years as a student of my own behavior. And I mean that in the least egocentric way. When you devote much of your life to putting your life on the line, you have to take great care in what you do and how you do it. There's very little room for carelessness. Carelessness is born out of complacency. Or out of cockiness. Sometimes it's a combination of the two. That said you can learn from your mistakes. You dissect the situation, find where you erred, and plan for 'next time.' That is if you haven't screwed up so royally that you might now survive your own idiocy for there to be a next time. If it seems like I'm being too hard on myself, it's because two major league psychopaths are trying to kill me."

"I am not Bruce Wayne. But when lives were lost … and the entire city was at stake … I did what Batman had to do. I acted as the Dark Knight. To the best of my abilities - I became him. And I succeeded. Not at Dick Grayson. And not as Bruce Wayne. But as Batman."

"Sometimes the lines get blurred. Sometimes the only thing between you and them is the mask and cape."

"Sometimes the hardest lessons are learned in the midst of a storm."

"--A Batman who's enjoying the thrill of being expendable. And a robin who's willing to die for the cause. Una memo looked into the heart of what Bruce did without even meaning to. Not this time"

"When I was a boy, my parents kept a big map of the country tacked to the wall of our dressing room. The map had pins stuck in all the places our troupe was going to stop that season. Different towns and cities were marked with different color pins. Blue pins meant small towns … which meant small shows, less dangerous tricks. Red pins meant big cities. So, big shows and more dangerous tricks. All the stops were marked red or blue .. except for Gotham City, which was marked by a black pin. According to my father, the black pin meant no holds barred. Pull out all the stops. Bring down the house. It meant put on the biggest, riskiest show of the season. No catch wires. No safety nets. Everyone pushing themselves to the limit. I remember one time when I asked my father why. What made Gotham so special?And my father, he looked down at me and he said … 'Some places just have a hunger about them, son. And you either feed them what they want … or you stay, far, far away.'I've felt it many times myself, that hunger … the way Gotham will start pulling at you when it wants something, when it wants more … it's been feeling like that a lot lately. Wild and strange, and most of all -- hungry."

"...but Gotham doesn't change you. She just reveals things, whether you like them or not."

"Lately it just feels like the city [Gotham]is getting meaner, wilder. Something is changing. Some nights I feel like I barely recognize it anymore."

"Gotham is a place you can never get above, a place you can never see clearly. Every time you try to get some purchase, the city changes beneath you, surprising you in new, terrible ways."

"I am a softy and I do try to see the best in people, but that doesn’t mean I’m stupid."

""Dick is like my own son!....Your honor, I ...I love that boy! Please don't take him from me!" - ("Bruce Wayne Loses the Guardianship of Dick Grayson!",1943 scripted by Bill Finger)"

""Nightwing. He is the best. The only one I could have picked to lead you. He will honor you. He will make you champions." - Batman (JLA #69, 2002; Joe Kelly)"

""I'm going to give you a bit of advice. You're ready to graduate. Leading the JLA proves it. You can handle bigger and better than you are now." - Batman (JLA #76, 2002; Joe Kelly)"

""Dick has always spoken to me without fear. No matter what else has happened to us through the years --- he has earned that right." - Batman (Batman #615, 2003; Jeph Loeb)."

""The first person I ever revealed my identity to was Dick Grayson. He was about the same age I was when my parents were killed. His parents -- circus acrobats -- had been murdered. And I... wanted to make a difference in his life... The way, if my parents had lived, they would have made a difference in mine... Through the years, I've debated whether it was fair of me to take him in. Train him. Give him another identity to hide behind. But, I've learned that Dick wasn't like me. He didn't come from a world of privilege. He was a performer. Gifted in that way. And while, at the time, the transition from Robin to Nightwing was... difficult for us both -- it was a day I had long prepared myself for because... Dick was born to be in the center ring." - Batman (Batman #615, 2003; Jeph Loeb)."

""I know you follow a code. And I respect you. You're pretty impressive for someone without super-powers, and I... Appreciate what you tried to do for my boy." - Slade Wilson (Nightwing #80, 2003; Devin Grayson)."

""[At his parents' graves] I've brought a young man -- a boy, actually -- to stay at the house. He's … lost his parents at roughly the same age that I … That I lost you. I don't know what will happen. I don't see myself as any sort of father figure. But … I think I can make a difference in his life." - Bruce Wayne (Batman: Dark Victory #9, 2000; Jeph Loeb)."

""In accessing the risk involved for Batman in acclimating new recruits to his team, we would be remiss not to examine the circumstances and consequences surrounding the first addition to the Dark Knight's campaign. Though to call Dick Grayson a 'recruit' is misleading. As well as I profess to know the Batman, even I can't be sure what he was thinking when he agreed to assume legal custody for the orphaned boy who would be the first Robin. I can tell you about this boy. He was fearless. He was effusive. And he was full of grace. So maybe it was just greed that made Batman take him? Maybe it was sympathy for his situation? Recognition? Maybe no good general would turn down the opportunity to implement a gifted soldier. Or maybe the Dark Knight knew, somewhere in the back of his head, that he couldn't face the entirety of his mission alone." (Batman: Gotham Knights #10, 2000; by Devin Grayson)"

""Deep within the caves beneath my father's house, I remember what Catwoman said. "A father's love can be a terrible thing..." How the rage brought in by the death of The Roman changed Sofia's life … and what the murder of my own father brought out in myself. Now, I see in Dick the chance to help him cope with his own loss … and guide him into being a better man for it." - Batman (Batman: Dark Victory #13, 2000; Jeph Loeb)."

""Compassion is an honorable quality, Dick. One any father would be pleased to see in his son ..." - Bruce Wayne (Gotham Knights #21 2001; by Devin Grayson)"

""I'm playing 'chicken' with a kid called 'Robin.' I don't know why he's showing off. I don't know why I'm going along with it. I don't even know where we're going. It could be a robbery. Or prison break. A gang war. Or free donuts at Lenny's. He sees that Bat-signal in the sky and takes off. Like a bird out of Hell. And he just expects me to follow him. And I do." - Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) (Batgirl: Year One #08 2003; by Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon)."

""The Flying Graysons would be proud... I know I am." - The Flash (Wally West) (Flash plus Nightwing #01, 1997; by Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn)."

"Alfred: Ever since you were a child, I have seen in you such luminosity of spirit... It was truly almost visible -- some indefinable and yet unmistakable fire at the very core of your being that allowed you to survive and thrive where so many others... [long pause] But now that very spark seems to have vanished from you, Master Dick, as if it had never lit your heart. I do not know why and I do not know how to help you. But I fear that without it, this life you and Master Bruce lead could well prove... [whisper] unsurvivable."

"Dick: Alfred, what are you talking about? Bruce hasn't had any innate inner optimism this whole time, and he'll outlast every one of us!"

"Alfred: But of course he's had optimism! He has had you. (Nightwing #99, 2004; by Devin Grayson)"

""I'd forgotten how fast Nightwing could be." - Wally West (Titans: Rebirth by Dan Abnett)"

""Your sidekick is smart" - Wonder Woman to Batman (Titans: Legacy by Dan Abnett)"

""Listen … do you hear? The rumble and honk of trucks and vans. The early deliveries have begun and with them, another day. in an hour the sun will rise over the tallest buildings and the citizens of Gotham will waken and yawn and be about their business. Until then, this extraordinary young man and I will talk of good and evil and the kind of masks we all wear. We will wonder together about what is the most real - the mask or the face. Soon, he will be gone, but I will still be here." - Millicent Mayne (Batman #684 by Denny ONeil)"

""Dick Grayson. Age twelve. Aerialist. The best I've ever SEEN." - Batman ("All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder #3", 2005; by Frank Miller)"

""He's a born detective...I've always been the smartest kid in class-- but this Grayson, he's something" ("All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder #8", 2008; by Frank Miller)"

""This kid's brain is as fast as his hands. He's a natural learned faster than I did. The kis almost scared me, last time we trained. It was the last lame ass spinning kick of his... I thought I could teach him to make it less embarrassing. And Dick shows up already miles past me with a flying triple kick I never imagined. Me. I never imagined it. Me. "Almost scared," Hell. He scared the crap out of me. He might just be a genius. A genius or something worst" - Batman (All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder #9, 2008, by Frank Miller)"

""Next to Barry, I learned the most from Dick. We had our battle. But in the end I'd miss him an awful lot" - Wally West (Flash Vol 2 #245, 2008; by Alan Burnett)"

""No one can be [Batman]. But someone can represent what he stood for. The ideals that made Batman -- justice, consequence, and ironclad resolve to protect. And there is none other that has the wherewithal to uphold those ideal than you … Richard Grayson." - Alfred (Battle for the Cowl #2, 2009, by Tony S.Daniel)"

""Dick's known me longer than anyone else on this planet. Nobody understands me the way he does. He's become a master at hiding... But it's not too difficult to track him down. All I need to so is look in the shadows. That's where he lives now. No matter how long I live on this planet, no matter who I meet. Nobody means more to me than Dick. More than a friend. More than a teammate. More than a lover. From the very beginning, he was my connection to this planet. - Starfire (Titans Vol 2 21, 2010; by J.T. Krul)"

""He still managed to get words out. Dick was always the toughest." - Batman (Gates of Gotham #5, 2011, by Scott Snyder & Mike Johnson)"

""I never doubted it, Dick. Given enough time. Enough time I'm sure you'd make an even better Batman than me." - Batman (Superman/Batman Vol 1 56, 2011, by Michael Green & Kyle Higgins)"

"That makes him the smartest guy..." - Owlman (Justice League of America Vol 2 53, 2011, by James Robinson)"

""Out of all Barbara's friends, you were the one who always seemed the most different from me. You always went around with your heart on sleeve. You were genuinely nice-- that was the thing. It wasn' an act. You cared about everyone." - James Gordon Jr. (Detective Comics Vol 1 881, 2011; by Scott Snyder)"

""...It made me realize something. Something big. What I realized was empathy, Dick-- Empathy is the greatest human weakness. It's a handicap. A vestgial limp" - James Gordon Jr. (Detective Comics Vol 1 881, 2011; by Scott Snyder)"

""You see, this place is special, Dick. It is a city of nightmares. And I'm yours. I'm the face you see in the glass. A man with no conscience. No empathy." - James Gordon Jr. (Detective Comics Vol 1 881, 2011; by Scott Snyder)"

""But some things never change, like the sight of a Grayson on the trapeze. Can't fake that. Can't hide it..." - Jack Haly, Young Justice, 2012 (Tv Series)"

""...I guess that's why you're you. You got the gift of not dwelling." - Barbara Gordon (Nightwing Vol 3 17, 2013, by Kyle Higgins)"

""You trust people, Nightwing. It's what makes you who you are." - Damian Wayne (Nightwing Vol 3 18, 2013, by Kyle Higgins)"

""As I see it, your parents were show business people, Master Richard. Those are your roots. Try to think of your Batman not as a memorial -- you and I know he'd hate that -- but as a performance. Think of Batman as a great role, like a Hamlet, or Willie Loman … or even James Bond. And play it to your strengths. Master Damian will undoubtedly be racing towards trouble as we speak. Curtain's up. And the spotlight is on you now. Everyone is waiting for the hero to take the stage." - Alfred Pennyworth (Batman and Robin #2 by Grant Morrison)"

""“He likes to free-fall. To him, this is fun. He handles the pressure — the responsibility — all of it, so … effortlessly. I wish I could be so comfortable in my own skin.” - Tim Drake/Red Robin (Red Robin #23; by Fabian Nicieza"

""So far I'd say you've been my favorite partner. We were the best, Richard. No matter what anyone thinks." - Damian Wayne (Batman, Incorporated #8, 2013 by Grant Morrison)"

"Superman: Everything you've done, everything you set in motion is because you felt you couldn't trust the people around you. And you know what? You can't. But on my Earth it's different."

"Batman: What happens to everyone on this Earth when yours comes back?"

"Superman: They'll be folded into historical fabric"

"Batman:You mean they'll die."

"Superman: No. They'll be replaced, just as everyone on my Earth was. But they'll be better. I never lie, Bruce"

"Batman: And what about Dick Grayson?"

"Superman: Yes?"

"Batman: Is he a better man on your earth than he is on mine?"

"Superman: No. (Infinite Crisis by Geoff Johns)"

""The first robin, Dick Grayson turned out okay, but he always seems like he's got the weight of the world on his shoulders" - Beast Boy (Teen Titans Vol 5 24, 2016 by Tony Bedard)"

""My people muttered name for him. Almanqidh Majhuli Alhuia' 'The Faceless Savior.' The man who came to destroy our quest but instead helped us revive it. The selfish man who acted with selflessness. The liar who helped lead us to truth. I never saw him again. I know nothing more of Agent 37" - Azrael (Grayson Vol 1 3, 2016 by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly)"

""He was a trickster, a thief, and he didn't know when to shut up. But he was still a better hero than me, even with a ring." - Simon Baz (Grayson Vol 1 3, 2016 by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly)"

""I'n not like Grayson,... I can't work for someone whose agenda trumps everything else including the lifes of innocents. I can't smile and nod to one face knowing there's at least one more face where that one came from. And I can't be surrounded by liars and murderers without becoming one myself." - Midnighter (Grayson Vol 1 7, 2015; by Tim Seeley and Tom King)"

""The Great Rebuilder and Catalyst of Change. Eternally reborn to start anew." - Nightwing (Nightwing: Rebirth Vol 1 1, 2016 by Tim Seeley)"

""You vouching for someone is worth its weight in gold. It was true in my world, and it's true in this one. In facts, of everyone I've met here, you're the least changed from the version I knew. Always confident, always kind, always cool. Dick Grayson-- The multiversal constant." - Superman(Pre-Flashpoint) (Nightwing # 9, 2017 by Tim Seeley)"

""Jericho told me... that you had some kind of special talent. That you could almost fly, take down legions of bad men, that you could do the impossible." - Adeline (Titans)"

""I'm not kidding myself. Nightwing's about the best there is. He got the moves. The speed. Years of world-class training with the greatest in the business. ...I'm good, but he's a damn machine... And there it is. That tiny hesitation. The one chance I was counting on" - Roy Harper (Titans Apart, Part Two, 2018; by Dan Abnett)"

""You're more important than you realize, Nightwing. You're at the center of a web of heroes and villains. Every choice you make ripples outward and affects them all." - Cimialcinnus (Nightwing Vol 4 49, 2018 by Benjamin Percy)"

""I hate the boy who fears nothing!" - Scarecrow (Nightwing Vol 4 50, 2018 by Benjamin Percy)"

""I've become you, Dick Grayson... Bruce's ward. His true confidant. Always there. His best friend" - Hush (Batman: Prelude to the Wedding: Nightwing vs Hush, 2018 by Tim Seeley)"

""I knew a boy once... He simply knew no fear. I thought it was a mask, a facade, but I came to realize it was the greatest weapon he had. Not only had this allowed him to understand and cope with adversity. It allowed him to thrive because of that adversity. I long believed that fear alone-- fight or flight-- was all that kept us safe. But that boy showed me there was another way... And now, Ric, you have shown me that method works. To eliminate fear as an option-- To ignore it's very existence-- is a very... Worthy approach." - Scarecrow (Nightwing Vol 4 54, 2019 by Scott Lobdell & Fabian Nicieza)"

""Impressive. Richard's superiority is evident, Beatrice. He's everything I dreamed of and more... He is now a true assassin. A Talon born and bred... He is as much as a Talon as I am. Unstoppable and deadly." - William Cobb (Nightwing Vol 4 67, 2020 by Dan Jurgens)"

""How do I fight him? Dick was trained by the best ever. He's Batman's equal." - Barbara Gordon (Nightwing Vol 4 73, 2020 by Dan Jurgens)"

""You are not Dicky-Boy. Or even Ric! You are not some anonymous guy in a suit of action! Your name is Dick! And you are no more The Joker's child than I am! You were the first--the best Robin! You built the Teen Titans into an enduring force. Look at that suit! These days, you are...Nightwing!" - Barbara Gordon (Nightwing Vol 4 73, 2020 by Dan Jurgens)"

""Dick Grayson has been a showman about as long as he could walk. I still remember going to see him at the circus. He was everything I wanted to be. Hell, he still is. He was the first Robin. The founder of the Teen Titans. The first sidekick to go off and make a name for himself. Nightwing." - Tim Drake (Robin 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1, 2020; by Adam Beechen)"

""Before I put on suit, I begged him to take it back. That's Dick for you. Grinning as he offers you the role that everyone and their brother knows belongs to him. He was the first. He's the best. He's always going to be the role model." - Tim Drake (Robin 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1, 2020; by Adam Beechen)"

""Dick Grayson's resolve is far too strong to ever be darkened." (New Teen Titans Annual #7, 1991; by Marv Wolfman)"

"After 1941 or so, Whitney Ellsworth and his editorial successors steered Batman and robin's career, assigning stories to a variety of writers and artists. That corporate approach froze the characters in place for decades. Panels from the early 1940s look almost interchangeable with panels from the early 1960s."

"The unchanging nature of those Batman and Robin stories did not hurt their appeal to the young readers who were the main market for super-hero comics. In fact, the team became one of the most popular and enduring in the genre, appearing together in every issue of Detective Comics, and then Batman, and then with Superman on World's Finest. Indeed, the Boy Wonder was popular enough to appear on more ccomic-book covers in the 1940s than Batman himself."

"Nostalgist Don Edrington (nine years old in 1940) recalled: My favorite superheroes were Batman and Robin. I especially liked them because I could identify with Robin-I was sure he was exactly my age. I was positive of that when i first started reading the comics at about age nine, and I was still convinced he was my age when I was fourteen or fifteen."

"In Manufacturing Desire, communications professor Arthur Asa Berger (seven years old in 1940) wrote: Like many other super heroes, Batman provides youngsters with a young side kick hero to identify with-Robin, though it is Batman who captured the imagination of children the most.... During the Batman rage of a number of years ago [presumably the mid 1960s], many children in my neighborhood used to tie a towl around their neck and play Batman. It was always the youngest and weakest children who were forced into the Robin role."

"Robin was an explicit role model for youngsters. The last panel in Batman #1, spells out the values that he stood for and urges readers: "Always be helpful to those who need help!" Why not become one of "Robin's Regulars?" No button or badge is needed- the world will recognize your golden acts without them! Be a "Robin Regular" by being regular!"

"Robin was an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob. As I said, Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes. Holmes had his Watson. The thing that bothered me was that Batman didn't have anyone to talk to, and it got a little tiresome always having him thinking. I found that as I went along Batman needed a Watson to talk to. That's how Robin came to be. Bob called me over and said he was going to put a boy in the strip to identify with Batman. I thought it was a great idea""

"I knew many homosexuals but I certainly didn’t think of Batman in those terms. I thought of it in terms of … Frank Merriwell and Dick Merriwell, his half-brother, who was the kid he was taking care of. … In America we always talk about the Western hero and the pioneer kind of man—the Davy Crockett types—as being loners. They’re never really. They always have a sidekick. … Certainly there’s no homosexual relationship. It’s just part of the American syndrome. … It was just that the author realized that you’ve gotta have somebody to talk to. Sherlock Holmes had Watson—were they homosexuals? Baloney. You just can’t have your hero walking around thinking aloud all the time. He’d be ready for the men in white coats after a time. So we created a junior Watson and that’s all [Robin] was."

"The character beat I find most interesting with Nightwing is how deeply he experiences frustration and pain, and then how totally done with that he is by the time he's making an actual decision or evaluation. He's not in denial about the darkness in his life the way Batman sometimes is, and in fact he's remarkably self-aware and conscientious, but he acts from a place of loyalty and gratitude and even joy."

"The dynamic that most interested me about Batman from day one was that he was, in his own weird way, a parent - and that relationship is just as fascinating when you flip it to look at it from Dick's point of view. As Robin, Dick lived out one of the most enduring human fantasies: the chance to be respected by and useful to a hero figure who fills your life with adventure. The price paid for that, though, is having Batman as a parent - Batman who is able to do the incredible things he does in part because he has sacrificed other developmental aspects of himself, such as the ability to be intimate or supportive. And in the face of all of this, Dick has had some resentment and some anger and, I think, a lot of pain, but he has also never for one moment of his life shied away from it, or away from Bruce. He embraces his life and his vocation and his sometimes-difficult mentor with absolute commitment and gratitude. Nothing is wasted on Nightwing - he makes use of every single gift bestowed upon him."

"Throughout his history, Dick Grayson has been an integral part of one of the most famous and financially successful franchises in history. Dick has also repeatedly been on the cutting edge of developments in superhero comics, starting with his inception as the first sidekick and continuing to his adoption of Batman's cowl. But the character can also serve as a lens for viewing the world outside of comics, whether it be moral development, the homoerotic, or gendered readership. Dick Grayson is not simply a one-note sidekick but one of the most complex and developed characters in comics. Surprisingly, especially given the interest in studies of popular culture, Grayson has received scant scholarly attention. Grayson has been connected with Batman for all but the Bat's first eleven months (May 1939 to March 1940), but, even if scholars are not deliberately excluding Robin from consideration, they tend to select topics of inquiry that focus on Batman alone. Those already familiar with the character will note that Grayson played a large role in a number of team books such as Teen Titans and The New Teen Titans. Unfortunately these books have received scant scholarly attention."

"Bruce Wayne in my mind came from privilege and I think that's why he's more dour and angry. He's self-made as far as his becoming all of these cool things we like him for... Dick Grayson didn't come from that. Dick Grayson came from a circus family. Essentially people who aren't rich and they are self-made. They're entertainers. They're gymnasts. They're people who live hand-to-mouth and that's something that informs him and his attitude... he's a fascinating guy to me, because he had all the same things happen to him. He's got some of the same negatives as Bruce Wayne and then from a society standpoint -- obviously he was adopted into Bruce Wayne's life... but he didn't start that way. He's this guy who has all these negatives and then even more negatives and yet he remains... Those are things why I like Dick Grayson, why I like the idea of Nightwing as a movie."

"Dick Grayson is kind of this consummate superhero. The guy has been Batman's partner since he was a kid, he's led the Teen Titans, and he's trained with everybody in the DC Universe. So he's a very different kind of Batman. He's a lot easier; He's a lot looser and more relaxed."

"...I like him a lot because of his history, he's been around so long, and there's a certain sleek sexuality about the character. He's got a certain sense of everyman, a young swashbuckler type. He's probably the only character to have developed a rabid following. That I find incredible, particularly because he came out as a sidekick - that he's got the strongest following of any character really makes me feel good about Nightwing. He's the only Titan who made the CBG poll, and it was great, you know. The fact that he's still fresh after all these years."

"Dick not only saw his parents die, but he was raised by Batman with a strict code of ethics. Whereas Batman festered with his anger, Dick did not. But Dick saw how someone like Batman was able to help him and many others. Since he fought alongside Batman, he saw how much good he could do, and therefore he has the need to continue to do it. But unlike Batman it doesn't come from some long ago need for revenge, it comes from a true desire to make a difference. Therefore Nightwing has a positive attitude rather than a negative one. But it has had impact on his persona life, and now that he's in his mid-twenties, his early decisions are demanding some new thinking."

"My view of Nightwing, or rather Dick Grayson is that he's a very capable person, caring, smart but not overly so, but has the ability to see through puzzles. Unfortunately, he can't see through the puzzles of his own life, as few of us can. He's trying to figure things out assuming life always have answers, which of course it doesn't. But I see him as very, very competent, just not always self-aware. And he is perhaps a bit too critical of himself."

"… A Nightwing story should have what every good story should have, which is a character you simply want to follow through thick and thin. A character who's adventures you wanna go on. A character with heart, intelligence, and wit. And as I mentioned earlier in a previous interview with ya, Nightwing is a character who can support all kinds of genre inclusion. I don't think there's a box. The world is literally wide open for Nightwing and you can put him on any ride you want and I feel it will work, whether in crime alley land, space land or jungle land. Nightwing is a character who travels well, and has no limits except for the ones a writer puts on him."

"Dick is a sponge. He of course learned a great deal from Bruce, but I see him as taking what he knows and improvising, using his natural acrobatic prowess in everything he does. It's ingrained in him. He's more fluid. But let's face it; Dick and Bruce simply know how to open a can of whup-ass better than anyone."

"“Dick has so many connections to other characters. In many ways, even more than Superman or Batman, Nightwing is the soul, the linchpin, of the DCU. He’s well respected by everyone, known to the JLA, the Titans, the Outsiders, Birds of Prey – everyone looks to him for advice, for friendship, for his skills. He’s the natural leader of the DCU."

"Would you like a jelly baby? (Sometimes slightly changed to "Have a jelly baby." and other variations)"

"Hello-o-o-o"

"You're standing on my scarf."

"Are you listening to me?"

"Take me to your leader."

"You took your time, K-9! (after thanking someone else for coming)"

"Quite right!"

"The Fourth Doctor: Shut up, K-9!"

"This extraordinary character who is everything at all times. It's continuously inspiring really, to get to play this mercurial, anarchic, extraordinary creature who gets all the best lines and gets to be the cleverest person in the room. I'm sure I'll miss lots about it, but I'll forever be proud to have been part of it, to be part of that history."

"I only need two things. Your submission and your obedience to MY WILL!"

"Nobody could be more devoted to the cause of peace than I! As a commissioner of Earth's Interplanetary Police, I have devoted my life to the cause of law and order; And law and order can only exist in a time of peace."

"You do not understand hatred as I understand it. Only hate keeps me alive. Why else should I endure this pain?"

"Life is wasted on the living!"

"Before we start all that, I just wanted to say: thank you. Thank you, one and all, you ugly, fat-faced bunch of wet, snivelling traitors."

"Citizens of Earth, rejoice. Your Lord and Master stands on high."

"You can't do this! You can't do...IT'S NOT FAIR!"

"The human race was always your favourite, Doctor. But now, there is no human race. There is only... the Master race!"

"Get out of the way. … You did this to me! All of my life! You made me! One! Two! Three! Four!"

"You'd delay an execution to pull the wings off a fly."

"Do you know any nice people? Y'know, normal everyday people, not power-crazed nutters trying to take over the galaxy?"

"It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy, the Master, was finally put on trial. They say he listened calmly as his list of evil crimes was read and sentence passed. Then he made his last, and I thought somewhat curious, request. He demanded that I, the Doctor, a rival Time Lord, should take his remains back to our home planet — Gallifrey. It was a request they should never have granted."

"Children of Gallifrey were taken from their families at the age of eight, to enter the Academy. Some say that's where it all began, when he was a child. That's when the Master saw eternity. As a novice, he was taken for initiation. He stood in front of the Untempered Schism. It's a gap in the fabric of reality through which could be seen the whole of the vortex. We stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of Time and Space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad."

"You wouldn't listen. Because you know what I'm going to say... I forgive you."

"It can't end like this. You and me, all the things we've done. … Axons, remember the Axons? And the Daleks?… We're the only two left. I have no one else. REGENERATE!"

"The Master took the name of Saxon. He married a human, a woman called Lucy, and he corrupted her. She stood at his side while he conquered the Earth. I reversed everything he'd done so it had never even happened, but Lucy Saxon remembered. I held him in my arms. I burned his body. The Master is dead!"

"The Master is part of a greater design, because a shadow is falling over creation. Something vast is stirring in the dark!"

"And so it came to pass that the players took their final places, making ready the events that were to come. The madman, sat in his empire of dust and ashes, little knowing of the glory he would achieve, while his saviour looked upon the wilderness, in the hope of changing his inevitable fate. Far away, the idiots and fools dreamt of a shining new future … a future now doomed to never happen. As Earth rolled onwards into night, the people of that world did sleep, and shiver, somehow knowing that dawn would bring only one thing …The final day!"

"Every star in the universe -- we were going to see them all. But he was too busy burning them. I don't think she ever saw anything."

"The Master was dying and begged for his life with one final game, and when he lost, I sealed him for all eternity inside my gold tooth."

"I went and talked to David Whitaker, the script editor of ‘Doctor Who’, and I came up with a story idea. They liked it, they bought it, and that takes us up to where the Daleks started. I don’t know to this day what the enormous appeal of the Daleks was. I’ve heard all sorts of ideas about it, but they were slightly magical, because you didn’t know what the elements were that made them work. I’d been a cinema-goer all my life, and loved going to what were rated in those days as horror movies. Whatever the creature was, somewhere in your heart of hearts, you know it was a man dressed up, so my first requirement was to take the legs off. Take away the humanoid form, and we were off and running. Further inspiration came from the Georgian State Ballet, the Russian dance trouple which was performing in London at the time. There was a dance that the women did, where they wore floor-brushing skirts, and evidently took tiny steps, so they appeared to glide across the stage. There was no suggestion of what form of locomotion they were using. That’s what I wanted for the Daleks. The rest of it comes easily, you put on an eye, and something else for hands. We made a big mistake with the hands, of course, we should have been smarter, but I had no faith in the show. It was the old writer’s axiom, ‘Take the money and fly like a thief’. I really didn’t think that it could work. After the Daleks, I was for a short time the most famous writer on television. The press interviewed me, there was mail arriving in great van loads. There was stuff coming to my house that said ‘Dalek Man – London’, and I was getting lots of them. Almost all the kids wanted a Dalek, and nobody was quick enough. The BBC, not being the great commercial operator, wasn’t ready, so there was no merchandising, there were no plastic Daleks, there were no buttons, there were no anything. My God, was that to change! Within the year, there were Dalek everythings."

"Ray Cusick, the designer, took rough notes of my ideas for the Dalek’s behaviour, the electronic eye, mechanical hands, and so on, and although I didn’t have a clear visual image in my mind, when I saw his finished Dalek design it seemed very familiar. In fact the visible part of the Dalek is only a travelling case inside which there is the Dalek itself, a shapeless brain intercommunicating and interacting with all the other Dalek brains – although later there came a need for these to be organised through a Dalek Supreme."

"The Daleks don’t have any personal character, any conscience, or morality. They are totally bad. This has worried some American companies interested in them —Americans seem to think that even the blackest villain must have some redeeming features. They had to have a purpose, and I knew what: they were concerned with total domination."

"Aren’t we all interested in dominating other people? Total control, a machine-like desire, and the Daleks. It had a neatness that fitted. In the past only human endeavour has overcome this kind of evil. Man is a supreme creation if he is able to work with his fellows. There is nothing he can’t do if he gets down to it. I believe that what people want on television is entertainment, and action stories are what I want to write – there are plenty of other people to write sociological dramas - but if the Daleks have a message this is it. It’s so ‘nonsensically simple. Why do people starve and die in the streets and go on fighting – Vietnam for instance, all in the name of democracy!"

"DOCTOR: The floors are metal. All the floors are metal."

"CORNISH: That's Tom Spilsbury. He's the editor at Doctor Who magazine. The Daleks, he says, look like giant metal salt shakers. But they're somehow believable as evil-armored aliens."

"SPILSBURY: They're effectively a giant pepper pot, yeah."

"Rose Tyler: Five million Cybermen? Easy. One Doctor? Now you're scared!"

"The cybermen are said to be logical creatures-and look how they behave. They've become a race of emotionless soldiers devoted to conquering the universe, destroying other species or forcing them to become Cybermen too."

"[W]ould a logical creature really behave like the Cybermen do? If not, how would a logical creature really behave? Or, to put it another way, what's the "logical" way to live? That's the question I'll be examining here by contrasting the views of philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart Mill, and David Hume, asking what they'd thin of Cyberman "logic and how Cybermen might've looked if they'd been designed according to the principles espoused by these philosophers; how they might have designed the Cybermen differently, given a chance. While my examples come from Doctor Who the issue of living logically has real-world importance. After all, we all have to decide if we care about living logically or not, and if we do not want to live logically, we'd better know what "living logically" requires of us."

"If David Hume had designed the Cybermen to be perfectly reasonable but emotionless, they'd do nothing at all. They'd have no impetus since they'd care about nothing. Mondas would simply drift past the Earth in "The Tenth Planet." Human scientists would no doubt eagerly attempt to contact this newly discovered form of alien life, but the Cybermen wouldn't even wave back at our telescopes. When the new Cybermen are brought to John Lumic, he'd bark orders at them only to be ignored by creatures who, lacking emotions, care no more about what he wants than about whether they live or die. Cybermen built to be reasonable but lacking emotion would be a race indistinguishable from statues, fit only to serve as shop mannequins."

"Keep flying, son. And watch that potty mouth!"

"Weapons down or I will not be responsible for what comes next."

"Ninety percent of the casualties of World War I were soldiers, fraulein. But half the people who died in World War II were civilians... Half of sixty-one million. I know why I'm fighting, fraulein. I don't want to see World War III."

"A soldier with a voice that could command a god... and does."

"I'm loyal to nothing, General.. except the Dream."

"I fought your kind every day of that war, Zemo! You mocked democracy and said that free men were weak! Well feel this grip, Zemo — it's the grip of a man who loves liberty! Look into the eyes of your foe, and know that he will die for his freedom! The world must never again mistake compassion for weakness! And while I live — it had better not!"

"Avengers assemble!"

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move.""

"Do you actually think the fact that you know how to program a computer makes you more of a human being than me? That I'm out of touch because I don't know what you know? I know what freedom is. I know what it feels like to fight for it and I know what it costs to have it. You know compromise."

"Captain America is not here to lead the country. I'm here to serve it. If I'm a captain, then I'm a soldier. Not of any military branch, but of the American people. Years ago, in simpler times, this suit and this shield were created as a symbol to help make America the land it's supposed to be... to help it realize its destiny. Ricocheting from super-villain duel to super-villain duel doesn't always serve that purpose. There's a difference between fighting against evil and fighting for the common good. I'm not always able to choose my battles... but effective immediately, I'm going to make an effort to choose the battles that matter. Battles against injustice, against cynicism, against intolerance. I will still serve with the Avengers. I will continue to defend this nation from any and all threats it may face. But as of today, I am not a "super hero." Now and forevermore, I am a man of the people. Together, you and I will identify and confront America's problems. Together, we will figure out what we are and what we can be. Together, we will define the American Dream and make it an American reality."

"Listen to me -- all of you out there! You were told by this man -- your hero -- that America is the greatest country in the world!"

"Courage, Honor, Loyalty, Sacrifice. You're braver than you think."

"These are dark and desperate times. I know that some of you are afraid. It's alright. It's perfectly natural. But I want you to know that I am not. I am not afraid to die this day because what we do here is necessary. It may seem impossible, our enemies may appear to be endless, but that doesn't matter. Because there is no one else. Look at me. I believe in an idea, an idea that a single individual who has the right heart and the right mind that is consumed with a single purpose, that one man can win a war. Give that one man a group of soldiers with the same conviction, and you can change the world."

"...so we worked our way up from the south and met with leaders from the Maquis to help plan the attack. I've seen a lot of combat...and I'd seen a lot before I got to France...but the savagery inflicted on these people. I never saw anything like it until we got to Buchenwald. That's why it galls me when I hear my own people dismissing the French as cowards. We're talking about a people who never gave up fighting the Nazi occupation. Their country may have surrendered, but they didn't..."

"Surrender??!! You think this letter on my head stands for France?"

"Yeah, I'm gonna fight you. You know why? Because I fought besides Russians during World War 2. They were good and decent men, and they made terrible painful sacrifices to save their country. And to their country then turn around and put monsters in prisons with nuclear landmines... to see people like you, proudly complicit in this nightmare... Yeah, I'll fight you. You've waited forty years for me in this hellhole, I feel it'd be impolite not to kick your head in."

"What are you ladies waiting for, Christmas?!"

"When Captain America throws his mighty shield, All those who chose to oppose his shield must yield! If he's led to a fight and a duel is due, Then the red and the white and the blue will come through, When Captain America throws his mighty shield!""

"Freedom Prevails!"

"Thumbs up, Soldier!"

"Good Work, Soldier!"

"For Truth, Justice, and the American way!"

"Believe in your country, but believe in yourself!"

"Stars and Stripes!!! (when performing his "Stars and Stripes" special attack)"

"Charging Star!!! (when performing his "Charging Star" special attack)"

"Final Justice! (when performing his "Final Justice" super move)"

"Your kind's got no shot--not while I'm around."

"The day I fall to the likes of you is the day I hang up my shield. (After defeating M.O.D.O.K. in Marvel vs. Capcom 3)"

"We Avengers will always fight the good fight! (When winning with the Avengers team in Marvel vs. Capcom 3)"

"You think I'm going down to some pampered punk like you? (when up against Iron Man in Marvel vs. Capcom 3)"

"Your name's Zero? Hope you don't fight like one. (when up against Zero in Marvel vs. Capcom 3)"

"On Olympus, we measure Wisdom against Athena, Speed against Hermes, Power against Zeus. But we measure Courage ... against Captain America."

"In a story from the early 1980s, Captain America uses his amazing powers to destroy a renegade American intelligence agency that is plotting an attack on the Soviet Union in order to make the United States the last remaining superpower. Confronting the plotters, the comic-book hero makes one of many declarations of faith that resound throughout his more than 70-year-long career as a fighter against evil: “I represent the American dream! A dream that has precious little to do with borders, boundaries, and the kind of blind hatred your ilk espouses!”"

"When he first appeared in March 1941, Captain America was the alter ego of Steve Rogers, a skinny art student from New York who had been transformed into a super-soldier by the U.S. army. Trying to enlist, but rejected because of his scrawny physique, Rogers agrees to be used as a subject in a secret project. Injected with a special serum and exposed to a course of radiation with “Vita-Rays,” the scrawny young man acquires astonishing strength, resourcefulness and courage. Captain America isn’t a superman; he is an average human being whose powers have been enhanced to the nth degree. It may be the fact that he is so recognizably human that makes him the most modern of the comic superheroes."

"Appearing in the run-up to U.S. entry into a world-shaking conflict, the Captain has always embodied the good in human beings. In his new book, Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero, Mark D. White argues that there can be no better model of ethical behavior today: “Cap’s ‘old-fashioned’ moral code is exactly what we need to restore civility and respect in the 21st century in both our personal lives and our political debates. He is what ancient philosophers—yes, more ancient than Cap—called a moral exemplar.”"

"For White, who teaches philosophy at City University of New York and who has published widely on ethics as well as written about other comic-book heroes, the Captain is loyal to “timeless principles of freedom, equality and justice.” These principles are distinctively American, White believes, but he is keen to dispel “any illusion that Captain America is a jingoist flag-waver ... Instead he embodies an inclusive patriotism that balances idealism with clear-eyed pragmatism.” His principles are universal: as White puts it, he believes “American ideals apply to everyone—not just all Americans, but all people around the world.”"

"Captain America was a product of the way I felt at the time. I come from New York City and – especially on the block where I lived – there was plenty of action. There were fights and people would come from the next block and we would fight and either win or lose. That would be the routine. I grew up with that type of activity and I accepted it in my professional work. I believe it was also the times in general. Hitler was in power. The world was immersed in a general atmosphere of war. The war was coming and so there was a lot of turbulence. It was a very turbulent period and people reacted in a turbulent fashion. When I met partner Joe Simon, we immediately got our heads together and came up with Captain America who was typical of times. He was a patriot. He was a fighter. We were Americans and, in our plu cial[sic] minds, we were winners. Captain America was a winner. And sales were phenomenal."

"I didn't have a lot of objections to putting a crew on the first issue ... There were two young artists from Connecticut that had made a strong impression on me. Al Avison and Al Gabriele often worked together and were quite successful in adapting their individual styles to each other. Actually, their work was not too far from [that of] Kirby's. If they worked on it, and if one inker tied the three styles together, I believed the final product would emerge as quite uniform. The two Als were eager to join in on the new Captain America book, but Jack Kirby was visibly upset. "You're still number one, Jack," I assured him. "It's just a matter of a quick deadline for the first issue." "I'll make the deadline," Jack promised. "I'll pencil it [all] myself and make the deadline." I hadn't expected this kind of reaction ... but I acceded to Kirby's wishes and, it turned out, was lucky that I did. There might have been two Als, but there was only one Jack Kirby ... I wrote the first Captain America book with penciled lettering right on the drawing boards, with very rough sketches for figures and backgrounds. Kirby did his thing, building the muscular anatomy, adding ideas and pepping up the action as only he could. Then he tightened up the penciled drawings, adding detailed backgrounds, faces and figures.""

"I was always thinking about heroes and villains, with all sorts of ideas swimming around in my head…I had a hot fudge sundae sitting in front of me, with the vanilla ice cream, and the hot fudge is running down the side. It was intriguing. The hot fudge looked like limbs—legs, feet, and hands—and I’m thinking to myself. Gee, this’d make an interesting villain, I mused. We’ll call him Hot Fudge … Just put a face on him, and have him ooze all over the place. But I looked again at the sundae, and I saw the big cherry on top. The cherry looked like a skull. “Wow,” I said to myself. “Red Skull … that sounds good.”"

"We knew what was going on over in Europe. World events gave us the perfect comic-book villain, Adolf Hitler, with his ranting, goose-stepping and ridiculous moustache. So we decided to create the perfect hero who would be his foil. I did that first sketch of Captain America, and Jack and I did the entire first issue before showing it to (publisher) Martin Goodman at Timely Comics. He loved it immediately."

"But when Captain America came out, America wasn't yet in the war, so the American Nazis weren't happy with what we did to their beloved Fuhrer. ... We had a couple of personal encounters with the Bund (an American Nazi group). But that didn't stop us. If anything, it added fuel to the fire."

"There once was a barbarian -- Who roamed about the plains -- And used the power of his sword -- To substitute for brains."

"His mighty swords are in his hands -- His eyes are flaming red -- He doesn't have a bit of fear -- Or brains inside his head."

"You think you can confuse Groo by giving him two things to think about at once!"

"Maybe I could get a job collecting taxes! Then I would earn money so I could pay those taxes! That is how government works!"

"I want my dog back! I would give you until the count of five if I could count to five!"

"a chiz is a swiz or swindle as any fule kno."

"grabber who is head of the skool captane of everything and winer of the mrs joyful prize for rafia work."

"Acktually fotherington-tomas is worse than me he is girlie and spend his time skipping about he sa Hullo clouds hullo sky hullo sun etc when huge centre forward bearing down on him and SHOT whistles past his nose."

"Peotry is sissy stuff that rhymes."

"All latin masters hav one joke.Caesar adsum jam forte or caesar had some jam for tea."

"You kno who this is e.g. Me nigel molesworth the curse of st custard's."

"Meanwhile in the master's common room. Sigismund arbuthnot the mad maths master musters his rhomboids."

"Aktually it is only fotherington-tomas you kno he sa Hullo clouds hullo sky he is a girlie and love the scents and sounds of nature tho the less i smell and hear them the better."

"Sometimes they think they will trick you into liking lat. by having a latin pla. Latin plas are like this –THE HOGWARTS by MARCUS PLAUTUS MOLESWORTHUS"

"Every skool hav a resident buly who is fat and roll about the place clouting everybode."

"Foopball is a tuough game but it is a pity you canot win by hacking everybode. You hav to be nippy."

"He is my grate friend so i hav let him off litely. He is much worse than this aktually as his mummy call him 'darling' and kiss his ickle-pritty face. The old gurl must be blind. Or bats. Or both."

"His piece "Fairy Bells" on the skool piano will never be forgoten by those who hav heard it."

"A grave thort strike me:ALL BOOKS WHICH BOYS HAV TO READ ARE WRONG"

"Coo ur gosh i expect this is a bit of a shock especially for the gurls. As you kno it hav long been an open secret in 3b that i never intend to get maried. This hav been becos if you get maried it hav to be to a GURL chiz and hitherto my conviction hav been that GURLS are uterly wet and weedstruck."

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows..."

"I saved your life, Roy Tam. It now belongs to me."

"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit."

"Everyone here is stupid."

"The SubGenius must have Slack."

"Act like a dumbshit and they'll treat you like an equal."

"Don't just eat that hamburger, eat the HELL out of it!"

"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke."

"Just because some jackass is an atheist doesn't mean that his prophets and gods are any less false."

"Pull the wool over your own eyes."

"Relax in the safety of your own delusions."

"They may be Pink, but their money's still green!"

"This "Church of the SubGenius" is the best scam I ever pulled."

"You'll PAY to know what you really think."

"You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are even dumber than THAT."

""Too much" is always better than not enough."

"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

"Give me (Slack, food, money, a job, etc.), or KILL ME!"

"Eternal Salvation — Or TRIPLE your money back!"

"Do What Keepeth Thou from Wilting Shall Be the Loophole of The Law."

"I'd rather be lucky than good any day."

"I always lie . . . and I'm always right."

"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say, "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say there are two kinds of people in the world, and the other kind," and there's who don't say. Well, then there's me."

"If you have no Pipe I will give you one; if you do not, I will take it away from you."

"[on capital punishment] Forgive them first... then kill them."

"[when asked if he was interested in discovering what was behind the Veil of Illusion] HELL no! I'm interested in what's behind the veil of ORDINARY REALITY."

"Pull off your pants and roll in your own mistakes."

"In My Father's Midway Are Many Bumper Car Rides."

"I choose to believe in an afterlife only because it is too horrible to believe that such a cool stud as myself could be allowed to disappear from the universe. [Diary entry, age 15]"

"There IS no God — but if you're any kind of real American, you'll demand that He treat you as an EQUAL."

"I am the global village idiot!"

"If humor is based on the misfortune of others, then I suppose you might call me the greatest comedian of all time."

"Don't forgive them, for they know exactly what they do."

"The stupider it looks, the more important it probably is."

"The way of the Paladin is to seek to know that which truly is. The Paladin strives to learn his own inner nature and that of others. The Paladin does whatever needs to be done to bring light to the world. Not for glory, not for gain, the Paladin Becomes a Paladin because it is his Will."

"Miko: A paladin never compromises. Roy: Does a paladin ever remove the stick from their ass? Miko: No. It's a class feature."

"I, Miko Miyazaki, Paladin of the Sapphire Guard, have come to vanquish you this morning. Rouse yourself from your half-asleep stupor and prepare yourself for battle. In the interest of a fair and proper fight, I demand you be fully awake before we attack. Don't forget to retrieve your weapons from their resting places. You have not eaten your morning meal yet. It would be dishonorable to fight a foe who has not had the chance to load up on carbs."

"Blade with whom I have lived, blade with whom I now die, serve right and justice one last time, seek one last heart of evil, still one last life of pain, cut well old friend, and then farewell."

"Remember always that in the end, you may find truth within yourself, not from without. That is what we have learned about the Inner Light."

"A knight is sworn to valour. His heart knows only virtue. His blade defends the helpless. His might upholds the weak. His word speaks only truth. His wrath undoes the wicked."

"Remember, Arthas, we are paladins. Vengeance cannot be a part of what we must do."

"Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn."

"Beauty is a curse on the world. It keeps us from seeing who the real monsters are."

"Amazing drug, isn't it? It's a modified form of mivacurium chloride. They use it on violent psych patients... causes a kind of 'waking coma'... should wear off in a few minutes. Mmm... it's like a plane crash, though; a few minutes waiting to hit the ground... can feel like a lifetime. Awful feeling, being totally helpless... having no control... that's how most people spend their lives... slaves to the tyranny of beauty... carb counting, kick-boxing and chemical peels. I'm rescuing them from all that... and you are destroying... my... work."

"Fix one of my masterpieces again and the next time I'll kill you."

"They call me the 'Carver.' 'I am an artist. 'You're the 'Carver.' Fifty noses all the same. A thousand flawless breasts. You're the monster carving what's beautiful and real out of life."

"You've made a mess of things, Rhea. Shhh... That's alright. Because I'm going to give you what you've wanted all along: real pain.""

"I've been called pervert. Sicko. Madman. Maniac. Monster. But I am just a simple person trying to lead my brothers and sisters into the light, to liberate them from the cage of beauty. My only fault is that, no matter how hard I try, I just can't stop giving." - Video 1, "Pervert.""

"I'm currently hard at work on my masterpiece. I must admit, she wasn't much to look at when I started. But when I'm done with her, she will be an icon of beauty. Perfection personified." - Video 2, "Masterpiece.""

"Finding victims isn't as hard as you think. Throw a stick down Beach Boulevard; you'll hit a hundred beauty slaves, their thong bikinis straining under the pressure of their silicone-enhanced breasts. Take your pick — every one of them is desperate for freedom." - Video 3, "Freedom."

"I love that everyone is trying to find out who I am. Who is the mask behind the mask? They shouldn't bother, though. I'm ten steps ahead of all of you. I will reveal myself at a time and place of my choosing, and you'd all better pray to your gods that you aren't there when it happens." - Video 4, "10 Steps."

"Some may be wondering who my favorite victim has been. While the models were fun and necessary, none of them could compare to the rush of facing down the doctors of McNamara/Troy. They are the yin to my yang, the Satan to my Saint Michael. The destroyers of my beautiful canvases. A word of warning to my good friends, though: if they continue down the same path, I will not be as forgiving as I was the last time I paid them a personal visit." - Video 5, "Favorite Victim.""

"I fear that the city is becoming desensitized to my methods. Overexposure can be such a bitch. I think I'm going to need to raise the bar a bit. Cut deeper. What can I say? I'm a slave to my public." - Video 6, "Overexposure.""

"You may think you know who I am, but you don't. The only way to know me [Carver unmasks, revealed to be Quentin, and the voice is no longer distorted] is to feel my pain. - Video 7."

"Spinelli: Sex is better than orange soda."

"This is Politics: 'Do what you're told or we'll punish you.' This is Religion: 'Suffer misery now so you can be happy after death.' This is Philosophy: 'The Universe came from nothing, and will one day return to it.' None of these doctrines stands up to rational analysis."

"I don't believe in god. In the future, we will all be responsible for our own acts."

""Quoting Einstein out of context, they say that good and evil are relative; that there are no moral absolutes. They lie. Only two laws are needed to change the entire universe: never use initiatory force, and never cheat. The people who run our world constantly break both."

"My pocket dictionary defines evil as 'bad, harmful.' But that's only half the story. Evil needs to be intentional."

"Science is magic explained..."

"In 1995, the countries of southeast asia spent $435 billion on military expenditure-- Not because the people demanded it, you understand; how many peasants do you know who've started wars? Mao Tse-Tung spouted a lot of nonsense, but he sure got one thing right: 'all (political) power comes out the barrel of a gun.' You don't believe me, do you? You live in a democracy. You vote for your leaders-- So tell me -- what happens if you want to disobey them? Say you don't like the President. You object to paying taxes to support him, his family, his pets, his bodyguards and his friends he wangled jobs for. What do you do? Or say you don't like your taxes being used to subsidize foreign arms sales for slaughter in the third world. How can you stop it? Vote for somebody else, whose policy is the same? Don't vote? The government pretends to be there to serve you. In reality, it's there to tell you what to do-- If you refuse to obey, you'll be investigated--arrested--criminalized. Your assets will be seized and given to the state. You will be jailed. And that's the 'free' America -- -- Imagine what it's like in Iraq."

"Albert Einstein said that 'The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.' But our institutions are the opposite. They enslave us -- Rule us by fear and deceit! They'd gladly bomb us back into the stone age! They don't want the common man to be anything but a slave! The world has gone wrong. But I swear by every breath in my body-- I will put it right again!"

"Imagine – you’re a child again. Filled with innocence, and wonder, and life. Remember how good it felt? That’s what the parasites stole from us. They bled us dry. And like sheep we lined up to give more blood. But we can have back all that they stole, and more. The information age provides a spotlight the parasites can’t squirm away from. Identify them. Negate their evil. Ostracize them. Step with me into a better world."

"Greetings, Gotham City. My name is Anarky. (...) I believe in the absolute freedom of the individual. I believe that the present order must be abolished. I believe that the voice of the people must be heard... listened to... and obeyed! ...I would like to extend this warning to the whole city: you are either part of the solution, or part of the problem. Look into your own hearts. Decide which you are and choose well-- for if you are an enemy of the people -- Anarky will seek you out... and destroy you!"

""'The essence of anarchy is constant surprise.' Spontaneity... Lao-Tse knew, and all those other old Chinese guys. So how come we all forgot along the way? How come you can be wise once upon a time, and two thousand years later you're ignorant as a pig? Doesn't really matter. The dinosaurs are dead, only they don't know it yet. They need someone like Anarky to bring home the news. The Dark Ages are passing -- and their heroes will pass with them. The city needs a new breed of hero. The night needs a new kind of monster. Anarky."

"I always knew I'd get off on this part of it. There's something just feels so good about... destruction. But not destruction for its own sake. This is a cleansing... A ridding of the old... It's necessary."

"The essence of anarchy is surprise... Spontaneity. Lao-Tse knew!""

""The essence of anarchy is surprise -- spontaneous action... even when it does require a little planning!"

"Democracy... Hah! There's a laugh. They pretend that it works -- pretend that the voice of the people, spoken through its elected representatives will be heard. Trash! The world is run by elites -- bankers, the military, government agencies. Criminals all. They prey like vampires on their victims...! I've been thinking a lot about elites lately. How they come to power -- How to stop them!"

"I'm against anything that's against people! Cruelty -- brutality -- exploitation... These are the enemies of the people -- The enemies of Anarky!"

"The world's dying! Poisoned seas -- can't breath the air! The politicians -- the bankers -- the criminals -- they're sacrificing us all on the alter of their greed! Please... please don't kill our planet...!"

"Society is rotten. It will only be changed when the people see the greed, arrogance and brutality of those who rule them! ...Democracy is a sham!"

"The authoritarian system we live under is set to benefit a tiny minority — an all-powerful elite gets obscenely rich, while billions are cheated out of realizing their true potential. But the system is rotten. It's ripe for collapse. It's the duty of every revolutionary — everyone of us — to hasten that collapse... It's not a crime to fight injustice... The system's conditioned us — hypnotized nearly everybody into accepting that life has to be the way it is. We're hypnotized into believing war is natural — famine is natural — crime is natural... but they're not. They're products of the system and its all-consuming greed! People have become robots — zombies — too busy scrambling for day-to-day existence to be able to see they're really victims. It's up to us to open their eyes. From cradle to grave, we're taught — indoctrinated! — that happiness depends on always getting more. Buy — throw away — buy more! Doesn't matter if we destroy the planet on the way! Politicians say they can fix the world's problems. Just give them more power. Religions say do more of what they order and you'll be happy — but only after you're dead! They've been making the same hollow promises for thousands of years, and we, the people — the sheep — have listened. But it's time to wake up and smell the coffee — the days of external authority and force-backed power are numbered... that's the way the system is set up! A sham democracy that acts as a front for the elite's ambitions... It doesn't have to be like that. We can change it!"

"Batman's misguided. He fights the results of crime, but not the causes. He takes on individual cases... but he fails to see the wider picture!"

"Roxanne Machin: "Oh, why can't you just be normal?""

"Lonnie Machin: "Because I'm not normal, mom. I'm something special -- One day -- and soon -- everybody will be like me. Because if they're not, mankind will be extinct!""

"...I guess it's true what they say... the radical of one century is the conservative of the next!"

"His Name is His Goal!"

"Democracy is The Tyranny of The Minority!"

"The Quest For Justice in Gotham City Is No Longer A Fight Between Good And Evil. It Is Now A War Over Who's Right And Who's Wrong. Batman. Anarky. Two dedicated idealists, two champions for two very different causes. If Anarky wins, what will Gotham stand to gain? If Batman wins, what will Gotham lose?"

"He's a straight-A student... Cocky -- confident -- thought he knew all the answers, had to do it his way. Yet I can't help but admire him."

"I know you alright — A 14-year-old genius who thinks his extremist ideals justify any crime."

"Oh, yes, I remember young Lonnie, all right! Sad boy, I always thought. Old before his time. Didn't make friends easily. Spent too much time in places like this. Reading, always reading. Far too serious."

"Actually, he may be right about a lot of things..."

"He's fifteen years old, for pity's sake! Look at these books--! He should be sneaking copies of Playboy around, not Bakunin and Marx and Ayn Rand!"

"I felt he was the perfect character (to express Neo-Tech philosophy) because he's human, he has no special powers, the only power he's got is the power of his own rational consciousness."

"...Norm and I (like I said, we’re very different people) agree with Anarky’s perception of what’s wrong with the world. It is something we feel very strongly about. Although we want the book to be very entertaining, as all comic books have to be, we’re trying to say something else; there is another viewpoint of the world from another direction. You might see that you’re being conned. It is quite difficult to present that in an entertaining fashion. We’ve succeeded, I think, largely in part to Norman’s artwork. It’s as dynamic as anything I’ve ever seen him do. He draws Anarky as if he loves the character."

"Anarky’s world clashes as much with the traditional world of superheroes as it does with the world of crime. So the interplay between him and Green Lantern and him and Superman is not the usual kind of hero interplay."

"(Anarky is) a philosophical action hero, an Aristotle in tights, rising above mere "crime-fighter" status into the realm of incisive social commentary. In fact, Anarky exists primarily to challenge the status quo of hierarchical power, and he may be the first mainstream comics hero of his type to do it consistently and with such rational intelligence... "Although super-heroes' primary goal is to entertain, they also have the potential to meet this higher challenge, and I like to think that Anarky is leading the charge. After all, it's his very nom de guerre and purpose for existing!"

"I'm amused by Alan's originally grooming Anarky to be the new Robin; the Robin role now seems too small for him!"

"We don’t have any conclusive evidence, but Alan and I can’t help but feel that Anarky’s philosophy grated on somebody’s nerves; somebody got a look at it and didn’t like it.... So I’ve generally gotten the impression that Anarky was nixed because of its philosophy. Especially in this age of post 9/11, Anarky would be a challenge to established authority. He’s very anti-establishment, that’s why he’s named Anarky!"

"Anarky, of course, was among the best, if not the best, of the characters Alan created. Alan really created him—along with the other characters—and I was just along for the ride and lucky to be there."

"[Anarky] became—even more than Batman—a more synergistic element between Alan and me. It was the fruition of our professional relationship in that we were discussing (through faxes) a lot of the philosophical issues, day by day, that Alan was putting into the Anarky storyline."

"In the age of the anti-hero, it only makes sense to have the occasional anti-villain as well. But unlike sociopathic vigilante anti-heroes like the Punisher, an anti-villain like Anarky provides some interesting food for thought. Sure, he breaks the law, but what he really wants is to save the world... and maybe he's right."

"Anarky is my favorite comic-book character... Anarky represents an impressive voice for liberty in today's comics."

"Everyone always goes on about what a radical Ollie (Green Arrow) is and I wanted to show that maybe that isn’t the case … especially as Ollie’s radical credentials are pretty antiquated... Anarky as a character - and as a broader idea - is much more radical than Ollie... Also, Anarky is a terrorist! How can that not be interesting in the modern climate?"

"Anarky is one of the more interesting characters of the past fifteen or twenty years, not only because he's a teenager (which is a wonderful revelation in #609) but because of what he wants to accomplish. Anarky is a direct contrast to Batman. He is an active agent of change while Batman is simply a reactive agent, reinforcing the status quo (as all corporate superheroes do) and positioning himself as the opposition to Anarky even though Lonnie, the teenager under the mask, is trying to make the world better instead of simply stopping at beating up the obvious criminals... Lonnie is a fascinating character in that he has a sense of humor (as evidenced by the A-symbol he spray-paints on Batman's cape after the Dark Knight has captured him) and he's very smart. He is able to show how ineffective Batman is against the real problems of society, and although Batman stops his spree, we find ourselves sympathizing much more with Anarky than with the representative of the status quo... Grant obviously liked the character, and he is one of those creations that you wish was used better in the DC Universe. Anarchy as a concept is often dismissed, but it's worth looking at simply because it is so radical and untenable, yet still noble."

"Gotham City's corrupt CEOs and drug peddlers may look over their shoulders for the winged shadow of the Batman, but it is Anarky they truly fear."

"I think Anarky's age is right now. He looks like a street protester. He looks like Anonymous. He's like one of these guys who wants to go out there and change the world to what he believes is the better, and I think of all the Batman enemies, and one of the reasons I'm most excited about Anarky, is he feels relevant today."

"In every part of the globe it is the same! Hatred, fear and unreasoning hostility have possessed men's hearts! But the Silver Surfer will have no part of it!"

"Those to whom no distant horizons beckon ... for whom no challenges remain ... though they have inherited a Universe ... they possess only empty sand!"

"My people have lost the spirit of high adventure ... the thrill of exploration ... the longing to see beyond the veil of knowledge!"

"Let my board and me again become as one! For I must leave this place of madness!"

"Now, I ride the Eternal winds once more! And none shall ever be my master!"

"Paradise unearned is but a land of shadows!"

"Rather let me fail ... than never to have tried at all!"

"My fate is of little consequence ... if it can save the world that gave me birth! Mighty Galactus ... do but spare Zenn-La ... and I am yours.. to command!"

"Where soars the Silver Surfer.... There he must soar ... alone!"

"Time is long and fate is fickle ... My destiny still lies before me! And where it beckons — there shall soar the Silver Surfer!"

"Why... Why must I ever behold the loveliness of Shalla-Bal in every female face I see? Will I never be free of her haunting memory... of her deathless love?"

"Again you substitute force for understanding! Again you would destroy that which you cannot comprehend! ... From cradle to grave — your lives are rooted in senseless violence! Since power is your god — I'll show you power — such as you have never known!"

"If die I must — let it be as I have lived — soaring swift and silent — striving for the right — no matter what the cost!"

"The choice between good and evil — is made by all who live — with every single heartbeat!"

"Unlike the humans, who call you beast, there is no violence in your heart. No hint of avarice, no smoldering hate! Yet man, who has won dominion over all this world, is a stranger to peace — a prisoner, caught in the web of his own nameless fears."

"Even in failure there can be Nobility! But failing to try brings only shame!"

"Henceforth and forever — I am the Silver Surfer! To save our people, I have sworn to serve Galactus!"

"Others may battle with victory in sight — but the Surfer still strives when all hope is gone!"

"To me my board! The time has come to test Galactus anew! To see if his barrier still holds! And if it does, to try again, and again, and again — until I am free!"

"Wheels within wheels! I've been tricked, duped, manipulated! And the real enemy was never Galactus or Dr. Doom — it was — Mephisto, Lord of Evil!"

"You, who once called the Surfer "fool" — did you think mere cackling demons could overcome the Power Cosmic? Though I am less than fallen god, still I am more than mortal!"

"Laugh, Mephisto! Gloat while you may! The evil is yours — but the triumph is mine!"

"Though the one I treasure most of all is forever denied me — though sentenced to endure earthly confinement as a bird endure its cage — still my heart is light. For I have been true to my destiny! I have bested a demon and brought new life to a world! I know not what tomorrow may bring — but today — the Surfer soars!"

"You'll find my power comes from within.... and is a force to be reckoned with."

"Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn."

"Completely mad. But perhaps he did have a point. Sure, at the top of his head. Was that a joke?"

"Thanos is like no foe I have ever faced. Perhaps he operates on unheard of spectro levels. There it is!! Amazing. The technologies involved at operating at this level would tax even Galactus's scientific abilities. Yet Thanos roams here freely."

"All over the Universe! I can feel them! They're all dying! Billions upon billions of souls are blinking out of existence! ... Not one knew what struck them! Horrible! I could taste their dread and confusion!"

"If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all peoples holy."

"What have my actions brought...?"

"The Silver Surfer stands with humankind this day!"

"Drink deep, aged one. For even you must have a limit to the power cosmic you can absorb"

"All that you know is at an end."

"I am not the destroyer."

"Treasure every moment you have with her. Tell her she was right. There is always a choice."

"I will no longer serve. This is the end for us both."

"My conception of the Silver Surfer was a human being from space in that particular form. He came in when everybody began surfing — I read about it in the paper. The kids in California were beginning to surf. I couldn’t do an ordinary teenager surfing so I drew a surfboard with a man from outer space on it."

"I won't let them take another Silver Surfer away from me."

"Herald, prepare yourself!! Prepare to be ... REBORN! At the command of Galactus... you have fallen!! And now... at my command once again... I bid you... RISE!!"

"We were all into Marvel Comics, and the Silver Surfer seemed to be another fantastic singular image. We never got permission to use it. But we liked the image of a silver man, on a silver surfboard, scooting across the universe. It had mystical, mythical properties.... Very cosmic man."

"That wasn't the title track of the album for quite a while. It was going to be called The Lord of Karma. It wasn't until we finished that track and added the jet noises that we realized that "Surfing" was the song that summed up the feeling of the whole album. The whole thing with putting the Silver Surfer on the cover was purely by accident. It came about because the product manager at the record label, Jim Kozlowski, used to be called the Silver Surfer when he was a DJ in Boston. When I delivered the album, he said, "This is a great title. We should put the Silver Surfer on the cover." I had no idea what he was talking about. I literally did not know anything about the comic book character."

"Silver Surfer #1 is a comic worth examining closely. It has a lot of things colliding at once. It's the straw that broke the camel's back in Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's working relationship. The Silver Surfer series is possibly John Buscema's finest moment. It's Stan Lee's first big self-conscious stab at creating something ambitious and meaningful. It's also a good example of what Lee's writing is like when you subtract Kirby or Steve Ditko from the equation. There are some interesting narrative flourishes, but also a leaden storytelling instinct and deep misunderstanding of his own co-creations."

"Stranger in a Strange Land is obviously a touchstone. Can you grok that? Stan Lee is doing his delightfully purple prose thing with "O'er" and "Seeker of truth." The setup in the Fantastic Four comic said that the Surfer was confined to roam the Earth, yearning for the freedom of celestial space and learning what it is to be human. It's a good setup, but it's not set in stone. Why NOT let him roam the universe. Why restrict him? It took until 1987 for that to happen with Marshall Rogers and Steve Engelhart's Silver Surfer relaunch. That was Engelhart's stated purpose, to get the Surfer into space where he belongs."

"We also tried the Silver Surfer for the Dark Side of the Moon. I wanted to use the Silver Surfer because we liked him. I wanted to use him, literally, on one of those huge great rollers in Hawaii, a guy sprayed or body clad in silver. I thought it would be really cool; it would look like a comic character come to life..."

"Perhaps the purest expression of heroism in the face of adversity was Marvel's Silver Surfer. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1965, the Silver Surfer received his own title when Marvel expanded its line in 1968. The notion of a shiny silver being from another planet flying through the cosmos on a surfboard sounds ridiculous, but, in fact, this was an unusually humorless series. ... No matter where he goes or what he does to aid human civilization, he is repaid with fear and animosity. Yet, like a Christ figure sent to save the people of Earth, the Surfer bears his cross and endures his lonely obligation."

"Where's my beer?"

"I am nobody's friend. How much can you pay?"

"This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant."

"Must I again remind you, Archie, of the reaction you would have got if you had asked Velasquez to explain why Aesop's hand was resting inside his robe instead of hanging by his side? Must I again demonstrate that while it is permissible to request the scientist to lead you back over his footprints, a similar request of the artist is nonsense, since he, like the lark or the eagle, has made none? Do you need to be told again that I am an artist?"

"I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action."

"If I were to begin borrowing money I would end by devising means of persuading the Secretary of the Treasury to lend me the gold reserve."

"Compose yourself, Archie. Why taunt me? Why upbraid me? I am merely a genius, not a god. A genius may discover the hidden secrets and display them; only a god could create new ones."

"Remember that those of us who are both civilized and prudent commit our murders only under the complicated rules which permit us to avoid personal responsibility."

"You stick to it, Archie, like a leech to an udder."

"I'm not trying to pick a quarrel, sir. Hell no. I'm just breaking under the strain of trying to figure out a third way of crossing my legs."

"Archie. One would know everything in the world there is to know, if one waited long enough. The one fault in the passivity of Buddha as a technique for the acquisition of knowledge and wisdom is the miserably brief span of human life. He sat through the first stanza of the first canto of the preamble, and then left for an appointment with ... let us say, with a certain chemist."

"I have no talents. I have genius or nothing."

"To assert dignity is to lose it."

"To be broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe."

"But in connection with my remark to Mr. Kommers it occurs to me that no publication either before or since the invention of printing, no theological treatise and no political or scientific creed, has ever been as narrowly dogmatic or as offensively arbitrary in its prejudices as a railway timetable."

"I would like to say another thing right here, that I know when I'm out of my class. I've got my limitations, and I never yet have tried to give them the ritz."

"At that she wasn't really ugly, I mean she wasn't hideous. Wolfe said it right the next day: it was more subtle than plain ugliness, to look at her made you despair of ever seeing a pretty woman again."

"I knew a guy in the army that used to take out a girl's handkerchief and kiss it before he went to sleep. One day a couple of us sneaked it out of his shirt and put something on it, and you should have heard him when he stuck his snout against it that night. He burned it up. Later he laid and cried, he was like that."

"The back-seat driving of the less charitable emotions often makes me wonder that the brain does not desert the wheel entirely, in righteous exasperation."

"I said, "I'm sleepy. When I have to wait until nearly midnight for my dinner and then it's squirrel stew ..." Wolfe nodded. "Yes, I know. Under those circumstances I would be no better than a maniac.""

"It is the fashion to say anything is possible. The truth is, very few things are possible, pitiably few."

"Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking exercise. He had recently got the impression that he weighed too much—which was about the same as if the Atlantic Ocean formed the opinion that it was too wet—and so had added a new item to his daily routine. … He called the darts javelins."

"No one ever suffered any injury from those darts that I know of, except me. Over a period of two months Nero Wolfe nicked me for a little worse than eighty-five bucks, playing draw with the Joker and deuces wild, at two bits a go. There was no chance of getting any real accuracy with it, it was mostly luck."

"It has been many years since any woman has slept under this roof. Not that I disapprove of them, except when they attempt to function as domestic animals. When they stick to the vocations for which they are best adapted, such as chicanery, sophistry, self-adornment, cajolery, mystification and incubation, they are sometimes splendid creatures."

"You know, Mr. Goodwin, this house represents the most insolent denial of female rights the mind of man has ever conceived. No woman in it from top to bottom, but the routine is faultless, the food is perfect, and the sweeping and dusting are impeccable. I have never been a housewife, but I can't overlook this challenge. I'm going to marry Mr. Wolfe, and I know a girl that will be just the thing for you, and of course our friends will be in and out a good deal. This place needs some upsetting."

"I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions."

"All debts are preposterous. They are the envious past clutching with its cold dead fingers the throat of the living present."

"He took his coat and vest off, exhibiting about eighteen square feet of canary-yellow shirt, and chose the darts with yellow feathers, which were his favorites."

"We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits."

"This is Mr. Goodwin, my confidential assistant. Whatever opinion you have formed of me includes him of necessity. His discretion is the twin of his valor."

"Wolfe murmured, "Ten men ,,, a hundred ... a thousand ... Really, Mr. Cramer, with such an outfit as that, you should catch at least ten culprits for every crime committed." "Yeah. We do.""

"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."

"I know pretty well what my field is. Aside from my primary function as the thorn in the seat of Wolfe's chair to keep him from going to sleep and waking up only for meals, I'm chiefly cut out for two things: to jump and grab something before the other guy can get his paws on it, and to collect pieces of the puzzle for Wolfe to work on."

"Some day, Archie, I shall be constrained … but no. I cannot remake the universe, and must therefore put up with this one. What is, is, including you."

"They had Gebert down there, slapping him around and squealing and yelling at him. If you're so sure violence is inferior technique, you should have seen that exhibition; it was wonderful. They say it works sometimes, but even if it does, how could you depend on anything you got that way? Not to mention that after you had done it a few times any decent garbage can would be ashamed to have you found in it."

"But by gum I had got him to the station twenty minutes ahead of time, notwithstanding such items as three bags and two suitcases and two overcoats for a four days' absence in the month of April, Fritz Brenner standing on the stoop with tears in his eyes as we left the house ... and even tough little Saul Panzer, after dumping us at the station, choking off a tremolo as he told Wolfe goodbye. You might have thought we were bound for the stratosphere to shine up the moon and pick wild stars."

"I do not soil myself cheaply; I charge high fees."

"And that Maine? I suppose that is your arrondissement?" "No. I haven't got any. We have two kinds of detectives in America, might and main. I'm the main kind. That means I do very little of the hard work, like watering the horses and shooting prisoners and greasing the chutes. Mostly all I do is think, as for instance when they want someone to think what to do next. Mr. Wolfe there is the might kind. You see how big and strong he is. He can run like a deer."

"But… what are the horses for?" I explained patiently. "There is a law in this country against killing a man unless you have a horse on him. When two or more men are throwing dice for the drinks, you will often hear one of them say, 'horse on you' or 'horse on me.' You can't kill a man unless you say that before he does. Another thing you'll hear a man say, if he finds out something is only a hoax, he'll call it a mare's nest, because it's full of mares and no horses. Still another trouble is a horse's feathers. In case it has feathers —" "What is a mare?" I cleared my throat. "The opposite of a horse. As you know, everything must have its opposite. There can't be a right without a left, or a top without a bottom, or a best without a worst. In the same way there can't be a mare without a horse or a horse without a mare. If you were to take, say, ten million horses —"

"It was after eleven o'clock, and half the chairs in the club car were empty. Two of the wholesome young fellows who pose for the glossy hair ads were there drinking highballs, and there was a scattering of the baldheads and streaked grays who had been calling porters George for thirty years."

"Few of us have enough wisdom for justice, or enough leisure for humanity."

"Nothing is simpler than to kill a man; the difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences."

"If I offend by being curt, very well. Anyone has the privilege of offending who is willing to bear the odium."

"To me the relationship of host and guest is sacred. The guest is a jewel resting on the cushion of hospitality."

"She leaned back. "Marko told me once, long ago, that you don't like women." Wolfe shook his head. "I can only say, nonsense again. I couldn't rise to that impudence. Not like women? They are astounding and successful animals. For reasons of convenience, I merely preserve an appearance of immunity which I developed some years ago under the pressure of necessity. I confess to a specific animus toward you. Marko Vukcic is my friend; you were his wife; and you deserted him. I don't like you.""

"You, gentlemen, are Americans, much more completely than I am, for I wasn't born here. This is your native country. It was you and your brothers, black and white, who let me come here and live, and I hope you'll let me say, without getting maudlin, that I'm grateful to you for it."

"I wouldn't use physical violence even if I could, because one of my romantic ideas is that physical violence is beneath the dignity of a man, and that whatever you get by physical aggression costs more than it is worth."

"True, it is bad to stab a man in the back, but when one is in a hurry the niceties must sometimes be overlooked."

"It's like this," I told her. "You will be very happy for a while, then you will take a long journey under water and will meet a bald-headed man sitting on some seaweed who you will think is William Beebe but who will begin talking to you in Russian. Not understanding Russian, you will take it for granted that you get the idea, but will discover to your horror that he was talking about something else. Give me the other hand to compare."

"No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables."

""What's the difference between a Catholic and a river that runs uphill?" She didn't know, and I told her..."

""No." Lily was firm. "The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking and is still there." ... The fricassee came, and the first bite, together with dumpling and gravy, made me marvel at the hellishness of Mrs. Miller's disposition, to drive a man away from that."

"There are various kinds of discipline. One man's flower is another man's weed. We submit to traffic cops and the sanitary code and so on, but we are extremely fond of certain liberties. Surely you didn't come here in order to discipline Mr. Goodwin? Don't try it; you'd soon get sick of the job."

"I carry this fat to insulate my feelings. They got too strong for me once or twice and I had that idea. If I had stayed lean and kept moving around I would have been dead long ago. ... I used to be idiotically romantic. I still am, but I've got it in hand."

"War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread."

"Don't complicate matters by assuming for me a cupidity and corruption beyond the limits I have set for myself. You're suffering from an occupational disease. When an international financier is confronted by a holdup man with a gun, he automatically hands over not only his money and jewelry but also his shirt and pants, because it doesn't occur to him that a robber might draw the line somewhere."

"He regarded me with a cold eye. "You know, son," he said finally, "you have one or two good qualities. In a way I even like you. In another way I could stand and watch your hide peeling off and not shed any tears. You have undoubtedly got the goddamdest nerve of anybody I know except maybe Nero Wolfe.""

"Wolfe frowned at her. He hated fights about wills, having once gone so far as to tell a prospective client that he refused to engage in a tug of war with a dead man's guts for a rope."

"The story had it that Noel Hawthorne's arrow which had accidentally struck his beautiful wife had plowed diagonally across from the brow to the chin, and what was left was there behind that veil—with, it was said, one eye working—and that was what I looked at. You couldn't help it. The gray veil was fastened to her hat and extended below her chin … She was medium-sized, with what would ordinarily be called a nice youthful figure, only with the veil and knowing why it was there, you didn't have the feeling of anything being nice. I sat and stared at it, trying to ignore an inclination to offer somebody a ten-spot to pull the veil up, knowing that if it was done I'd probably offer another ten-spot to get it pulled down again."

"Mr. Kates, I have known Wolfe for twenty years, and I can tell you why we were invited here this evening. We were invited because he wanted to learn all he could as quick as he could, without leaving his chair and without Goodwin's buying gas and wearing out his tires."

"A woman who is not a fool is dangerous."

"That's the situation, my fat friend, as Charlie McCarthy said to Herbert Hoover."

"We all take chances when we exchange words with other human beings."

"One good glance and I liked the job. The girls. ... At least half a thousand of them. and the general and overwhelming impression was of -- clean, young, healthy, friendly, spirited, beautiful and ready. I stood and filled my eyes, trying to look detached. It was an ocean of opportunity. A voice at my elbow said, "I doubt very much if there's a virgin in the room. Now if you'll come to my office...""

"I'm Structural Metals, but right now I've got thirty-seven elephants in stock, over in Africa, and I can't get any other section to take them. My basic position is that elephants are non-metallic."

"With him mowed down like that in the dead of night, and with that connection he had, we felt we owed it to the community to cover all angles in an effort to prevent any breath of scandal --"

"A tiger's eyes can't make light, Saul, they can only reflect it. You've spent a day in the dark."

"This is my department, Mr. Truett." "Not the part of it I'm in at any given moment. Yours is the stock department. Mine is the murder department."

""And that's your story and you like it, huh?" "Of course it is, it's the truth!" I would have liked to use assorted tortures on her in a well-equipped underground chamber."

"It was nothing new for Wolfe to take steps, either on his own or with one or more of the operatives we used, without burdening my mind with it. His stated reason was that I worked better if I thought it all depended on me. His actual reason was that he loved to have a curtain go up revealing him balancing a live seal on his nose."

"What do we do when we have no clues? Do you know?" "No, sir." "We make one."

"You come down from your beautiful orchids day before yesterday and breeze in here and tell me merrily to draw another man-size check for that World Government outfit. When I meekly mention that the science of bookkeeping has two main branches, first addition, and second subtraction —"

"A man condemning the income tax because of the annoyance it gives him or the expense it puts him to is merely a dog baring its teeth, and he forfeits the privileges of civilized discourse. But it is possible to criticize it on other and impersonal grounds. A government, like an individual, spends money for any or all of three reasons: because it needs to, because it wants to, or simply because it has it to spend. The last is much the shabbiest. It is arguable, if not manifest, that a substantial portion of the great spring flood of billions pouring into the Treasury will in effect get spent for the last shabby reason."

"I mean the purpose she allows her cleverness to serve. That unspeakable prepared biscuit flour! Fritz and I have tried it. Those things she calls Sweeties! Pfui! And that salad dressing abomination — we have tried that too, in an emergency. What they do to stomachs heaven knows, but that woman is ingeniously and deliberately conspiring in the corruption of millions of palates. She should be stopped!"

"Frequently, twice a week or oftener, you consider the problem of guests for Miss Fraser's program. It is in fact a problem, because you want interesting people, famous ones if possible, but they must be willing to submit to the indignity of lending their presence, and their assent by silence, if nothing more, to the preposterous statements made by Miss Fraser and Mr. Meadows regarding the products they advertise."

"You have no right whatever, Mr. Anderson, except to pay your share of my fee if I earn it. You are here in my office on sufferance. Confound it, I am undertaking to solve a problem that has Mr. Cramer so nonplused that he desperately wants a hint from me before I've even begun. He doesn't mind my rudeness; he's so accustomed to it that if I were affable he'd haul me in as a material witness."

"Well. I won't pretend that I'm exasperated that you're such good friends that you haven't been able to remember what happened. If you had, and had told the police, I might not have this job."

"More than ninety-nine per cent of the bets placed on horse races are outbursts of emotion, not exercises of reason. I restrict my emotions to the activities for which they are qualified."

"Pfui." Wolfe was disgusted. "I have better use for my clients' money than buying information from policemen."

"It's okay. He never sleeps in the daytime. His mind works better when he can't see me."

"It was a new technique for making a pass at a man, but it had obvious advantages, and anyway she had plenty of other ideas and wasn't being stingy with them. At lunch she had buttered rolls for him. Now I ask you."

"I responded to his tone as a man of my temperament naturally would — I am congenitally tart and thorny — and I rejected his ultimatum."

"Much obliged. You remind me of Mr. Wolfe."

"One reason I like to work for him is that he never rides me for not acting the way he would act. He knows what I can do and that's all he ever expects; but he sure expects that."

"There are numerous layers of honesty, and the deepest should not have a monopoly."

"As I understand it, the Commies think that they get too little and capitalists get too much of the good things in life. They sure played hell with that theory that Tuesday evening."

"I'm fairly good with a billiard cue, and only Saul Panzer can beat me at tailing a man or woman in New York, but what I am best at is reporting a complicated event to Nero Wolfe."

"I lifted my right brow at him. It's one of my few outstanding talents, lifting one brow, and I save it for occasions when nothing else would quite serve the purpose."

"I'm the only woman in America who has necked with Nero Wolfe. Nightmare, my eye. He has a flair."

"It's not enough to want to do a good deed, you damn fool. Wanting is fine, but you also need some slight idea of how to go about it."

"If you like Anglo-Saxon, I belched. If you fancy Latin, I eructed. No matter which, I had known that Wolfe and Inspector Cramer would have to put up with it that evening, because that is always a part of my reaction to sauerkraut. I don't glory in it or go for a record, but neither do I fight it back. I want to be liked just for myself."

"If you need any help with all the ladies, Archie, for my age I am not to be ignored. A Swiss has a long usefulness."

"The only reason I wouldn't vote for Saul Panzer for President of the United States is that he would never dress the part. How he goes around New York, almost anywhere, in that faded brown cap and old brown suit, without attracting attention as not belonging, I will never understand. Wolfe has never given him an assignment that he didn't fill better than anyone else could except me, and my argument is why not elect him President, buy him a suit and hat, and see what happens?"

"As practicing attorneys, you gentlemen know that the potency of knowledge depends on how and when it is used."

"… I want a man who is educated or can talk like it, not too young and not too old, sharp and quick, able to take on a bushel of new facts and have them ready for use." "Jesus." Dolman clasped his hands behind his head. "J. Edgar Hoover maybe?"

"He [Nathan Harris] was lying on the bed, reading a book entitled Twilight of the Absolute, which seemed a deep dive for a dick, but then, as Finch, he was a literary agent, so I refrained from comment."

"If the processes of the subconscious can be put into rational terms at all, I think mine were something like this: (a) I have murdered a man in cold blood; (b) I am a decent and humane person, as men go, certainly not vicious or depraved; therefore (c) the conventional attitude toward the act of murder is invalid and immoral."

"This whole performance is based on an idiotic assumption, which was natural and indeed inevitable, since Mr. Rowcliff is your champion ass — the assumption that Mr. Goodwin and I are both cretins. I do not deny that at times in the past I have been less than candid with you — I will acknowledge, to humor you, that I have humbugged and hoodwinked to serve my purpose — but I still have my license, and you know what that means. It means that on balance I have helped you more than I have hurt you — not the community, which is another matter, but you Mr. Cramer, and you Mr. Bowen, and of course you others, too."

"As you may know, he is not indifferent to those attributes of young women that constitute the chief reliance of our race in our gallant struggle against the menace of the insects."

"It is desirable that you should earn your fees, but it is essential that you feel you have earned them, and that depends partly on your ego."

"Take Mr. Goodwin. It would be difficult for me to function effectively without him. He is irreplaceable. Yet his actions are largely governed by impulse and caprice, and that would of course incapacitate him for any important task if it were not that he has somewhere concealed in him — possibly in his brain, though I doubt it — a powerful and subtle governor."

"Wolfe was in the office looking at television, which gives him a lot of pleasure. I have seen him turn it on as many as eight times in one evening, glare at it for from one to three minutes, turn it off, and go back to his book. Once he made me a long speech about it which I may record some day."

"Gallantry is not always a lackey for lust."

"I pay him the tribute of speaking of him and feeling about him precisely as I did when he lived; the insult would be to smear his corpse with the honey excreted by my fear of death."

"Starving the live will not profit the dead."

"I remembered that one evening after dinner I had heard Wolfe and Marko discussing the trout they had caught in their early days, Marko claiming he had once landed one 40 centimeters long, and I had translated it into inches — 16. I swiveled my head to ask Wolfe if it was in the Cijevna that he and Marko had got trout, and he said yes, but in a tone of voice that did not invite conversation, so I let it lie."

"Wolfe’s attitude was perfect for saying "Over my dead body," but he didn’t say it."

"...Miss Tescher answered, "I suppose you know I am assistant director of research at Clock.""At least I know it now.""The publicity about the contest...was discussed at a conference this afternoon. I can tell you confidentially that Mr. Tite himself was there...""

"I gave Wolfe the scuttlebutt, but apparently he wasn't listening. It was Sunday evening, when he especially enjoys turning the television off. Of course he has to turn it on first, intermittently throughout the evening, and that takes a lot of exertion, but he has provided for it by installing a remote control panel at his desk. That way he can turn off as many as twenty programs in an evening without overdoing."

"No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully."

"I would appreciate it if they would call a halt on all their devoted efforts to find a way to abolish war or eliminate disease or run trains with atoms or extend the span of human life to a couple of centuries, and everybody concentrate for a while on how to wake me up in the morning without my resenting it. It may be that a bevy of beautiful maidens in pure silk yellow very sheer gowns, barefooted, singing Oh, What a Beautiful Morning and scattering rose petals over me would do the trick, but I'd have to try it."

"At that time of day the courthouse corridors were full of lawyers, clients, witnesses, jurors, friends, enemies, relatives, fixers, bloodsuckers, politicians, and citizens."

"I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion."

"The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold — if you have one."

"When a hippopotamus is peevish it's a lot of peeve."

"He didn't look tough, he looked flabby, but of course that's no sign. The toughest guy I ever ran into had cheeks that needed a brassière."

"As I pushed the phone back Orrie asked, "What's an arquebus?""Figure it out yourself. A combination of an ark and a bus. Amphibian.""

"I had seen two hundred and forty-seven girls it would have been fun to talk to but was too busy. I had seen about the same number of spots where a gun could be hid, but could find no one who had seen Roger Foote near any of them. None of them held a gun at the time I called, nor could I detect any trace of oil or other evidence that a gun had been there. One of them, a hole in a tree on the other side of the backstretch, was so ideal that I was tempted to hide my own gun in it."

"She danced cheerfully, and of course that was no good. You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful. For one thing, if you're cheerful you talk too much."

"In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted."

"Anyone who takes Wolfe down a peg renders a service to the balance of nature, and to tell him to his face that he was merely a carbon copy of the cops was enough to spoil his appetite for dinner."

"You are headstrong and I am magisterial. Our tolerance of each other is a constantly recurring miracle."

"A clever man might successfully disguise every element of his style but one — the paragraphing. Diction and syntax may be determined and controlled by rational processes in full consciousness, but paragraphing — the decision whether to take short hops or long ones, whether to hop in the middle of a thought or action or finish it first — that comes from instinct, from the depths of personality."

"... Lily Rowan told me once that I am about as subtle as a sledge hammer — at a moment when her diction was not determined and controlled by rational processes in full consciousness — ..."

"My status and function are whatever a given situation calls for, and the question who decides what it calls for is what occasionally creates an atmosphere in which Wolfe and I are not speaking."

"Archie, if I could lie with your aplomb I would be an ambassador. You know women. You know quite well that one with eyes the color of that Miss Bonner and eyelashes of that length, her own, is a dangerous animal."

"Apparently you have performed prodigies of sagacity and finesse without knowing it. Not surely by inadvertence. It must be that your singular faculties operate below the level of consciousness -- or above it. Perhaps the psychologists should add a new term, superconscious."

"How often have I told you that impetuosity is a virtue only when delay is dangerous?"

"One of the brain's most efficient departments is the one that turns possibilities into probabilities, and probabilities into facts."

"It helps a lot, with two people as much together as he and I were, if they understand each other. He understood that I was too strong-minded to add another word unless he told me to, and I understood that he was too pigheaded to tell me to."

"Of course you don't learn anything about people in general by walking around taking them in; you only learn things about this one or that one. I learned something that morning about a girl in a grey checked suit who caught her heel in a grating on Second Avenue in the Eighties. No girl I had ever known would have done what she did. Maybe no other girl in the world would. But I shouldn't have got started about walking."

"I don't know how a brain that is never used passes the time."

"Mr. Wolfe is in the middle of a fit. It's complicated. There's a fireplace in the front room, but it's never lit because he hates open fires. He says they stultify mental processes. But it's lit now because he's using it. He's seated in front of it, on a chair too small for him, tearing sheets out of a book and burning them. The book is the new edition, the third edition, of Webster's New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published by the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. He considers it subversive because it threatens the integrity of the English language. In the past week he has given me a thousand examples of its crimes. He says it is a deliberate attempt to murder the — I beg your pardon. I describe the situation at length because he told me to bring you in there, and it will be bad."

"Once he burned up a cookbook because it said to remove the hide from a ham end before putting it in the pot with lima beans. Which he loves most, food or words, is a tossup."

"Do you use 'infer' and 'imply' interchangeably, Miss Blount?"

"My job is starting you, not stopping you."

"When the last trumpet sounds the Times will want to check with Gabriel himself, and for the next edition will try to get it confirmed by even Higher Authority."

"What she did was say, "All right" and head for the door, and as I followed her out and down the two flights I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would."

"He could have gone as was to Peacock Alley for a drink if he could have got past the guard at the door and on out."

"Maintaining integrity as a private detective is difficult; to preserve it for the hundred thousand words of a book would be impossible for me, as it has been for so many others. Nothing corrupts a man so deeply as writing a book; the myriad temptations are overwhelming."

"As for your lying to the police, forget it. They expect it. If nobody ever lied to them, most of them would be out of jobs long ago."

"Come, sir, is time really so precious? Mine isn't. If yours is, all the more tempting to steal a little."

"I always belong wherever I am."

"I am neither a thaumaturge nor a dunce."

"I can dodge folly without backing into fear."

"Modern science was fixing it so that anybody can do anything but nobody can know what the hell is going on."

"Pfui. Are you a dunce, or do you take me for one?"

"Yes. I cannot put sense in a fool's brain. I have tried."

"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

"Trying to find a legal space at the curb would be like trying to find room for another kernel on an ear of corn..."

"I accompanied him on the short walk back to his job, for a look at the main office of the Seaboard Bank and Trust Company from the outside, thanked him for the lunch, and spent ten minutes on the toughest job in New York, finding a vacant hack. I finally beat a guy with a limp to one."

"Women are random clusters of vagaries."

"If you please, Mr. Jarrett, no labels. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled."

"Born in St. Louis in 1907, he had done all right and was now the owner and publisher of the St. Louis Star-Bulletin. Who's Who had no information about who was going to kill his son."

"She forked a bite of meat to her mouth and started to chew. She often did that; she might get a part in a play with an eating scene, and mixing chewing and talking needed practice. An actor can practice anywhere any time with anybody, and most of them do."

"A self-invited guest is an abomination, but there is no alternative for me."

"I don't play games. I like using words, not playing with them."

"Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try."

"Wolfe was put between Carol and Alma, and I was across from him and had a good view of his reaction to the tomato soup out of a can. He got it down all right, all of it, and the only thing noticeable was noticed only by me: that he carefully did not permit me to catch his eye."

"That was a first — the first time Inspector Cramer had ever arrived and been escorted to the office in the middle of a session with the hired hands. And Saul Panzer did something he seldom does — he stunted. He was in the red leather chair, and when I ushered Cramer in I expected to find Saul on his feet, moving up another yellow chair to join Fred and Orrie, but no. He was staying put. Cramer, surprised, stood in the middle of the rug and said, loud, "Oh?" Wolfe, surprised at Saul, put his brows up. I, pretending I wasn't surprised, went to get a yellow chair. And damned if Cramer didn't cross in front of Fred and Orrie to my chair, swing it around, and park his big fanny on it. As he sat, Saul, his lips a little tight to keep from grinning, got up and came to take the yellow chair I had brought. That left the red leather chair empty and I went and occupied it, sliding back and crossing my legs to show that I was right at home."

"I work for Nero Wolfe. ... He knows more words than Shakespeare knew."

"You are looking at the wrong side. Just turn it over, that's all you ever have to do, just turn it over."

"My only objection to Jews is that one of them is as good a poker player as I am. Sometimes a little better."

"It's possible to tell your mind what to do only when your mind agrees with you."

"To everybody, starting with us."

"It's a temptation, sure it is, but I'm not like Oscar Wilde, I can resist it."

"Pierre said I was the greatest detective in the world. All is vanity."

"The last man who spat at me," I said casually, "got three bullets in the heart before he hit the floor."

"That will do, Archie." Wolfe put down his empty glass. I had never heard his tone more menacing. "I am not impressed with your failure to understand this abominable outrage. I might bring myself to tolerate it if some frightened or vindictive person shot me to death, but this is insupportable." He made the growling noise again. "My food. You know my attitude toward food." He aimed a rigid finger at the jar, and his voice trembled with ferocity. "Whoever put that in there is going to regret it."

"I have never regarded myself as a feast for the eye, my attractions run more to the spiritual, but on the other hand I am not a toad, and I resented her expression."

"Cramer: "Why did you notice that?" "Ah," I said. "Now you've got me. I give up. I'm trapped. Why does anybody notice anything?""

"You are not Archie. Thank God. One Archie is enough."

"There is nothing in the world," he said, glaring at me as if I had sent him an anonymous letter, "as indestructible as human dignity. That woman makes money killing time for fools. With it she pays me for rooting around in mud. Half of my share goes for taxes which are used to make bombs to blow people to pieces. Yet I am not without dignity."

"And there's no doubt he has fifteen or twenty pasts; I know that much about him."

"It's all right, boss," I said, trying to smile as if I were trying to smile bravely. "I don't think they'll ever convict me. I'm pretty sure they can't. I've got a lawyer coming to see me. You go home and forget about it. I don't want you to break training."

"Wolfe pronounced a word. It was the first time I had ever heard him pronounce an unprintable word, and it stopped me short."

""Indeed," I said. That was Nero Wolfe's word, and I never used it except in moments of stress, and it severely annoyed me when I caught myself using it, because when I look in a mirror I prefer to see me as is, with no skin grafted from anybody else's hide, even Nero Wolfe's."

"Archie. I submit to circumstances. So should you."

"Use your brains, but give up the idea of renting mine."

"Wolfe: "Did you word the receipt properly?" "No, sir. I worded it the way you told me to.""

"Four capsules were found. Two are there in your drawer. One, as I told you, was used in a scientific experiment in Wolfe's office and damn near killed him. He's keeping the other one for the Fourth of July."

"When the day finally comes that I tie Wolfe to a stake and shoot him, one of the fundamental reasons will be his theory that the less I know the more I can help, or to put it another way, that everything inside my head shows on my face. It only makes it worse that he doesn't really believe it. He merely can't stand it to have anybody keep up with him at any time on any track."

"It was smack in the middle of the Great Meat Shortage , when millions of pigs and steers, much to the regret of the growers and slaughterers, had sneaked off and hid in order to sell their lives dear, and to Nero Wolfe a meal without meat was an insult. His temper had got so bad that I had offered to let him eat me, and it would be best to skip his retort."

"Your name's Goodwin," he told me impolitely, without overexerting any muscles. "Thanks," I thanked him. "How much do I weigh?"

"I rarely leave my house. I do like it here. I would be an idiot to leave this chair, made to fit me —"

"So that wet December morning, tired and peevish and desperate, he had sent me to the garage for the car, and when I rolled up in front of the house there he was on the sidewalk, in his hat and overcoat and cane, grim and resolute, ready to do or die. Stanley making for Livingstone in the African jungle was nothing compared to Wolfe making for Krasicki in Westchester."

"What I wanted was to get my thumbs in a proper position behind Noonan's ears and bear down …"

"… and besides, women do not require motives that are comprehensible by any intellectual process." "You said it," Gus acquiesced feelingly. "They roll their own."

"This is the inexorable miasma of murder."

"There's nothing as safe as ignorance — or as dangerous."

"Two of them were just men whose names I knew and with whose records I was fairly familiar, but the third was Saul Panzer, the one guy I want within hearing the day I get hung on the face of a cliff with jet eagles zooming at me."

"I repeat, there are times when love takes over. (Santa Claus, where is yours? But I suppose you can't drink through that mask.) There are times when all the little demons disappear down their ratholes, and ugliness itself takes on the shape of beauty; when the darkest corner is touched by light; when the coldest heart feels the glow of warmth; when the trumpet call of good will and good cheer drowns out all the Babel of mean little noises. This is such a time. Merry Christmas! Merry merry merry!"

"The point was this, that he had shown what he really thought of me. He had shown that rather than lose me he would do something that he wouldn't have done for any fee anybody could name."

"For what you pay me I do your mail, I make myself obnoxious to people, I tail them when necessary, I shoot when I have to and get shot at, I stick around and take every mood you've got, I give you and Theodore a hand in the plant room when required, I lie to Inspector Cramer and Sergeant Stebbins whether required or not, I even help Fritz in the kitchen in emergencies, I answer the phone."

"I was born in Montenegro and spent my early boyhood there. At the age of sixteen I decided to move around, and in fourteen years I became acquainted with most of Europe, a little of Africa, and much of Asia, in a variety of roles and activities. Coming to this country in nineteen-thirty, not penniless, I bought this house and entered into practice as a private detective. I am a naturalized American citizen."

"Born in Ohio. Public high school, pretty good at geometry and football, graduated with honor but no honors. Went to college two weeks, decided it was childish, came to New York and got a job guarding a pier, shot and killed two men and was fired, was recommended to Nero Wolfe for a chore he wanted done, did it, was offered a full-time job by Mr. Wolfe, took it, still have it."

"Don't raise one brow like that. You know it disconcerts me."

"I had first noticed her in the lobby of the Churchill, because she rated a glance as a matter of principle — the principle that a man owes it to his eyes to let them rest on attractive objects when there are any around."

"He picked up the top item from the little pile of mail, an airmail letter from an orchid hunter in Venezuela, and started to read it. I swung my chair around and started sharpening pencils that didn't need it. The noise of the sharpener gets on his nerves. I was on the fourth pencil when his voice came."

"Wolfe was standing over by the big globe, probably picking out a spot for me to be exiled to."

"The subconscious is not a grave; it's a cistern."

"When will a policeman come?" "It will probably be Cramer in person. You know how he'll react when he learns she was here. Say two hours, possibly sooner." "Will she report what she told me?" "No." A corner of his mouth twitched. "That's why I put up with you; you could have answered with fifty words and you did it in one." "I've often wondered. Now tell me why I put up with you." "That's beyond conjecture. ..."

"Of the ten thousand women I have fallen in love with, every single one of them knew it before I did."

"...I suppose a DA has as much right to be a damfool as the people who voted for him."

"Wolfe's bellow would stop a tiger ready to spring."

"Wolfe's line was that a man who had been born in Greece, even though he had left at the age of six, should be familiar with the ancient glories of his native land, and he had been hammering away at Pete for forty months. That morning, as Wolfe swiveled his oversized chair, in which he was seated behind his desk, and Pete knelt and got his box in place, and I crossed to my desk, Wolfe demanded: "Who was Eratosthenes and who accused him of murder in a great and famous speech in four-oh-three B.C.?""

"A man with an alibi is suspect ipso facto."

"Innocence has no contract with bliss."

"Saul smiled. His smile is as tender as he is tough, and it helps to make him the best poker player I know."

"Well. When cheek meets cheek. You are manifestly indomitable and I must buckle my breastplate."

"I dived for the connecting door and went with it as I swung it open, and kept going, but two paces short of Wolfe's desk I halted to take in a sight I had never seen before and never expect to see again: Nero Wolfe with his arms tight around a beautiful young woman in his lap, pinning her arms, hugging her close to him. I stood paralyzed."

"When I mentioned the title of the privately printed book [The Music of the Future] he made a noise — he says all music is a vestige of barbarism ..."

"The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach."

"The doorbell rang, and I went, again giving myself even money that it was Vance, and losing again. It was a girl, or woman, and she had a kind of eyes that I had met only twice before, once a woman and once a man. I have a habit, when it's a stranger on the stoop, of taking a five-second look through the one-way glass and tagging him or her, to see how close I can come. From inside, the view through the glass is practically clear, but from outside it might as well be wood. But she could see through. Of course she couldn't, but she was face-to-face with me, and her eyes, slanted up, had exactly the look they would have if she were seeing me. They were nice enough hazel eyes, but I hadn't liked it the other two times it had happened, and I didn't like it then. Not trying to tag her, I opened the door. (chapter 5)"

"... a woman in the process of getting a divorce is apt to be skittish. She either thinks she has been swindled or she feels like a used car."

"I turned to Wolfe. "Your Honor, I object to the question on the ground that it is insulting, impertinent, and disgusticulous.""

"No. Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef's ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water."

"... the weapon was a piece of two-inch galvanized iron pipe sixteen and five-eighths inches long, threaded male at one end and female at the other, old and battered. Easy to hide under a coat. Where it came from might be discovered by one man in ten hours, or by a thousand men in ten years."

""By God. Talk about stubborn egos." Cramer shook his head. "That break you got on the carton. You know, any normal man, if he got break like that, coming down just in the nick of time, what any normal man would do, he would go down on his knees and thank God. Do you know what you'll do? You'll thank you. I admit it would be a job for you to get down on your knees, but—" (chapter 6)"

"And I am also not surprised that my employer, Mr. Nero Wolfe, approves of its publication because he has a great belief in the influence of printed words in books.But I have not a great hope that many people will eat superior meals because they buy this book and use it. On that I could say much but I will not write much and I will give only one case. There are a man and woman, married, at whose home I eat sometimes. They own fourteen cookbooks, good ones which they have asked me to suggest, and they have many times asked me for information and advice about cooking which I have been happy to give, but the dishes they serve are only fit to eat. They are not fit to remember after I come away. Those people should not try to roast a duck, and especially they should never try to make Sauce Saint Florentin.The facts about food and cooking can be learned and understood by anyone with good sense, but if the feeling of the art of cooking is not in your blood and bones the most you can expect is that what you put on your table will be mangeable. If it is sometimes mémorable that will be only good luck. Mr. Wolfe says that the secrets of the art of great cooking, like those of any art, are not in the brain. He says that no one knows where they are."

"The brilliance is in the victory, Kanto and now it is time to test the capabilities of this Earth man. Even with these weapons, I am curious if this mortal can actually complete his task. The eradication of the Last Son of Krypton."

"Perhaps too inventive. It is an admirable quality albeit driven by greed. As surely as Superman will fall, Lex Luthor's activities must be closely monitored. Do I make myself clear, Kanto?"

"Yes. And I shall be watching both of you closely. Very closely indeed, Superman."

"Orion: Ruler of Apokolips! Wielder of Holocaust! Disciple of power and death!"

"Darkseid: I like you Glorious Godfrey! You're a shallow, precious child -- The Revelationist -- Happy with the sweeping sound of words! But I am the Revelation! The tiger-force at the core of all things! When you cry out in your dreams--it is Darkseid that you see!"

"Darkseid is very evil. He's the equivalent of a mass murderer, but he wouldn't waste his super-powers on just one individual. He wouldn't go out of his way just to kill one man; it would be ridiculous. He wouldn't do it. He'd just walk away. That's how my villains think."

"If someone took control of your mind and you were not able to think as yourself any longer, you would no longer be yourself. You'd be something in his command. You as an individual would be dead. That's Anti-Life. In other words, if you gave yourself to some cause, and gave up everything as an individual and you were at the beck and call of some leader, you would be dead as an individual. And that's what Darkseid wants. He wants control of everybody. If it was snowing outside and you weren't wearing any shoes and it was 38 degrees below zero and this guy says, "Go out and get me a bologna sandwich," you have to go through all that; you obey him automatically, you obey him meekly. You walk out without a coat and you freeze to death. He doesn't care. You do it anyway despite the fact that you don't want to do it. You're dead as an individual. You have no choice. You can't object and you have no stature as a person. You're dead. A slave is a dead man. That's what Darkseid wants. Darkseid wants complete subjugation of everything at a word - his word. He wants every thinking thing under his control. I believe it's an evil concept but he doesn't think so."

"The right idea to Darkseid is anything that benefits him. He isn't going to worry about you. He sees the world from where he sits, and of course what he sees is big. He's a big man. Darkseid is a tremendous, powerful, evil figure, and he's going to see everything in a cosmic view. He's not going to see a view of the candy store around the corner or what's playing at the Palladium next week. Darkseid is going to see everything in an over-powering cosmic view, and of course what else would he want but complete subjugation of everything? Earth is included in that everything, and my concept is that somewhere on Earth is someone who can solve the Anti-Life Equation, and Darkseid is after that poor soul."

"Darkseid considers anything evil that's going to stop him. If you stop me, I consider you evil."

"As for his [Darkseid's] creation, this would've been the late 1960s, while Kirby was still at Marvel Comics, before he jumped ship to DC, Mark Evanier is on record saying Jack was channeling Richard Nixon when writing Darkseid's dialogue. Kirby hated Nixon."

"Superman: Darkseid lives for manipulation. He has hypnotists, scientists and sadists whose only functions are to break your spirit. Darkseid is evil."

"Darkseid: To Darkseid there is value in anything that can turn a being of such power into quivering jelly. I think we owe this mother box a debt for relieving his dementia and preserving a record of it for us. Little mother box...you fear me, do you? Haven't you heard that Darkseid is a doddering old fool who spends his days working his cypher? That's right...adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing...I fear this: As long as the Anti-Life Equation is unsolved, as long as a scrap of free will exists anywhere in the universe--then Darkseid remains unfulfilled."

"Darkseid constitutes the kind of men Kirby was acquainted with in his youth. The slum lords, made famous in Will Eisner’s A Contract With God, were men (perhaps women?) with agendas. They operated on morals dictated by their business mindset. The cost of rent, the living conditions, and the quality of life they allowed for their tenants was in line with their standards. To them, that standard was appropriate. To call them “evil” or “unethical” is an inaccurate assessment. They were gods within the worlds they created."

"Technology is our friend."

"I'll be in Hell for breakfast."

"Goddammit boy!"

"Get the meat!"

"Peace brother! Shalom! Hail!"

"Salaam aleilem soul bro'. Jimi lives! We digitally purify and pre-serve and electro-sanctify the sacred strato-casted sounds!"

"An axe-eee-dent! I know that blood. Not to worry, not to fear. The Tink is here. He is I and I am he. And we are all watched over by machines of loving grace!"

"We have the means! We have the machines!"

"You have to ass-ume re-sponsibility for your own life!"

"Might be erroneous in judgement, but I do fear serious damage to the structural integrity of this vee-hick-el. Have to admit it, America's lost its technological edge in automotive manufacturing."

"Hippy days Juniour! Glory days and golden! The haight and the diggers and everything is beautiful in its own way, even ugly fuckin' shit!"

"And it was the ear, big fella, the ear, that lets all the cosmic, eternal, blissed-out, whacked-out, fucking holy sounds of rock into your head and all along the neural network straight into your soul!"

"It was one night I was on the beach. I did some 'ludes and hash and lush and the purest acid ever come from Hashbury. And Iwas dancing. I was dancing like Jesus come again on a Harley! And I had the music in me and the music was me and I looked up... And the stars were all chrome and gleaming and they knew me, and no one was lost, no one was alone in the universe, 'cause the cold and perfect stars of chrome knew me. And thats when the Great Chrome God Machine, the Grand Machine of Loving Grace, came to me, there on the beach, and he... He gave me a mission... The Great Chrome God Machine... He blessed me."

"Tex: Whaddaya think to our little lady?"

"Tinker: ...Uncertain. Looks like she might get all screamy on us Eddie."

"Tex: [Slams a meat cleaver on the table] I wish you'd call me Tex. I told you."

"Tinker: Oh I'm sorry boy. Goddamit, I'm sorry... how'd you like to do us the honor of plugging that whore up?"

"Tex: [stripping Ryan down] "Hey, looky here: colored drawers.""

"Tex and Tinker: "California.""

"It’s a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking."

"Blustering hadn't helped me, and a look at Rudi's mocking face told me that whining wouldn't either. Robbed of the two cards which I normally play in a crisis, I was momentarily lost."

"But strangely enough, I became a little closer to de Gautet, for I discovered that he shared one of my chief interests, which is horseflesh. He was an authority, of the true kind who never pretends more than he knows, and in the saddle he was nearly as good as I was myself, which is to say he would have been topnotch among any horsemen in the world — even the Cheyennes of the American plains, who are the best I know."

""D—n your lousy eyes!" cries he [Captain Spring], "Take that infernal Dago duster out of my sight — would you bury an Englishman under that?" And he knocked Looney sprawling and then kicked him into the scuppers. He cursed him something fearful, the scar on his head bright crimson, until one of the hands brought a Union Jack, and then we got on with the service. Spring rattled through it, the shotted corpse went over with a splash, Mrs Spring struck up, we all sang "Rock of Ages", and the "amen" hadn't died away before Spring had strode to the unfortunate Looney and kicked his backside again so hard that he went clean down the booby hatch to the main deck. I've often thought how instructive it would have been for our divinity students to see how the offices for the dead were conducted aboard the Balliol College."

"I took up with Speed and the greenhorn, who was now waxing voluble in the grip of booze, and off we went. [W]e stopped off for punch on the way, and the little snirp got so fuddled he couldn't even walk. We helped him along, but he was maudlin, so we took off his trousers in an alley off Regent Street, painted his arse with blacking which we bought for a penny on the way, and then shouted, "Come on, peelers! Here's the scourge of A Division waiting to set about you! Come on and be damned to you!" And as soon as the bobbies hove in sight we cut, and left them to find our little friend, nose down in the gutter with his black bum sticking up in the air."

"“They are ship’s biscuits – what should we need those for?” “Insurance, my lad”, says I. “Take ‘em along, and it’s odds you’ll never need them. Leave ‘em behind, and as sure as shooting you’ll finish up living off blood-stained snow and dead mules.” It’s God’s truth, too."

"Oh, he [Raglan] was brave and determined and ready to take on all odds – the worst kind of general imaginable. Give me a clever coward every time (which, of course, is why I’m such a dam’ fine general myself)."

"Well, if I was in disgrace, I was also in good health, and that's what matters. ... The Russian wounded lay in piles by the hundred round our bivouacs, crying and moaning all through the night — I can hear their sobbing "Pajalsta! pajalsta!" still. The camp ground was littered with spent shot and rubbish and broken gear among the pools of congealed blood — my stars, wouldn't I just like to take one of our Ministers, or street-corner orators, or blood-lusting, breakfast-scoffing papas, over such a place as the Alma hills — not to let him see, because he'd just tut-tut and look anguished and have a good pray and not care a damn — but to shoot him in the belly with a soft-nosed bullet and let him die screaming where he belonged. That's all they deserve."

"He (Scud East) hadn't got Valla to refresh him, either, which might have had a calming effect. I thought of suggesting that he take a steam-bath with Aunt Sara, to settle his nerves, but he might have enjoyed it too much, and then gone mad repenting."

"We took a stroll the first afternoon, in the direction of Balmoral, and on the road encountered what seemed to be a family of tinkers led by a small washerwoman and an usher who had evidently pinched his headmaster’s clothes. (describing Queen Victoria and Albert)"

"His (Cardigan's) voice pursued me, cracking with rage."

"Colonel Fwashman!" he cried. "You are a viper!"

"I turned at that, making myself go red in the face in righteous wrath, but I knew what I was about; he was getting no blow or challenge from me — he shot too damned straight for that."

""Indeed, my lord," says I. "Yet I don't wriggle and turn." And I left him gargling, well pleased with myself."

"And a cutlass, of course," says he, "you'll feel naked without that."

"He little knew that I could feel naked in a suit of armour in the bowels of a Dreadnought being attacked by an angry bum-boat-woman."

"I see it (the cricket field) in the late evening sun, the players in their white top-hats trooping in from the field, with the ripple of applause running round the ropes, and the urchins streaming across to worship, while the old buffers outside the pavilion clap and cry "Played, well played!" and raise their tankards, and the Captain tosses the ball to some round-eyed small boy who'll guard it as a relic for life, and the scorer climbs stiffly down from his eyrie and the shadows lengthen across the idyllic scene, the very picture of merry, sporting old England, with the umpires bundling up the stumps, the birds calling in the tall trees, the gentle evenfall stealing over the ground and the pavilion, and the empty benches, and the willow wood-pile behind the sheep pen where Flashy is plunging away on top of the landlord's daughter in the long grass. Aye, cricket was cricket then."

"Didn't I see you with my own eyes? Coupling with that slut in my own library—"

"Well, even from above and through a muslin screen there was no doubt that she was female, and no need for stays to make the best of it, either; she stood like an ebony statue as the two wenches began to bathe her from bowls of water. Some vulgar lout grunted lasciviously, and realizing who it was I shrank back a trifle in sudden anxiety that I'd been overheard."

"...the fellow Will was on the floor but had a hold on Spring's ankle, which I thought was uncommon game of him, while my other captor had Spring around the neck. Even as I looked, Spring sent him flying and turned to stamp on Will's face — those days in the Oriel combination room weren't wasted, thinks I..."

"You may ask if a month in the wilds with that great scout taught me much of woodcraft and mountain lore; I can reply with confidence that by the time we reached Fort Laramie, I could deduce by the sight of a broken twig that someone had stepped on it, and when I saw a great pile of dung on the prairie I knew at once that a buffalo had let drive."

"It's a remarkable thing (and I've traded on it all my life) that a single redeeming quality in a black sheep wins greater esteem than all the virtues in honest men — especially if the quality is courage. I'm lucky, because while I don't have it, I look as though I do, and worthy souls like Carson and Wootton never suspect that I'm running around with my bowels squirting, ready to decamp, squeal, or betray as occasion demands."

""When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln."

"Any soldier will tell you that, in the heat of a fight, sights and sounds imprint themselves on your memory and stay vivid for fifty years…but you lose all sense of time."

"That’s something the moralists overlook (or more likely don’t give a dam about) when they cry: “Pity the beaten foe!” What they’re saying, in effect, is: “Kill our fellows tomorrow rather than the enemy today.” But they don’t care to have it put to them like that; they want their wars won clean and comfortable, with a clear conscience. (Their consciences being much more precious than their own soldiers’ lives, you understand.) Well, that’s fine if you’re sitting in the Liberal Club with a bellyful of port on top of your dinner, but if you rang the bell and it was answered not by a steward with a napkin but an Akali with a tulwar, you might change your mind. Distance always lends enlightenment to the view, I’ve noticed."

"“No, sir, hear me out, do! It’s the great diamond, you see – the Koh-i-Noor, which the Sikhs are to hand over. Well, they can’t do that if they haven’t got it, can they? So perhaps you’d best give it ’em back first – then they can present it to you all official-like, with proper ceremony...Here, catch!”"

"I shall shed my light over dark evil. For the dark things cannot stand the light, The light of the Green Lantern!"

"In days of peace, in nights of war Obey the Laws forever more Misconduct must be answered for Swear us the chosen: The Alpha Corps!"

"In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power...Green Lantern's light!"

"In forest dark or glade beferned, No blade of grass shall go unturned Let those who have the daylight spurned Tread not where this green lamp has burned."

"You who are wicked, evil and mean I'm the nastiest creep you've ever seen! Come one, come all, put up a fight I'll pound your butts with Green Lantern's light! Yowza."

"In loudest din or hush profound My ears catch evil's slightest sound Let those who toll out evil's knell Beware my power, the F-Sharp Bell!"

"Green Arrow: Like what you've seen? Listen, I hope you enjoyed playing super-hero out there...I hope it did a lot of good for your ego."

"I picked out the name from the train man on the tracks who was waving a lantern, going from red to green.... Green meant go and I decided that was it. Then I needed a colorful and interesting costume. I was interested in Greek mythology and so the costume took on elements of that. It just all fell into place. When I sent it in, I waited into the second week before I heard the word to come in. I was ushered into Mr. [[w:Max Gaines|[Max] Gaines]] office, publisher, and after sitting a long time and flipping through the pages of my presentation, he announced, 'We like it!' And then, 'Get to work!' I did the first five pages of an eight page story, and then they called in Bill Finger to help. We worked on it for seven years."

"Green Arrow: That's right, Lantern... apologize. Grovel in front of that walking mummy. You call yourself a hero! Chum, you don't even qualify as a man. You're no more than a puppet... and the Guardians pull your strings. Listen... forget about chasing around the galaxy! And remember America. It's a good country... beautiful... fertile... and terribly sick! There are children dying, honest people cowering in fear, disillusioned kids ripping up campuses. On the streets of Memphis a good black man died... and in Los Angeles, a good white man fell. Something is wrong. Something is killing us all! Some hideous moral cancer is rotting our very souls."

"I'm sorry you were bullied at school, but lots of kids get bullied and they don't turn into psychopaths."

"If you want a round of applause, you'll have to take off the handcuffs."

"I thought you were going to kill me, not bore me to death!"

"It looks like I sleighed him..."

"Damian Cray to Rider: Do you know the most evil thing in the world? Rider to Cray: Is that including or not including you?"

"It's a huge marine creature. I must defeat you. (when ready to battle Hydron - Red Earth (Warzard in Japan))"

"That type of monster shouldn't live in this place. Why was it here? (when defeating Hydron)"

"It means nothing to me, but you're welcome. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go."

"Empire? A team? You must be joking. I'm not that kind of girl."

"What!? Even a human can turn into a monster.....Is this related to the empire too?"

"You lack but these things: power, speed, technique, spirit sense, endurance, and talent. (SVC Chaos - when defeating Dan)"

"?! What was all that?! I must do that again... you can't rest now. Let's go!"

"You were tougher than predicted. I must amend my data."

"My analysis of you is 78 percent complete... can I get a bit more cooperation?"

"Ooh hoo hoo hoo! I extracted some good samples that time."

"Someone told me once … long ago … that men would call me Warlock!"

"Sculptor of worlds! Is it your voice I hear? If so, then speak ... and Warlock shall heed!"

"You have not called me here merely to praise yourself. Then why have you done so ... when there are things I must do on the planet you created?"

"The way ahead is long ... and dangerous. I'll have no one with me who doesn't want to come."

"Short time?! You fool, it's been an eternity! During that time, everything I've ever cared for or accomplished has fallen into ruin ! Everyone I've ever loved now lies dead! My life has been a failure! I welcome its end."

"In my time many called me Adam Warlock. You may do so also, if you feel so inclined."

"There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience, please."

"Naked power is seldom the answer to any problem. Surely you must know that even this group's combined might is nothing compared to the force Thanos wields. Only a richly complex and skillfully executed strategy will insure your survival. Time is short and I have such a plan."

"In a short while, we confront Thanos, a being of unimaginable power whose sole goal is the destruction of all life. … Extreme measures may be called for in dealing with him. You and the Hulk have an outlook on death the others do not share … except for Doom, but he cannot be trusted."

"We tried to do this the easy way — and we failed. Now begins the conflict I strove to avoid. It may well prove to be a battle the Universe cannot survive! Eternity, it is now your turn."

"I was part of the Soul Gem while you possessed it, which permitted me access to your inner heart. I know you as no other being in the universe does, better than even you do, yourself."

"Let the conflict END!"

"I am now The Supreme Being, seek not to dispute that claim."

"Already, the distance between what I was and am is insurmountable — like an ant contemplating the Cosmos. I knew it would be so … yet still I hoped. I guess there is really nothing left to say."

"I begin a journey mapped out amidst the stars. 'Tis a path I cannot stray from —"

"Time is a repeating loop to me now."

"I seek not revenge. Advice is what I crave."

"I am the type who sees the future and is held prisoner by it. How many times has this little drama repeated itself to me..?"

"I am off to shed my Godhood."

"I don't know if this team will work or not. All I know is it MUST. Time is critical. I see clearly now why I've been reborn. We haven't got long. Years if we're lucky, months if we're not."

"Director James Gunn has confirmed fan suspicions that Marvel hero Adam Warlock makes a cameo (in cocoon form) in Marvel's latest offering Guardians of the Galaxy. … Adam Warlock is a character created to be the perfect human at a scientific installation called The Beehive. … We know that Marvel are working towards a film which will bring everyone together as Thanos (Josh Brolin) threatens existence itself once he acquires the Infinity Stones and places them in the Infinity Gauntlet. … This is believed to be Marvel's plan for Avengers 3, which is still some years off. When it does happen it will be an adaptation of Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet comic, in which Adam Warlock plays a pivotal role. His cocoon was first spotted in the credits scene of Thor: The Dark World, which saw characters from that film visit The Collector's base aboard the space station Knowhere. During the course of Gunn's movie, the Guardians encounter The Collector and bring to him an orb which he reveals to be an Infinity Stone. While explaining their origins, The Collector's red-skinned assistant touches the stone, levelling the entire room and destroying most of what is inside. … The film's post-credits scene shows The Collector sitting among his ruins … In the background of this scene we see that the cocoon is broken, meaning Adam Warlock has escaped and is now walking around Marvel's cinematic universe — most likely to show up Gunn's 2017 Guardians sequel."

"Adam Warlock, a being who wished nothing more than to spend the rest of his days within the peaceful environment of the Soul Gem. He now possesses the Infinite Power and the responsibility that goes with it. While I, whose entire life was dedicated to the pursuit of power, now find myself scraping out a living from the soil. Irony worthy of the drama. Yet strangely enough though, I envy not Adam Warlock. Somehow I feel, that in the long run, Thanos of Titan came out ahead in this particular deal."

"When I finished with Captain Marvel I had turned him from a warrior into a mystic. Adam Warlock was a mystical messiah. Where to go from there? Decided to reverse course and turn him into a suicidal paranoid/schizophrenic, which was the way I was feeling at the time. I’ve always used my work to examine what is currently going on in my own life. It’s cheaper than going to a shrink."

"I had some trepidation about the Christ parallels, but I hoped there would be little outcry if I handled it tastefully, since I was not really making any serious statement on religion... at least not overtly."

"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive. I'm The Flash."

"My name is Wally West and by age fourteen I know I'm trapped...locked into a future that's one dark tunnel of sorrow and despair. A life sentence waiting to be served. But then the impossible happens. Thanks my Aunt Iris, I meet my hero, The Flash. And in one split-second my tomorrows, every last one of them, are transformed from a single bolt of lightning. Now and forever I'm fast...I'm free...and nothing will ever hold me back. - Born to Run"

"[Regarding defeating Professor Zoom] That thought you said you had...that I might not be able to stop him on my own? Put it out of your head. - The Return of Barry Allen"

"Through the years, being able to think at the speed of sound has taught me a lot of patience. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"In terms of raw speed, Superman and I used to be evenly matched. I'd even say he might've been a tad faster. But that was before I got over my fear of replacing Barry. Before I discovered where my speed actually comes from. And before I learned how to tap into the speed force and take complete control of my abilities. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"[While being chased by Superman] I could steal all of Superman's kinetic energy and stop him cold, but it'd be like throwing him out of a car...one moving at over two thousand miles a second. That combined with Superman's strength, he'd create a path of total destruction from here to Moscow. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"[As Kid Flash talking to Robin] Flash says Batman's kinda off. And he knows it. That's why he gets so many lunatics runnin' at him. 'Cause he's a lunatic himsel--[Batman appears] Holy crap. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"Pain. It's the oddest thing when you're able to live between the ticks of a second. When you're in speed mode your perception is so fast, you have time to think about how much you're going to hurt before you hurt. [...] But my pain impulses haven't reached my brain. I can feel them traveling up my spine. [...] Fact is, once in awhile I get dizzy from loss of blood before I even know I'm bleeding. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"[After being 'snuck up' on by Batman] Are you finished? I want you know. You touched me because I let you touch me. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"It's kind of like an internal clock with us. When we run, we just, well, we just know how fast we're going. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"The Flash isn't just me. It isn't about Wally West. Or even Barry Allen or Jay Garrick anymore. It is a symbol. An image for Keystone that helps these people fight to be something better. I'm proud to be a part of this. And I always have been. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"Putting on the scarlet and the lightning is usually instinctive. I can do it in less than a millisecond. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"Some heroes I interact with get frustrated with me because I don't like to debate. I don't for two reasons. One, I've already thought whatever it is through thousands of times. I've looked at it from every angle. My mind is made up. And I don't change it often. And two, I think it's important that we all have different opinions. It's what's great about America. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"Superman has kryptonite. Martian Manhunter has fire. Me? I have a temper. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"[Switching between Wally West and The Flash clothing] I used to do this all the time. Moving so fast, changing clothes and being in two places at once. An old secret identity trick for us speedsters. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"My name is CockZolomon. Despite what the public believes, I am the fastest man alive. I am Zoom. - Rogue War"

"I've been given a gift. A gift I can pass on to The Flash. In order for him to become stronger he must have the ultimate tragedy. He must face his ultimate opposite. A man who has lost his pride, confidence and identity to tragedy. A man who will run him down a hellish road and feel no guilt in bringing him there. Destiny has brought us here, Flash. From friend to foe. There is only one type of man who can make you a better hero. One type of man who can reverse your twisted thinking. One man. Who fits the profile? I fit the profile. - Blitz"

"Wallyismyfriend. Iiiii'mmm helpingggghimmmmmm face fear. - Blitz"

"[Speaking to Linda] You're a target. You need to go away. - Blitz"

"You are not fast enough. With all the speed you've absorbed from you 'allies' you are still not fast enough to stop me. - Blitz"

"Ineedtomakeyou you into a hero that willtakeany riskneeded. You must learn. To see what it's like to live with loss. So that you will do anything in your power to help people. Peoplelikeme. I'm making you a better hero, Flash. - Blitz"

"You made it into my world. We're locked between the ticks of a second. In a place where we are immortal. - Blitz"

"I will do anything to make The Flash a better hero. - Rogue War"

"Therehasn't been enough tragedyyy. - Rogue War"

"My name's...man I hate it. My name's Leonard Snart. It's a bad name, I know. But my parents were bad people. I've got another tag now. Cold. Captain Cold. - Wonderland"

"[After being mistaken for Mr. Freeze] Mr. Freeze? That lovesick freak? He has an ice pistol. Shoots snow. The name's Captain Cold and this is a cold gun. I've achieved what Joule and Thomson only dreamed of. My gun negates thermal motion. Stops protons and electrons dead in their tracks. People too. - Wonderland"

"[In an alternate reality] A world without The Flash. I spent every day of my life dreamin' of what that would be like. But here...it ain't pretty, West. - Wonderland"

"Fact is only thing worse than offin' cops is killin' a cape. - Ignition"

"My fingerprints, DNA, all found at the crime scenes, though I was never even there. I didn't kill anyone...wait. Let me rephrase that. I didn't kill anyone lately. - Ignition"

"[Discovers Mirror Master doing cocaine] Dammit, McCulloch. You wanna make your nose bleed? Let's do it the old-fashioned way. [punches Mirror Master in the nose] You know we don't have a lot of rules here. But I've said it before and I'll say it again. No drugs. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"They say a hero is only as strong as his villains. Meaning The Flash is more powerful than the whole Justice League of America combined. Go ahead and pick the era, don't matter. - Rogue War"

"The Rogues have an unspoken code, a bond stronger than death itself. We watch one another's backs. To the end. - Rogue War"

"[After freezing and killing The Top] Forgot one of the rules, Top. Rogues shouldn't fight each other. 'Cause when they do...bad things happen. - Rogue War"

"My name is Mick Rory. But I like to go by Heat Wave. - Rogue War"

"I'm not like those other Rogues. I know I have problems. I've known since I was a kid. I'm sick. - Rogue War"

"I'm a man who's seen hell. A man who's been surrounded by hell. And a man who raises hell. It's what I do. It's what I've always done. Because I don't have a choice. - Rogue War"

"I've spent half of the money I stole in my career on therapists. Trying to forgive myself, to come to grips with my disease. - Rogue War"

"They labeled me an arsonist. But that's wrong. An arsonist is conscious of his actions, he can stop himself. Me? I'm a pyromaniac. - Rogue War"

"For years, I managed to bury my desires. To ignore my lust. But one evening...one evening for no reason at all, I turned everything back on. - Rogue War"

"After all this. You understand don't you? I'm not a bad person. I'm not a villain. I'm just sick. - Rogue War"

"Quite the weather we're having. - Blood Will Run"

"God, I hate sunshine. - Blood Will Run"

"There's nothing like the power of nature. - Blood Will Run"

"Amazing how much you can do with the weather. The real power behind it. - Blood Will Run"

"I've learned some things, Flash. With the help of a new friend. She's shown me how to better use my weather wand. The climate protects me now. I've learned all kinds of wonderful secrets. - Blood Will Run"

"The sky looks dark for you, girl. Now give me my SON. - Blood Will Run"

"The last girl that tried to hurt me had a thunderstorm grow inside her belly like a baby. - Rogue War"

"Runners. I hate runners. - Rogue War"

"When something travels ta another world via the mirror lands, it leaves a kinda' soot behind. - Wonderland"

"Name is Evan McCulloch. But I spend most days callin' m'self The Mirror Master. - Rogue War"

"I can use a mirror a thousand diff'rent ways. Can turn a man inside out. Cut a hole through a seven-foot concrete wall. Make ye see things from yer fantasies...or from yer nightmares. - Rogue War"

"Guess what kid? My conscience is clear. - Rogue War"

"[After defeating the 2nd Trickster] I ever see you calling yourself The Trickster, I catch you wearing that costume, we'll play patty-cake again. - Rogue War"

"Wally, I'm hardly an expert on relationships. I mean, in all truth I'm a pretty awful musician, too. That's part of the reason I originally became a crook. Frustrated artist, I guess. - Blood Will Run"

"It's time to pay the piper. - Rogue War"

"My heart is dead. - Rogue War"

"Ready to be on TOP of the world! - Blitz"

"Spinning and spinning and spinning. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"No one tops The Top, Flash. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"[Talking about using his powers to reform certain Rogues] Remember what I told you, Flash? 'One day I'll take it all back.' Well, today...today is unfortunately that day. - Rogue War"

"Do you know why I wish to feast on your flesh? You are everything I hate, Flash. A symbol to humanity that makes them believe they are worth something. That they can make a difference. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"That's the trouble with you humans. Your emotions make you weak. - The Secret of Barry Allen"

"Aren't you going to say hi to Magenta? - Blood Will Run"

"Must be my lucky day. I was getting tired of playing solitaire. - Blood Will Run"

"Do you know what it's like, Flash? To feel yourself rust away? - Blood Will Run"

"The name's Tar Pit, not "Guy." Now bring it on, dudes. - Blood Will Run"

"I'm writing this down because I once heard that when you're getting older you're liable to forget things and I'd sure be the most miserable woman in this world if I ever forgot what happened this summer."

"All things considered--maybe I was just a woman in love with a surfboard."

"He gave this a moment of thought."Then he said, 'In love--I don't think I am. But I do like Franzie. I liked her from the day I saw her for the first time, out at Malibu on the board. She's got spunk and spirit. She's got warmth and enthusiasm. And--' he smiled diffidently, 'I like her particularly because I know that she likes me.'"I admit I was quite fascinated by this bit of self analysis."'I am always ready to like a girl who likes me,' the Kahoona went on. 'You see, I am basically a shy person. It's always been hard for me to believe that a woman really liked me. So if it happens--well--I really want to hold onto it.'"

"My friend the great Kahoona once told me that the sea is where we came in, and the sea is where we go out. We have crawled out of the sea and one day we're going to crawl back into it. That solution of salt is in our blood."

"All the short years of my life I have been fascinated by the word 'affair.'It sounds so decadent.And when I say short years, I say so advisedly. They have been painfully short, fifty-nine inches to be precise and that's stretching it."

"If you want to believe the Arabs, there are three things you can't hide: love, smoke and a man riding on the back of a camel."I have news for the Arabs."They have left out one other thing, and that thing is a toothache."

"Amore, I said to myself, if it is good--it is very good. And if it is bad--well--it isn't that bad."

"The bluebird of happiness had come home to roost. If this isn't heaven, I thought, lingering in his sweet embrace, I ask you, what is?"

"Everything was about to begin."I felt ridiculously young."I had groups and groups of time left."Zut alors, so free and light as I, was no one in this world."

"Life, I think, is wonderful, but people are hell."

"Surfing is out of this world. You can't imagine the thrill of the shooting the curl. Well, it positively surpasses every living emotion I've ever had."

"Something happens to parents when they have children; they forget that their kids are human beings...you show me one kid that'll go out of his way to become involved with his parents!"

"But that's not the way it's supposed to go; I can't even be a good fallen women."

"I want my epitaph to read: Here lies the only American Girl who ever came to Rome without tossing a coin in the fountain."

"episode 1. Dear Diary...Et.Al. teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"

"episode 2. In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"

"episode 3. The Great Kahuna teleplay by Albert Mannheimer, Story by Frederick Kohner"

"episode 4. Daddy Come Home teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"

"episode 5. Gidget Gadget teleplay by Stephen Kandel"

"episode 6. A Hearse, A Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse teleplay by Louella MacFarlane"

"episode 7. Gidget is a proper noun teleplay by Austin and Irma Kalish"

"episode 8. Image Scrimage teleplay by Barbara Avedon"

"episode 9. Is It Love or Symbiosis teleplay by A.J. Mady, story by A.J. Mady and Frederick Kohner"

"episode 10. All the Best Diseases Are Taken teleplay by Tony Wilson"

"episode 11. My Ever Faithful Friend teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"

"episode 12. Chivalry Isn't Dead teleplay by John McGreevey, story by Martin Ragaway"

"episode 13. The War Between Men Women and Gidget teleplay by Leo and Pauline Townsend"

"episode 14. Gidget's Foreign Policy teleplay by Stephen Kandel"

"episode 15. Now There's a Face teleplay by Dorothy Cooper Foote"

"episode 16. Too Many Cooks teleplay by Albert Mannheimer"

"episode 17. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"

"episode 18. Like Voodoo teleplay by Albert Mannheimer"

"episode 19. Gidget's Career teleplay by Joanna Lee"

"episode 20. Ego-A-Go-Go teleplay by Barbara Avedon"

"episode 21. In and Out with the In-Laws teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"

"episode 22. We Got Each Other teleplay by John Mc Greevey"

"episode 23. Operation Shaggy Dog teleplay by Dorothy Cooper Foote"

"episode 24. Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat teleplay by Barbara Avedon"

"episode 25. Love and the Single Gidget teleplay by John Mc Greevey and Stephen Kandel, story by Lee Karson"

"episode 26. Take a Lesson teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"

"episode 27. Independence, Gidget Style teleplay by Joanna Lee"

"episode 28. One More For the Road teleplay by Irma and Austin Kalish"

"episode 29. Ask Helpful Hanna teleplay byIrma Kaish, story by Janet Carson"

"episode 30. A Hard Night's Night teleplay by Barbara Avedon"

"episode 31.I Have This Friend Who... teleplay by John Mc Greevey, stoy by Gary Flaum"

"episode 32. Don't Defrost the Alligator teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"

"When you're right, you're right, and when you're wrong, you're wrong. But sometimes you can be right when you're wrong. If you're confused, hit the beach!"

"I'm always in over my head, even in heels."

"Why am I smiling? Well, at twenty-seven it's fun to be told I can't see certain movies unless accompanied by an adult."

""If the police expect to play against the Joker, they'd better be prepared to be dealt from the bottom of the deck!" - Batman #1"

"(to Judge Drake) "You can't win anyway... You see, I hold the winning card!" - Batman #1"

""I won't even waste the usual Joker Venom on you, Brute, but give you something you can understand...lead! - Batman #1"

""Very neat! That ugly head of yours does have a brain!" - Batman #1"

""I'm not mad at all. I'm just differently sane." - Batman and Robin #13"

"(to Superman) "More powerful than a locomotive, and just about as subtle." - Superman/Batman: World's Finest"

""One by One, they'll hear my call. Then this wicked town, will follow my fall." - Batman: The Man Who Laughs"

""In my dream, the world had suffered a terrible disaster. A black haze shut out the sun, and the darkness was alive with the moans and screams of wounded people. Suddenly, a small light glowed. A candle flickered into life, symbol of hope for millions. A single tiny candle, shining in the ugly dark. I laughed and blew it out." - Shadow of the Bat #37"

""It's a clear choice -- me or Pettit. Vote or die. Cancer or tuberculosis." - Detective Comics #737"

""If I weren't crazy, I'd be insane!" - Batman: Dark Detective"

""They could put me in a helicopter and fly me up into the air and line up the bodies head to toe on the ground in delightful geometric patterns like an endless June Taylor dance routine — and it would never be enough. No, I don’t keep count. But you do. And I love you for it." - Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"

""You dirty rat! You killed my brother! My sister! My daughter! She's my sister and my daughter!" - Batman: Dark Victory"

"(to Batman) "Quick question: When the clock strikes twelve, do I get a little kiss?" - Batman: The Long Halloween"

""Hello Late-Show lovers...and lovers of the Late-Show!" - The Laughing Fish"

""Live...and in person! The Caliph of Clowns, the Grand Mogul of Mountebanks, the One and Only JOKER! Prerecorded for this time zone." - The Sign of the Joker"

""What's wrong with the World? After all the AGGRAVATION I went through just STEALING this crop-duster...you'd think they'd give me one that would FLY right." - Batman: The Long Halloween"

"Drive-In Waitress: Take your order, please? Joker: Yes, indeedy. Thank you. (Talking incredibly fast) I'd like the Big Beefer, Heavy Mustard, double pickles, three strips of bacon, make 'em crispy, ranch dressing on the side... Waitress: Ah, sir... Joker: Side order of fries, also crispy, one of those fake pie thingees with the boiling hot juice that scalds the roof of your mouth...I LOVE that... Waitress: Sir... Joker:Two of your special Egg Nog Shakes, a boy's kiddie meal, and I'll pay extra for a full assortment of the toys that come with it. Waitress: Sir! You were talking way too fast. You'll have to repeat all that! Joker: Of all the incompetence! Listen, you brain-dead Cephalapod! I have better things to do than repeat myself in the fleeting hope that through some MIRACLE you might somehow triumph over your own crushing ignorance and get ONE ITEM of my order right! I DEMAND to see your manager! Manager: I'm sorry, sir. How may I help you? Joker:(shoots the manager) I really wanted those shakes."

""Every clown loves kids, captain. Just ask Sarah Essen-Gordon. Oh, that's right, you can't!" - Gotham Central #15"

"(As Nightwing pummels him) "Aw... Jeez... I hit Jason a lot harder than that. (Pause) His name was Jason, right?" - Joker: Last Laugh #6"

""Ladies and Gentlemen, Hobos and Tramps, Cross-eyed mosquitoes and bowlegged ants. I come before you, to stand before you, to tell you a story I know nothing about. One morning in the middle of the night two dead fellows stood up to fight. They stood back to back, facing each other, drew their swords and shot each other. If you don't believe my lie, it's true, ask the blind lady on the corner, she saw it too." - Emperor Joker"

""Yum Yum. Dim Sum. Chinese food made from real Chinese." - Emperor Joker"

"(To Harley as he turns her into a Constellation) "You get the best seat in the house for Armageddon. Say goodnight, Harley. I always wanted to see my dame in lights. Heh. Even in a moment of abject saccharine, I still got it." - Emperor Joker"

""I did it! I finally killed Batman! In front of a bunch of vulnerable, disabled, kids!!!! Now get me Santa Claus!" - Batman #655"

""If I weren't insane: I couldn't be so brilliant!" - Dreadful Birthday Dear Joker"

""Both of us trying to find meaning in a meaningless world! Why be a disfigured outcast when I can be a notorious Crime God? Why be an orphaned boy when you can be a superhero?" - Batman #663"

""You can't kill me without becoming like me! I can't kill you without losing the only human being who can keep up with me! Isn't it IRONIC?" - Batman #663"

"" The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense! That's what cracks me up each time!" - Batman #681"

""You think it all breaks down into symbolism and structures and hints and clues. No, Batman, that's just Wikipedia. You actually believed all it would take is a few chemicals, a couple of days of drug-induced isolation and a cheap little nervous breakdown and you'd have me all figured out? Like there was some rabbit hole you could follow me down to understanding?" - Batman #681"

""You really want to know what it feels like to be the clown at midnight? Where there's only ever one joke and it's always on you? Well, here you are. Now do you get it?" - Batman #681"

""Devil is double is deuce, my dear doctor ... and joker trumps deuce." Batman #681"

""Obvious...And everybody knows. You wear your shame like a badge, because you don't have the balls to actually pin one on.... Yes... Just look at you... Desperate to be feared, you want to be perceived as a monster, draped in black... And yet... You leave that little window... A glimpse at the perfection underneath. OBVIOUS; The chiseled jaw, the mouth of a monster... Why do you let it be seen? Tell me why...... - Joker"

""A bit of advice...don't ever apologize to no one for the way you look" - Joker"

""I am the Champion of the WORLD!"- Elseworlds: Batman/Lobo"

""Laugh, clown, laugh...and laugh again! The police are completely at bay! Batman is baying at the moon! No one can beat the Joker! Soon, now...soon they'll see it my way! They'll know I mean what I say! Today, the American fish... and tomorrow all the fish in the world! But...what if everybody stops eating fish? I hadn't thought of that! What if they all conspire against me...leave my Joker-Fish in the sea? But no...that would never work! The VEGETARIANS wouldn't go along! And anyway...I could use my chemicals on cattle! JOKER-BURGERS! OUTRAGEOUS! - Detective Comics #476"

""Howdy, Stan, the Donutz man! This is a stickup, see? (holds two donuts up to his eyes like a mask) - Laughter After Midnight"

""Here's the cold, hard truth Bats...I don't hate you 'cause I'm crazy...I'm crazy 'cause I hate you. " - Batman: Cacophony"

"Ladies and Gentlemen! You've read about it in the papers! Now witness, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature's mistakes! I give you: the average man. Physically unremarkable, it instead possesses a deformed set of values. Notice the hideously bloated sense of humanity's importance. Also note the club-footed social conscience and the withered optimism. It's certainly not for the squeamish, is it? Most repulsive of all, are its frail and useless notions of order and sanity. If too much weight is placed upon them... they snap. How does it live, I hear you ask? How does this poor pathetic specimen survive in today's harsh and irrational environment? I'm afraid the sad answer is, "Not very well." Faced with the inescapable fact that human existence is mad, random, and pointless, one in eight of them crack up and go stark slavering buggo! Who can blame them? In a world as psychotic as this... any other response would be crazy!"

"“Remembering’s dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. “The Past Tense,” I suppose you’d call it. Memory’s so treacherous. One moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy-floss… the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you’d hoped were forgotten. Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children I suppose. But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can’t face them, we deny reason itself! Although, why not? We aren’t contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause! So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit… you can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away... forever.”"

"(singing) "When the world is full of care and every headline screams despair, when the news are rape, starvation, war and life is vile...then there's a certain thing I do which I shall pass along to you that's always guaranteed to make me smile. I go Loo-oo-oony, as a lightbulb battered bug, simply Loo-oo-oony, sometimes foam and chew the rug...mister life is swell in a padded cell, it'll chase those blues away! You can trade your gloom for a rubber room and injections twice a day!""

"Life's a bowl of cherries and this is the pits"

"So... I see you received the free ticket I sent you. I'm glad. I did so want you to be here. You see it doesn't matter if you catch me and send me back to the asylum... Gordon's been driven mad. I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up as a flying rat? You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else... Only you won't admit it! You have to keep pretending that life makes sense, that there's some point to all this struggling! God you make me want to puke. I mean, what is it with you? What made you what you are? Girlfriend killed by the mob, maybe? Brother carved up by some mugger? Something like that, I bet. Something like that... Something like that happened to me, you know. I... I'm not exactly sure what it was. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice! Ha ha ha! But my point is... My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you? I mean, you're not unintelligent! You must see the reality of the situation. Do you know how many times we've come close to World War Three over a flock of geese on a computer screen? Do you know what triggered the last world war? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors! Telegraph poles! Ha ha ha ha HA! It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?"

"See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum...and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they're going to escape! So, like, they get up onto the roof and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moonlight...stretching away to freedom. Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daren't make the leap. Y'see...y'see, he's afraid of falling. So then, the first guy has an idea...He says 'Hey! I have my flashlight with me! I'll shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk along the beam and join me!' B-but the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says... he says 'What do you think I am? Crazy? You'd turn it off when I was half way across!'"

"Aren't I just good enough to eat?"

"April sweet is coming in, let the feast of fools begin!"

"The guy goes into the hospital, okay? His wife's just had a baby and he can't wait to see them both. So he meets the doctor and he says, 'Oh, Doc, I've been so worried. How are they?' And the doctor smiles and says, 'They're fine. Just fine. Your wife's delivered a healthy baby boy and they're both in tip-top form. You're one lucky guy.' So the guy rushes into the maternity ward with his flowers. But it's empty. His wife's bed is empty. 'Doc?' He says and turns around and the doctor and all the nurses wave their arms and scream in his face. 'April fools! Your wife's dead and the baby's a spastic!!'" (he executes an asylum orderly with a gunshot to the head) "Get it? Oh what a senseless waste of human life!"

"(to Batman) "Loosen up, tight ass!""

"Parting is such sweet sorrow, dearest. Still, you can't say we didn't show you a good time. Enjoy yourself out there... in the asylum. Just don't forget -- if it ever gets too tough... there's always a place for you here."

"And who is this pure fool? Lo, in the sagas of old time, legend or scald, of bard, of druid, cometh he not in green like spring? O thou water thou art air, in which all complex is resolved! Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!"

"And he didn't die all at once. It was hours before the screaming stopped. I almost didn't get to sleep that night. That was the last time I'd used crushed glass..."

"I have been witness to genius in the area of this criminal endeavor. ... The kidnapping of the mayor. The crippling of the city on numerous occasions. Oh, and my glorious abduction of the commissioner and his daughter. MASS MURDER, MAIMINGS, TORTURE AND TERROR! I'VE DONE IT ALL, LADY! YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE EINSTEIN OF CRIME! Sticking some poison on the back of some postage stamps, lady? Amateur night in Dixie. Simple as that."

"[when Tommy Mangles is about to murder the Joker after telling him that apologies don't work] "Really? [attacks Mangles repeatedly] Well, what if I was really sorry? Would that make a-- difference? Would that satisfy you? If I was really... really... REALLY... REALLY... REALLY... SORRY? WELL, I'M NOT!""

"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat. Watch me kill your favorite cat."

"Well, look who it is. I haven't seen you for... how long as it been? Let's see, there was an asylum, some monsters, and oh, that's right! You left me to die. Now you probably don't remember it that way, but who cares? You just need to worry about the bombs. Hurry up, now. Clock's ticking."

"5! ...4! ...3! ...2! ...1! See ya soon, Bats. ...What are you waiting for? We both know how this is going to turn out: you're going to come and find me. You can't stop yourself, can you? Sometimes I wonder if all this would just end with one of us looking down at the other's corpse, trying to work out what to do next? The only question is, whose body will it be? I know who I'm rooting for! [giggles] What about you? [laughs madly] Now, get out of there now, or you'll ruin everything!!!"

"[as Clayface-Joker] "You fell for the old fake Joker gag, Batman! You left me to die! {starts laughing}""

"[after a captive Batman tells him there's nothing wrong with him] "Nice of you to say, but you of all people should know, there's plenty wrong with me. Take my blood, for example. I wish somebody would - this stuff is killing me!""

"Is someone feeling a little down? Well, cheer up, Bats; it won't kill ya.... Oops!"

"It's ok to die, Bats, I'll be here to protect Gotham! I'll do a real good job."

"[as Clayface-Joker] "Good evening, Troops! This is General J here, with a quick update on what's going on down here in Arkham City. As you can see, I'm looking much better. In fact, ohhh, I think I'm looking better than ever! Ha! Oh, I can hear you all now: "How did this happen?" "Can I get me some of that crazy cure?" "Oh, I want answers, damn it! NOW!" Well, here's the thing. Answers don't give you everlasting satisfaction, sometimes you have to brace yourself for disappointment. Now think about it. Imagine your favorite TV show. You've been through it all. The ups, the downs, the crazy coincidences, and then: BANG! They tell you what it's all about. [the real Joker coughs behind the camera] Would you be happy? Does it make sense? How come it all ended in a church?""

"[as Clayface-Joker] "Oh, come on! There's always something to learn. Let's start with 'Getting Your Ass Kicked 101.'""

"Now you wanna talk? Too late."

"So how do you keep a secret from the World's Greatest Detective? Well, do you know? You stick it right in front of him, right under his long pointy nose, and wait."

"Confusing, isn't it? I know I'd want to know just what the hell is going on if I were you. Let's just say in times like these, it's important to keep up [coughs] appearances. But first, if you would be so kind... Hand. Over. My. Cure."

"Ladies and Gentlemen, for one night only, standing in for yours truly, ha, and doing a damn fine job of it, I bring you... CLAYFACE!"

""You're making me late for spa treatment. I mean, it's not like you've got a girl to save anymore, is it?! [laughs] Oh, I'm sorry! Too soon? Would a change of scenery help ease the pain?" [detonates the floor below Batman and Clayface]"

"Get out of the way, Bats! I've got a date with immortality!"

"I've killed your girlfriend, poisoned Gotham, and hell... it's not even breakfast! But so what? We all know you'll save me."

""Think of it as a running gag!" [Stabs Batman in the back, dropping the cure and the Joker's only chance of survival]"

"[After being told by Batman that he would have saved him after ensuring his own death] "That actually is... [coughs] pretty funny..." [Joker dies laughing with a smile on his face]"

"Have you ever tried to burp the National Anthem?"

"Hurry! Batman's just had his way with one of you! Now that's a spicy meat-a-ball!"

"Well, sounds like I can cross 'hear a grown man cry' off my Christmas list. Thanks, fellas!"

"[over radio] "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, must be a bad connection. It sounded like you said that after I shot him, and blew up a building on him, the Bat - somehow survived?!!? ...Well, since I know that's impossible, I'm going to give you a chance to reconcile my vision of reality with your version of reality, and in case your pea-brain can't parse big words, I'll translate it into thug-speak for you: KILL THE BAT OR I'LL KILL YOU!""

"[to Black Mask] "Can't... you... just... play... along?!""

"Aww, too bad, so sad!"

"'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a...' well a Bat was stirring. But a few more blows to the head and he won't be anymore!"

"You just can't get it through your thick skull...WE BOTH EXIST BECAUSE OF THEM!!"

"Looks like I'm gonna need to find a new playmate. Oh, and we were having so much fun, too!"

"Aww, gotta say, I thought you'd have more fight in you! A LOT more fight!"

"Ding dong! The bat is dead! Which old bat? The dumb old bat! Ding dong, the dumb old bat is dead!"

"I present to you: the death of the Batman!"

"NOW THIS IS WHAT I CALL A PARTY!! (fires machine gun at hellicopter) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"If you actually let me finish a sentence, you might learn something! You might learn we're not so different. You might even learn something about yourself."

"Mmm! This fruitcake is fantastic! (pause, stabs the knife on the table) Anyone want a piece?"

"You see, it's a tradition in my house to open one present on Christmas Eve... let's see... how about... this one? [blows up an empty building under construction, then laughs evilly and sings a bit of "The 12 Days of Christmas"] And a partridge in a pear treeee!"

"[sings] "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Gotham's quite a mess! Blackgate's mine and you're out of time, which means you'll soon be dead!" [laughs]"

"[sings] "Where, oh where has my little Bat gone? Oh where, oh where can he be? His cowl, his scowl, his temper so foul. I do hope he's coming for me." [evil laugh]"

"So, what our friend Bane holds in his hand is - a heart monitor. Once he clamps it on, every beat of his vacant little heart will charge the battery - on this electric chair. And when it's fully charged - [mimicks being electrocuted, laughs]"

"[sees that Gordon has taken the bullet for Warden Joseph] "Well, that's the Christmas spirit!""

"[after Batman has "killed" Bane] "Well, I'd love to stay and celebrate your victory, but I've got stockings to stuff, mistletoe to hang - and about fifteen skyscrapers to blow up before sunrise. Ciao." [leaves with a laugh]"

"[to Batman] "Fresh off a kill and back for more, eh?""

"Come on, baby! Beat me 'til your knuckles bleed... And why quit there? You know there's only one way to stop me."

"[laugh] Stopped his hearth... [laugh] That IS funny... [laugh] Good one, Bats! [laugh] Oh, this is going to be FUN!"

"All aboard the Bane train!"

"You of all people should know, there's nothing so cruel as memory.... the pointy biting little thunderbolts, unwanted party crashers, SCREAMERS through your synapses.. inescapable, unrelenting.... not at all friendly. You can't even escape into MADNESS!"

"Isn't it funny how one little encounter can cleave off little pieces of your past, deform your memories and persona until you rethink your whole identity — and as you realise how foolish it all is — your laughter reverberates off the walls of your own emptiness?"

"Bats? Bats?? BAAATS!?!"

"He's no better than the creep who killed your parents."

"Get Ready for the Encore" [Manic Laughter]."

"(goes around the screen trying to find his way "in the dark") "What the...? Why has everything gone dark? Are we dying? We better not be dying, Bruce!""

"Off to see mom and pop in that great big county club in the sky!"

"I've really got to hand it to Scarecrow. I've never been a fan of his concoctions up to now, but this batch, it's intoxicating. It really brings out the me in you."

"You should take better care of yourself, Batsy. There's two of us in there!"

"Oh Bats, how I've missed you! All the subtlety and nuance of a napalm enema."

"That guy doesn't know you very well, now does he? What kind of super villain thinks that a handful of bullets to the stomach and a bunch of tanks will stop the Batman?"

"Who's gonna save Gotham now? Robin?! [laughs]"

"I am the Comeback King! The Clown Prince of Chaos! The Jester of Genocide!...You can't stop me."

"Oh, Bats! How very ME of you. Though I can see why you didn't tell him, after Jimbo's hysterical overreaction. Still, if you cared about Barbara the way that little sidekick of yours does, maybe she wouldn't have been kidnapped in the first place. They're star-crossed, Bats! Like me and you. Shame they're being torn apart thanks to your crusade. So let's recap. Barbara's dead. And let's face it, probably dead. You're lying to lover boy wonder about it, and dear old Jim's marched off on his lonesome to save the day. Not your best day at the office, Bats. Something on your mind? Come on, let Robin out of his cage. You can't force him to slave over your cure. Plus, if he gets himself killed out there, you won't have to tell him about Barbara. It's win-win! You think he's really gonna fix your nasty case of Joker-itis? Not a chance. I'm chronic, Brucie. I'm lingering."

"Can you remember when it was simple? Back in the old days, when it was just you, me, a regular war against crime? Well take a look, Bats. Things change. Now it's just war, with you standing right bang in the center. Of course, with any war, there are casualties. It's inevitable, unavoidable. Like death. Well, maybe not death, I seem to have sidestepped that one. Still, not all of us are so lucky."

"Remember Talia? Of course you do. How could you forget a girl like that? All it took was one piece of lead to end your hopes of a happily ever after. You blamed me, of course, but you were wrong. You put her in my crosshairs, Bats. Sure, she didn't do herself any favors, but it was you. You see, people trust you. They believe in you. They follow you into your war, and you are about to get them all killed."

"When I get out of here, I will write my name in blood on every street corner! I'll carve it on every corpse! I -- (stammers) NO ONE'S FORGETTING ME!"

"No, Bruce! Don't leave me! PLEASE!!"

"....I need you..."

"Don't go into the light, bats! It's no fair! They won't let me in!"

"Rockabye Batsy, I'm getting free! Soon you'll be the one trapped inside me! So do take deep breaths, great lungfuls of fear! Soon Bats will be gone, and I will be here!"

"(Firefly) - "You still haven't told us how you're going to take over the underworld." (Jerome Valeska: "Proto-Joker") - "Who says I wanna do that? I'm an artist. I just wanna paint the town crazy. Once that happens, I could care less how you horribles rip this city apart.""

"The police just backed me up in a gunfight....Gotham has finally gone insane!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"Yay! We're all going to Hell!"

"There's two things Lex forgot to tell you about me: I don't CARE what happens to the world, and I DON'T play nice with others!"

"If I weren't crazy, I'd be insane!"

"(to Superman) "More powerful than a locomotive, and just about as subtle.""

"It's true, Batsy! I know everything! And kinda like the kid who peeks at his Christmas presents, I must admit, it's sadly anti-climactic. Behind all the sturm and batarang, you're just a little boy in a playsuit, crying for mommy and daddy. It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic...... Oh, what the heck, I'll laugh anyway! HA! HA! HA! HA! HAAAA!"

"They could put me in a helicopter and fly me up into the air and line up the bodies head to toe on the ground in delightful geometric patterns like an endless June Taylor dancers routine — and it would never be enough. No, I don’t keep count. But you do. And I love you for it."

"You dirty rat! You killed my brother! My sister! My daughter! She's my sister and my daughter!"

"Lady, you're harder to kill than a cockroach on steroids"

"(to Batman) "Quick question. When the clock strikes twelve, do I get a little kiss?""

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Hobos and Tramps, Cross-eyed mosquitoes and bowlegged ants. I come before you, to stand behind you, to tell you a story I know nothing about. One bright morning in the middle of the night two dead fellows stood up to fight. They stood back to back, facing each other, drew their swords and shot one another. If you don't believe my lie, it's true, ask the blind lady on the corner, she saw it too."

"(To Harley as he turns her into a Constellation) "You get the best seat in the house for Armageddon. Say goodnight, Harley. I always wanted to see my dame in lights. Heh. Even in a moment of abject saccharine, I still got it.""

"(discovers that he has killed Batman) "I can't believe it. He's... he's actually gone. Let's take a moment to reflect on the passing of a man who was more than just another do-gooder in tights. He was the best arch-nemesis a sociopath could ask for. [pauses a bit, then...] Okay, let's do it again!" [brings Batman back to life]"

"Oh, Batman, if you had the guts for that kind of fun you would've done it years ago. I, on the other hand..."

"If I weren't insane: I couldn't be so brilliant!"

"What good is my money? Can I spend it like other people? No! Can I go to movies and ball games? No! The only way I can leave this hideout is in disguise... I'm doomed to a living death... [gets a epiphany] Death!... Now that may be a way out for me... That's it... The Joker must die!"

"(when asked if he will really reform) "Of course not! My business will go on as usual...the important thing is that I'll be free! The Joker shall die so that he may live again!""

"(as he is being led to his execution as part of his master plan) "So this is the famous Last Mile, eh? Don't cry, boys...this will hurt me worse than it'll hurt you! Ha! Ha!""

"Reclaimed from the dead! All crimes paid for! The slate wiped clean! The Joker is free! Ha! Ha!"

"Oh, well...I suppose the Joker's holiday had to end some time!"

"[Trying to patent "jokerized" fish]"But the fish share my unique face! If Colonel What's-His-Name can have chickens, when they donť even have moustaches-- And you deny this to me!""

"Both of us trying to find meaning in a meaningless world! Why be disfigured outcast when I can be a notorious Crime God? Why be an orphaned boy when you can be a superhero?"

"You can't kill me without becoming like me! I can't kill you without losing the only human being who can keep up with me! Isn't it IRONIC?"

"The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense! That's what cracks me up each time!"

"You actually believed that all it would take is a few chemicals, a couple of days in drug-induced isolation and a cheap little nervous breakdown and you'd have me all figured out? Like there was some rabbit hole you could follow me down to understanding?"

"You really want to know what it feels like to be the clown at midnight? Where there's only ever one joke and it's always on you? Well, here you are. Now do you get it?"

"I'd like to bet you have no idea what you're dealing with... I bet, double or nothing, Batman crawls out of that shallow grave with his faculties intact and hunts you down like the dogs you all are. Did anyone think to examine Exhibit A?"

"If the police expect to play against the Joker, they'd better be prepared to be dealt from the bottom of the deck!"

"(to Judge Drake) "You can't win anyway... You see, I hold the winning card!""

"It's a clear choice -- me or Pettit. Vote or die. Cancer or tuberculosis."

"Every clown loves kids, captain. Just ask Sarah-Essen-Gordon. Oh, that's right, you can't!"

"(As Nightwing pummels him) "Aw... Jeez... I hit Jason a lot harder than that. (Pause) His name was Jason, right?""

"The Dark Knight - Joker"

"Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker"

"Batman (1989 film)"

"Gotham TV Series (2014 - 2019)"

"Joker (2019 film)"

"Joker: Folie à Deux"

"Incels are individuals who express frustration from perceived disadvantages to starting intimate relationships. Incel extremists idolize violent individuals like the Aurora movie theater shooter. They also idolize the Joker character, the violent clown from the Batman series, admiring his depiction as a man who must pretend to be happy, but eventually fights back against his bullies."

"Bill Finger and I created the Joker. Bill was the writer. Robinson came to me with a playing card of the Joker. That's the way I sum it up. [The Joker] looks like Conrad Veidt — you know, the actor in The Man Who Laughs, [the 1928 movie based on the novel] by Victor Hugo. [...] Bill Finger had a book with a photograph of Conrad Veidt and showed it to me and said, 'Here's the Joker'. Jerry Robinson had absolutely nothing to do with it, but he'll always say he created it till he dies. He brought in a playing card, which we used for a couple of issues for him [the Joker] to use as his playing card."

"I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices – it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath – someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts."

"Jesus: See, judge, I don't know you -- well, actually, I do know you. When you were six years old, you decided to be a judge 'cause you wanted to put The Joker away, once and for all. Now, I know you're not a bad person, your honor. But you're not putting The Joker away. You're putting away poor people. Stop destroying families and children. Stop the privatization and profiteering of human struggle. You got the opportunity to do the right thing, right now, your honor, and gain the favor of your creator and mine, god, up in heaven. When you were young, you wanted to help people. It's not too late, bubbles."

"Bill Finger knew of Conrad Veidt because Bill had been to a lot of the foreign films. Veidt ... had this clown makeup with the frozen smile on his face (classic). When Bill saw the first drawing of the Joker, he said, 'That reminds me of Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs. He said he would bring in some shots of that movie to show me. That's how that came about. I think in Bill's mind, he fleshed out the concept of the character."

"They've given many origins of the Joker, how he came to be. That doesn't seem to matter—just how he is now. I never intended to give a reason for his appearance. We discussed that and Bill [Finger] and I never wanted to change it at that time. I thought—and he agreed—that it takes away some of the essential mystery."

"Batman: The real Batman never talked to you much, did he? That's probably why you were so fixated on him."

"Alfred: With respect, Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man you don't fully understand either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones, but their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones, but in six months, we never met anyone who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away."

"Tim Drake: You swore to me you'd stay out of costume."

"He entered large halls where the carpets were of silk, the lounges and sofas covered with tapestry from Mecca, and the hangings of the most beautiful Indian stuffs of gold and silver. Then he found himself in a splendid room, with a fountain supported by golden lions. The water out of the lions' mouths turned into diamonds and pearls, and the leaping water almost touched a most beautifully-painted dome. The palace was surrounded on three sides by magnificent gardens, little lakes, and woods. Birds sang in the trees, which were netted over to keep them always there."

"Scheherazade had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred."

"Scheherazade … possessed courage, wit, and penetration, infinitely above her sex. She had read much, and had so admirable a memory, that she never forgot any thing she had read. She had successfully applied herself to philosophy, medicine, history, and the liberal arts; and her poetry excelled the compositions of the best writers of her time. Besides this, she was a perfect beauty, and all her accomplishments were crowned by solid virtue."

"All of us, especially educated Arab women, would say, 'No, do you think I am Scheherazade? A slave sitting and telling you stories so you won't kill me?' This is how we thought about Scheherazade at the beginning. One Thousand and One Nights ... wasn't looked at as ... Arabic literary heritage. People thought it was vulgar; they thought it was very bad literature — it's not literature, it's folk tales and nothing else. But then everything changed."

"I fell in love with her because I thought she was the first feminist. Second, because she was a philosopher, an artist, a writer, and she was trying through literature to humanize the king and men around her."

"Excellent bottom!"

"Sorry, old man! I gotta go meet a girl...But you've got an excellent bottom, too!"

"There you go! I can taste it! Oestrogen. Definitely oestrogen. Take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle. Feminizes the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again."

"And before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of "Torchwood"?"

"You people and your quaint little categories."

"You need to figure out who's side you're on here, because if you don't know, you're not gonna make it out of this alive."

"If you've got forever, you don't notice the flecks in the concrete, or bother to touch the bricks... You send your friends into danger, knowing the stakes aren't the same for you, that you might get them killed - while you walk away unscathed."

"You've heard of immaculate conception, haven't you? Well..."

"You have no idea what it felt like, coming back to life and knowing the world was empty...because you'd gone!"

"The Doctor Dances [1.10] (28 May 2005)"

"Day One [1.2] (22 October 2006)"

"And the good thing is, he's not dead for long. I GET TO KILL HIM AGAIN!"

"Sleeper [2.2] (23 January 2008)"

"...He is dashing, you have to give him that."

"You always remember what you kill - Don't you, Jack?"

"Reset [2.6] (13 February 2008)"

"The problem seems to be an American with no sense of timing or fashion."

"It's not... Men, it's...it's just him. It's only him."

"I swear to you: If your duty is to protect the state above and beyond any other authority, then the one person you need right now is Jack Harkness."

"He likes to call himself Captain Jack, but I'm not buying it."

"I could go on all Jack's stag parties in one night!"

"Captain Jack Harkness. I thought it was very refreshing to see such a lead character. He’s omnisexual and explores men, women, cupboards… You name it, he explored it."

"In terms of Jack's sexuality it was a really bold thing that Russell [T Davies] did putting him right in the middle of a show at seven o'clock. For young people to see a character who is such a positive role model, who is honest and decent and good and a hero, and for him to have a sort of non-defined sexuality I think it's a really important thing to see. Your sexuality doesn’t make you a good or bad person. And John was really keen on that too, he was really excited about the opportunity to do that I think."

"I've kind of made Jack a hero that I would like to have looked up to as a little boy because as a little boy, I knew I was gay but I didn't know what it was. Didn't know who to talk to about it. … I wanted kids to like him, and I wanted women, men, I wanted everyone to like him. But first I wanted people to hate him. I wanted them to think he was arrogant and pushy and too sure of himself. And I wanted them to follow the arc of the change he went through in the final episodes of Doctor Who."

"Space and time, time and space — locked in an intricate dance across the cosmos — and if you know the tune, anything is possible."

"That's the great thing about the Doctor, he has the energy and mischief of a young child as well as the wisdom, age and intelligence of someone a lot older," she says. With Matt's performance, he's so believable that he isn't human. He has all these things that he does that make you believe he is an alien and you're drawn in by that."

"Q: Matt, what’s been the most fun about playing this role?"

"Q: Matt, your version of the Doctor is very quixotic, which has gone over well. Is that something you brought to the role, or is that something that was on the page?"

"Q: What are the qualities you share with the Doctor, and how are you completely different?"

"So, he’s a swaggering bully—who also withholds vital information from the people about whom he supposedly cares the most. During the first season, when Rory dies and gets swallowed up by the Crack in the Universe, thus ceasing ever to have existed, the Doctor remembers Rory, but Amy, Rory’s fiancé, doesn’t. Does the Doctor say, “Amy, listen to me, I know you don’t remember, but you had this fiancé, and you’d actually decided to go through with the wedding after that time you sexually assaulted me, but he got drawn into the Crack in your wall—and I know that it’s got something to do with me. Look, here’s a piece of the TARDIS I pulled out of the Crack! With your help, we’re going to fix this, I promise. And we definitely will not start off two of the next three episodes by going to museums. Come along, Pond!” No, he doesn’t, and they do start off two of the next three episodes by going to museums."

"The 50th Anniversary Special, “The Day of the Doctor,” offered a welcome respite from this dreary slog; it was easily the best Who episode Moffat had written since “The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang.” Despite the generally positive notices the special got, some critics hated Moffat’s retconning the defining act of the revived series: It turns out that the Doctor didn’t actually kill all of the Time Lords, as it had been written by previous showrunner Russell T. Davies, he just hid them away in a pocket universe. While I find Moffat’s compulsion to insert his own characters into existing Who continuity annoying (c.f. the laughable Forrest Gumping of Clara into footage of Classic Doctors in “The Name of the Doctor”), I actually don’t think his rewriting of this act of genocide totally obviates the Davies era’s emotional content. So it turns out that the Time Lords are lost, instead of annihilated? Hell, the Doctor thought he’d destroyed the Daleks, too, and they just keep coming back. Why shouldn’t the Time Lords get an out? But while, within the context of the episode, this turning-already-established-defeat-into-victory didn’t bother me, it does fit into a pattern of storytelling cowardice on Moffat’s part. There are just never any consequences for any main characters in Moffat’s Doctor Who. Every apparent sacrifice, tragic loss, or moral compromise is invalidated by some kind of reset button, with no physical or psychological cost. The “loss” of the Ponds was so nonsensical that it doesn’t even count. They got to live full lives together in the past, but the Doctor could never go back and see them again? It’s insulting. Why not have the two of them make a meaningful sacrifice and actually, you know, die? Whose feelings is Moffat trying to spare here? As Capt. James T. Kirk witheringly observes of himself—in a neat bit of character development that also doubles as commentary on how static Kirk’s persona was during the original Star Trek series—he’d always been able to find the out, the cheat code, the reset button. He’d never had to face the no-win scenario. He thought he’d gotten away with it again—and then he found out that sometimes victory does have a cost, in this case, the life of his best friend. Now, in story terms, it sucks that the Star Trek franchise promptly undid this by bringing Spock back in the next movie, but it’s because of Kirk’s change and growth that Khan is rightly regarded as the best of the Trek films. The 11th Doctor is TV-show Kirk, not Wrath of Khan Kirk. He neither changed nor grew. Moffat even dubbed him “The Man Who Forgets” in the 50th Anniversary special—and in that episode, his journey is away from a defining, horrific moral choice he made, and towards a cheat code."

"But you know what? Matt Smith, man. In the middle of this train wreck, he does a bit with a severed Cyberman head that actually finds a heartstring. When Handles finally craps out and “dies,” Smith, in his late-middle-age makeup, calls his name a couple of times and stares at the thing. The look on his face evokes memories not just of the similarly robotic K-9, but also of all the other companions long gone. Another one, his face says. I’ve lost another one."

"The Devil's Circle is complete. El Shaitan is here."

"That man deserves to die! But first we will make use of him."

"No man refuses, when El Shaitan commands!"

"There is only one way out of Devil's Circle... Death!"

"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles?"

"Fear makes companions of us all."

"As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves."

"I don't believe that man was made to be controlled by machines. Machines can make laws, but they can not preserve justice. Only human beings can do that."

"It all started out as a mild curiosity in the junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a great spirit of adventure."

"Our lives are important — at least to us — and as we see, so we learn... Our destiny is in the stars, so let's go and search for it."

"One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine."

"So you're my replacements. Humph. A dandy and a clown."

"I suddenly realised what the old proverb meant: "To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose!" It was all part of Rassilon's trap to find out who wanted immortality and put him out of the way! He knew very well that immortality was a curse, NOT a blessing!"

"Well then, here we go... the long way around."

"Slower! SLOWER! Concentrate on one thing! ONE thing!"

"I'd like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it spreads its wings."

"Life depends on change, and renewal."

"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things that act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!"

"I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of which human nature is merely a part."

"We've done exactly as you calculated, haven't we?"

"The power cable generated an electrical field and confused their tiny metal minds. You might almost say they've had a complete metal breakdown."

"People spend all their time making nice things and then other people come along and break them."

"An unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one, Jamie. Just act stupid. Do you think you can manage that?"

"We're nowhere. It's as simple as that."

"I hate computers and refuse to be bullied by them!"

"I do tend to get involved."

"Keep it confused, feed it with useless information — I wonder if I have a television set handy?"

"My dear Miss Shaw, I never report myself anywhere, particularly not forthwith."

"I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow."

"Well, I'll tell you something that should be of vital interest to you. That you, Sir, are a NITWIT!"

"Obviously the Time Lords have programmed the TARDIS always to return to Earth. It seems that I'm some sort of galactic yo-yo!"

"It's all quite simple — I am he and he is me!"

"Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind that I've ever encountered."

"Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."

"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting."

"A tear, Sarah Jane? No, don't cry. While there's life there's... (Dies)"

"Have a Jelly Baby."

"Shut up, K-9!"

"You may be a doctor. But I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say."

"There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes."

"Never cared much for the word "impregnable." Sounds a bit too much like "unsinkable.""

"Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable."

"Excuse me, can you help me? I'm a spy."

"Failed? No, not really. You see, I know that although the Daleks will create havoc and destruction for millions of years, I know also that out of their evil must come something good."

"Who's the homicidal maniac?"

"I'm a Time Lord...I'm not a human being; I walk in eternity..."

"Something's going on contrary to the laws of the universe. I must find out what!"

"Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never know the time again."

"The Doctor's not here. He's at large somewhere in the complex!"

"Do you think I don't know the difference between an internal fault and an external influence! No, no, no, there's something going on here. Some dirty work they won't touch with their lily white hands!"

"If you don't stop wallowing in self-pity, I'll bite your nose."

"You thought I was dead, didn't you? … You're always making that mistake."

"You humans have got such limited, little minds. I don't know why I like you so much."

"All right! I confess, I confess. — I confess to your being a bigger idiot than I thought."

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard."

"Now drop your weapons, or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby!"

"I'm the Doctor. Who are you, and why are you shooting at me?"

"I never carry weapons. If people see you mean them no harm, they never hurt you — nine times out of ten..."

"To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained."

"That's trans-dimensional engineering; a key Time Lord discovery!"

"Were you trying to attract my attention?"

"Listen! It's the muffin man! Come on. I'll buy you all muffins."

"The localised condition of planetary atmospheric condensation caused a malfunction in the visual orientation circuits. Or to put it another way, we got lost in the fog."

"the Doctor: I'll call you Romana Romana: I don't like Romana the Doctor: It's either Romana or Fred! Romana: Alright, call me Fred. the Doctor: Good. Come on, Romana."

"Where's your joy in life? Where's your optimism? … Whenever you go into a new situation, you must always believe the best until you find out exactly what the situation's all about. Then, believe the worst."

"Sometimes my brilliance astonishes even me."

"Someone once tried to build a machine as efficient as the brain. The only problem was, it would have had to be bigger than London — do you remember London? — and powered by the entire European grid. And that was just a human brain. Mine's much more complex."

"The Key to Time is still in my possession. Rage all you like!"

"I'm a very dangerous fellow when I don't know what I'm doing."

"I wouldn't make a very good criminal, would I?"

"I suppose you could say the yoke's on him if you were the sort of person who said that sort of thing which fortunately I'm not."

"You know K-9, sometimes I think I'm wasted just rushing about the universe saving planets from destruction. With a talent like mine I might have been a great slow bowler."

"Don't cross your bridges before they're hatched."

"What can't be cured must be endured. … Oh don't listen to me. I never do."

"It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for."

"Why are Earth people so parochial?"

"For some people, small, beautiful events is what life is all about!"

"The illusion is always one of normality."

"You know how it is; you put things off for a day and next thing you know, it's a hundred years later."

"Oh, marvellous. You're going to kill me. What a finely tuned response to the situation."

"You were expecting someone else?"

"A little gratitude wouldn't irretrievably damage my ego."

"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"

"Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency — not unlike myself!"

"Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coalesces, forms into other patterns, other worlds. Nothing can be eternal."

"In all my travelling throughout the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen — they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt."

"Every dogma has its day."

"Love has never been noted for its rationality."

"A stitch in time... takes up space."

"Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself."

"Time Lords have an infinite capacity for pretension."

"Earl Sigma: You're a nice guy Doctor, but a little weird."

"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way."

"Among all the varied wonders of the universe, there's nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind."

"All is change, all is movement."

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."

"I am not like you."

"Who am I? WHO — AM — I?"

"Grace, I came back to life before your eyes. I held back death. Look, I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today."

"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there."

"Back of the ship....Because the front crashes first. Think it through."

"Physician, heal thyself."

"Why is there never a big red button?"

"If you have been inside my head, then you know what I have seen. The suffering. Every moment in time and space is burning. It must end, and I intend to end it the only way I can."

"Oh, the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?"

"Anyone lose a fez?"

"Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame. Whatever the cost."

"Never give up. Never give in."

"What I did, I did without choice, in the name of peace and sanity."

"Nice to meet you, Rose Tyler; Run for your life."

"Rose: So what you’re saying is, the whole world revolves around you? The Doctor: Sort of, yeah. Rose: You’re full of it. The Doctor: Sort of, yeah."

"It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standin' still. I can feel it; the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinnin' at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're fallin' through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... That's who I am."

"Lots of planets have a north."

"The paper's slightly psychic, makes them see whatever I want them to see."

"You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive."

"I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. They're all gone. I'm the only survivor. I'm left travelling on my own, 'cause there's no one else."

"I love a happy medium!"

"You think you know your own name? How stupid are you?"

"Well, you can stay there if you want! … But right now there's this plasma storm brewing in the Horsehead Nebula. Fires are burning ten million miles wide! I could fly the TARDIS right into the heart of it and ride the shockwave all the way out. Hurtled right across the sky and end up anywhere! Your choice."

"You're right: I am dangerous, I don't want anyone following me."

"The stuff of nightmares, reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old."

"The last of the great space dustbins How does it feel?"

"We're not the same! I'm not the... No, wait, maybe we are... Yeah, right, yeah, okay. You've got a point 'cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. Exterminate!"

"Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once...Everybody lives!!"

"The Doctor: No! 'Cause this is what I'm gonna do — I'm gonna rescue her! I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth, and then — just to finish you off — I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky! Dalek: But you have no weapons! No defenses! No plan! The Doctor: Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death? Rose? Rose, I'm coming to get you."

"Rose, now listen; this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to die any second with no chance of escape. And that's okay — hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home. And I bet you're fussing and moaning now — typical! But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it; no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you wanna remember me, then you can do one thing, that's all, one thing — Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life."

"Rose: I can see everything. All that is. All that was. All that ever could be. The Doctor: That's what I see, all the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?"

"Time Lords have this little trick, it's sort of a way of cheating death. Except... it means I'm going to change. And you're not going to see me again... Not like this. Not with this daft old face. And before I go … before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I!"

"Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again!"

"Right, okay, [clears throat.] New teeth. That's weird. So, where was I? Oh, that's right! Barcelona!"

"You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords."

"I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demi gods and would-be gods; out of all that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing... just one thing... I believe in her."

"Never say never ever."

"Something in the air. Something's coming. A storm's approaching..."

"The Doctor: Human?"

"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden. Except for cheap tricks."

"I'll tell you what then, don't... step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you?"

"The naming won't work on me."

"The shape of the Globe gives words power, but you're the wordsmith! The one true genius; the only one clever enough to do it. … Trust yourself. When you're locked away in your room, the words just come, don't they, like magic. Words, the right sound, the right shape, the right rhythm, words that last forever. That's what you do, Will. You choose perfect words. Do it. Improvise!"

"I'm not just a Time Lord, I'm the last of the Time Lords."

"There was a war. A Time War. The Last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks, for the sake of all creation. And they lost. We lost. Everyone lost. They're all gone now."

"Daleks are bad enough at any time, but right now they're vulnerable. And that makes them more dangerous than ever."

"There have been too many deaths today; way too many people have died. Brand new creatures and wise old men and age-old enemies, and I tell you, I tell you right now, I am not having one more death!"

"Black tie... Whenever I wear this, something bad always happens."

"Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person."

"There's no such thing as an ordinary human."

"I'm old enough to know that a longer life isn't always a better one. In the end, you just get tired. Tired of the struggle. Tired of losing everyone that matters to you. Tired of watching everything you love turn to dust. If you live long enough, Lazarus, the only certainty left is that you'll end up alone."

"People don't understand time. It's not what you think it is. … People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect... but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff."

"Fascinating race, the Weeping Angels. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely. No mess, no fuss, they just zap you into the past and let you live to death. The rest of your life used up and blown away in the blink of an eye. You die in the past, and in the present they consume the energy of all the days you might have had, all your stolen moments. They're creatures of the abstract. They live off potential energy. …… the Angels are coming for you, but listen—your life could depend on this—don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you could believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck."

"Yeah, listen, listen, got to dash... things happening. Well... four things. Well... four things and a lizard."

"We're at the end of the universe. Okay?! Right at the edge of knowledge itself! And you're busy... blogging!"

"I've had a whole year to tune myself into the psychic network and integrate with its matrices."

"You wouldn't listen. Because you know what I'm going to say... I forgive you."

"All my love to long ago."

"Brilliant. Take me to your leader. I've always wanted to say that!"

"Before you ask, that fire had nothing to do with me. Well, a little bit."

"I am... Spartacus."

"Donna: You are completely impossible! The Doctor: Not impossible... just a bit unlikely."

"These books are from your future. If you read ahead, it will spoil all the surprises. Like peeping at the end. … I try to keep you away from major plot developments. Which, to be honest, I seem to be really bad at."

"Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark, but they're wrong, because it's not irrational. It's Vashta Nerada … It's what's in the dark. It's what's always in the dark."

"Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked and that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor and you're in the biggest Library in the universe. Look me up."

"River Song: If you die here, it'll mean I've never met you! The Doctor: Time can be rewritten! River: Not those times. Not one line! Don't you dare! It's OK. It's OK, it's not over for you. You'll see me again. You've got all of that to come. You and me, time and space. You watch us run!"

"River, you know my name! You whispered my name in my ear! There's only one reason I would ever tell anyone my name. There's only one time I could..."

"You were born in battle, full of blood and anger and revenge. Remind you of someone? That's me when we first met, and you made me better. Now you can do the same for him."

"I just want you to know, there are worlds out there, safe in the sky because of her. That there are people living in the light, and singing songs of Donna Noble. A thousand, million light years away. They will never forget her, while she can never remember. But for one moment... one shining moment... she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe."

"Just remember, music isn’t just orchestras and pop stars and special people with albums and downloads and concerts, it’s you. Because the music of the spheres is all around you. When you’re on your own, just close your eyes, and you’ll hear it. Music. Inside your head. ‘Cause everyone’s a musician. Everyone’s got a song inside them. Every single one of you."

"There are laws. There are laws of time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died."

"For a long time now, I thought I was just a survivor, but I'm not. I'm the winner! That's who I am: the Time Lord Victorious! -->"

"I was told: "He will knock four times". That was the prophecy: knock four times and then... I can still die. If I'm killed before regeneration, then I'm dead. Even then, even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away... and I'm dead."

"Something is returning, don't you ever listen!? That was the prophecy: not someone, something!"

"I don't want to go."

"All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was. Where do you want to start?"

"Can I have an apple? All I can think about — apples. I love apples. Maybe I'm having a craving. That's new — never had cravings before."

"Of course you're not scared. Box falls out of the sky, man falls out of box, man eats fish custard, and look at you! Just... sitting there."

"I'm the Doctor; I'm worse than everyone's aunt. [Beat] And that is not how I'm introducing myself."

"One question, just one more: Is this world protected? You're not the first to come here. There have been so many. … And what you have to ask yourself is... "What happened to them?" … Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically... run."

"There's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box!"

"YOU — ARE — MY — ENEMY. AND I AM YOURS! You are everything I despise. The worst thing in all creation. I have defeated you time and time again. I have defeated you. I have sent you back into the Void. I have saved the whole of reality from you. I am the Doctor, and you are the Daleks!"

"The Doctor [examining an ancient artifact in a museum]: The writing... the graffiti: Old High Gallifreyan. … The lost language of the Time Lords. There were days, there were many days, where these words could burn stars, raise up empires, and topple gods. Amy: What does this one say? The Doctor: [hesitates, then, exasperatedly] "Hello sweetie.""

"A weeping angel, Amy, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life-form evolution has ever produced and right now one of them is trapped inside that wreckage and I'm supposed to climb in after it with a screwdriver and a torch, and assuming I survive the radiation long enough and assuming the ship doesn't explode in my face, do something incredibly clever which I haven't actually thought of yet. That's my day, that's what I'm up to. Any questions?"

"Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap — if you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow — there's one thing you never — ever put in a trap. … Me."

"River Song: It's a long story, Doctor. Can't be told. Has to be lived! No sneak previews. Well, except for this one. You'll see me again quite soon. When the Pandorica opens. The Doctor: The "Pandorica"! Ha! That's a fairytale! River Song: Ha ha! Doctor — aren't we all? I'll see you there. The Doctor: I look forward to it. River Song: I remember it well!"

"One reality was never enough for you, Doctor. Take two — and call me in the morning! -->"

"There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them. This is an opportunity! Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!"

"I have a thing. It's like a plan, but with more greatness."

"One simple instruction: don't follow me under any circumstances."

"The way I see it, life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant."

"Annihilate? No. No violence, do you understand me? Not while I'm around. Not today, not ever. I'm the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm."

"Hello Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe. But bad news everyone …'cos guess who? Ha! Listen, you lot, you're all whizzing about. It's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute? BECAUSE I-AM-TALKING! — Now the question of the hour is, who's got the Pandorica? Answer — I do. Next question, who's coming to take it from me? — Come on! Look at me, no plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else: I don't have anything to lose! So! If you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship, with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you! And then, and then... do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first."

"The universe is big, it's vast and complicated and... ridiculous, and sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. 900 years, never seen one yet. But this would do me."

"People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces. Little things we can't quite account for. Faces in photographs, luggage, half-eaten meals. Rings. Nothing is ever forgotten, not completely. And if something can be remembered, it can come back."

"The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster... Or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world. Amy: How did it end up in there? The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it. River: [to Amy] I hate good wizards in fairy tales — they always turn out to be him."

"The box contains a memory of the universe, and the light transmits the memory — and that's how were going to do it. … Relight the fire. Reboot the universe."

"Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before?"

"Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many of them."

"Rory: Doctor, River was brainwashed to kill you. The Doctor: Well, she did. And then she used her remaining lives to bring me back. As first dates go, I’d say that was mixed signals."

"The Doctor: I'm not just a "professional." I'm the Doctor. Alex: What's that supposed to mean? The Doctor: It means I've come a long way to get here, Alex, a very long way. George sent a message — a distress call, if you like — Whatever is inside that cupboard is so terrible so powerful, that it amplified the fears of an ordinary little boy across all the barriers of time and space. Alex: Hey? The Doctor: Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire; empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought — and a whole terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities. You see these eyes? They're old eyes — and one thing I can tell you, Alex: monsters are real. Alex: You're not from Social Services, are you?"

"I can't save you from this. There’s nothing I can do to stop this. I stole your childhood and now I've lead you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is I knew. I knew this would happen. This is what always happens. Forget your faith in me. I took you with me because I was vain. Because I wanted to be adored. Look at you. Glorious Pond. The girl who waited for me. I'm not a hero. I really am just a mad man in a box. And it’s time we saw each other as we really are. Amy Williams, it’s time to stop waiting."

"The Doctor [explaining his appearances are not what has caused aliens to appear]: It's a coincidence! It happens! It's what the universe does for… [sees Amy and Rory shopping in the store, and Amy being asked by a young girl for her autograph]… fun. [surprised to see the child who asked for an autograph pointing towards him — turns around and sees poster featuring Amy modeling for "Petrichor" perfume: "For the girl who's tired of waiting."]"

"Hello, Stormageddon. It’s The Doctor, here to help. Be quiet. Go to sleep. No really— stop crying. You’ve got a lot to look forward to you know: a normal human life on Earth. Mortgage repayments, the 9 to 5, a persistent nagging sense of spiritual emptiness. Save the tears for later boyo. Oh, that was crabby. No, that was old. But I am old, Stormy. I am so old. So near the end. But you, Alfie Owens. You are so young, aren’t you? And you know, right now, everything’s ahead of you. You could be anything. Yes, I know. You could walk among the stars. They don’t actually look like that, you know — they are rather more impressive. [uses his sonic to make a starry sky appear on the ceiling] Yeah! You know, when I was little like you, I dreamt of the stars. I think it’s fair to say, in the language of your age, that I lived my dream. I owned the stage. Gave it a hundred and ten percent. I hope you have as much fun as I did, Alfie."

"I’m the Doctor — I’m an alien from outer space, I’m 1000 years old, I’ve got two hearts — and I can’t fly a plane!"

"Oh, you like to think you’re a god. But you’re not a god. You’re just a parasite eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them. On the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow. So … so come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories. But I hope you’ve got a big appetite. Because I’ve lived a long life and I’ve seen a few things. … I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time, no space — just me. I’ve walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman. I’ve watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze! So come on, then! Take it! Take it all, baby! Have it! You have it all!"

"Clara sometimes asks me if I dream. 'Of course I dream,' I tell her. 'Everybody dreams.' 'But what do you dream about?' she asks. 'Same thing everybody dreams about,' I tell her. 'I dream about where I'm going.' She always laughs at that. 'But you're not going anywhere, you're just wandering about.' That's not true. Not anymore. I have a new destination. My journey is the same as yours, the same as anyone's. It's taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I'm going. Where I've always been going. Home, the long way around."

"We all change. When you think about it, we are all different people, all through our lives. And that's ok, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day...I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me."

"The Doctor: So tell me, what do you think of the view? Half-Faced Man: It is beautiful. The Doctor: No it isn't. It's just far away. Everything looks too small. I prefer it down there. Everything is huge. Everything is so important. Every detail, every moment, every life clung to."

"Those people down there. They are never small to me. Don't make assumptions about how far I will go to protect them, because I've already come a very long way."

"I'm the Doctor. I've lived for over two thousand years, and not all of them were good. I've made many mistakes, and it's about time I did something about that."

"Stop laughing. Are you all simple or something?"

"Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard, I can feel it through your hands. There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain, it's like rocket fuel! Right now, you could run faster and you can fight harder and you can jump higher than you could ever in your life, and you're so alert, it's like you could slow down time. What's wrong with scared? Scared is a super power! It's your super power!"

"The deep and lovely dark. We'd never see the stars without it."

"Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones. But you still have to choose."

"I tried to talk. I want you to remember that. I tried to reach out. I tried to understand you, but I think you understand us perfectly. And I think that you just don't care! And I don't know whether you are here to invade, infiltrate, or just replace us. I don't suppose it really matters now. You are monsters! That is the role you seem determined to play, so it seems that I must play mine: The man that stops the monsters!"

"Even my incredibly long life is too short for Les Miserables."

"Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?"

"Pain is a gift. Without the capacity for pain, we can't feel the hurt we inflict."

"I am not a good man. And I'm not a bad man. I am not a hero, and I'm definitely not a president. And no, I'm not an officer. Do you know what I am? I am an idiot! With a box and a screwdriver, just passing through, helping out, learning. I don't need an army, I never have. Because I've got them. Always them! Because love is not an emotion. Love is a promise."

"Never trust a hug. It's just a way to hide your face."

"There's no such this as 'the Doctor.' I'm just a bloke in a box, telling stories. And I didn't come here because I'm ashamed- bit of shame never hurt anyone. I came because you're sick and you asked. And because sometimes, on a good day, if I try very hard, I'm not some old Time Lord who ran away. I'm the Doctor."

"So there's this man; he has a time machine. Up and down history he goes, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, getting into scrapes. Another thing he has is a passion for the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, and one day he thinks, "what's the point of having a time machine if you don't get to meet your heroes." So, off he goes to 18th century Germany, but he can't find Beethoven anywhere. No one's heard of him, not even his family have any idea who the time traveller is talking about. Beethoven literally doesn't exist. This didn't happen by the way. I've met Beethoven, nice chap, very intense, loved an arm wrestle. No, this is called "the Bootstrap Paradox." Google it. The time traveller panics. He can't bear the thought of a world without the music of Beethoven. Luckily, he brought all of his Beethoven sheet music for Ludwig to sign. So he copies out all the concertos and the symphonies, and he gets them published. He becomes Beethoven, and history continues with barely a feather ruffled. Now my question is this: who put those notes and phrases together? Who really composed Beethoven's 5th?"

"Winning is all about looking happier than the other guy."

"Doctor: And we're off! Fingers on buzzers, are you feeling lucky, are you ready to play the game? Who's going to be quickest, who's going to be luckiest? Kate: This is not a game! Doctor: No, it's not a game, sweetheart, and I mean that most sincerely. Bonnie: Why are you doing this? Kate: Yes I'd quite like to know that too. You set this up. Why? Doctor: Because it's not a game, Kate! This is a scale model of war! Every war ever fought, right there in front of you! Because it's always the same! When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn, how many hearts will be broken, how many lives shattered, how much blood will spill until everybody does what they're always going to have to do from the very beginning, SIT! DOWN! AND! TALK! Listen to me, listen, I just- I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It's just a fancy word for changing your mind. Bonnie: I will not change my mind. Doctor: Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away from that box, you could walk right out of that door, and you could stand your revolution down. Bonnie: No. I'm not stopping this, Doctor. I started it, I will not stop it. You think they'll let me go after what I've done? Doctor: You're all the same, you screaming kids, you know that? "Look at me, I'm unforgivable," well here's the unforeseeable: I forgive you! After all you've done, I forgive you. Bonnie: You don't understand. You will never understand! Doctor: I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. I mean, you call this a war? This funny little thing? This is not a war. I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know! I did worse things than you could ever imagine! WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES... I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight, 'till it burns your hand, and you say this: No one else will ever have to live like this. No one else will have to feel this pain! Not on my watch."

"It's funny, the day you lose someone isn't the worst. At least you've got something to do. It's all the days they stay dead."

"I'm not scared of hell. It's just heaven for bad people."

"How long can I keep doing this, Clara? Burning the old me to make a new one?"

"Go to the city. Find somebody important. Tell them I'm back. Tell them I know what they did, and I'm on my way. And if they ask you who I am, tell them "I came the long way around." You can probably still hear me. So just between ourselves, you got the prophecy wrong. The hybrid is not half-Dalek- nothing is half-Dalek, the Daleks would never allow that. The hybrid destined to conquer Gallifrey and stand in its ruins... is me."

"Grant: Who're you thanking? Doctor: The universe. There's somebody worse at this than me."

"What do the rich old men always do when the fighting starts? They'll find the safest place to hide themselves away and send away all their young people to die."

"You don't steer the TARDIS, you negotiate with it."

"Bill: You know what I mean? Every choice I make here in this moment, here and now, would change the whole future! Doctor: Exactly like every other day of your life. The only thing to do is stop worrying about it."

"Doctor: What makes you so sure your life is worth more than those people out there on the ice? Is it the money? The accident of birth, that puts you inside the big, fancy house. Sutcliffe: I help move this country forward. I move this Empire forward. Doctor: Human progress isn’t measured by industry. It’s measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege. The boy who died on the river, that boy’s value is your value. That’s what defines an age, that’s… what defines a species."

"Bill: Regency England. Bit more black than they show in the movies. Doctor: So was Jesus. History's a whitewash."

"Fear is temporary. Love is slavery."

"You had history! History was saying to you "Look! I've got some examples of fascism here for you to look! No? Fundamentalism? No? Oh, okay, you carry on.""

"Doctor: Humanity is doomed to never learn from its mistakes. Bill: Well, I guess that's part of our charm. Doctor: No. It's really quite annoying."

"Shhh. Does anybody hear that? Do you know what that sound was? ...That was the sound of my patience shattering into a billion little pieces."

"Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out. You and me, once and for all. Winning? Is that what you think it’s about? I’m not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone — or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It’s not because it’s fun. God knows it’s not because it's easy. It’s not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind! It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live — maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, maybe there’s no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do. So I'm going to do it, and I will stand here doing it until it kills me. You're going to die, too, someday. When will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?"

"Oh, there it is, silly old universe. The more I save it the more it needs saving. It's a treadmill... Yes, yes I know they'll get it all wrong without me. Well, I suppose one more lifetime won't kill anyone... well, except me. You wait a moment, Doctor! Let's get it right. I've got a few things to say to you. Basic stuff first: never be cruel, never be cowardly, and never-ever eat pears! Remember, hate is always foolish, and love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. Oh, and you mustn't tell anyone your name. No one would understand it anyway... except... except children. Children can hear it, sometimes, if their hearts are in the right place, and the stars are too, children can hear your name. But nobody else. Nobody else, ever. Laugh hard, run fast, be kind. Doctor, I let you go."

"A bit of adrenaline, a dash of outrage and a hint of panic knitted my brain back together again. I know exactly who I am. I’m the Doctor. Sorting out fair play throughout the universe."

"I carry them with me. What they would've thought, said, and done. Make them a part of who I am. So even though they're gone from the world, they're never gone from me."

"You had no right to do that."

"Ryan: Can we open it? Doctor: Is the right question!"

"Now we know what our task is. Keep history in order. No changing it. Just guarding it against someone who wants to disrupt it."

"I know there aren't many certainties in any of our lives, but Umbreen, Prem, what I see in you is the certainty of having each other. Something I believe in my faith, love, in all its forms, is the most powerful weapon we have. Because love is a form of hope, and like hope, love abides. In the face of everything, you both found love with each other. You believed in it, you fought for it, and you waited for it. And, now, you're committing to it. Which makes you, right now, the two strongest people on this planet. Maybe in this universe... I'm not sure how we formalize this."

"I know because we are all the same. We want certainty, security. To believe that people are evil or heroic. But that's not how people are. You want to know the secrets of existence? Start with the mysteries of the heart. I can show you everything if you stop being afraid of what you don't understand. If you trust me."

"That creature is a lie, and he debased you and your faith. Don't you see? You were the creators! Look what you can do! You build! But he made you destroyers. That's no god. I'm sorry."

"Dalek: Humanity will surrender. Doctor: They really won't, trust me. I've seen them in action. They've fought off so many things, including the worst of their own people. They're really stubborn. Have you not worked that out yet?"

"Noor: Answer me one question. The fascists, do they win? Doctor: Never. Not while there's people like you."

"Fugitive Doctor: Is there even a word for how dumb you are? Thirteenth Doctor: "Doctor?""

"I've seen Gallifrey destroyed, twice. First by a war, second by a lunatic who I'm still trying to find. In my time, Gallifrey doesn't exist. It's gone! Forever. And if you don't know that, you're in my past, so you are only serving at the glory of ash and bone."

"His thoughts, his words inspire and influence thousands for centuries. If he dies now, who knows that will have on future history? Words matter! One death, one ripple, and history will change in a blink. The future will not be the world you know. The world you came from, the world you were created in won't exist, so neither will you. It's not just his life at stake, it's yours. You wanna sacrifice yourself for this? You want me to sacrifice you? You want to call it? Do it now. All of you... Yeah. Cause sometimes this team structure isn't flat, it's mountainous, with me at the summit, in the stratosphere, alone. Left to choose. Save the poet, save the universe. Watch people burn now or tomorrow. Sometimes even I can't win."

"Jericho: How did you get in here? Doctor: Your door was open. Jericho: It most certainly was not! Doctor: Well it was once I opened it, but let's not get bogged down in the order of things."

"Yaz, I can't fix myself to anything, anywhere... or anyone. I've never been able to. It's what my life is... Not because I don't want to. Because I might. But if I do fix myself to somebody, I know sooner or later it'll hurt."

"That's the only sad thing: I wanna know what happens next. Right then... Doctor Whoever-I'm-About-To-Be... Tag, you're it."

"I know these teeth. What? What?! What?!"

"I've got this friend called Donna Noble. And she was my best friend in the whole wide universe, I absolutely love her. Oh! Mm, do I say things like that now...? But Donna took the mind of a Time Lord into her head. I had to wipe her memory to save her life. If she remembers me, she will die. So what happens next? I get this face back and the TARDIS lands right next to her. I turn around, there's her husband, and then a spaceship crashes right in front of her, it's like she's drawing us in... She's got no idea. She's so ordinary, she's brilliant! She's got this beautiful daughter, she's happy... Is she? But now the universe is turning around her again. I don't believe in destiny, but if destiny exists, then it is heading for Donna Noble, right now."

"It's funny, cause I wonder where the TARDIS goes at random. Maybe it lands on some outcrop by the sea. There's a tribe, and they worship it for a hundred years. Then they grow up, they try to burn it. Then they get wise, they preserve it. Then they build a city all around it, till the TARDIS is just a tiny little dot, surrounded by skyscrapers and monorails. Time passes, and the city falls, it all gets swept away. And there's the TARDIS, still on its outcrop by the sea. She's the only thing I've got left."

"Funny thing is I fought all those battles for all those years. And now I know what for. This. I've never been so happy in my life."

"Bigeneration! I have bigenerated! There's no such thing -- bigeneration is supposed to be a myth, but... [cracks neck] Look at me!"

"Now, you two, if you don't mind, there is a great big universe out there calling, and I've gotta get going. So off you pop, old man."

"Name: "The Doctor". Occupation: "Not a doctor". Current status: "Just passing by". Employer: "Myself". Address: "That blue box over there". Now, if you don't mind, I just got snowmanned, and I would like to go home."

"I don't have a people, I don't have a home... But I don't have a job, either. I don't have a boss, or taxes, or rent, or bills to pay. I don't have a purpose, or a cause, or a mission, but I have... freedom. That's why I keep moving on, to see the next thing, and the next, and the next. And sometimes... It looks even better through your eyes."

"I have lived. And I have loved. And I can only smile like this because I have lost so much. I've experienced everything."

"I don't care what you think, okay? You can say whatever you want. You can think absolutely anything. I will do anything if you just allow me to save your lives."

"I have toppled worlds. Sometimes, I wait for people to topple their world. Until then, I live in it and I shine."

"Rule 1: The Doctor lies. -The Big Bang 5.13 (26 June 2010), Let's Kill Hitler 6.8 (27 August 2011)"

"(also) Rule 1: Don't wander off. -The Girl in the Fireplace 2.4 (6 May 2006), The Eleventh Hour 5.1 (3 April 2010)"

"Rule 7: Never run when you're scared. -Let's Kill Hitler 6.8 (27 August 2011)"

"Rule 27: Never knowingly be serious. -Let's Kill Hitler 6.8 (27 August 2011)"

"Rule 54: Anything can come from outside of the universe, but nothing can come from before the universe. -The Satan Pit 2.9 (10 June 2006)"

"Rule 408: You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. -Let's Kill Hitler 6.8 (27 August 2011), arguably the rule could be limited to the last sentence."

"He's the Doctor. -Listed as a rule in Dragonfire 24.4 (23 November 1987)[ref], and stated in pretty much every other episode in the last 60 years."

"The Doctor's in charge. -Dragonfire 24.4 (23 November 1987)[ref]"

"The Doctor cannot look at what is in River Song's diary. -Silence in the Library 4.8 (31 May 2008)"

"Stay out of trouble. -From several episodes, mentioned in The Beast Below and The Pandorica Opens. Usually followed by a reference to how people are unsuccessful at following it."

"Don't ask stupid questions. -The Eleventh Hour 5.1 (3 April 2010)"

"Do everything the Doctor tells you. -The Eleventh Hour and The Impossible Astronaut, among others. Another rule that is typically disregarded by his companions."

"Oh, shut up. -Not strictly a rule, but worth mentioning. Repeated mostly throughout series 5, 6, and 7. Almost always said jokingly and affectionately."

"Never interfere in the affairs of people or planets, unless there are children crying. -The Beast Below 5.2 (10 April 2010)"

"Never use force! You just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross. In which case, always use force. -Amy's Choice 5.7 (15 May 2010)"

"Never ignore coincidence. Unless of course you're busy, then always ignore coincidence. -The Pandorica Opens 5.12 (17 June 2010)"

"Rules of engagement: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, look ridiculous. -Whether it counts as a rule is questionable, but River and Rory mention it in A Good Man Goes to War."

"Foreknowledge is dangerous. -Let's Kill Hitler 6.8 (27 August 2011)"

"Some points in time are fixed. They must always happen. -The Wedding of River Song 6.13 (1 October 2011)"

"Not all of time can be rewritten. -The Angels Take Manhattan 7.5 (29 September 2012)"

"He's like fire and ice and rage, he's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever, he burns at the centre of time, and can see the turn of the universe. And ... he's wonderful."

"I met this man, a very special man, called the Doctor. And years ago, we travelled together. … Space and time. Then it came to an end. Suddenly, I was back to a normal life. Electric bills, burst pipes, bus tickets... and rain. … For years I tried to forget! And then I met him again, the Doctor ... but we had both changed, but it was funny because we were still both, the same. I learned that I could carry on here on Earth, doing what we always did."

"Every waking second, I can see what is, what was...what could be, what must not. That's the burden of the Time Lord, Donna."

"The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun. But this is the truth, Doctor. You take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons."

"The Doctor. The man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame."

"There's one thing I always wanted to ask Jack. Back in the old days. I wanted to know about that Doctor of his. The man who appears out of nowhere and saves the world; except sometimes he doesn't. All those times in history where there was no sign of him... I wanted to know why not. But I don't need to ask any more. I know the answer now: Sometimes, the Doctor must look at this planet and turn away in shame."

"I can still die. If I'm killed before regeneration, then I'm dead. Even then, even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away... and I'm dead."

"We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends."

"He's just really unlikely as a hero — which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor."

"According to K'anpo Rinpoche, each time the Doctor regenerates his cells are replaced and his brain structure is rearranged. Consequently, each Doctor has been quite unique. First was a crotchedy old man-a white-haired grandfather giving those young whipper-snappers "what for." By contrast, the Tenth was an exuberant young man-a great-haired lover, brash and impetuous. In between, he's been a clown (Sixth), a pleasant uncle (Third), a cricket player (Fifth), a scatterbrained jelly-baby-offering comedian (Fourth), and Moe from the Three Stooges (Second). But does regeneration make the Doctor, literally, a different person? K'anpo Rinpoche suggests the difference is merely metaphorical. He'll behave and look different, sure, but he won't be literally a different person-like twins are literally different persons. The Doctor still is the Doctor, regeneration after regeneration. If we saw the First and Tenth Doctor together, however, there'd be nothing to make us think they are, literally, the same person. They're more different than they're the same-more different then you and the person across the room. You and he or she aren't the same person, right? So how could each regeneration of the Doctor be, literally, the same person?"

"What we're asking is how the "replacements" could all be one in the same person. Non-Who fans might wonder, "Who cares?" But think about yourself at age ten. You acted differently, had a different worldview, a different personality, and different beliefs. As you learned, your brain structure was rearranged. In fact, gradually, your body completely replaces all of its cells using material and energy you ingested. Just like the Doctor, you regenerate; and you at ten is less like you now than that person across the room. How could you at ten and you now possibly be the same person? So our question about the Doctor's identity is very relevant. By answering it we can answer an important question about ourselves: How is it that we retain our identity over time?"

"When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives."

"All those stories you've heard about him: they're not stories, they're true. Really, you're not telling me you don't know what's coming."

"I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him."

"When I was a little girl I had an imaginary friend, and when I grew up, he came back. He's called the Doctor. He comes from somewhere else. He's got a box called the TARDIS that's bigger on the inside and can travel anywhere in time and space. I ran away with him. And we've been running ever since."

"You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you’d become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? Doctor – the word for healer, and wise man, throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word "doctor" means "mighty warrior". How far you’ve come. And now they’ve taken a child. The child of your best friends. And they’re going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you down. And all this, my love...in fear of you."

"The sky is full of a million million voices saying, "Yes, of course we'll help." You've touched so many lives, saved so many people...did you think when your time came, you'd really have to do more than just ask? You've decided that the universe is better off without you — But the universe doesn't agree."

"First there were the Daleks...And then there was a man who fought them. And then, in time — he died. There are a few, of course, who believe that this man somehow survived, and that one day he will return. For both our sakes, dearest Hannah, we must hope these stories are true."

"One day you meet the Doctor. And of course, it’s the best day ever. It’s just the best day of your life. Because...because, he’s brilliant, and he’s funny, and mad, and best of all...really needs you. The trick is – don’t fall in love. I do that trick quite a lot, sometimes twice a day. And once you start running, you start to forget; slowly, after a while, you just stopping asking. Who are you? Where are you from? What set you on your way and where are you going? Oh...and what is your name? You get used to not knowing. I thought I never would. I was wrong. I know who he is. I know how he began and I know where he’s going. I learnt the truth about the Doctor and his greatest secret the day we went to Trenzalore."

"A lot of our heroes depress me. But you know, when they made this particular hero, they didn't give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn't give him a tank or a warship or an X-wing fighter, they gave him a call box from which you can call for help. And they didn't give him a superpower or pointy ears or a heat ray...they gave him two hearts. And that's an extraordinary thing. There will never come a time when we don't need a hero like the Doctor."

"You've been asking a question, and it's time someone told you you've been getting it wrong. His name... His name is the Doctor. All the name he needs. Everything you need to know about him."

"He is The Doctor. He has walked the universe for centuries untold. He has seen stars fall to dust. You might as well flirt with a mountain range."

"How does [the Doctor] decide who lives, who dies, when to intervene, and when not to? If you do save them, where do you stop? Do you remake the universe according to what you think is right and wrong?"

"At a later stage, Dr Who would be metamorphosed into a woman. This requires some considerable thought – mainly because I want to avoid a flashy Hollywood ‘Wonder Woman’ because this kind of hero(ine) has no flaws – and a character with no flaws is a bore."

"Some years ago, you travelled far and wide. And oh, the things you have seen! There was a man, a very special man. No, no, let me think. It wasn't a romance, no, it was something much, much more than that. He taught you so much. There was laughter and adventure, and you prayed that your time with him would never, ever end. But then suddenly he left you. The man was lonely. A scientist? No, a doctor. The Doctor. Am I right?"

"There's only one person in the universe who would know, straight away! One person who could help us! And where is he whenever you need him?"

"He's this sort of harborer of good and fun and madness, and he's the cleverest man in the universe — and the silliest man in the universe."

"This extraordinary character who is everything at all times. It's continuously inspiring really, to get to play this mercurial, anarchic, extraordinary creature who gets all the best lines and gets to be the cleverest person in the room. I'm sure I'll miss lots about it, but I'll forever be proud to have been part of it, to be part of that history."

"Humans can be monsterous enough to commit genocide. What of gods? It's not difficult to perceive the practically immortal, time and space-traveling Doctor as god-like. His superior vantage point and detachment allow him to make horrible calculations, sometimes sacrificing individuals for the greater good. He sees space-time in a way that's beyond human comprehension, understanding the sweep of history as from the point of view of a being that's outside both space and time, and yet who can intervene in and manipulate them. For all his genuine attachment to his various human (mortal) companions, he's ultimately a lonely being, a perpetual traveler, an observer to whom individual human and similar beings, with their limited life spans and understandings, must seem puny and ant-like."

"Clara Oswald: You told me the name you chose was a promise. What was the promise?"

"Nasreddin Khodja commanded his disciples, when he sneezed, to salute him by clapping their hands and crying out: "Haïr Ollah, Khodja," that is "Prosperity to thee, O Master!" Now it came to pass that on one of the days the bucket fell into the well [...] he descended, caught the bucket, and the boys were already pulling him up, when, just as he was drawing near the edge of the well, he chanced to sneeze. Whereupon they, mindful of the master's behest, let go the rope and, clapping their hands in high glee, cried out in chorus: "Haïr Ollah, Khodja," Nasreddin was precipitated violently into the well, bruising himself against the sides. [...] "Well, boys, it was not your fault, but mine: too much honour is no good thing for man.""

"Nasrudin, your donkey has been lost." "Thank goodness I was not on the donkey at the time, or I would be lost too."

"Nasrudin walked into a house and exclaimed, "The moon is more useful than the sun." "Why?" he was asked. "Because at night we need the light more.""

"Nesretten Hoca's Wife: In our society, they treat us as if women have no names of their own—you are always so-and-so's wife. I mentioned this to my husband once—and, believe me, I didn't do it to blame or scold anyone. He was deeply touched and saddened. He said to me: "You are right, my dear wife. From now on, whenever they ask me what my name is, I'll say 'I'm the husband of the wife of Nasrettin Hoca.' ""

"Nasrudin used to take a donkey across a frontier every day, with the panniers loaded with straw. Since he admitted to being a smuggler when he trudged home every night, the frontier guards searched him again and again. They searched his person, staffed the straw, steeped it in water, even burned it from time to time. [...] One of the customs officers met him years later. "You can tell me now, Nasrudin," he said. "Whatever was it that you were smuggling, when we could never catch you out?" "Donkeys," said Nasrudin."

"I can see in the dark." "That may be so, Mulla. But if it is true, why do you sometimes carry a candle at night?" "To prevent other people from bumping into me."

"Well, Nasreddin. I know you lose your only donkey. Life may be difficult without it. But, don't be too sad brother," the man tried to cheer him up. "Do I look sad?" "Yes, you look very sad. You looked much sadder than you did when your wife died." [...] "At that time you all tried to cheer me up by saying 'Don't be too sad, my brother Nasreddin. We'll get you a new wife.' But now you see, nobody offers me a donkey to replace my lost one."

"[Nasreddin had to don his finest clothes in order to be admitted to a fancy dinner party.] He reached over, took a piece of meat and stuffed it in his shirt. He poked the next piece into his cummerbund. Then he jammed one into each pocket of his pants. All eyes were on Nasreddin as he gathered the long sleeves of his cloak and soaked them in the bowl of hot gravy. A stunned guest jumped to his feet and demanded, Effendi! [Sir!] What is the meaning of your outrageous behavior?" "Well," said Nasreddin Odjah, "when you find yourself in a place where clothes are more welcome than the person wearing them, you must feed the clothes first and the person afterward!""

"Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it."

"Once Nasreddin was invited to deliver a sermon. When he got on the pulpit, he asked, Do you know what I am going to say? The audience replied "no", so he announced, I have no desire to speak to people who don't even know what I will be talking about! and left. The people felt embarrassed and called him back again the next day. This time, when he asked the same question, the people replied yes. So Nasreddin said, Well, since you already know what I am going to say, I won't waste any more of your time! and left. Now the people were really perplexed. They decided to try one more time and once again invited the Mulla to speak the following week. Once again he asked the same question – Do you know what I am going to say? Now the people were prepared and so half of them answered "yes" while the other half replied "no". So Nasreddin said Let the half who know what I am going to say, tell it to the half who don't, and left."

"He was deeply impressed by the eloquence of the plaintiff, and after hearing his evidence he exclaimed, "I believe you are right!" The clerk of the court explained that he should make no such comment until he had heard the case for the defence. Having done so, Nasruddin cried out, "I believe you are right!" "But they can't both be right," expostulated the clerk. "I believe you are right," said the Mulla."

"Nasruddin, four years ago you were here, and I asked that time also what is your age, and you told me forty years. Now this is absolutely inconsistent – how can you still be forty?" Nasruddin said, "I am a man of consistency. Once forty, I remain forty always. When I have answered once, I have answered forever! You cannot lead me astray. I am forty, and whenever you ask you will get the same answer."

"At dinner time, Nasreddin finds no meat on the table. He asks his wife, "What happened to the meat?" His wife replies, "The cat ate it." Nasreddin breezes into the kitchen, puts the cat on the scales, and discovers the cat to be weighing three pounds. Nasreddin quizzically questions the result, "If the meat I brought home weighed three pounds, then, where is the cat? And, if this happens to be the cat, then what happened to the meat?""

"Mulla, I want to borrow your donkey." "I am sorry," said the Mulla, "but I have already lent it out." As soon as he had spoken, the donkey brayed. The sound came from Nasrudin's stable. "But Mulla, I can hear the donkey, in there!" As he shut the door in the man's face, Nasrudin said, with dignity, "A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything."

"A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use.""

"Mulla, Mulla, my son has written from the Abode of Learning to say that he has completely finished his studies!" "Console yourself, madam, with the thought that God will no doubt send him more."

"Some children saw Nasreddin coming from the vineyard with two baskets full of grapes loaded on his donkey. They gathered around him and asked him to give them a taste. Nasreddin picked up a bunch of grapes and gave each child a grape. "You have so much, but you gave us so little," the children whined. "There is no difference whether you have a basketful or a small piece. They all taste the same," Nasreddin answered, and continued on his way,"

"One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?""

"[Nasreddin Hoca is being shaved by an inexperienced barber.] "One moment, Sir!" said the barber, and he stuck a bit of cotton on the wound. In the next pass of the razor, another bit of the Hoca's cheek went with it. "One moment, sir!" and he stuck a bit of cotton on the second wound. With each stroke of the razor, another bit of cotton joined the crop sprouting on the Hoca's left cheek. "Now," said the barber, "I'll do the other side." "One moment, young man!" said the Hoca as he studied the bits of cotton that dotted his left cheek. "Stop right there! I believe I'll plant wheat on the other side.""

"Mulla had lost his ring in the living room. He searched for it for a while, but since he could not find it, he went out into the yard and began to look there. His wife, who saw what he was doing, asked: “Mulla, you lost your ring in the room, why are you looking for it in the yard?” Mulla stroked his beard and said: “The room is too dark and I can’t see very well. I came out to the courtyard to look for my ring because there is much more light out here.”"

"Many say: I wanted to learn, but here I have found only madness. Yet, should they seek deep wisdom elsewhere, they may not find it."

"Worry about a girl, eh? Hah! If they think they can cut me off from where the action is, they're mistaken! I restyled this motor bike for just such an emergency!"

"No use masquerading any longer, Dad. Because I want to run for congress in your place! You admitted you don’t want the job! And it’s the only way I can really fight crime — prevent it — through prison reform!"

"I’ll always believe in second chances. I’m too flawed myself not to. Someday the morning will come when I won’t be needed. But until then I have my nights."

"I have to find another path. Divine my own future. One uniquely mine. Not a page from someone else's book. Not a fate that begins and ends on page one."

"Dad thinks I'm too short. My Sensei thinks I'm too "girly". But just like the principles of jujitsu— I use their expectations against them. That will be their weakness. Not mine. Let them all underestimate me. Let them think they have the upper hand over the little girl. Let them relax while the adrenaline leaks out of their systems. Let them believe they're closing their grips on a shrinking violet. And when their guard is down and their pride is rising... let me kick their butts up around their ears."

"Barbara: I'm strong enough and smart enough for anything you throw at me."

"Look around you, guys. This whole situation defies reason. But I’m not letting anyone run me out of my hometown. I didn’t let the Joker do it and I’m damn sure not going to let a bunch of bureaucrats do it!"

"A little over a year has passed since my old life ended, since I died and was reborn. The shadows remain, but only to give contrast to the light. I am no longer a distaff impersonation of someone else — I’m me, more me than I have ever been. I embrace it, and the light, with a deep, continuing joy."

"Y'know, a lot of the time it's like you Batguys want me to hold onto the past because you can't get over it. Understand— I have. I have a new life now. One I like — one that fulfils me. It's not the same as the one I had before, but it's good. Maybe even better."

"Barbara: Okay, Savant... When you spoke to me in those different languages, your French grammar was spotty, and your Chinese was that of a sporadic tourist — but your Greek was flawless. [to her computer] Insert the following search parameters borders: American, extortion and Athens or surrounding area accent and dialect."

"You've escaped, and you think the world's a huge place, and you can hide anywhere, right? I'm here to tell you... that world? I own it. Your world is getting smaller by the second. And you can't hide anywhere from me. Every database, every security cam, and every police band has my fingerprints on it. Every moment you're out the noose pulls tighter. And Savant, just in case it's not crystal clear by now... Nobody messes with my partner."

"Barbara: My junior prom, I had braces, no curves at all to speak of, and still got a date, somehow. I thought things were turning around. 'Til my date told me his cop dad had been ordered by my cop dad to make him ask me out. To this day I break out in hives when I see people do a box step. Oh. I didn't have a mother growing up, right? So I once stole some lipstick my father would never have let me buy... then cried all night thinking he'd find out and throw me in jail. Braces, skinny as a rail, and red hair. You don't know what hormone-addled guys say to girls with red hair. It sticks with you."

"One could argue that curing Barbara and allowing her to be Batgirl again would simply allow her to do more good fighting crime than she ever could in a wheelchair, but then you look insensitive to the ability and usefulness she has in other capacities as Oracle. Conversely, you could say that removing Barbara from her wheelchair drastically alters her character, but then wouldn't that indicate that this is a character defined by her handicap? This begs the question [sic] of why so many fans adore her: is it because she's a bold and daring leader that rivals the Calculator in brains? Or is it because she's all of that, but stuck in a wheelchair? Think about the question, and surely many of you will find an answer you don't like."

"Without much fanfare, Barbara Gordon has become the most popular handicapped character since Charles Xavier ... There WAS some idea of her being a role model ... We wanted her to cope with what had happened to her and becoming, in many ways, more effective as Oracle than she ever was as Batgirl. And we knew that others with disabilities might look at her and feel good reading about her ... I don't think people 'dance around' her disabilities as they don't want to focus on them, but on her character. These shouldn't be stories about a disabled person; they are stories about a compelling fascinating character who HAPPENS to be in a wheelchair and I think that's correct. Barbara isn't her handicap; there's more to her than that."

"Both had their backs broken [Batman broke his in a dramatic Batcave confrontation with the villain Bane; Batgirl broke hers when she was ambushed in her home and shot in the spine by the Joker, never given a chance to fight]. Less than a year later, Batman was fine. Batgirl—now named Oracle—was in a wheelchair and remained so for many years."

"...one of the smartest and toughest women in comics ... One thing the book is truly about, is that the after-effects of something like PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) or other trauma-related syndromes, can strike even very smart, very intellectually tough people, even soldiers and cops."

"...some of the best real world work in the field of mobility rehabilitation is coming from South Africa. People have been talking about this as if it's some sort of mystical thing like returning from the dead, but there are treatments and surgeries that can restore mobility in some cases. Barbara's spine was not severed. That makes her a candidate."

"Rory's final words on Doctor Who."

"There's someone coming. I don't know where he is, or what he's doing, but trust me, he's on his way. … There's a man who will never let us down. And not even an army can get in the way. … He's the last of his kind. He looks young but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds for years. And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you'll never be alone. … Because this man is your father. … He has a name but the people of our world know him better ... as the Last Centurion."

"You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick; but then there's other people. And you meet them and you think, "Not bad, they're okay," and when you get to know them ... their face just, sort of, becomes them, like their personality's written all over it, and they just — they turn into something so beautiful. Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met."

"Hello, Sweetie."

"Oh I hate you."

"River describing the battle of Demon's Run"

"The last words of Mels before regenerating."

"The first words of the woman who will become River Song, upon her regeneration."

"I had a friend once. She called me 'Spaceman'."

"I just want you to know, there are worlds out there, safe in the sky because of her. That there are people living in the light, and singing songs of Donna Noble. A thousand, million light years away. They will never forget her — while she can never remember. … But for one moment... one shining moment... she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe."

"I'll let The Doctor explain, he does it better."

"Doctor: This is wrong, you should go downstairs."

"Rose: Tough."

"Is it just me, or is he a bit... Slitheen?"

"I'll give you a fiver if you can tell me what the hell it is, 'cause I haven't got the foggiest."

"Planet Earth. This is where I was born. And this is where I died. The first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened. Nothing at all, not ever. And then I met a man called the Doctor. A man who could change his face. And he took me away from home in his magical machine. He showed me the whole of time and space. I thought it would never end. … Well, that's what I thought. But then came the Army of Ghosts. Then came Torchwood and the war. That's when it all ended. This is the story of how I died."

"Five million Cybermen? Easy. One Doctor? Now you're scared!"

"I made my choice a long time ago, and I'm never gonna leave you."

"Right, now we're in trouble. And it's only just beginning..."

"Dalek [1.6] (30 April 2005)"

"You sent her home. She's safe."

"The Idiot's Lantern [2.7] (27 May 2006)"

"I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demigods and would-be gods; out of all that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing... just one thing... I believe in her."

"The Shakespeare Code [3.2](7 April 2007)"

"Gridlock [3.3] (14 April 2007)"

"She's just an invention. Rose, I call her. Rose. She seems to disappear later on."

"Oh, she was blonde! Oh, what a surprise!"

"I could go back in time and help Rose Tyler with her homework!"

"In the US remake of Broadchurch, Gracepoint, both of which star David Tennant, an enquiry sheet on his desk has the name R. Tyler written on it, enquiring about a wolf (a reference to Bad Wolf)."

"Rose was a girlfriend, really. I know we don’t say it."

"I travelled across the world. From the ruins of New York, to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits of Europe. And everywhere I went I saw people just like you, living as slaves! But if Martha Jones became a legend then that's wrong, because my name isn't important. There's someone else. The man who sent me out there, the man who told me to walk the Earth. And his name is The Doctor. He has saved your lives so many times and you never even knew he was there. He never stops. He never stays. He never asks to be thanked. But I've seen him, I know him... I love him... And I know what he can do."

"I spent a lot of time with you thinking I was second best. But you know what? I am good."

"You need to be careful, because you know the Doctor's wonderful and he's brilliant, but he's like fire. Stand too close and people get burned."

"Suddenly, in an underground mortuary on a wet night in Cardiff, I hear the song of a nightingale!"

"That Martha must've done you good."

"Lex Luthor: Here you are, sir! This serum will cure cancer."

"A life, some would argue, is a series of problems. There’s no denying the truth in that – but why get lost in it? Why not rise above the truth… and lead a good life? Shouldn’t we all look at problems as a chance for us to find… solutions?"

"I believe there’s something inherently dangerous when something real becomes mythic: Because when faced with a myth, we can’t win. So the mythic must be exposed for what it is so we can believe in ourselves, because it’s only what’s in us—the drive to be mythic—that matters."

"But one thing clear beyond the mask he wears...is his passion. A palpable thing that’s almost greater then the man himself. And if there’s passion...there’s desire. And desire means there’s a hole in the man. (About Bruce Wayne/Batman)"

"What gives measure to a man's choices is what he has to give up to make them."

"(Talking to Superman) You profess a love for humanity, but that's an emotion you cannot possibly know, because those same abilities make it impossible for you to know its opposite, it's something that today has its grip on every heart of Metropolis: Fear."

"But then, hope is an aspiration, a beacon that shines brighter than any star lighting the way for all mankind. Hope is the refusal of the inevitable, a hand lifted to the clouds. Hope is what makes us humans, for when reality threatens to destroy us, we reach inward and we create Hope. It's the greatest gift we can give each other, though it may just be the foundation to a house of cards."

"(Talking to Superman) "Those red eyes, I'm sure they look right through me like I am nothing more than a nuisance. But when I see you, I see something no man can ever be. I see the end. The end of our potential. The end of our achievements. The end of our dreams. You are my nightmare.""

"I’ve tried to be a model citizen, General Lane. I know I promised I wouldn’t waste my intellect on kryptonite robots and elaborate super deathtraps. I know that. But three months ago, I looked in the mirror at those nasty little spiderwebs of lines around my eyes and I realized something. I’m getting older, and... and he isn’t."

"Chief Judge: Attila the Hun, Genghis Kahn, Al Capone, Adolf Hitler, Lex Luthor. You freely admit that these vile and appalling criminals are the men you revere above all as heroes and role models. Your insane schemes have placed in jeopardy the lives of every man, woman and child on this planet. Have you anything more to say before I deliver the verdict of this court?"

"Lex giveth-- --and Lex taketh away."

"You know, I used to think that it was our families that makes us who we are? Then I hoped it was our friends. But if you look at history, the great men and women of the world have always been defined by their enemies."

"It's a pity Lex Luthor has become a multinationalist; I liked him better as a bald scientist. He was in prison, but they couldn't put his mind in prison. Now he's just a skinny Kingpin."

"Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman Interview, Hero Illustrated #18, (December 1994)."

"Mr. Wicker: Although my expert contact is charging one million dollars for a ten-minute consultancy, I think you'll agree he's worth it. We want to destroy an indestructible being. My contact is a specialist in that area. Gentlemen.... Mr. Lex Luthor. Our ten minutes start now."

"Despite my own personal prejudices, I say we leave Lex the criminal businessman he's been for the past 17 years. The Lois & Clark producers liked it, the WB cartoon guys liked it... so clearly, it works on some level. My concern is that, at least in my eyes, the fact that Luthor's allowed to operate uncontested for years makes Superman look ineffectual."

"I never believed the original Luthor. Every story would begin with him breaking out of prison, finding some giant robot in an old lab he hid somewhere, and then he'd be defeated. My view was if he could afford all those labs and giant robots he wouldn't need to rob banks. I also thought later that Luthor should not have super powers. Every other villain had super powers. Luthor's power was his mind. He needed to be smarter than Superman. Superman's powers had to be useless against him because they couldn't physically fight each other and Superman was simply not as smart as Luthor."

"I swear on the grave of my loved ones that I won't spare a single criminal. It's my pledge and my vow is as unshakeable as the polestar."

"I swore on my parents' grave that I shall combat crime till my last breath."

"We shall name him after the brightest star in North Pole, Dhruva."

""Like the view? It's the only thing you'll be catching tonight". - Hush"

""Rabbiting? I've never rabbited in my life! I've pussy-footed. I've cat-scratched. I've even kittycornered. But I don't rabbit!" - Catwoman Vol. 2 #12"

""Live fast. Love hard. Die young. Leave a good-smelling corpse". - Catwoman Vol. 2 #18"

""They may suspect me, but they'll never see me. They may chase me, but they'll never catch me. Never, never, ever catch me". - Catwoman Vol. 2 #19"

""Little birds should stay away from big bad kittycats". - Catwoman Vol. 2 #25"

""I'm a thief--and stealing is what I do. Not so much for the prize or the possession or even the profit...but for the art of doing it...because I can...and because I'm good". - Catwoman Vol. 2 #38"

""You are part of the night, just like me. We're not afraid of the dark--we come alive in it...we're thrilled by it". [to Batman] - Catwoman Vol. 2 #40"

""A long time ago, before I put on this mask, I was afraid of everything". - Catwoman Vol. 2 #59"

""That's part of the rule. Never quit. Never let them see you're afraid. Above all -- never let them see you're hurt. Never let them see you cry. Never". - Catwoman Vol. 2 #75"

""My world is all just shades of grey, Batman. That's why you'll never really understand me". - Catwoman Vol. 3 #1"

""Show a man what he expects to see, and he won't look beneath the surface". - Catwoman vol. 1 #1"

""It's such a waste when pretty things get broken". - Catwoman vol. 1 #2"

""Life would be so much easier if I didn't have this conscience!" - Catwoman vol. 1 #9"

""The East End. My soul is tied to this place now. Because it's cost me so much in blood and tears. But this is where the Catwoman was born. And if it has to be, this is where she'll die". - Catwoman Vol. 3 #25"

"(To Poison Ivy) "Oh my god. I get it. You're insane, aren't you?" - Gotham City Sirens #18"

"(To Poison Ivy) "We both know you've been looking for a reason to say that for a long time. You never wanted me around. You've never liked me. But you could never justify it. Not to Harley". - Gotham City Sirens #21"

"(To Harley Quinn) "Your ex-lover, a murderous psychopath who has repeatedly made our lives a living hell, nearly burns my new home to the ground and all you can say is 'gross'?!" - Gotham City Sirens #5"

""We are not in control. Every now and then life likes to reiterate that little point. Some people find such reminders disconcerting. They spend their lives in breathless pursuit of meaningless goals, hoping to forget everything they know about their own mortality. Some people anchor themselves to something larger. Religion, Art, Justice. Anything they deem significant in a life that's not. We are not in control. If we were, surely we'd know better than to care about anything". - Catwoman Vol. 2 #57"

"Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor!"

"All life...even such as theirs...is precious beyond understanding!"

"For they who live by violence...most surely will so perish!!"

"Ultron. We would have words with thee."

"Across the rainbow bridge of Asgard Where the booming heavens roar You'll behold in breathless wonder The God of Thunder, Mighty Thor!"

"Jane’s been a part of Thor’s universe going back almost to the very beginning. She was the initial love interest for Donald Blake, who was Thor’s alter-ego [in early Thor stories]. She was the nurse to his doctor. She’s grown and changed and evolved a lot over the years, become a doctor in her own right. So this to me is not just the next step for her character, but really the next evolution of the core promise that has always been at the heart of Thor’s mythology."

"I came up with Thor because I’ve always been a history buff. I know all about Thor and Balder and Mjolnir, the hammer. Nobody ever bothered with that stuff except me. I loved it in high school and I loved it in my pre-high school days. It was the thing that kept my mind off the general poverty in the area. When I went to school that’s what kept me in school — it wasn’t mathematics and it wasn’t geography; it was history."

"Oswin Oswald. Junior Entertainment Manager, Starship Alaska. Current status: crashed and shipwrecked somewhere... not nice. Been here a year, rest of the crew missing. Provisions good, but keen to move on."

"Is there a word for total screaming genius that sounds modest and just a tiny bit sexy?"

"Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract love, add anger."

"Run … run, you clever boy … and remember."

"Oh my stars!"

"The boss... Yep, that's me! I am the boss!"

"One day you meet the Doctor. And of course, it’s the best day ever. It’s just the best day of your life. Because...because, he’s brilliant, and he’s funny, and mad, and best of all...really needs you. The trick is – don’t fall in love. I do that trick quite a lot, sometimes twice a day. And once you start running, you start to forget; slowly, after a while, you just stopping asking. Who are you? Where are you from? What set you on your way and where are you going? Oh...and what is your name? You get used to not knowing. I thought I never would. I was wrong. I know who he is. I know how he began and I know where he’s going. I learnt the truth about the Doctor and his greatest secret the day we went to Trenzalore."

"Hang on... Three of you, in one cell, and none of you thought to try the door?"

"Please don't change."

"I am NOT a control freak!!"

"Just because my pretty face has turned your head do not assume I am so easily distracted."

"Let me be brave."

"A genius entertainment manager hiding out in a wrecked ship, hacking the security systems of the most advanced warrior race the Universe has ever seen — but, you know what really gets me about you, Oswin? The soufflés. Where do you get milk for the soufflés? Seriously, is no one else wondering about that?"

"She's not possible!"

"From the beginning she was impossible. The impossible girl. Met her in the Dalek Asylum, never saw her face, and she died. Met her again in Victorian London, and she died. Saved my life both times by giving her own. But now she’s back, and we’re running together and she’s perfect. Perfect in every way for me. Except she can’t remember that we ever met. Clara...my Clara. Always brave, always funny. Always exactly what I need. Perfect. Too perfect. You get used to not knowing. Thought I never would. I was wrong. I know who Clara Oswald is. I know how she came to be in my life and I know what she will always mean. I found out the truth the day we went to Trenzalore."

"And if I grow to be half the man that you are, Clara Oswald, I shall be happy indeed."

"5 ft 1 and crying - You never stood a chance."

"Never try and control a control freak."

"Robot of Sherwood (6 September 2014)"

"The Magician's Apprentice (19 September 2015)"

"We must make certain that "Doctor" learns nothing of what is happening. He is a man of great knowledge and intelligence, but he may not show sympathy for the powers that guide us. He may even seek to hinder the great plan."

"Such a brain as yours is too small to grasp my purpose."

"Tonight the thaw, tomorrow the snow will fall again - yet stronger. The drowned woman and the dreaming child will give us form at last. Tomorrow the snow will fall and so shall mankind. She is coming."

"Now the dream outlives the dreamer and can never die. Once I was the puppet - now I pull the strings! I tried so long to take on human form. By erasing Simeon, you made space for me. I fill him now! More than snow, more than Simeon - even this old body is strong in my control. Do you feel it? Winter is coming. Winter is coming!"

"I have feasted on many minds, I have grown, but now it is time for you to reduce."

"Welcome to the final resting place of the cruel tyrant; of the slaughterer of the ten billion, and the vessel of the final darkness. Welcome... to the tomb of the Doctor!"

"It is done."

"It is said that in the final days of planet Earth, everyone had bad dreams. To the west of the north of that world, the human race did gather, in the celebration of a pagan rite to banish the cold and the dark. Each and everyone of those people had dreamt of the terrible things to come, but they forgot … because they must. They forgot their nightmares of fire and war and insanity. They forgot, except for one..."

"And so it came to pass that the players took their final places, making ready the events that were to come. The madman sat in his empire of dust and ashes, little knowing of the glory he would achieve, while his saviour looked upon the wilderness, in the hope of changing his inevitable fate. Far away, the idiots and fools dreamt of a shining new future - a future now doomed to never happen. As Earth rolled onwards into night, the people of that world did sleep and shiver, somehow knowing that dawn would bring only one thing… The final day!"

"And so it came to pass on Christmas Day, that the human race did cease to exist. But even then, the Master had no concept of his role in greater events. For this was far more than humanity's end! This was the day upon which the whole of creation would change forever! This was the day... the Time Lords returned. For Gallifrey! … For victory! … For the end of Time itself!"

"I will not die! Do you hear me?! A billion years of Time Lord history riding on our backs! I will not let this perish. I will not!"

"Now the High Council of Time Lords must vote. Whether we die here, today, or return to the waking world and complete the Ultimate Sanction. For this is the hour when either Gallifrey falls, or… Gallifrey rises!"

"The vote is taken. Only two stand against, and will stand as monument to their shame, like the Weeping Angels of old. Now the vanguard stands prepared, as the children of Gallifrey return to the universe - to Earth!"

"My Lord Doctor. Lord Master. We are gathered for the end."

"Are all the bells ringing? The whole Cloister?"

"What is it? Is the firing squad afraid of the unarmed man?!"

"How many regenerations did we grant you? I've got all night..."

"There is a moment, after regeneration, when the guttering soul of the old man looks out through the eyes of the new. So it was the Doctor who looked into the mirror-- but it was me who looked back."

"Doctor no more."

"I’m sorry... I couldn’t save you. I tried! He tried. I couldn’t save him either. Did he really think he could stay apart from the War? Play the dashing romantic hero forever? How full of hope he was… How naïve. How foolish."

"The problem with helping my people... is that it often makes things far worse. I don't take orders. If I help, it's on my own terms."

"It’s not about causes, Rejoice. I'm steeped in the blood of it all. It's my reason for being: to do the unthinkable, to bring this whole sorry chapter of cosmic history to an end, one way or another. In short... I'm a monster."

"Time Lords of Gallifrey, Daleks of Skaro; I serve notice on you all. Too long I’ve stayed my hand. No more. Today, you leave me no choice. Today, this war will end. No more. No more."

"If you have been inside my head, then you know what I've seen. The suffering. Every moment in time and space is burning. It must end. And I intend to end it the only way I can."

"Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame."

"Go back. Go back to your lives. Go and be the Doctor that I could never be. Make it worthwhile..."

"I don't suppose we'll know if we actually succeeded. But at worst, we failed doing the right thing, as opposed to succeeding in doing the wrong."

"Oh... Yes, of course, suppose it makes sense... Wearing a bit thin! I hope the ears are a bit less conspicuous this time."

"“But every clever crime is founded ultimately on some one quite simple fact—some fact that is not itself mysterious. The mystification comes in covering it up, in leading men's thoughts away from it.”"

"“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down. The kind man drinks and turns cruel; the frank man kills and lies about it.”"

"“Have you ever noticed this—that people never answer what you say? They answer what you mean—or what they think you mean”"

""Reverend sir," cried Angus, standing still, "are you raving mad, or am I?" "You are not mad," said Brown, "only a little unobservant."

"Ten false philosophies will fit the universe; ten false theories will fit Glengyle Castle. But we want the real explanation of the castle and the universe."

"…Oh, let me be silly a little. You don't know how unhappy I have been. And now I know that there has been no deep sin in this business at all. Only a little lunacy, perhaps—and who minds that?"

"You have to know something of the mind as well as the body," answered the priest; "we have to know something of the body as well as the mind."

"The modern mind always mixes up two different ideas: mystery in the sense of what is marvellous, and mystery in the sense of what is complicated. That is half its difficulty about miracles. A miracle is startling; but it is simple. It is simple because it is a miracle. It is power coming directly from God (or the devil) instead of indirectly through nature or human wills."

"I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous."

"…Never mind; one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place."

"“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”"

"How do you know all this?" he cried. "Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart"

"We are taught that if a man has really bad first principles, that must be partly his fault. But, for all that, we can make some difference between a man who insults his quite clear conscience and a man with a conscience more or less clouded with sophistries."

"After the first silence the small man said to the other: "Where does a wise man hide a pebble?" And the tall man answered in a low voice: "On the beach." The small man nodded, and after a short silence said: "Where does a wise man hide a leaf?" And the other answered: "In the forest.""

"... when the priest said again: "Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest?" "Well, well," cried Flambeau irritably, "what does he do?" "He grows a forest to hide it in," said the priest in an obscure voice. "A fearful sin.""

"Oh, I dare say he was honest, as you call it. But what is the good of a man being honest in his worship of dishonesty?"

"Private lives are more important than public reputations. I am going to save the living, and let the dead bury their dead."

"One is never thinking of the real sorrow," said the strange priest. "One can only be kind when it comes."

"There's a disadvantage in a stick pointing straight," answered the other. "What is it? Why, the other end of the stick always points the opposite way. It depends whether you get hold of the stick by the right end."

"No machine can lie," said Father Brown; "nor can it tell the truth."

"What we all dread most," said the priest in a low voice, "is a maze with no centre. That is why atheism is only a nightmare."

"Mere figure and gait, however distant, are more likely to remind us of somebody than a well-made-up face quite close."

"If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it."

"Put a feather with a fossil and a bit of coral and everyone will think it's a specimen. Put the same feather with a ribbon and an artificial flower and everyone will think it's for a lady's hat. Put the same feather with an ink-bottle, a book and a stack of writing-paper, and most men will swear they've seen a quill pen. So you saw that map among tropic birds and shells and thought it was a map of Pacific Islands. It was the map of this river."

"I was sea-sick," said Father Brown simply. "I felt simply horrible. But feeling horrible has nothing to do with not seeing things."

"But consider. The more a man feels lonely the less he can be sure he is alone. It must mean empty spaces round him, and they are just what make him obvious."

"The more alone he is, the more certain he is to be seen."

""Real madmen," explained Father Brown, "always encourage their own morbidity. They never strive against it. But you are trying to find traces of the burglar; even when there aren't any. You are struggling against it. You want what no madman ever wants." "And what is that?" "You want to be proved wrong," said Brown."

"We can direct our moral wills; but we can't generally change our instinctive tastes and ways of doing things."

"There is only one enemy," said Father Brown, "whom it is easier to kill with a dagger than a sword." "I know," said the woman. "Oneself."

"...but one often has to choose between feeling a damned fool and being one."

"Human science can never be quite certain of things like that," said Father Brown, still looking at the red budding of the branches over his head, "if only because of the difficulty about definition and connotation. What is a weapon? People have been murdered with the mildest domestic comforts; certainly with tea-kettles, probably with tea-cosies. On the other hand, if you showed an Ancient Briton a revolver, I doubt if he would know it was a weapon—until it was fired into him, of course."

"The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen."

"If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him."

"One of his hobbies was to wait for the American Shakespeare — a hobby more patient than angling."

"His head was always most valuable when he had lost it. In such moments he put two and two together and made four million."

"Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities."

"Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?"

"I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread."

"Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil."

"One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place."

"Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue."

"The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person."

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

"...If ever I murdered somebody," he added quite simply, "I dare say it might be an Optimist."

"I know that journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

"I don’t believe in anything," answered Pendragon very briskly, with a bright eye cocked at a red tropical bird. "I'm a man of science."

"I don't believe in anything; I'm a journalist," answered the melancholy being—“Boon, of the Daily Wire. ..."

"No man’s really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he’s realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and sneering, and talking about ‘criminals,’ as if they were apes in a forest ten thousand miles away; till he's got rid of all the dirty self-deception of talking about low types and deficient skulls; till he's squeezed out of his soul the last drop of the oil of the Pharisees; till his only hope is somehow or other to have captured one criminal, and kept him safe and sane under his own hat."

"If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it."

"For it seems to me that you only pardon the sins that you don't really think sinful. You only forgive criminals when they commit what you don't regard as crimes, but rather as conventions. So you tolerate a conventional duel, just as you tolerate a conventional divorce. You forgive because there isn't anything to be forgiven."